My personal record (new workout regime) on the deadlift is now 250 pounds. I started out at 185 pounds so in a little over a month I’ve gotten 35% stronger on that exercise.
I stopped a little early because I was spent. That was a big pull and I just didn’t have much gas left in the tank after.
Does antimatter fall upwards? New CERN gravity experiments aim to get to the bottom of the matter.
No, antimatter will not fall up as that would require negative mass. There is no such thing as negative mass. QED.
Yes, this experiment is still worth doing because if there is even the slightest chance of being wrong, it’d be world-shaking in it import. It would mean that anti-gravity is in principle possible.
But it’ll fall down because that’s just how mass works in this universe.
Please don’t waste your money on stuff like this.
That’s $3,000 for something that won’t nearly be as effective as free weights and requires a monthly subscription fee. I don’t like going to gym, either, but why are people so allergic to free weights?
Resistance bands and such aren’t totally useless (and for certain parts of certain exercises are more effective), but you’ll never get as good as workout with this over-engineered gear as you get with free weights — and free weights are a lot cheaper. Just buy a $400 weight set and some dumbbells and watch some YouTube videos and you’ll have saved $2,200, be able to get more fit and won’t be sending anyone money every month.
But if you do buy this garbage, please let me know because I have some other useless crap…uh, I mean quality goods….to sell you.
The mistake that people make in thinking about quantum phenomena is attempting to analogize it. Your understanding doesn’t have to be fully mathematical (I don’t understand all of the math), but it also can’t be metaphorical as there simply isn’t a valid macro-level metaphor for much that occurs (or is mathematically represented) in the quantum realm.
For instance, spin. Or more accurately, “spin quantum number.” What does this mean? Well, nothing’s spinning. Not really, anyway. There is a completely different number that represents orbital angular momentum that is totally unrelated. And yes, the names of both particles and properties is often confusing. You’d think something labeled “spin” would involve actual spinning as we think of it. But no. “Spin” is a mathematical construct of something that is happening in reality but that maps to nothing we can think of as an analogy to anything you’d witness in everyday life.
(For instance, why the electron is not spinning in the sense of rotating: for it to have the magnetic moment it in fact does, an electron’s outer “surface” would have to be rotating 100 times the speed of light.)
“Spin” is a vector in ordinary space applied to complex space — space that can only be represented by a complex number. Ain’t no visualizing that no matter how hard you try. It is not just difficult. It is impossible. That’s why so many explanations of quantum phenomena are terrible. There simply is not any analogy that will assist in understanding. They only obfuscate what we understand and don’t illuminate anything.
When people think about travelling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present, but no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future.#SteveThoughts #Vote #Electionday pic.twitter.com/xfqcdeGT0z
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The problem with this idea is that people see the future as both capable of perturbation but fundamentally unpredictable. Since counterfactuals are impossible, who knows if they are right?
I suspect that the future is not very perturbable by an individual nor very predictable so most people if they traveled to the past would have almost no effect at all but a few individuals would have huge effects. This is what the chronologically-normal world is like, so why would a world where time travel is possible be that much different?
However, if corporations controlled the time machines, we’d all be dead.
Now that the Dems have won the House, prepare to hear even more about Russia and about Trumps’s fucking tax returns. And, oh yeah, about bipartisanship.
Meanwhile, nothing substantial will be achieved and climate change (the only truly important issue) will be ignored.
I didn’t remember this from when I was strong before, but the strangest thing I wasn’t expecting is that I can type significantly faster and more accurately now due to resistance training.
I’m speculating that it’s because my grip strength is much higher now and all my muscles are getting stronger. That prevents fatigue and increases accuracy a bit.
Anyway, I can now type about 20% faster just from working out. Odd.