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5:00 PM

@EmilioPisanty Starting to look more like what you have after getting ordering right.

@JohnDoe in which case you're done, right?

@EmilioPisanty Yes almost, the numerator is the same now. Is the denominator there to indicate the amount of probability of finding the state in $| + \rangle$ at the start, hence the the fraction $P$ gives the ratio of the probability after to the probabilty at the start of finding the particle in state $| + \rangle$? Hence this is the intensity?

@JohnDoe yes

though frankly, directly modelling step 1 is pretty silly. Instead what you normally do is you read step 1 as a preparation step giving you $|\psi\rangle = |+\rangle$, and then you start off the manipulations from step 2 onwards.

but since you already had the projectors right I let it stand

@EmilioPisanty Okay that makes sense. In you answer it seems that you stating that the intensity does not depend on the intial $| \psi \rangle$ at all if $\psi \neq | - \rangle$?

There are 4 libraries with the Tipler thesis

5:09 PM

@Slereah which ones?

If I ask them will they just send me a pdf for free

is Tipler dead?

worldcat.org/title/causality-violation-in-general-relativity/…

@Slereah yes

@Slereah I can go to the university in MD next time I'm home

college park

@JohnDoe That is correct. Work it out.

5:11 PM

Well we can try that if they won't send it

catalog.umd.edu/F/…

is it a holy grail of GR papers?

There we go

University of Maryland

@EmilioPisanty Will do. Thanks a lot for your assistance, it's been quite informative.

No, it's just not available online

@Slereah I can definitely get it because I'm a university student

5:11 PM

@JohnDoe take care.

they will send it to me

write the email and I can send it

"hello plz send thesis"

It's in the UMCP Severn Library University Archives apparently

status : non-circulating

It's a secret

wtf

oh, that just means it's not on the shelves

yeah probably not

It's probably in some dusty storeroom

you have to email the math-t.phys person

5:21 PM

I've heard it's not possible to have wave function in 2 dimensions. does anyone know anything about it? is it right?

@Slereah does $\sqrt{|a|^2+|b|^2}\le |a|+|b|$ look right?

@Kiarash What do you mean? What kind of wavefunction?

never mind

@Kiarash what

@0celouvsky Square it baby

@Slereah yeah

just checking sanity

5:25 PM

you can most definately have wavefunctions in two dimensions

quantum mechanical wave function. I heard it relates to the algebraic topological properties of R^2.

@ACuriousMind

That makes no sense, what's wrong with wavefunctions in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$?

algebraic topological properties?

$\Bbb R^n$ is pretty boring from a topological perspective

(algebraic topology)

also what does "in two dimensions" mean

Also, that. All $\mathbb{R}^n$ are contractible, they don't really have topological properties

5:26 PM

Two spatial dimensions or one spatial + one time

@ACuriousMind yup. but R^2-{0} is not contractible. I don't know that much about it. I just heard it and I know it somehow relates to statistical mechanics of identical particles. (just the keywords I've heard!)

@Slereah 2 spatial dimensions

Are you talking about anyons

@Kiarash There is something special about two dimensions - you not only have bosons and fermions, but anyons

The reason is that while the universal cover of all the higher rotation groups is twofold, in two dimensions its a countably infinite cover

That would indeed be an "algebro-topological property"

Then you have the 1+1 dimensional spacetime where the spinors are completely bogus

@ACuriousMind yup! anyons. thank you!

5:37 PM

What does the universal cover of the plane minus a point look like

I've never thought about it

Maybe just modify the infninite rotini

plane minus a point is just a cylinder

That's not simply connected

Just use polar coordinates

Well yes, the cover is $\Bbb R^2$

Take polar coordinates and then make $\theta \in \Bbb R$

I think my modified infninte rotini is R2 in disguise

mama mia

5:46 PM

@0celouvsky It's an infinite "spiral"

@ACuriousMind you mea rotini

A helicoid if you want to be fancy

And I already got it

Looks like an infinite rotini to me.

