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Re:Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Bre... by bee_rider on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:38PM (#28529938)
"Rotate the diagram in spacetime" would make for some top-tier technobabble (not expressing doubt that it is a real thing, just wow, it sounds so cool).
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Re:Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Bre... by coldtea on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:27PM (#28530609)
Well, "rotating the diagram in spacetime" is also exactly what you do when you move your hands while holding the printout of a diagram...

(In this case though it's about rotating what's shown in the diagram, that is the interactions pictured, not the diagram itself :-))

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Re:Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Bre... by vanderZwan on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:30AM (#28591138)
This is as deliciously anti-climactic as finding out what "non-Euclidean space" means after hearing it a lot in Cthulu-like horror settings
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