A thing so self evident that I forget it was once difficult to understand for me: Elementary particles don't have identities, beyond the causal effects they have on other particles. They are like blocks in Minecraft or gliders in Game of Life: they are functions in a software.
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denial, bargain, anger, and depression
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Amusingly, I can categorize most everything into the four functions of fight (anger, ><, complex atoms), flight (bargaining, <<, simple atoms), freeze (depression, <>, complex atoms), and flow (growth, >>, info). And yes this does include the universe's basic physics functions.pic.twitter.com/cnBgPa86sM
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Principal,azimuthal, magnetic and spin ?
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