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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a General Physics Safety Tip.  
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{{incomplete|Created by a BOT PHYSICISTS ARE EXCITED ABOUT (STEP AWAY, BUSTER) - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
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In general, there are very narrow ranges of temperature, pressure, and chemical makeup humans can survive in. Physicists often find themselves studying more extreme conditions, most of which would be quickly lethal to humans — anything from the core of stars to the vacuum of space and many, many things in between. Thus, extreme conditions are very dangerous for most organisms. Even for especially resilient organisms, such as tardigrades, there is a point past which they will [https://what-if.xkcd.com/141/ stop being biology and start being physics], in which case their resilience will not save them. Thus, if a physicist is excited about something, it likely exists in circumstances where your own existence—as well as other life—would meet an end. One (partial) exception is particle beams; {{w|Anatoli Bugorski|people can stick their heads in particle beams and survive—but not unscathed.}} Also, physicists used to be excited about (particles produced by) cosmic rays before they had powerful accelerators.
  
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Additionally, this comic serves to [[:Category: Book promotion|promote]] his new book as it states that this flow chart is taken from the ''[[What If? 2]]'' book, and the link to his promotion page is written in the comic: [https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/  xkcd.com/what-if-2/]. The what if? blog as well as both books gives answers to odd or strange science questions. Clicking on the link in the comic will take you to the link. Clicking anywhere on the comic will do the same. It has been a general thing for Randall to [[Header text#2014-07-23_-_what_if.3F_book_tour|comment]] on the fact that he does not know how to make only part of an image into a link, which he also [[Header text#2022-08-11_-_Preorder_What_if.3F_2_-_with_image|did recently]] in the [[Header text|header text]] .
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==Transcript==
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In general, there are very narrow ranges of temperature, pressure, and chemical makeup humans can survive in. Human physicists necessarily spend all their time in these conditions and think of them as ordinary. The physics of these ordinary conditions has already been thoroughly studied, which makes them now familiar and boring. Instead physicists get excited to study more extreme conditions, most of which would be quickly lethal to humans — anything from the event horizons of black holes to the vacuum of space, to volumes where charged particles traveling near the speed of light are forced to collide, and many, many things in between. Thus, extreme conditions are very dangerous for most organisms. Even for especially resilient organisms, such as tardigrades, there is a point past which they will [https://what-if.xkcd.com/141/ stop being biology and start being physics], in which case their resilience will not save them. Thus if a physicist is excited about something, it likely exists in circumstances where your own existence — as well as other life — would meet an end. One (partial) exception is particle beams; {{w|Anatoli Bugorski|people can stick their heads in particle beams and survive — but not unscathed}}. Also, physicists used to be excited about (particles produced by) cosmic rays before they had powerful accelerators.
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:General Physics Safety Tip:
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:[The next line of text is shown in gray.]
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:(From ''What If 2'', xkcd.com/whatif2)
  
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==Transcript==
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:[A flowchart consisting of three rectangular boxes, a diamond box, and three arrows is shown.]
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:[A larger header and a gray subheader below are written above a flowchart:]
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:<big>General Physics Safety Tip:</big>
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:[The first rectangular box, at the top, is the starting point. It says:]
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:<font color="gray">(From ''what if 2'', xkcd.com/whatif2)</font>
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:Should I stand near this thing?
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:[A down-pointing arrow leads to a diamond decision box. Two arrows lead from it, one pointing to the right and labeled "No", the other pointing down and labeled "Yes". The diamond box reads:]
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:Are physicists excited about it?
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:[The "No" arrow from the diamond box leads to the following rectangular box:]
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:Maybe
  
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:[The flowchart consists of three rectangular boxes that are placed above, to the right and below a diamond box. There are three arrows. One is going down from the top box to the top corner of the diamond. The other two goes from the right and bottom corner of the diamond to the other two boxes. These two arrows has labels written next to them. All four boxes have text in them.]
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:[The "Yes" arrow from the diamond box leads to the following rectangular box:]
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:Top box: Should I stand near this thing?
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:No
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:Diamond box: Are physicists excited about it?
 
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:Label on left arrow: No
 
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:Left box: Maybe
 
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:Label on bottom arrow: Yes
 
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:Bottom box: No
 
  
 
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