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Cake day: September 26th, 2024

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  • I still think he cares, in fact, I think he cares about this a lot.

    Trump in his second term is a puppet for his administration, he’s there to attract spotlights with his seething unhinged rants on hicktown social, his natural stupidity, his weird orange make up, etc. In general, the chaos this clown provides is perfect for masking what his administration is steering the US to.

    I do think that ultimately his fragile narcissist ego can be a weakness since I can’t see him going along with this for too long.



  • So this is where my inexperience kicks in, but I don’t understand how the strong force can function in the same way considering that gluons are massless.

    The W and Z bosons having mass prevents them from being able to travel at the speed of light, and therefore they experience time and can only travel some limited distance before decaying into fermions.

    But since gluons do not have mass, they, like photons, do not experience time – and so how could they have a half life?

    In my mental model of the strong force I assumed that they simply were created and destroyed in an exchange between quarks – much like how photons get absorbed/emitted by electrons. But this alone does not cause a limit on the distance of strong interactions, so I assumed that mechanically any limit on the strong force’s distance must function differently.