Aesthetics Poll

 Hey y'all! This one was a collaborative effort between Rikki and I to find pictures that fit the aesthetics well enough. I've been seeing a lot of aesthetic content on TikTok lately, and there's a lot of different kinds. Like, a crazy amount. There's really popular aesthetics, like alt and soft girl, which have a really broad meaning of what they are and who fits into that category. Others are more set, like VSCO and animal print. I just thought this would be a fun change to the normal poll etiquette, as this will solely be pictures and no descriptions. Just choose what you think all of our aesthetics are based around the general vibes you get from the pictures.

Poll link is at the bottom. It's also a hyperlink this time (you're welcome, Hunter), and I made it so that you can choose multiple aesthetics for people, since not everyone fits into just one of these categories.

Dark Academia:

      

Light Academia:

     

Cottagecore:

      

Soft Girl:

      

Skater/Roller Girl:

      

VSCO:

      

Alt:

      

Art Deco:

      

Femme Fatale:

      

Pastel:

      

80s:

      

Modern:

      

Thriftcore:

      

Animal Print:

      

Athletic:

      

Night Life:

      

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepXCaHhhBtFU-pZ1SICX_1OH8M22eaiZL_oJd1CSm3rUTMtA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Penguins Poll Results

 Hey y'all! Not everyone took this one, but that's okay, I'm just gonna post the results I have.

The Twin Paradox :)

 Hey y'all, 

I couldn't think of anything else to blog about this week, so I'm gonna share a post I made on the multivariable calculus Google Classroom about the twin paradox. And yes, I realize it's not Friday anymore, but it might be Friday when some of y'all read this, so I'm gonna keep the intro. 

Happy Physics Friday y’all! Today I’m going to *attempt* to explain the real twin paradox, which, as Mr. Bahat pointed out on my post from last week, is neither paradoxical nor the scenario I previously described in which time passes differently for twins living at different altitudes (which is also not paradoxical...There are enough pseudo-paradoxes in theoretical physics to make your head spin haha.) The real twin paradox can be resolved by Einstein's theory of special relativity (1905) and involves a set of twins (people the same age), one of whom travels in a rocket on a space mission while the other stays on Earth. The twin remaining on Earth is older than his space-bound counterpart upon the latter’s return. This pseudo-paradox is based on the idea that the inertial frames of the twins are not the same; the space-bound twin is accelerating at the moment that the spaceship turns back toward the Earth, which necessitates that he/she has a non-inertial frame (“coasting”, or moving at a constant velocity, is required in order to have an inertial frame. Remember that acceleration doesn’t have to be a change in speed; you can just as easily accelerate at a constant speed by changing direction). Since the twins have different inertial frames, this disproves the common misconception that each twin should discover himself to be older than his counterpart (since each twin considers his twin and not himself to be the one in motion). There are some calculations that determine the exact age differential between them which I will try to summarize, although unfortunately I don’t have Greek letters on my keyboard (don’t @ me Hunter). Let’s assume the spaceship trip takes 10 years (that is, the twin on Earth is ten years older when the spaceship returns than when it departed). We are told that the distance the rocket travelled was 4 light years and that it was moving at .8*c where c is the speed of light (it’s a very fast rocket haha). So to find the total time, we use t = d/v, except use 2d = 8 light years because we have to account for the return trip. That’s how we get the time (measured on Earth) to be 10 years. The travelers on the spaceship, however, have to account for time dilation, and they modify their total travel time by multiplying by epsilon = sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), which is the inverse of the Lorentz factor (I’ll have to make another post to elaborate because I’m running out of steam haha). The calculation yields epsilon = 0.6, so the travelling twin is 6 years older upon his return. Another way to calculate the spaceship twin’s age is to multiply epsilon (0.6) by the total distance (8 light years) and divide by the velocity (0.8*c) to get 6 years. (Multiplying by epsilon is necessary to account for length contraction, another aspect of the lovely Lorentz factor, which I will expand upon in another post.) Anyway, I hope y’all enjoyed this post! Hopefully it’s not super confusing. (Also, hopefully I explained it right haha…) I referred to the Wikipedia article on the twin paradox which y’all can find here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox as well as Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Over the Vicious Nationalism of World War I by Matthew Stanley. (Great book! I’ve just started reading it, but it’s super interesting.)

I know that was probably super dense, but it's riveting to me. I hope y'all enjoyed! 

Love from 

Clara

Leven is reading my deepest thoughts

 Hi blog, 

I'm currently on the phone with Leven Greene. I got bored, so I shared a document with her that is also shared with Laura and Erica that is full of my writing. When I say writing, I mean my mental illness expressed on a page. It's nothing bad, just some rambling. 

So, right now, she's looking over some of it, kind of. I don't show anyone my work because I'm scared of judgement but I figured I won't see any of the people that will deeply judge me ever again after I graduate, so now is the time to finally open up. The only people who have really seen my work are Laura, Erica, my boyfriend, Van Young, and now Leven (who should feel honored btw). And honestly, most of these people have only seen it because I felt slightly confident in the moment. 

Is my writing good? eh. Is it horrible? no. Do I think it's good enough to share? depends on how much sleep I've had. 

One reason I've never wanted to is because most of it is very personal. I feel like if I share it, it needs to come with a warning. And it does, the document actually quotes Dante because I call the compilation of my work "hellfire. " Another was that I just wasn't ready. I still don't know if I am, but I don't think I ever really will be ready, so I might as well do it now. No time like the present right? 

Leven said, "I wasn't expecting this. I was expecting it to be...cheesy. Like deep, which it is, but like in a cheesy way. That's a compliment. Well...if you think about it, it's kind of not because I said I was expecting something cheesy lol." To answer that, yes Leven, it is a compliment. Or to me at least it is. I'm also glad you and Van Young share a poem you both like; to me, that means that one is actually alright. 

I don't really have anything else to say, and I know this isn't my usual content. I've had a pretty rough week or so. Not for any particular reason really, just a lot of anxiety, which fuels most of my writing. That's honestly one of the reasons I have so much writing (currently 26 pages of just poetry, a short story that I had to do for class, and about 60 pages of a novel that I haven't touched in ages that I really need to); I use writing as a coping mechanism and I highly recommend it. It usually helps me.  

Sorry, this is just more rambling. I'll stop...for now. 

Goodnight everyone, 

the introverted, hermit writer that probably needs some fresh air 

Ryn's Streaming Pick (freeform)

 The Age of Adaline

This movie is kinda old so I wouldn't be shocked if most of y'all have seen it but this was my first time and I really like it.

This movie lowkey had me in tears. It is so sweet and a very interesting film. It is about a woman named Adaline Bowman who was born in the early 1900s who is stuck as a 29-year-old. Due to her miraculous lack of aging, Adaline is forced to live as a nomad never making any close connections with people and never revealing her secret to anyone. Naturally, under the alias of Jennifer, some amazing philanthropist makes her open her heart and allow her regular ways to slip as she falls in love with him. The film is less about their romance and more about their trip to meet his parents, which threatens to expose her secret, as she has already met his father under a different persona.

I won't lie as good as the movie was, I really felt like the ending didn't do it justice. I won't spoil it too much, but I will say that it was one of the rare movies where I wouldn't mind if it ended on a sad note. I think it would have been more beautiful that way, but nonetheless, the film was amazing and I would love to hear what you think about it.