🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

My god Feynman truly was a gem we lost from this world far far too soon.

#feynman #RichardFeynman

@Gargron I have a feature request. Can you make it so when I block an account on mastodon it automatically sends a killer assassin robot back through time to kill the person when they were first born.

I figure thats the best way to maintain efficient code and comprehensible timelines.

Let me know.

Translation:

When someone says something is free -> "I will pay for that and you will owe me nothing"

When the government says something is free -> "I will hold a gun up to Bob's head and make him pay for that for you"

Please tell me this is real.

"I am a god damn fucking model of tranquility you piece of shit"

A summary of every interaction I've had on the fediverse outside of QOTO.

@Science Finally I took apart the solid clumps to get a closer look. At first the two pictures are the solid clumps around the spark gap pretty much in tact. They were quire hard. Howeve however I noticed when i broke it in half (as well as the solid clump at the bottom of the beaker) it was in fact hollow in the middle and only the outside was solid.

It would appear the plasma has so powerful it vaporized the salt to a gas in the middle and only the area outside the path of the arc was solid. That is one hell of a plasma arc!

@Science Here we can see in this run (second run not the one in the video) that the arc fomed a solid clump of salt around where the arc took place as well as a half-circle of solid sald at the bottom. The half-circle of solid salt at the bottom was fused to the clump that surrounded the location of the arc. It was impossible to get it out as one piece.

The important part to notice here is that the arc traveled through the solid (or rather molten at the time the microwave was going) salt and tried to find a path to ground. It was so powerful that it instantly cracked the lab-quality beaker it is held in and you can see a crack right at the same spot the paper bowl is burnt.

Amazing it went right through the glass like it was there.

@Science Here are pictures of me preparing the coil, then placing it in a 30ml beaker and covering it with salt. Few notes

1) I know it looks like a resistor, it isnt. Its a 0 ohm resistor so just the same as some wire.

2) I put a layer of salt down, then the spark gap coil then a layer of salt

3) The salt is potassium chloride because it has very fine grains.

So a while back i realized you can create an extremely high energy hot plasma in the microwave consistently by taking a coil and streching it out and forming it into a loop with one gap on the sad. The ark that forms has huge amount of energy in a very small space. In the past it has melted a blob of borisilicate glass almost instantly fuzing the coil i to the glass under neath.

It has a tendency to grow into a large cloud of blasma that rises to the top of the microwave usually. Since this ball plasma is much larger the energy is spread out. Despite still being extremely hot its nowhere near the heat of the initial ark as it takes some time to heat glass to its melting point in this state.

So i had an idea. What would happen if i contained the arc under a pile of salt, in this case potassium salt. It should keep the plasma contained and due to maintaining a very small volume should retain the enormous heat i figured it would be more than hot enough to melt the salt but i wanted to try it out.

Attached is the video in the microwave itself. I will reply to this thread with various stills before and after of the setup showing the final results

#chemistry #physics #science #STEM @Science

If you arent familiar with seizures (both grand mal and petite), or what to do if you witness one, then please take the time to learn. Seizures are fairly common and there is a good chance you may be around a friend or stranger int he future who has one and how you handle it can make a huge impact on their safety. That is all.