So once again I was right

"The infinite rotini" sounds like the worst magician ever.

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@ACuriousMind and yet it's a perfect description of the space

6:04 PM

I think pretty much every 2D manifold will have $\Bbb R^2$ as a universal cover

Except the few quotient manifolds of the sphere that aren't also a sphere

Are there any simply connected manifolds in $\Bbb R^n$ that aren't products of $\Bbb R^a$ and $S^b$, $a, b < n$?

anybody got time and inclination to check up on this?

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A: Non-linear optics Hamiltonian

Your expression for the hamiltonian is incorrect. Following up the reference trail of the paper you quote quickly leads to a related paper that makes it clear that the relevant quantity in that formalism is $$ H = \frac12\int\left[ \int \mathbf E\cdot \mathrm d\mathbf D\right]\mathrm d\mathbf r, ...

it does look like there's some significant monkey business in that paper

6:19 PM

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oh, sciencealert, you're such a paragon of careful journalism

6:49 PM

@EmilioPisanty What... the...

I don't...

?

@0celouvsky That's amazing.

7:08 PM

@DanielSank this breathless fanboy of a piece

ultimately not a terrible mistake

but in the context of how terrible the article is, though...

Hello everyone

I have an interesting question

I have to do a final project for an electrodynamics class

And I would like to make it related to my favorite Marvel character, Iron Man

:D

Does anyone have any ideas? The project is a presentation + paper. I need to present on something that is related to the concepts learned in class. The entire class simply follows Introduction to Electrodynamics by David Griffiths.

AccidentalFourierTransform

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Q: How to make sense of quantum fields differential equations?

A quantum field is an operator valued function, that is, a function $\varphi(x)$ defined on spacetime which assigns operators on a Hilbert space to each event $x$. In a more rigorous approach a quantum field could be defined as an operator valued distribution on spacetime. Anyway, it is quite co...

quantum-field-theory mathematical-physics differential-equations

@Slereah you should post an answer there ^

you know much more than me, you'd get the bounty

7:26 PM

@DanielSank what is?

@loltospoon how about if Iron Man became magnetized and you could do something on his field lines as he flies around the North Pole?

AccidentalFourierTransform

@loltospoon something related to ACDC?

Don't you need a slash between AC and DC?

Pardon me, "slash" plays for guns and roses :-)

AccidentalFourierTransform

user image

I don't get it.

7:36 PM

Of course you don't.

AccidentalFourierTransform

Of course.

Trollers gotta troll.

AccidentalFourierTransform

trollers gotta trolle

:D

friendly convo i dropped in on lol

AccidentalFourierTransform

7:42 PM

WHO ARE YOU

i am nick

AccidentalFourierTransform

hi nick

:: blushes ::

@0celouvsky The thing I replied to.

We like to keep things friendly around here @NickIrelan welcome :-)

@skullpetrol I was thinking of somehow relating something he is known for to a concept in Electricity and Magnetism

7:48 PM

Ty, this is my first time here @skullpetrol

For example, I could do a presentation on his heads-up-display (HUD) and talk about the resolution limits of the human eye

But I'd really like to talk about his chest piece (mini arc reactor) but I don't know how to relate it to electricity and magnetism

Mini arc reactor? From Iron Man?

I guess I don't know enough about this guy.

@AccidentalFourierTransform github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC

@DanielSank on mobile 😰

AccidentalFourierTransform

7:51 PM

what in tarnation

> TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"

@skullpetrol what the hell?

Are you calling me a troll?

What have I done to you?

AccidentalFourierTransform

@JaimeGallego btw how did your exams go?

You call me an old woman.

>8(

@AccidentalFourierTransform They went quite well. But the rate is going up tremendously. Our Spanish classes are now a unit a day.

