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pretty sure theres more than 4.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter
I identify as degenerate matter.
Degenerate lives matter
"Strange matter" 🤔
“Time Crystal”
In condensed matter physics, a time crystal is a quantum system of particles whose lowest-energy state is one in which the particles are in repetitive motion. The system cannot lose energy to the environment and come to rest because it is already in its quantum ground state. Because of this, the motion of the particles does not really represent kinetic energy like other motion; it has "motion without energy".
Physics girl did a great video on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDIpgso4no
"Programmable Matter" tf
Honestly fine with it as long as any profits aren’t privatized.
I've got bad news for you.
And I’ve got good news for you. You can just email the researcher to get a free copy. Because they don’t get any of the profits from scientific journals, so they have no incentive to hoard their own research. Or hell, there’s always Anna’s Archive.
What does that to do with anything here?
Good. Maybe we can kill religion with enough physics.
Theorized form of matter that could exist in the cores of neutron stars.
Essentially matter compressed beyond a critical point where protons and neutrons break down and dissociate into quarks.
If this quark matter contains strange quarks, then it is called strange matter.
Stranger Things
Glass 🙂
Superglass 😎
🦸♂️ glass
Well first of all, fuck you smartass.
But also yes, you're right
I wouldn't even try to defend OP, but I once heard someone say that if you have more than four apples, then it is also definitely true that you have four apples.
That's true in a very literal sense, but there's a whole branch of linguistics called pragmatics that's concerned with things like why it's usually safe to conclude that when someone says they have four apples, they mean that have only four apples. When there's any ambiguity I talk like a mathematician and use phrases like "at least four apples" or "exactly four apples".
It's technically correct, like saying at least 4 people died from covid.
More specifically: "4 people died from covid" is also true
On the other hand, adding a single world like "only" in there suddenly makes it completely false. Language is fun.
OP treating his statement as a correction requires that he’s not using this interpretation. If he were to use this defense, so could the teacher, so he’d just be changing how he’s wrong, not that he is.
What if there's a worm in one of them?
Like, you think you habe more than four apples.
Then you find out that most of them have worms.
In the end, you are left with two apples.
So now, it is not true that you have four apples.
If you can actually have a reasoned discussion about it, instead of simply getting angry at being questioned, then you are better than 90% of teachers.
In my experience most teachers don't like being questioned, which of course is directly antithetical to their supposed vocation.
Sounds like you just don't want your authority to be challenged.
If you're wrong and a student points that out, own it. Instead you expect them to question their own knowledge while submitting to your authority for confirmation or denial. But if the student already knows, they don't need your confirmation. They need you to admit that you were incorrect, and move forward with the correct information. Otherwise you're just demonstrating that you're an authority that cannot be trusted to be fair.
Authority that cannot be challenged is authority that cannot be respected. Authority must continually earn the respect of its constituents, or it will lose its power over them.
But you've just proven yourself to not be an equally valid source of information because you spread misinformation.
Solid, liquid, and gas. A fluid is something that flows. Both liquids and gasses are fluids.
This is the 'senses' argument, or the 'moons of Jupiter' argument.
I identify as degenerate matter
Edit: Whoops, someone already commented that elsewhere in the thread. Oh well.
Thanks to Lemmy's Hot algorithm though, we see your joke first!
It’s only a matter of opinion.
There is that ice that turns all other water into ice!
I mean, all ice turns "other water" into ice, as long as it's cold enough
Holy butt munch Batman! Why are we taught lies!?
Because if we weren't then no class would ever learn anything, as the teaching would move at a glacial pace and cover material that isn't relevant until you start on your PhD.