"So what does it look like?
"That question has no answer since it is much smaller than the wavelength of visible light."
"Oh."
Who goes through the effort of changing the font in LaTeX to comic sans?
Better in "Hello Doctor", seems smarter
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}
You monster.
Better than wing dings font
I recall when CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs bosson... in Comic Sans
(Though to be fair it was something like PowerPoint slides or something)
What are you talking about?
It looks like a bright dot. Or a dark one if you are photographing it.
But sometimes... Sometimes, when it's super clear out, you can focus on a nebula and stack a bunch of images together to get... A dark smudge.
One of my all time favorite wallpapers is the Hubble Ultra Deep field.
Checkmate ~~athei~~ astronomers!
But it doesn’t look like that to the human eye, if the human eye could see that far, all the colors are translated data. Your eye would see nothing but faint gray smudges if you could recreate that image with your eyes and brain
Stars are colorful but the rods in the human eye that help process very low light intensities aren't color sensitive. The colors of the stars, though, are real, in that if you had enough brightness you'd see the colors with the cones in your eye.
If you put a very colorful picture on the ground but illuminated it with only faint moonlight, your eyes would struggle to see the colors on the picture, despite the fact that the colors on the picture are objectively real, with real pigments that actually represent colors that would be seen you had more light.
So merely pointing out the deficiencies in the human eye don't actually prove that the colors aren't real.
It's that way with Webb since it focuses on infrared, but I thought hubble used the visible spectrum.
After a brief search, it looks like Hubble uses the entire optical spectrum which includes some IR and UV along with visible. It depends on the specific image, but the deep field stuff looks like it was a combination of visible and IR, which makes sense considering red shift. But the bluer objects were captured in the visible.
So they inevitably had to compress the spectrum for the photos, but speaking as somebody who has taken tens of thousands of photos in RAW format, all the colors in every photo are translated data. :) (that also goes for the screen displaying the final image using a mix of three wavelengths rather than the actual colors of the original light)
Cloud chambers are pretty
A meme about font and you use AI to write the text for you? The fuck is this
What makes you think the text is AI image gen? Or do you think the text is LLM generated? I'm deeply confused by your comment.
The text characters, the letters are all slightly weirdly shaped, warped and sized, they dont site on the same baslines, and spacing is inconsistent. I dont think its compression artifacts but more that the text is AI generated as 'images of letters' thather than text itself.
I zoomed all the way in and I don't see anything wrong with the text. I even drew horizontal lines on a screenshot to confirm they do in fact sit on the same baselines correctly.
Fair enough then. They arent lining up on my screen but maybe it is just compression artifacts and the way the sync app is displaying them on my phone.
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