If you're in the business of calling me a troll you bet you are

7:54 PM

just be nice. you dont gain anything from arguing on the internet

^

AccidentalFourierTransform

@JaimeGallego damn

high school sucks

@NickIrelan that's stupid

Plus I have the SAT a month from now

AccidentalFourierTransform

it is worth the effort though

7:56 PM

sorry @0celouvsky its the truth though

AccidentalFourierTransform

I hope you get accepted somewhere in the US

good luck with that

Are you in any AP classes? @JaimeGallego

AP does not exist in Spain, at least not in the public education system

:(

I'm on a bit of a disadvantage there, but no prob

7:57 PM

@NickIrelan the internet is not daisies and sunshine

There are old women like @skullpetrol that are fond of character assassinations

But it can be @0celouvsky

@AccidentalFourierTransform Thanks!

@0celouvsky if someone says something about you they want you to respond in turn and be upset though

dont feed into it

yeah the more you get upset the more they will use it against you

Yep, there's only trolls here

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I still cannot believe the raiders are moving to Las Vegas.

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8:02 PM

well CA doesnt need more teams

Davis jr is an animal

NY and Florida have 3 teams each.

NY only does techically

the jets are from New Jersey

Does anyone here know a lot about open quantum systems and the FMO complex? I have some questions on some articles I have read...

Askaway.

No one knows

8:08 PM

you changed your name...

Hey @DanielSank...how's everything @ google going?

1. is quantum dissipation the same as recombination?

@TanMath what?

2. What exactly does thermal relaxation mean? Why is it that the Redfield equation includes it, but Lindblad doesn't? I know it has something to do with the so-called secular approximation...

@0celouvsky used to be 0celo7

He changes his name every other day 0celo7, 0celou, and 0celouvsky

3. So, there is dephasing, recombination, relaxation, trapping... what other effects can the environment have on the FMO complex?

My name has been Revolver J 0celouvsky since as long as I remember

8:12 PM

been reading this:

arxiv.org/abs/1311.4688

What's the J stand for?

and this:

arxiv.org/abs/0807.0929

Of course, the latter model only includes dephasing, trapping and recombination, using the haken-strobl model...

The former model includes the quantum dissipation and relaxation

I notice tanmath is the only one talking about his questions

lol

@skullpetrol Joliqué

@NickIrelan what does that mean?

8:15 PM

I mean someone should answer him

nobody here knows open quantum systems... except @DanielSank... and @MarkMitchison

@NickIrelan no one here knows how to answer them and there's no duty to answer questions regardless

We're not going to stop the regularly scheduled conversation because @TanMath asked @DanielSank a question.

@0celouvsky "asked anybody who knows open quantum systems"

just saying...

Which is probably only DS, let's be real.

true...

does MM come here anymore?

8:20 PM

No

^

aw... that's really sad...

He is also an expert in that field... especially since his former advisor used to work in the same exact field of quantum biology in photosynthesis (FMO complex)!

:36371837 what's this leadership you are talking about?

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??

@0celouvsky why the delete?

Because they are watching.

8:23 PM

??

is this 1984??

Big brother is watching.

lol

where is big brother?

I feel like i need to start deleting stuff

@bigbrother where are you?

/nick Big Brother

8:26 PM

:-O

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Q: How to get the Bronze Editor Badge

I was trying to get the Bronze Editor badge, so I edited one post by fixing a few grammar errors and making the question clearer. However, I thought editing was a privilege only earned at 2000 rep? After I submitted my edit, I got a message saying it would only be displayed once peer reviewed. ...

support editing badges

@NickIrelan this isn't IRC

Big Brother, show your face if you dare!

>8(

honsetly this is better than irc

8:27 PM

see...nothings happening...

its like a discord/irc mix

@NickIrelan no, the white knighting is awful

big brother doesn't exist...

who made you think he exists?

The flag system is completely broken

so complain to the mods...

problem fixed!

