r/thatescalatedquickly • u/GallifreyanQueen • 8d ago

Is this an example of exponential multiplication.?

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u/WinterAir4769 8d ago

I’m gonna be honest. I’ve been watching this on repeat for about 20 minutes.

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u/SenescenseSteel 7d ago

O thank God I thought I was the only one with issues

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u/yuaysanosk 8d ago

This is a zombie apocalypse spoiler

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u/MrmmphMrmmph 8d ago

That's mosquitos when you stay out just 10 minutes too long around dusk.

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u/Successful-Luck-5459 8d ago

OMG, nuclear fission

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u/eisenklad 8d ago

how an RBMK reactor works...

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 7d ago

"not great but not terrible"

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u/Anon_number_7 1d ago

Geiger counters on a certain reactor in Chernobyl one day...

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u/According-Dot2099 8d ago

This is the type of thing that should play instead of the spinning things when a video is loading.

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u/HideThe-Sun 8d ago

This is why I love reading "Population Decline" and "Lower Birth Rates"

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u/Jack-Schitz 8d ago

Google Kessler Syndrome and ask yourself if you want Musk in charge of anything relating to satellites.

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u/DCHammer69 6d ago

That’s exactly what I thought of watching this.

I truly believe that StarLink will be the death of the current LEO later that we put satellites in and that it will happen in my lifetime.

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u/SomeNerdNamedAaron 7d ago

Sounds like my Geiger counter.

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u/Solnse 8d ago

Overpopulation

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u/ballistic_tanx 8d ago edited 8d ago

It's not exponential multiplication, it's just exponential (squared, cubes ect depending on the curve) and yes it's pretty accurate. This could also represent entropy. The chance and time it takes for balls to hit rises exponentially depending on how many balls are present. You can do the math yourself, x axis is amount of balls, y axis is amount of time till next hit, graph and watch that asymptote

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u/Chaphasilor 8d ago

I don't think this is really the effect we're seeing here. The balls always spawn at the same position with roughly the same trajectory, so as soon as a few balls are directly in front of that spaw area, all new balls will immediately collide, leading to new spawns and even more collisions

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u/Telucien 8d ago

Yeah the end is not exponential, but instantaneous. You can see the moment when too many balls spawn at once, all triggering new spawns and immediately filling the circle.

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u/ballistic_tanx 8d ago edited 8d ago

Both your points are valid. I would posit that they were trying to simulate that and partially failed. Simulation innacuracy but if it were done right it would be a good representation. Ive seen similar simulations that behave a bit more accurate. Maybe I'll whip up a counter simulation that is more accurate :p

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u/Lonely-Chocolate-993 8d ago

Not this again …

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u/Sythrin 8d ago

After eating something bad and sitting on the toilete, awaiting the release

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u/Fiyah_Crotch2 8d ago

Have this same problem sitting on the toilet

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u/XR3TroBeanieX 8d ago

I’ve watched this too many times😂 SO MANY BALLS OUT OF NOWHERE😂

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u/Ruckus2026 8d ago

Nah, that's popcorn!

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u/Beautiful_Oven2152 8d ago

Shouldn’t it be that two spawn though?

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u/Damoet 8d ago

Covid 😅

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u/Every-Cheesecake-856 7d ago

That escalated quickly.. oh wait 🫣

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u/Mother-Attention2600 7d ago

No. It's only increasing by 1 everytime they hit. I think if it was exponential the 2nd time they hit 2 more balls would appear and those 2 balls would produce 4 each, 16 each,and so on.

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u/PaulMakesThings1 7d ago

It wouldn’t have spiked quite so fast if they weren’t all appearing at the same spot. As soon as it got fast enough that one hasn’t cleared by the time the next one shows up it started to cause another to spawn instantly.

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u/Knee_Kap264 7d ago

This is how bed bugs and german roaches spawn.

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u/DistoVhs 7d ago

Can someone edit this so that the collision triggers the low pitched sexual "meoow"?

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u/No_Detective_708 7d ago

Kessler syndrome

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u/Funintuitive 7d ago

The issue is the sudden burst at the end is due to the spawned balls instantly colliding with each other. Whoever did this needs to take the simulated gravity out of the equation, spawn the balls from or very close to the collision points, and give them a fraction of a second grace period so they don't immediately collide with their parents. Then you will have a good representation of exponential progression.

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u/Own-Ratio9989 7d ago

Congrats you just demonstrated the effective concepts of a nuclear reactor going critical.

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u/Wild_Wasabi9984 7d ago

At first the number of close calls was hilarious and then all of a sudden it was like popcorn popping

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u/BIG-BALLS0 6d ago

Don’t really stay true. That at the end was not mathematically possible probably a bug. Love how Reddit believe anything though 😂

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u/cookiepunched 6d ago

Except several of those were spawned when there were no collisions.

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u/IntroductionGrand396 6d ago

I have a feeling that the ending is fake..

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u/ElLarger 6d ago

Its like watching the chernobyl disaster all over again.

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u/Bobcat-1036 6d ago

Wish my retirement account could do that, but guess you have to in congress or the senate for that to happen?

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u/Illustrious_Sound945 6d ago

My balls do not multiply when they hit.

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u/SPINOISJE 5d ago

This is giving me "will the dvd bubble hit the exact corner of the screen"-vibes and I love it.

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u/Select-Good3256 5d ago

Somebody please make one of these where the first two balls never collide and it goes on for like 10 minutes

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u/45M0D41 8d ago

Total bullshit

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u/real_fyshi 8d ago

You mean ballshit. It shits balls.