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minus-squareeasily3667linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·3 days agoI assumed the number is not significant, figure it’s just supposed to mock the idea that physicists don’t know what tolerances are.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAn experimental physicist should know as far as I know meanwhile a real (theoretical) physicist would probably not even touch numbers that have those scary decimals.
I assumed the number is not significant, figure it’s just supposed to mock the idea that physicists don’t know what tolerances are.
An experimental physicist should know as far as I know meanwhile a real (theoretical) physicist would probably not even touch numbers that have those scary decimals.