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  • Statistics:
    Length of war: forty-eight years, one month.
    Total casualties, including machines (reckoned on logarithmic sentience scale), medjel and non-combatants: 851.4 billion (\B1 .3%). Losses: ships (all classes above interplanetary) -
    91,215,660 (\B1 200); Orbitals - 14,334; planets and major moons - 53; Rings - 1;
    Spheres - 3; stars (undergoing significant induced mass-loss or
    sequence-position alteration) - 6.

    Historical perspective
    A small, short war that rarely extended throughout more than .02% of the galaxy by volume and .01% by stellar population. rumours persist of far more impressive conflicts, stretching through vastly greater amounts of time and space… Nevertheless, the chronicles of the galaxy’s elder civilisations rate the Idiran-Culture war as the most significant conflict of the past fifty thousand years, and one of those singularly interesting Events they see so rarely these days.

    It’s more that it is mind bogglingly huge by our standards, yet still a blip on the scale of the galaxy.








  • All electrons have spin 1/2, that’s a property of it being an electron. They have a spin vector (the arrow shown) and whether it is in the same direction or opposite direction to the magnetic field it’s in determines where it is plus or minus.

    Now you might think “but what if it is not entirely aligned with the field, then it wouldn’t be 1/2”, which is true, on aggregate for large numbers of electrons, but if you ever look at a single electron its spin will either be “up” or “down” never any other orientation.

    This is the kind of thing people are referring to when they say “no one understands QM”, we know it is the case, we can measure it and predict it, but it makes no fucking sense.