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Spontaneous symmetry breaking

A good way to get an idea of what this is like is through water. Water has four different forms it could take depending on the conditions; frost, snow, ice and rime. Spontaneous symmetry breaking is sort of like this.

At the start of the big bang there was a single force which started off hot and as it expanded began to cool and in 1x10-46s (supposed to be scientific notation) gravity came into existence.

Now there is gravity and the force energy of the universe. This force energy then split into the strong nuclear force (SNF) at about 1x10-36s.

Then shorty after the massive inflation at 1x10-22s (where the universe expanded from about the size of a proton to that of a orange), the weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force (or electroweak force as we now know that they are the same) came into existence at the same time at 1x10-12s.

So from one force, in 1x10-12s all the different forces have fallen out.

In about 1x10-6 quark confinement would happen, from 3-20 minutes the nuclei would begin to form, there is still too much energy for the electrons to be bound to the nuclei. Atoms would not form for about 380,000 years.

Well this has been a brief and simple intro to spontaneous symmetry breaking, hope you guys liked it. 

There is a Diamond ExoPlanet and it’s worth is $26.9 Nonillion.

If we stacked all that money in $50 notes, this would be the outcome. The earth(on the left at the bottom) is used for size comparison.

$26.900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.000

“In 1972, Edward Lorenz gave a presentation titled: “Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” The term “butterfly effect” was born. Lorenz, who was born on this day in 1917, was a pioneer of chaos theory, which analyzes how subtle changes in the initial conditions of a system can lead to widely differing outcomes. This 2013 Physics Today article examines Lorenz and the birth of chaos theory.” - Physics Today

Chaos at fifty by Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell is an article that lays out the discovery of chaos. I found it a very satisfying and informative read about dynamical systems, the butterfly effect, bifurcations, predictability and fractals. You should probably go check it out by clicking on the bolded title. 👍

“Chaos sets itself apart from other great revolutions in the physical sciences. In contrast to, say, relativity or quantum mechanics, chaos is not a theory of any particular physical phenomenon. Rather, it is a paradigm shift of all science, which provides a collection of concepts and methods to analyze a novel behavior that can arise in a wide range of disciplines.” - Chaos at fifty

Image above: “The Lorenz attractor, as revealed by the never-repeating trajectory of a single chaotic orbit. The spheres shown here represent iterations of the so-called Lorenz equations, calculated using the original parameters in Edward Lorenz’s seminal work. (Spheres are colored according to the iteration count.) From certain angles, the two lobes of the attractor resemble a butterfly, a coincidence that helped earn sensitive dependence on initial conditions its nickname—the butterfly effect. An animated visualization of the attractor is available here. (Image courtesy of Stefan Ganev.)”

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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne , Journey to the Center of the Earth (via q-lvck)

Happy national periodic table day!