Eugenics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Boarding school by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Catholic Saint by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Spanish (language) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Work by Richard Feynman by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Tuberculosis by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Special relativity by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This was first best observed by the Michelson-Morley experiment, which uses the movement of the Earth at different times of the year to try and detect differences in the speed of light.
This leads leads to the following conclusions:
All of this goes of course completely against our daily Physics intuition.
The "special" in the name refers to the fact that it is a superset of general relativity, which also explains gravity in a single framework.
Since time and space get all messed up together, you have to be very careful to understand what it means to say "I observed this to happen over there at that time", otherwise you will go crazy. A good way to think about is this:
  • use Einstein synchronization to setup a bunch of clocks for every position in your frame of reference
  • on every point of space, you put a little detector which records events and the time of the event
  • each detector can only detect events locally, i.e. events that happen very close to the detector
  • then, after the event, the detectors can send a signal to you, who is sitting at the origin, telling you what they detected
Emergence by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Basically the opposite of reductionism.
Homogenous coordinates by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Subquotient by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
That normal subgroup does not have have to be a normal subgroup of G.
As an overkill example, the happy family are subquotients of the monster group, but the monster group is simple.
Abel-Ruffini theorem by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Video 1.
But why is there no quintic formula? by MathKiwi
. Source. 10 minutes, that's about the right length, well done.
Relativistic quantum mechanics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
The first really good quantum mechanics theory made compatible with special relativity was the Dirac equation.
TODO: does it use full blown QED, or just something intermediate?
Quantum key distribution by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Man-in-the-middle attack
BB84 is a good first algorithm to look into.
Long story short:
QKD uses quantum mechanics stuff to allow sharing unsnoopable keys: you can detect any snooping and abort communication. Unsnoopability is guaranteed by the known laws of physics, up only to engineering imperfections.
Furthermore, it allows this key distribution without having to physically take a box by car somewhere: once the channel is established, e.g. optical fiber, you can just keep generating perfect keys from it. Otherwise it would be pointless, as you could just drive your one-time pad key every time.
However, the keys likely have a limited rate of generation, so you can't just one-time pad the entire message, except for small text messages. What you would then do is to use the shared key with symmetric encryption.
Therefore, this setup usually ultimately relies on the idea that we believe that symmetric encryption is safer than , even though there aren't mathematical safety proofs of either as of 2020.
Political parties in the United States by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Rigid body by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Animation of molecular biology processes by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Nothing makes the fact that your life is an illusion clearer than animations of molecular biology processes. You just have no idea what is going on inside your own body right now!
And don't get Ciro Santilli started on the brain and the impossibility of free will.
And yet, we live, oblivious to all of it.
Video 1.
ATP synthase in action by HarvardX (2017)
Source.
Video 2.
Electron transport chain by HarvardX (2017)
Source. This actually explains how mitochondrions use sugar derivatives and oxygen to transform ADP into ATP.
Video 3.
The Inner Life of the Cell by XVIVO Scientific Animation (2011)
Source. Also created for BioVisions from Harvard University apparently like other amazing videos. It also has the best music.
Video 4.
DNA animations by wehi.tv for Science-Art exhibition by WEHImovies (2018)
Source.
Video 5.
Dengue virus Invades a Cell by XVIVO Scientific Animation (2008)
Source. Reupload by the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which was reuploaded from www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/den08.sci.life.stru.dengue/dengue-virus-invades-a-cell/ which was reuploaded from wherever crazy place XVIVO put it.
Clade by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created

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