8:30 PM

we just need bots for trivia and such

Noun: trivia (countable and uncountable, plural trivia)

insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information
These trivia take up too much of the day.
This trivia takes up too much of the day.
A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
I joined the trivia club this semester!

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nominative feminine singular of trivius
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have you ever been on IRC

yes

well check out a triva room on it

Will do.

8:36 PM

Ingsoc is doubleplusgood

We have always been at war with Eastasia

@TanMath he told me

@TanMath they can't do anything about it

it's a stack exchange wide policy

the SE staff don't care either

lets all move to discord

The system is what it is.

@0celouvsky complain to the SE staff until they get so annoyed that they will be relieved of your constant complaining when they fix it...

or relieved when they ban you

8:43 PM

been there done that^

Verb: ban (third-person singular simple present bans, present participle banning, simple past and past participle banned)

(transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
(transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
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9:36 PM

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Q: Bounty going to waste - what should I do?

I recently put a bounty on a question, but still no one is answering it. When the bounty period ends, will the bounty just go to waste? If no one is answering I would prefer to just answer the question myself and get my 50 rep back, but I don't know if this is possible or allowed. Any advice w...

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10:44 PM

hello?

hello

Hello.

new meta post I made - anyone want to comment?

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Q: Let's get things rolling again with the homework policy

Okay, so the last time we had a focused discussion of the homework policy was August 2016. Blech. Then, we got on a bit of a tangent which was partly my fault. And now here we are, still stuck in the same spot. I don't know about you, but this homework policy needs to be fixed, and before anyone...

discussion homework

Still catching up with my inbox, have patience

11:00 PM

okay

@heather 1. I don't like the middle part, in particular its focus on individual users and that it comes before you tell us what you actually want to do. I'm halfway through the post and I know that DanielSank has had some great idea that ACuriousMind approved of, but you haven't told me what it actually is ;) Put the important information up front and the fluff later.

2. It's not exactly clear to me what the post is asking for. Where I last left off with Daniel was that we wanted to pose a meta post that would list all the bits and pieces of phrasing that need to be changed, and the answers would be specific proposals for specific wording of these pieces. It's not clear to me whether your post is asking users to vote on Daniel's old formulation or asking them to propose something new

3. The overview over what exactly we need to change/reword is missing.

#1 I just fixed

#2, I was originally thinking that I was asking for users to vote, but now that you say it, I guess the latter is probably better

#3, could you clarify what you mean?

@heather There are six different pieces of text relating to the homework policy that each need to be formulated. An overview is in the old thread about the homework policy

@Nirelan yea. I'm trying to make an electrodynamics presentation explaining one of the concepts from our class via the Iron Man suit

That is, the things you quote in the question are a first step, but we can't just say "great, lets take that wording and stick it into the policy" because it doesn't cover everything that needs to be changed.

11:14 PM

right, okay.

So right now it's a post that tells us we should do something about the homework policy but it doesn't really tell us what exactly. This is why Daniel wanted to crowdsource the new meta post before it going live, by the way - I'm not sure why that thing just fell on the wayside again, but these meta posts need to be carefully crafted

okay, how's the edit?

Much clearer on what input is being sought, very good

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Q: Let's get things rolling again with the homework policy

Okay, so the last time we had a focused discussion of the homework policy was August 2016. Blech. Then, we got on a bit of a tangent which was partly my fault. And now here we are, still stuck in the same spot. I don't know about you, but this homework policy needs to be fixed, and before anyone...

discussion homework

I'm a bit unhappy with the giant and a bit borked block quote in the middle - if we're sourcing new proposals you shouldn't quote the old - and incomplete - one in the question

11:19 PM

okay

let me fix that then.

I also would tone down the amount of fluff about how tiring it is to talk about the policy, but since it's your post it can be as grumpy as you like :P

=P

how is it now?

Much better than what we started with :)

=D

I'll reduce the fluff a bit, and that should round it out nicely.

okay, how's the fluff sector now?

