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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 179 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, yes. At least, at relatively close distances. The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

So it's like humans? πŸ€”

We aren't particularly strong or fast, but we became apex predators because we never. Stop. Coming.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, we, never, stop, cumming.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So much to cum, so much to cum,

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So what's wrong with cumming the backstreet

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -

"Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they're not going to find us again."

"Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They're unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don't know how many more times I can run myself! We're doomed Clarice! Doomed!"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 1 month ago

It's basically a zombie movie, but the main character is Bambi.

They cannot be bargained with. They cannot be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

about to make ourselves go away though.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Raise your hand. Great, you overcame gravity for a second. Keep your hand raised for a minute. 10 minutes. An hour. Fuck, gravity doesn't stop. It's exactly like us.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it's effectively zero

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But never actually zero, unlike those other quitter "forces"

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is that actually true? I'm not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.

[–] nxn@biglemmowski.win 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not the person you replied to, and not really an expert either, but I can tell you that the W and Z bosons (force carriers for the weak force) are very short lived and can only travel through space so far before they decay. This effectively puts a cap on the distance of weak interactions.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Strong force is the same.

I don't know if it's shorter than the weak force, but you gotta be in an atom's nucleus to experience it

Edit: i just realized I may have confused people - strong force has a limited distance, not that it's because they decay.

Edit 2: If i ever got a PhD or master's even in Physics, id probably write a book on how "The Universe Demands Laziness." Because pretty much everything in physics ends up with a system taking shortcuts to save a little bit of energy.

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The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.

That's true of all the fundamental forces, though. They all drop off over distance with inverse square laws. Like if you had two lone electrons in an otherwise empty universe, their electromagnetic repulsion would also persist indefinitely at 1/r^2 strength, just like gravity. The difference is that our universe has near-perfect charge neutrality at large scales.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Electromagnetic doesn't go away either. It's that damn negavite charge neutralizing the stuff.

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[–] spicystraw@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago

Gravity’s so powerful, it’s letting you win this round just to remind you who’s really in charge when you drop your phone

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Say that to gravity when you start even 5m above the ground.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gravity ain't shit. It's not the falling that kills you, it's the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

Well the electromagnetic forces in your bones are no match for the accumulated energy of a few seconds of gravity.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, go ahead, how long can you keep it up? The earth can wait longer than you.

[–] pornpornporn@lemmynsfw.com 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Challenge accepted

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just lost faith in my muscles

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now keep this hand raised for an hour. Who's the bitch now ?

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If it takes your an hour to wear me down, you're weak. No matter how inexhaustible your power is.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Oh don't worry, it will be way less than an hour :P

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[–] Zuriz@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weak you say?... See those merging black holes? Proceeds to casually dissapear 3 solar masses in less than a second... Yeah.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I just overcame the gravitational pull of the entire planet with my dick.

[–] Krelis_@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

If your dick overcomes the gravitational pull of the entire planet for more than four hours, seek medical attention

[–] callyral@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago

username checks out

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago (9 children)

You didn’t overcome it, you spend some energy that the earth will eventually get back.

Unless you leave earth, gravity will eventually win.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

The house always wins.

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:

Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don't take long Until you hit the earth And you say, "Dang that hurt!"

But if you think the force Is powerful You're wrong

You see, gravity It's weaker than weak!

And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek

They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see

It's into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end

And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don't affect you in your day-to-day life

But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they'd find you...

LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, a song from the time superstrings were still cool?

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 23 points 1 month ago

Did he just tough-talk the curvature of space-time?

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

thats just because the gravitational pull of your hand is weak shit.

Get more mass, massless nerd.

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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And now jump in the air and escape the gravitational pull.

12 kilometers straight up.

  1. 150 km.

Gravity not so weak now, huh?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 points 1 month ago

And still it is powerful enough to completely close off parts of the universe from the rest. Truly fascinating.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Back issues are Gravity's revenge.

[–] don@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah but ain’t no motherfucker gonna soon be jumping over onto the moon with pure human leg power. Still gotta detonate a slowly exploding bomb under our asses to leave this rock-covered ball bearing.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 10 points 1 month ago

True, however… as you press into this planet, this planet presses into you.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

Overcome? The hand is clearly still under the effect of gravity as it is not flowing into the space. It just decelerates a tiny bit.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago

Supermassive Blackholes: "Gravity is weak, huh?"

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