Me: not smart enough to understand
Brain: Quick! Say something to sound like you fit in!
Me: uh … I just did the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs!
But do you remember the Krebs Cycle?
Why is the astrophysicist wearing gloves? Is he trying to dispose of a body?
You don’t want to know what an astrophysicist does in their free time.
Well the one I knew spent his free time doing community theater, having many of the women there go crazy over him (he was good-looking and charming), and then not sleeping with any of them because he was a wait-until-marriage religious guy. I don’t think he was typical.
I intended to be an astrophysicist before finally settling on IT, and I was doing theater before life did its things and I had to stop. I’m kinda religious but not THAT religious (and my SO is an atheist so, really not THAT much).
Maybe there’s kind of a type anyway.
Angle: seconds
Dessert: seconds
Motion: seconded
Breakfast: second
Hotel: Trivago
That’s elevensies.
¿Porqué no los dos?
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Can I get a conversation table?
Rocket scientists be like:
Fuel efficiency: seconds.
Wait, how do you measure mass in seconds?
Just as particle physicists measure everything in energy (eV to be precise…)
Mass? eV Energy? eV Distance? 1/eV Time? Guess what: 1/eV as well! This also means velocity has unit 1…
And the worst part: it turns out to be extremely useful!
Time taken for me to eat that mass of hotdogs
Choking_Hazard.txt
That may be relativists (they would actually measure anything in units of mass, with everything else defined through G = c = 1). Astrophysicists commonly measure mass in solar masses, long distances in parsec (or kiloparsec, megaparsec), short distances in solar radii or AU, and time in whatever is relevant to their problem (could be seconds or gigayears)
short distances in solar radii
I think astrophycisists and I may have a difference of opinion on the meaning of the adjective short
I’m hungry for more; may I have seconds?
Mass in seconds? How? I get mass in Joules, but seconds?
Well the modern definition of a kg is based off of the second and the metre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram :P
There are two possibilities I can think of:
- Orbit duration can be used to calculate mass
- The diameter of a star or the parallax distance on the sky (in arcseconds) can also be used to evaluate mass
Size doesn’t say much about mass though.
I thought stars of similar masses were also of similar sizes. They’re not?
I measure the mass of my stool by seconds it takes to discharge
Please Sir, can I have some more?
Lash him! Ridicule him! This boy wants seconds!
Shouldn’t m = F/a so n/s^2?
E=mc^2 so m is joule seconds^2 / meter ^ 2
F=ma so m is Newton seconds^2 / meter
A joule is 1 Newton / meter so they agree
A joule is 1 Newton / second, but those units do still agree
Lol wait is a joule actually one Newton meter? 😅
Now I’m so confused
You’ve got it - it is a Newton-meter
A J = Ns not N/s
One Joule of energy is one Newton of force applied for 1 second.
Muphry’s law at work - for both of us, actually. I looked it up (since with Ns the units no longer worked out between E = mc² and F = ma), and a joule is actually a Nm, a Newton-meter. And with that the units do work out correctly on both equations.
That is really unintuative, torque is Nm…how can energy also be Nm.
But then I look at it and J = Ws = N(m/s)s = Nm
Don’t they measure distance and time by redshift (ie colour)
They normally use parallax-seconds, i.e. parsecs, for long distance objects.
I think you need to be more specific than ‘long distance’, yes they use parsecs for ‘long distances’ but I believe only for intra-galactic objects. I think other galaxies are too distant for parallax seconds to be useful.
What even is color if not seconds^-1?
As a theoretical physicist, units are for chumps
You must love Reynold’s Number:
It’s easy to remember c and ℏ if they’re both 1…
Constance? Never heard of her
all the same thing anyway
