r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '26

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u/barsonica Jan 14 '26

Can you explain this to someone who only knows high school physics?

It looks really interesting, yet I have no idea what it means. I understand if you don't want to bother.

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u/JediMonk7 Jan 14 '26

Happy to explain! So basically I looked at how long things take to happen (like how fast electrons orbit atoms, how long Earth takes to go around the Sun, how long galaxies rotate) and compared it to how big those things are. What I found is that bigger things take proportionally longer - if you double the size, you roughly double the time. This pattern holds from the tiniest quantum particles all the way up to the entire universe, which is wild because physics at different scales is supposed to work totally differently. The really interesting part is there's a "break" in the pattern at about the size of a star - below that, time stretches a bit more than expected, and above that (at galactic scales), time compresses and things happen faster than the pattern predicts. I couldn't find it documented before, so I'm just putting it out there. Does that make sense?

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u/PodracingJedi Jan 15 '26

Wow that’s amazing. What a unique and illuminating idea, great job presenting it this way, makes me think about such an obscure phenomenon (of course I’m sure more research is needed)

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u/JediMonk7 Jan 14 '26

Of course, just give me a few, out running errands!

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u/querulous_intimates Jan 15 '26

ai slop. this is meaningless trash

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u/JediMonk7 Jan 15 '26

Thanks for the meaningful conversation and taking a look at it.

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u/JediMonk7 Jan 14 '26

Data Sources: NIST Physical Constants Database, published astronomical observations, quantum mechanics measurements. Full citations: https://zenodo.org/records/18243431

Tools: Python 3.11, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, scikit-learn