Think “you wake up in the woods naked,” Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?...
SI is great, but if you reset everything (and lose all tech and most of knowledge), just create a new system. Embrace what makes SI great (easy conversions and a the nature-based properties) and do it over.
For length, use Hydrogen line when you advance your society enough. It’s more universal than using 🌎 as a 📏.
I know that if an electron collides with its antiparticle, the positron, they annihilate each other and energy is released. But what happens if an electron collides with other antimatter that is not its antiparticle, like an antiproton or an antineutron? Do they annihilate each other too?
How can we define a robust metric for "most discontinuous country" and then rank all states according to it?
More of a classification question, but I’m really curious about what the metric would look like if we try to be systematic about it....
How could SI units be derived from scratch without the use of modern technology?
Think “you wake up in the woods naked,” Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?...
What happens if an electron collides with an antimatter particle that is not a positron?
I know that if an electron collides with its antiparticle, the positron, they annihilate each other and energy is released. But what happens if an electron collides with other antimatter that is not its antiparticle, like an antiproton or an antineutron? Do they annihilate each other too?