Teams? For my work laptop (win 11, dell) if I set a piece of metal on the trackpad it registers as a finger, and the Teams "recently active" icon stays green. Then I have the Teams app on my phone to see if anyone messages me while I'm out.

Just don't forget to take the piece of metal off at the end of the day and accidentally stay "online" until 9pm...

That was a big part of it, I'd forgotten about that.

I miss being at a company that used Slack since I could configure how long it took to go AFK. Now I'm stuck with Teams which seems to consider you AFK if you so much as blink for too long. I'll be reading a document and before I can even scroll down it'll say I'm away

Sounds like a question for a therapist.

For me it's that little "online" icon beside my name in our company's chat tool.

If I'm afk at the office, no one questions whether I'm working because I'm likely in a physical meeting elsewhere.

At home, being afk absolutely means I'm not working since there is no "elsewhere" I'd be while WFH. It feels like a prison and my body aches at the end of the day from sitting for so long.

I'm actually good with more sleep.

Nice try RTO CEOs

Working in the office I'd go for walks to move around and get out of the office. When I worked at home it felt weird to go for a walk in my neighborhood while working. I never could make it a habit. Not sure why though?

gravity is stored in the balls

So we might have found where all the missing mass in the universe could be hiding? In force balls?

Neat.

This is incredibly exciting. This could form the beginning of a scientific understanding of paranormal phenomena. Of course I'm thinking wishfully and optimistically, but I can still hope.

That's because it's all just waves anyways.

Yeah, IIRC the force between nucleons is actually mediated by virtual pions, which are themselves composite particles. The direct nuclear force gets stronger with distance instead of weaker, which obviously doesn't happen with whole atoms.

It turns out that glueballs don’t come from “taking the quarks out” of regular matter but by some kind of direct excitation of the colour charge field – a thing I didn’t even know was a thing.

Yep. It's like if photons (which are the fundamental particles of electromagnetism) had a magnetic or electric charge themselves. That was a known property, but it wasn't clear until now if it was enough to weave together into a larger particle like this.

So when will this result in anti-gravity tech or forcefields?

I guess you don't technically need a nucleus, that's what they proved here. But remember that gluons are what bind quarks together. And quarks are what actually make up a Proton or Neutron.

I misremembered. Gluons don't bind the nuclear particles to each other, they bind the sub-nuclear quarks into nuclear particles.

It turns out that glueballs don't come from "taking the quarks out" of regular matter but by some kind of direct excitation of the colour charge field -- a thing I didn't even know was a thing.

Good thing music is easy to come by.

It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Without the large hadron colliders we would have no knowledge of the force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you'll hear them speaking to you.

*Me, downvoting before reading usernames for context*

Insightful questions, jerkface.

A nucleus is a balance of forces in tension. The particles are trying to fly apart at relativistic speeds, but they are held together by an even stronger force. This tension represents energy, and energy produces gravity -- which is a way of saying it has mass. The vast majority of all mass in the familiar world comes entirely from that tension.

So, somehow you can take all the protons and neutrons out of a nucleus, and still have that knot of forces held in tension? Acting on "nothing"? On spacetime? On itself? Non-locally on the original particles?

Or, can these knots be created without even having a nucleus to start from?

I’m glad you’re better now.

So, long term effects might exist as well. If the same mechanics apply long term as well, that would mean that living an active life would make it easier to handle psychological stress.

Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns.

Sigh

Well these are more sacked lime lmao

As long as you soak them in slacked lime first