by Matthew Cobb
PCC(E) is still in the internet-less wilds of Ultima Thule, but he will be back.
Meanwhile, in Dobrzyn, Hili is musing on the apparent immutability of the universe:
Hili: Everything seems to be the same.
Me: Yes, and sometimes that’s very annoying.
In Polish:
Hili: Wszystko wydaje się być takie same.
Ja: Tak i chwilami to jest bardzo irytujące.
To keep you all busy, here’s a challenge. Explain magnetism, or gravity, both of which are basically magic.
Gravity is a no-brainer. We* don’t know what it is or how/why it works. Magnetism, we* have a better idea, but it is still profoundly mysterious. To give you some idea of the problem, here’s Feynman explaining the inexplicable, posted by Tuomas Pernu in reply to me on bsky:
*We = physicists. I have no idea.