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[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Where is the Gender Bose Einstein Condensate and Gender Time Crystal?

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

yet another failed attempt to map the gender spectrum πŸ˜”πŸ˜”

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Gender BEC would be a low energy gathering where all of a sudden everyone is on the same wavelength.

Gender Time Crystal would be someone who switches between two genders regularly.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Time Crystal Gender = Gallifrean

My favorite gender is gender ice 9

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

How about gender superglass?

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The moral of the story is don’t put someone under too much pressure or get them too heated, otherwise they’ll go gender critical.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is ...

Surprisingly deep.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, just math. Look at the graph!

Well normally it'll get gender fluid all over the place but if you do it right they'll go gender critical and get gender all over the place. That's how we got the month of June.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its what all the linux girls using KDE are

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's how they turn the frogs gay

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the "it's just a phase" diagram

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This shit should be titled β€œit’s just a phase”

Your joke is funnier than the OP.

My dude you ought to steal this and add it to the chart and repost as your own.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

when I thought of it, I thought to myself "this is either going to be massively misconstrued as me trying to be a dick to trans people, or I'm a comedy genius, lets find out", rad that it's the latter

sidebar: I also considered "I Can't Believe It's Not a Phase Diagram". so, whoever steals this next, you're welcome, not one but two good title ideas!

[–] Vytle@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The "Gender Gas" joke has always bothered me for no reason other than because gas IS a fucking fluid.

[–] Comptero@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Both gender gas and gender liquid are gender fluid

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You're right, that should be "Gender Liquid" with "Gender Plasma" in the far unreadable section. Gas and liquid should be grouped as fluids - is plasma a fluid? I don't think so but I'm not a physicist

Goddammit

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The top right corner is supercritical fluid, which is correct, it's not the same as plasma, which doesn't really fit neatly on a pressure/temperature phase diagram.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yes, it is just ionized gas. What happens when you ionize something in a liquid or solid state? Can ions not form a solid or liquid without some occupied orbitals?

That's fair thanks

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a really salty fluid, or a strong acid/base. Plasma just has temperature driving the ionization, rather than chemistry.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could you potentially use sheer charge to ionize something by ripping out all the electrons?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be a stupidly hight amount of charge.

For a very rough estimate, thunderstorms peak at about 6.7 nanocoulombs of charge per mΒ³, or 4.2e10 fewer electrons per mΒ³. Cumulonimbus clouds have roughly 2 grams of water per mΒ³, or 6.7e22 atoms per mΒ³. Thus, thunderstorms have 1 in 10e12 fewer electrons.

To fully ionize water, you would need something like a trillion times as much voltage as lightning, and the ability to insulate the sample from other sources of electrons like any nearby matter.

This might be feasible at very small scales, but the result would be just as dangerous. A bunch of protons that really want electrons nearby would pull lightning from anywhere they could, and would be unbelievably corrosive. Something like a pH of -23.7, although pH breaks down long before this point.

Such a substance completely devoid of electrons would also repel itself very strongly, so it would evaporate into gaseous protons basically instantly. "Normal" plasma is much more stable because the electrons are separated by temperature rather than by electric change. High electric charges are much more difficult to contain.

I'm not a physicist though, so I'm likely wrong on the details.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're better than ChatGTP, thanks

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[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gas can behave like a fluid. Or rather, the two can behave similarly, but they aren't the same thing.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They are though. "Fluidity" is not a discrete phase of matter, it's a characteristic certain phases of matter exhibit.

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago

Ok so... what exactly would the gender triple point be?

... A person at their first rave, first time doing molly or E?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you crush me, then reheat me to just below my melting point, then quench me back then crush me some more, my microgender structure gets stretched and tensed with smaller and smaller grains. I become harder and harder until my yield strength is equal to my ultimate strength. Deep down I'm still the same alloy but heat treated.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! I just like the feeling of the microcrystalline structure solving and re condensing with new orientation that prevent my gender planes from dislocating on all sorts of cleavage directions.

[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Idk if you want to put yourself in the "gender critical" category.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not me for certain. Too much pressure and too hot

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

But it's so colourful! It makes being gender fluid seem boring…

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

God I've been waiting to see a good version of this for years, thank you OP

Edit: goddammit it's all wrong

[–] marte@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm at the triple point

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Gender Fluid? You mean like the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

The kind you get when you get them to the right temperature and pressure.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like you cracked your phone screen.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Be pansexual; it's a gas!

[–] Chronic_Intermission@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pressure: pushing down on me, Pressing down on you, no man ask for, Under pressure that burns a building down, Splits a family in two, Puts people on streets

[–] Sprawl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They say it gets hot between states.

Bender "Gender Bending" Rodriguez, Gender: Bose-Einstein Condensate (Bender is very ❄️cool🧊 😎)

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