At a research institute I worked for, we had a proxy server that intercepted http. The antivirus software on the proxy made it impossible to download some security updates once in a while.
Fortunately it was possible to change the ubuntu URIs to https:// to use HTTPS and the broken antivirus sofwate did not intervene anymore.
Readit Newsktrask commented on Physics facts not always taught in school backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/monort
> the idea that any system tries to minimize its energy is just nonsense.
Very interesting, I feel somewhat misled if this is true.
In a closed physical system energy is conserved.
For example, if you have container that has Helium on one side and Oxygen on the other. Both gases will mix, i.e. maximize entropy.
Minimizing energy would mean, the gas would reach absolute zero.
Wouldn't this cause gravitational force to fall off with distance using something other than an inverse-square law? I think this explanation would be a better fit for the weak force than gravity for this reason. Thoughts?
More broadly: inverse-square behavior (Gravity, EM etc) strikes me as an intrinsic property of 3D geometry; more so of a tell of dimensionality than the magnitude of the force. (I believe the article is inferring higher dimensionality from relative magnitude, vice distance falloff)