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    Eternal Struggle

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    675 points yurivish | 15 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
    1. wvbdmp ◴[] No.45087714[source]
    Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.
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    2. bilbo-b-baggins ◴[] No.45087745[source]
    Metaphor for American politics.
    3. soneca ◴[] No.45087832[source]
    This happened to me in the original site. I think it happens when the white and black balls collide at the exact same spot of the border.
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    4. temp0826 ◴[] No.45088239[source]
    A little matter-antimatter asymmetry never hurt anyone
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    5. gedy ◴[] No.45088251[source]
    "I am.. Tetsuo."
    6. raspasov ◴[] No.45088622[source]
    The opposite can also happen (where the whole thing goes white).
    7. Cthulhu_ ◴[] No.45089903[source]
    Here we have it, an internet toy demonstrating how this asymmetry occurred. I expect physics papers soon.
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    8. francisduvivier ◴[] No.45089941[source]
    I think it's just a tunneling bug that happens when the point that make up the wall get messed up a enough. Almost never happens anymore in the v2[1] that I added. This one also allows you to see these points.

    [1] https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee...

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    9. temp0826 ◴[] No.45090539{3}[source]
    Nobel prizes for everyone!
    10. nialv7 ◴[] No.45090582[source]
    black-white here doesn't mean bad-good. they just mean opposites, different aspects of things. I think wikipedia does a pretty good job explaining it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
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    11. camillomiller ◴[] No.45090624[source]
    Had the same experience and derived an absolutely unexpected bout of deep existential anxiety from it. Going to touch grass now.
    12. d4rkn0d3z ◴[] No.45091569[source]
    Tunneling.
    13. low_tech_punk ◴[] No.45092094[source]
    maxwell's demon peeking from the dark side
    14. anthk ◴[] No.45092170{3}[source]
    Declare it as a Quantum tunneling effect :p
    15. kragen ◴[] No.45092293[source]
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%99%B0#Traditional_Chinese (陰) lists the following definitions:

    1. cloudy; overcast; gloomy

    2. hidden; secret

    3. negative [of electrical charge]

    4. the Moon

    5. shade; shadow

    6. north of a mountain or south of a river

    7. back side

    8. of the nether world; of ghosts

    9. (philosophy) "female" principle; yin in yin-yang

    10. in intaglio

    11. treacherous; deceitful; cheating

    12. (dialectal) to deceive; to trick; to trap

    13. (Chinese phonetics, of a syllable) open; not having a consonant coda

    14. (Cantonese) bangs; fringe

    15. genitalia (of humans)

    16. a surname

    The one (American) person I know who has 陰 as a surname reports that Chinese people are often shocked at her surname upon meeting her. I think it might be a bit like having the surname Death in English (https://www.ancestry.com/last-name-meaning/death?geo-lang=en...).

    That is to say, black kind of does mean "bad" here, in the popular conception anyway. Taoism and Buddhism promote a worldview that sees birth and death, creation and destruction, as neither good nor bad, simply inseparable parts of a larger whole. But most everyday people try to avoid darkness, death, destruction, cloudiness, gloominess, shadows, ghosts, treachery, traps, and so on, most of the time. It's more that Taoism teaches that this attempt is foolish.

    Not all the senses are unpopular; plenty of people like human genitalia, the Moon, and intaglio, and the shady side of a river can be nicer when it's hot out.