Considering the names of the types of quarks, I recommend renaming them genderinos.

finally, we found what genderfluid is made from

Physicists are freaky, like who was out there going and asking quarks what is their power dynamic in sex?

Right alongside gender fluid.

It also kinda sounds like a Pokémon!

Can I offer you a nice smectic B3 liquid crystal in this trying time?

An abstraction used for grouping kinds of things together for the purposes of making thinking about them a lot faster.

I would wager you have more of an idea of what a state of matter is than biologists do of what a species is. Humans like to put things into neat boxes but nature is under no deal obligation to cooperate.

Simple, "solid state" means "no moving parts", like a vacuum tube, for example.

Interacting fields of non-causality?

And then there was quantum.

He did also notice that the planets didn't move quite exactly as he predicted and said "well, God must keep them in place"

TBF the laws of motion are still correct.

I mean relativity is elegant enough in its own right; it's just Newton's laws plus the constancy of the speed of light and the equivalence principle. These two additions are enough to make everything an order of magnitude more fucked up, but that's math's fault, not relativity.

He definitely miscalculused the turnstables...

relativity only applies at large scales and quantum at small scales.

for everything else, esp earth bound, classic mechanics is works just fine.

sort of like the reactionary trend of pulling your kids out of school because Common Core has changed how math is taught so critical thinking and conceptual understanding is incorporated, rather than teaching math by rote memorization?

I believe that's what happens anytime they say that we probably shouldn't focus on memorizing a multiplication table, or try to teach anything in a way that puts more focus on understanding how numbers work than on symbolic memorization.
And that's like... Elementary school.

I was going to make a comment about surreal numbers not being numbers. But I did a bit of fact checking and it looks like all of the values I was objecting to are not considered surreal numbers, but rather pseudo numbers.

I find this outrageous. Why can't ↑ be a number? What even is a number that would exclude it and leave in all of your so-called numbers?

Can confirm. I was already struggling. But I just straight up refused to math with i

There is a slight difference though in that complex numbers are a part of math but gender isn't really a part of biology.

Also the mathematicians wouldn't decline to give an answer.

Advanced mathematicians see a numeric digit and ask "what's that?"

have you taught?

anytime you give people a new metaphorical hammer, they want to go around banging everything they can with it. then they get bored and forget about it.

pop psych is a great example. people love to go around diagnosing everyone with whatever new schema of diagnosis is popular and trendy. trans is very trendy right now and it's become on point for kids to identify as trans or some other non binary sexual identity. whether or not it sticks in the future, not sure. there is a counter-movement as well towards reinforce trad gender binaries in the dating sphere for sure. i've noticed as i age that a lot more people start caring a lot more about trad gender role stuff than they did in my 20s.

Ehh not really its just to old if a concept for us to be appaled by that. Its not 15 century for imaginary numbers to cause riots.

Adding to this: XX and XY works for mammals, but not for other vertebrates (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians). Birds and reptiles have Z and W chromosomes, and unlike in mammals where females are homozygotes, males in these groups are homozygotes. Some reptiles have temperature dependent sex determination, where ambient temperature above some value will produce males or females (depends on species). Some reptiles are composed entirely of females.

Some fish will straight up change sexes depending on age and male-female ratio in a social group.

In other groups it's not even different chromosomes but simply copy number of specific genes.

Plants can do all sorts of whacky things like produce seeds and pollen in the same individual.

Fungi are an entirely different cluster fuck because they have mating types which are not simple binaries.

Eukaryotic sex determination isn't a binary and it isn't even a nicely categorizable spectrum. It's a grab-bag of whatever doesn't perma-fuck your genome.

Source: me, I'm a biologist. Though admittedly I work on animals so my understanding of fungi and plant stuff is fuzzy at best.

https://xkcd.com/435/

I would say gender is probably centered about around psychology, ranges mostly from sociology to biology, with a just little bit going into chemistry

maybe like

Slime mold(which is not a mold or fungi) looks around nervously in it's 13 different sexes.

What kind of fungi should I consider for the maximum giggles?

plenty of animals can gender swap, be hermaphrodites, or produce asexually.

Psychology is technically a branch of advanced biology

I don't entirely agree, because gender identity is known to be at least partially biological, e.g. there are correlations between transgender, skin elasticity, and hyper-flexibility.

I can confirm. My partner does math professionally and sometimes she tells me things about her field that are just plain unnatural. And I’m a pretty open-minded person.