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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This is the "Lagrangian standard model" - the mathematical formula explaining basically all physics as we know it.

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-standard-model-equation?language_content_entity=und

When you DON'T assume spherical chickens in a vacuum, this is what you gotta calculate.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

assume spherical chickens in a vacuum

lol that’s the next multiverse over, our solution works only with spherical cows in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, that' explains it. I've been using spherical swallows, which are roughly coconut sized. So really just use coconut maths.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol yfw you realize you coulda just used cubic swallows and called it a day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cubic african or european swallows?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Either or works, we're not that precise

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

The SM is half the puzzle. The other half being Einstein’s field equations (which, despite the beautiful notation, are just as complex). Also, I will note that there are some spherical chickens in this equation as well—like massless neutrinos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Well, it's a weightless chicken at least, because this model's got no gravity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Okay, that's actually quite impressive