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Re:Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final co... by mmooss on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:58PM (#46929149)
You're in an IT forum and can't imagine implementations of both the smallest and largest scales? ICs are built at nanoscale and have to deal with quantum effects. PNT systems are so large that they have to deal with the speed of light and relativistic effects.

Many things humanity builds are on the scale of colliders.

> The problem is that fundamental physics

I didn't know there was a problem. It seems like one of humanity's greatest successes.

Re:Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final co... by pfdietz on Saturday February 07, 2026 @08:29PM (#46930405)
You are mistating my argument. An honest reading, where you try to read what I wrote in the way that makes the most sense, would have concluded I was talking about large scale, not small scale.
Re:Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final co... by mmooss on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:37PM (#46936572)
Maybe it's not dishonesty; maybe people can disagree genuinely; maybe others add their own points, and communication is difficult; maybe you even miscommunicated - such certainty and judgement is always a signal of not seeing other people's perspectives. Maybe, on a large scale, the world doesn't revolve around what you intend to say.

As an example, I talked about both large and small scale.