Make Lying Wrong Again

@LyingWrongAgain

Dad, Texan, humanist, skeptic, PhD in biophysics “I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention” -Orwell

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain28 Jan

@claranellist @Stithsonian Also don’t play with matches kids 😂 I suggest toothpicks? 29.1K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 21 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain28 Jan

@claranellist @Stithsonian ~FINAL BOSS COPE~ “This doesn’t prove [no God, abiogenesis, why bad things happen to good people]” 🤬 Me: Yes. It just proves order can arise from disorder in a way anyone can try at home, instead of using tiny invisible atoms or waiting centuries Tr

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain28 Jan

@claranellist @Stithsonian 🤬😭🥺 “but it started with certain specific forces and objects, and they have order” Me: we are testing if order can arise from disorder, not if something can come from nothing Same idea works across a broad range of natural forces and objects, not jus

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain27 Jan

@claranellist Caveat: yes, the shaking of a 4-sided shape by a 2-handed human is not *perfectly* random. So try it yourself! 😂 The principle behind the demo is well established - analogous to thermal motion of atoms & other natural processes Here’s another fun one by @Stithsoni

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain27 Jan

@claranellist “how’s it random?” in statistical mechanics random defined: can be approximated as chosen from a probability distribution (can be uniform) independent of prior values Each nails feels random impulses of nearest neighbors (sometimes the walls) not a non-random hand 60.5K views · 59 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain27 Jan

@claranellist ~12k likes and 3k copes later~ Religious apologist: if you leave nails alone nothing happens Me: True. The agitation of nails (which we can see) only illustrates the constant motion of atoms in grains, liquids, gases, outer space etc (which we can’t) But analogo

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain27 Jan

@claranellist More cope: this adds energy To be precise it doesn’t “add energy” It adds random impulses, which sometimes add & sometimes subtract from the objects’ energy, with their average energy ~constant Very roughly analogous to molecules under thermal agitation at some 79.3K views · 87 likes · 0 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

@LyingWrongAgain It appears that someone, though unseen, is deliberately shaking that basket with the express purpose of making things line up in a very certain way 129.1K views · 14.8K likes · 230 reposts · 59 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

@claranellist Replies: why not shake it hard enough to cause nails to fly in all directions? Me: 😂 Here’s nature doing 3D “shaking” for us and showing we still get spontaneous self-sorting Earth’s core (left), Jupiter’s bands (right) https://t.co/SOH30Lik8s

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Video by @claranellist from here https://t.co/KJc5iHobrh 233.6K views · 115 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Replies: the shaking wasn’t perfectly random Me: here’s the other video by a particle physicist where the shaking is more random - just takes longer https://t.co/8YkqcCqdnh

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Replies: without shaking nothing would happen Me: true, the shaking simulates the continual random motion that molecules in gas, dust in space, sediments in water or wind, or atoms in a magnet are exposed to in many natural self-ordering processes👇 https://t.co/GADBiG52iO https:

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Replies: the shape of the objects and the container were carefully chosen to produce this effect Me: actually self sorting of mixture + agitation is a general phenomenon It works with irregular shapes in arbitrary containers like breakfast cereal, mixed nuts and sediments http

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Replies: the order was there from the beginning Me: the objects start in any randomly chosen configuration. They reproducibly end up in a parallel configuration that has fewer possible states This is an increase in order (decrease in entropy) by definition 206.9K views · 383 likes · 3 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Replies coping: the shaking wasn’t random Me: it approximated random impulses; random is defined as independently chosen in a uniform distribution; results on avg generally approach a Gaussian distribution in the limit of large numbers Brownian (thermal) motion is an example h

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Increasingly desperate replies: the video was in reverse! Me: here’s a particle physicist reproducing the same effect using a clever trick to show it’s not reversed https://t.co/QQ2bPM5G1I 535.3K views · 484 likes · 5 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain26 Jan

Replies: But an intelligent agent did this Me: in this *demonstration* an intelligent agent supplied the random impulses. But it’s the random impulses that produce the effect Naturally occurring magnetism and crystals result from the same phenomenon https://t.co/64MSDN2Ny9

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Make Lying Wrong Again@LyingWrongAgain25 Jan

Religious apologist: science actually proves my faith Me: how so? RA: because science proves order cannot come from disorder Me: oh? https://t.co/6OkzlqEtQ4

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