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i have been told that it actually does just go away, because the universe taken as a whole is not time-symmetric and thus conservation of energy does not apply by Noether's theorem

i have also been encouraged to look at some videos pbs spacetime did about this so i will look into those tomorrow probably because right now it's late
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do you ever just wonder

where does the energy go from redshifted photons

if a photon of green light at 500 nanometers is emitted and then travels through space for a while, the expansion of the universe causes it to redshift until it's, say, a red photon of 700 nanometers

that's a loss of over an entire electronvolt

where did that energy go?

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fun fact: there's a large region of space that seems to have significantly less *stuff* in it than would be expected by our models, and we don't really know why

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMB_cold
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can someone in the UK explain what this "nectar" thing is that ebay apparently does over there? i keep seeing it when techmoan shows an image of an ebay listing for something and am kinda curious what it is and why they don't do it over here
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miror b might just be the best character in the entire pokemon series
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it occurs to me that bacteria and viruses are basically nanobots in any sensible definition of the word

especially genetically engineered ones
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it was really weird when we realized that the delorean was a real car people actually could buy and drive
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we should adopt Sb as an anticapitalist symbol

because it's anti-mon(e)y

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random thought: i wonder if there are any people petty and misanthropic enough to intentionally scratch up every redbox rental they get before returning it
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working a full-time job sounds really difficult... how do people handle it
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whee, applied for another job.

here's hoping this company actually gets back to us
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Huh, you don't see people actually categorize tex-mex as american food very often

it undeniably *is*, but people generally think of it as mexican food here
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food 

someone remind us to get bratwurst when we go to the grocery store, kinda craving one now
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not really our thing but just noticed the date!
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Today's before-bed thought: An anthro version of iron man would be the ferric ferret
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but just know that just because I don't say hi in a while doesn't mean we don't appreciate you!! social anxiety and ADHD together make for not fun times
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