Oh yes, I did read that sentiment elsewhere, too, and that’s pretty much the only way I can get behind the weird/nonsensical chemistry. It’s just a bit unfortunate that the reveal of the simulated (and melting reality) is explained only a couple dozen hours into the story. So I feel for the (admittedly small) subset of players who wrongly learn that this is how chemistry works before being able to make the mental leap that it’s possibly intentionally this weird and unrealistic.

Mhmm, although I can easily imagine it being representative of gamers who are interested enough in science to take part in surveys.

Speculation: It could be roughly okay to extrapolate the results to the greater NMS community, because their sample size and variety seems to mostly correlate to the age and geographic location of the gaming communities in USA, Brazil and Europe (the bulk of their respondents). Without knowing the actual numbers, I can imagine most of the NMS players sit in those three regions and with about a 2:1:1 ratio.

I watched it just yesterday and even though the maths gets over my head sometimes (especially here when she demonstrates the analytical solution with the Schrödinger equation thing), she’s really good at explaining these concepts.

The only thing I didn’t quite understand, and maybe I just didn’t pay attention in the video: If electrons aren’t particles but waves, what does it mean for an atom/molecule to have x electrons? Are “two electrons” just a more intense wave than “one electron”? And this electron wave… wouldn’t it constantly change its position due to it being a wave (stuff needs to move to create waves, right?) or is that what physicists are talking about when they say the probability of the electron to be at location y?

I’m pretty sure you meant tod as in “today”, but it’s doubly funny because “Tod” also means “Death” in German (among other regional languages, probably), so I read it as you lamenting your lack of steps and then just simply popping out of existence with a Black&White like “death” sound effect.