I feel like I should be upset for 2 reasons:

1. It's #1, period.
2. People should stay tf away so it doesn't get ruined like Yellowstone.

(But I'm not because 1) no one will believe it's that good and 2) it's kinda hard to get to. People are lazy. Especially the people who never get out of their cars and who think Jellystone is the best park.)

My wife and I talk about this all the time. Nowhere in America, save Hawaii, could be better. (We don't want to move to Hawaii for a few reasons, but cost is the big one.)

When it warms up from climate change, Alaska might be in the running, but I think we're stuck unless we want to leave the country.

(I came from Colorado, btw - 20 years there - it's great but.. it's not as good. Mainly because we're green, they're brown.)

I wish I knew what i wanted to do at your age. Keep your eye on the ball. Set goals and follow through.

One more good link I just found: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2015/11/4/so-you-want-to-be-an-astronaut/

There is probably some ESA guidance too.

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Astronaut_Requirements.html

Yep. Puts it in perspective.

I heard someone say the other day "a billion minus a million is about a billion."

That's called "a straw man" argument, with a bonus false dichotomy.

Pretending that we don't know anything because we don't know everything is a glaring indicator of ignorance - not only of the topic at hand, but more generally of a weak grasp of epistemology and argumentation.

I assume you left out the rest of the paragraph because you don't know what Bayesian and Strong Priors means.

The inaccuracy is quantifiable if you do.

Yeah, scientists just guess, since they're not sure. /s

There are margins of error that are taken into account when values aren't known exactly. That doesn't mean we just have no darn idea. "It's all theoretical" is wildly inaccurate. The margin of error on the age of the universe is like 1% - so that's a lot, but it's not, like, "could just be anything, we have no idea."

Once you figure out that the Universe is expanding, (Hubble did this when he figured out the "red shift" on stars via the Doppler effect) all you need to do is measure the expansion rate today and use the laws of physics to determine how the expansion rate must have changed over time (looking at the oldest stars we can see...) Then you just extrapolate all the way back until you achieve the conditions of the hot Big Bang itself.

https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_age.html

That, unsurprisingly, did not clear it up.

What's a Zima Mike?

Any anyway, what's the problem? Did I say something that made you have feels? Idk what TBH. Are you a little white girl on a cul-de-sac pretending to be gangsta, and this hit too close to home?

Honestly asking.

No way to know. Could just as easily be North Bend as Battleground or Mill Creek.

What I am sure of is that it's far-removed from anywhere where her street cred might be ... questioned.

I ❤️ the prison pose/gang signs (or is that the shocker?) in front of million dollar suburbia homes.

Edit: I think the snow is making me cranky.

I want an indoor Clydesdale so bad.

Space is REALLY big. Generally speaking, there's a lot of room between objects.

See, and I thought you meant lion's mane the fungus, and thought you didn't know much about fungus.

So anyways I'm an idiot. :)

I think it was a jellyfish. Maybe Thetys vagina. (Probably not, but it wanted to say that) some kind of salp though.. unless I'm wrong

So when I think "field" I imagine a large plane, probably with some sort of grid overlaid. More accurately, I think in my mind the "field" is the grid points themselves.. I can imagine it's n-dimensional as well just fine, of course.

So I just found this definition : "The word ‘field' signifies the variation of a quantity(whether scalar or vector) with position."

I think a spin-0 (spherical symmetry with no preferred axis) field, then, is scalar because if the uniformity of the higgs particles.

I know that's not explaining the significance but did that sound right at all so far?

So it appears that if the higgs field collapses it releases energy. Unfortunately according to that video it also deletes the universe so I'm not sure if we're going to be able to harness that anytime soon but we could work toward it... maybe have tiny little universe deletions that we could create and harness.. I don't know!

Turns out it's a good question!!

I did type it backwards. Should be "makes it so matter has mass."

I don't think you can ask anyone what it really is. :)

No worries. I know enough for whatever Jeopardy questions there might be about the subject, and that's how I measure whether I've probed deeply enough

Edit: though there is that saying about how if you really understand something, you can explain it to a five year old...

You wanna translate that down by a few years of college/research?

Like, for us "Physics without calc" students who had to drop even that.

I'm not sure it releases energy exactly... I think it's like an energy field that makes it so mass has matter matter has mass.