Spyke
slrpnk.net

I tried to bore my son to sleep by reading Dune to him. He now reads the books on his own.

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Kids just want attention and love from their parents. They’ll take interest in your interests if you share them with them.

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sopuli.xyz

My grandpa (electrician) was telling me about electrons. I was so fascinated with things like current not being speed, and magnetic force, and batteries. I think I've learned now everything there is to learn about electrons - electronics, electrochemistry, magnetooptics, electron microscopy, positron tomography, xray generation, power generation, electrites, etc, etc.

Still unemployed lol.

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Heh, I'm an electron microscopist. Also, ham radio operator. 'Electricity' is fascinating.

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discuss.tchncs.de

there's 2 types of electric current: electrons flowing through a wire, and protons flowing through water

the second kind is also called a pH gradient (because pH value measures how many protons there are in water) and is the main theme of most of biochemistry. since biochemistry is all about moving protons (and other charged ions) around. so this opens up a whole new field (biochemistry) for you!

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Well, to be honest, I did try to sell live yeast I grow through pure culture protocol at home in my tiny lab, but demand is so low (and yes, it's regulated so I have to please the big brother by paying for their nonsense sanitary checkups which costed more than I made in revenue), that I just make beer for myself now.

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Also, to be honest, there are way more forms of electric current. There is plasma conductivity, superconducting pairs dynamics, molecular conductivity through coupled orbitals, quasiparticle conductivity and other weirdness of solid state (Hall effect shows whether it's electrons or holes where electrons are missing are charge carriers, for example). World is beautiful.

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kieron115reply
startrek.website

Damnit, this is why the world needs some sort of universal basic income system. You might be the one to create effectively free energy or something but we'll never know.

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Alexanderreply
sopuli.xyz

I've done my share of science magic; and I'll probably do more, I don't need some state capitalists' approval or anything for that. Would be nice if they just go to hell nicely and never bother me when I try to trade whatever I make with my community.

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lemmy.world

Kids love trivia. When I was a kid I had the characteristics of dozens of dinosaur species memorized. The whole Pokemon franchise is built on this.

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discuss.tchncs.de

sqrt 2 = 1.4142135623730950884
sqrt 3 = 1.732050808
sqrt 5 = 2.236067978
sqrt 6 = 2.664(?) i think
sqrt 7 = ?
sqrt 8 = 2.828
sqrt 10 = 3.166

recited from memory, remembered since i was 13 or sth idk, i was bored back then.

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yeah lol i figured out some time later that there's really no use to these numbers, sqrt 2 is the only one that actually matters at all, and maybe sqrt 3 for some applications, and pi and e but that's it.

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lemmy.world

At one time I knew pi to thirty places. Then I read somewhere that it really doesn’t need to be that precise. So for example, if you were measuring the circumference of the earth using π = 3.14159 vs π = 3.141592653589793 it only changes the circumference by fractions of a millimeter at this scale. I can’t measure a 24 inch piece of wood with that amount of accuracy.

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lemmy.world

The circumference of the Earth is somewhat subjective at that scale anyway, since it also depends on where you decide the radius stops.

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Well yeah since we really aren’t a perfect sphere. Not to mention elevation, buildings, etc.

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Ardyssianreply
sh.itjust.works

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Eta Theta Iota Kappa Lambda Mu Nu Omicron? ? Rho Tau Sigma Upsilon Phi Chi Psi Omega

Edit: Forgot about Xi and Pi, before and after Omicron respectively. Also swapped Tau and Sigma's position.

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feddit.nl

Young kids love the sound of your voice and can sense the enthusiasm probably. They will respond to that more than the content. My daughter was the same with stories about the ice age…

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Are you trying to say my daughter is obsessed with super heroes and Greek mythology because she got it from me and not just because she's awesome?

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lemmy.ca

Our babysitter taught us calculus at like 9.

It took me a long time before I could use it.

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Anybody else try to memorize the chemical elements? Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, calcium. That's as far as I ever got, the metals were too confusing.

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