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Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by dang on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:46PM (#43785461)
[stub for offtopicness]

[come on you guys]

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by pineaux on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:44PM (#43786723)
Its clearly only half of the answer.

The complete answer of the universe would of course be 42cm.

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by nine_k on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:05PM (#43784996)
The article gives the answer to the question in the title in the first paragraph. This is really commendable. (Suspense is—wait for it!—overrated.)
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by dang on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:45PM (#43785442)
We've replaced the magic title with the more informative subtitle now. Standard mod trick.
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by pixelbeat on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:59PM (#43784938)
42/2
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by baxtr on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:25PM (#43785208)
When I replied, the article had been posted 42 minutes ago and had 42 upvotes.

That can’t be a coincidence.

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by fragmede on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:38PM (#43785360)
The people running our simulation are just fucking with us at this point.
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by omegacombinator on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:57PM (#43785569)
Ah, so the answer to life, the universe, and everything was actually 42/2 …
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by simiones on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:04PM (#43785645)
Is this going to be τ vs π all over again?
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by o11c on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:55PM (#43786158)
I recently did a bit of programming exploration using tau exclusively instead of pi (and `sintau` instead of the new `sinpi` function etc.)

In almost every aspect this was far simpler, but there was the curious case of the constant `M_2_SQRTPI = 2 / sqrt(π)`. Even after looking up what weird formula that constant is used in, it wasn't at all clear to me where would be the most sensible place to put the constant.

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by quantumHazer on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:06PM (#43785007)
Though 13 is totally the average!
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by hnthrowaway0315 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:42PM (#43785415)
Damn that's 42 / 2!
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by zhengyi13 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:53PM (#43785527)
... so the question is "What is twice the magic quantum light length?"

Doesn't seem all that great, but I'm probably missing something.

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by staticelf on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:38PM (#43785355)
Chickens take 21 days to hatch and give us the most protein rich food you can eat. Does this mean that chickens are the magic creature of the universe?
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by wafflemaker on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:42PM (#43785399)
Pretty sure newly hatched chicks are not the most protein rich food you can eat. But the crunch must be amazing.

Is this why cows and horses eat them?

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by ddalex on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:31PM (#43785280)
How many inches is that
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by imoverclocked on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:33PM (#43785302)
It is 21.1061… cm worth of them.

Fun fact, your computer is really good at answering this question for you. So is (say) Google Search.

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by barbazoo on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:35PM (#43785333)
Or an LLM, or even just using MacOS spotlight search autocompletes "21cm how many inches " to the right answer.
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by m3kw9 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:19PM (#43785795)
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Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by bhaskara2 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:02PM (#43784967)
Apt
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by mightysashiman on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:05PM (#43785002)
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Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by dang on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:49PM (#43785484)
Please don't do this here.
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by mightysashiman on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:02PM (#43785620)
Reddit gave me bad habits. My apologies
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by mystifyingpoi on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:01PM (#43784963)
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Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm by dredmorbius on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:26PM (#43789837)
But do you know where your towel is?