Now the main problem is to get someone to actually sit down and craft these texts. Emilio posted a complete set of proposals with the older question, and as far as I can see no one ever edited any of these proposals. We basically implemented what Emilio single-handedly proposed.

@heather Now it's a fine question, I'd say.

11:25 PM

@ACuriousMind okay, thank you for your help!

@ACuriousMind I might try to work on them, and @DanielSank probably will.

@heather hey any interest in collatz still? this new numberphile video seems to be getting a lot of views & maybe generating some recent burst of internet focus on the problem... :)

Collatz Conjecture in Color - Numberphile

what are your thoughts on "the problem solving policy" being our temporary new name for it @ACuriousMind

@heather Everyone comes here with a problem they want solved, I think it's not a good name and would much prefer something like "our policy for calculation requests", but less unwieldy.

"arbitrary calculation policy"?

Hello

11:30 PM

@0celouvsky hello

@heather I'm not sure what the "arbitrary" is supposed to mean there, and I think "calculation policy" just sounds weird...

everything i'm thinking of is stupid or unwieldy =/

brb

@ACuriousMind This book on operator theory says "the definition of a manifold is explained in [H63]." Now, I know the usual references for such things, and H is not one of them. So I look in the back and it's Hörmander's "Linear Partial Differential Differential Operators"

@heather I have the exact same problem

You know you're in deep trouble when a book references a PDE book for manifold theory :D

11:33 PM

Very strange indeed

@heather I can ask a conceptual question that is off-topic, no?

Like a multiple choice question that involves no calculation

Is that supposed to be off topic?

okay, back

@0celouvsky yeah, that's off-topic

you're right, it's not just "no calculation"

so it's not a calculation request

it's "nothing without showing your work"

I conclude that we should just delete the whole site imo

11:41 PM

um.

leave the chat

but give me mod powers

the "show your work" policy?

@ACuriousMind

not really short enough though

@heather We're not making new policy. The highly upvoted post by Daniel that you cite as justification for moving forward is definitely about the calculation-y aspect of questions

Insufficient effort is a different - and in no way less difficult - debate.

urgh, good point

Also, we don't need to cover strange edge cases - how many of these multiple choice homework-y questions are there that the calculation-y policy would not cover? One a week? Custom close reason "We don't do your homework for you" is fully sufficient for that

11:46 PM

@ACuriousMind With an attitude like that I'll ask a bunch just to prove you wrong.

@Danu hola

that's the thing though @ACuriousMind - we shouldn't be using anything related to "homework" as a close reason.

this renaming should cover everything the homework policy did.

@ACuriousMind did you see this? arxiv.org/abs/1703.09238

@heather The first close voter will use whatever custom close reason they want.

The abstract sounds like it may in passing address your recent question

what's a T-brane?

11:49 PM

@ACuriousMind i mean that we shouldn't rely on custom close reasons involving the word "homework" for edge cases.

@heather I 100% guarantee you that any reformulation we come up wtih will slightly change what exactly it applies to when read literally

We all are, my child

Literally, any change in phrasing will some nitpicker point out that a question of a very specific type is not covered anymore

@0celouvsky ^^

And it's pointless anyway because we're currently not following the letter of the old policy!

11:50 PM

@Danu ...mammals?

but one a week is a not insignificant edge case.

@Danu I asked the question precisely because I don't want to hunt through the literature myself :P

@heather We close over 250 questions a week. It is.

@DanielSank For some reason the analysis/operator algebra seminar was invaded by a stochastics person today. I didn't understand much...

@ACuriousMind SORRY FOR HELPING ;)

@ACuriousMind alright then.

11:54 PM

Well, I mean, I made taht "one a week" up. But you really have to keep in mind that we close around 100 posts per week for being homework. Losing coverage for one or two is still morally a "rewording" in my book

People wanted to do this rewording because "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" so let's keep at that.

okay.

::suppresses OCD tendencies::

how about the "conceptual question policy"?

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