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6:18 AM
does anyone know how to make such expressions look nicer in latex :P
a long cases expression...
 
Becoming a funded independent researcher seems like the dream
 
6:36 AM
@SillyGoose After making this note, are you going to put it up on ArXiv or some webpage?
 
@Sanjana for this note i don't think so--maybe in a few years it will be part of a paper or something :P
is there nicer formatting on there?
 
no idea
@SillyGoose Is this related to the Fubini-Sturdy stuff you were doing?
 
yes this is a computation that i needed to operationally know the fubini-study measure for
i was computing $S = 1 - \text{Tr}\left(\int_{\mathbb{C}P^n} d \Omega_n \rho^2\right)$ where $\rho$ is a time-evolved reduced density matrix with some $\mathbb{C}P^n$ dependence
the answer turns out to be nice and simple >:D which makes me wonder if there is a simpler way to do the computation
but i tried to ask on stack about coordinate free/other coordintizations of $\mathbb{C}P^n$ expectation values to no avail
 
fqq
7:32 AM
@SillyGoose i think it'll look nicer if you just don't use cases and have separate equations
 
@SillyGoose your cases are about $i=1$ and $i\neq1$, but some of the expressions themselves don't depend upon $i$ in the correct way. Must be some typoes. Also, these seem to be complete angular integrals. If they are, you can just use standard Gaußian integrals to extract the results directly.
 
8:12 AM
@naturallyInconsistent the $i$ dependency comes from the fact that $n_i$ when $i = 2$ is different from $n_i$ for all other $i$. (i did mistype $i = 1$ instead of $i = 2$ though)
and these $n_i$ are what is in the integrand
@fqq hmm okay thanks i might try this out
 
 
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10:22 AM
hi
which multiverse argument do u find more realistic out of the quantum mechanics one and the general relativity one
 
10:46 AM
Is there a GR multiverse?
 
11:27 AM
@JohnRennie yes it's in this video youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M?si=ouZuq282JH6jlkkg
it comes from continuing Penrose diagrams
 
What Veritasium isn't telling you is that the Kerr geometry is (probably) unstable to perturbations and cannot exist outside of a mathematician's head. So the Penrose diagrams showing multiple universes linked through the Kerr geometries don't actually exist.
The same applies to the Reissner-Nordström geometry.
 
Veritasium said (and I think the guest physicists too) that it's theoretical but not impossible
@JohnRennie oh u r saying the same thing
this is why i asked "which multiverse argument do u find relatively more realistic between the QM one and the GR one?" @JohnRennie
 
I'm not sure if it has been proven that the Kerr and RN geometries are unstable, but everyone believes that they are.
So unless everyone is wrong the GR multiverses are exceedingly unlikely to exist.
On the other hand eternal and chaotic inflation seem plausible.
 
oh
chaotic inflation could produce chaotically different realities in the future i guess
Veritasium also said that black holes were thought of as purely mathematical solutions a 100 years ago
so these multiverses could be a prediction like black holes were
 
@JohnRennie do you mean in the sense that you would have different spacetimes embedded into something else ("the multiverse")?
I find calling maximally extended spacetimes "multiverses" a bit strange - it's still one spacetime, just parts of it are causally disconnected
 
11:43 AM
i find it to be within the bounds of what we mean by multiverse in daily life
 
if that's enough to be a "multiverse", then if you accept that inflation may have causally separated patches of the early universe, it's actually not that far fetched that we live in a multiverse
you don't need white holes or weird Penrose diagrams to get causal disconnectedness
 
oh...
i just love the portal aspect of those multiverses
all of string theory, QM, and GR give a multiverse in their own different way
this means that there is probably a multiverse out there
in QM, we have decohered universes. in GR, causally disconnected universes. and in string theory, a landscape
 
the point of the string landscape is not that all the points in the landscape exist simultaneously
 
what do u mean
 
the string landscape is not a "multiverse" of simultaneously existing distinct universes
that's not the point of it at all
it's just the "landscape of choices" you have for possible universes resulting from different compactification choices
and ideally someone would find a dynamic for the "real universe" that explains why the universe would end up as the one we're in
 
11:52 AM
oh
i interpreted it naively that all vacua were embedded in a bigger space and that explained fine tuning
when people say "they all exist", do they mean they exist at different points of time?
and which multiverse reasoning do u find the most realistic out of these three?
 
 
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12:57 PM
HOOOOOOOOONK
 
1:35 PM
h o n k
 
2:18 PM
H O N K ~
@SillyGoose Oh, that is an important mistake to catch. What is the standard result? What are $\mathrm d\Omega_n$? Usually that has trigonometric functions in there, but it seems to be missing. Are you sure $\theta_1$ does not have a wider integration region? In 3D polar we have an $\int_0^\pi$ and a $\int_0^{2\pi}$ to keep track of.
 
2:59 PM
Like, in the usual 3D polar $\int\mathrm d\Omega=\int_0^{2\pi}\int_0^\pi\sin\vartheta\,\mathrm d\vartheta\mathrm d\varphi$
 
3:26 PM
Maxwells equations are highly underrated compared to Einsteins Field Equations
 
3:52 PM
@DIRAC1930 I've never heard of anyone saying Maxwell's equations are underrated lol
Plenty of people use them all the time :P
 
4:19 PM
It seems though that alot of people who are interested in QFT seem to want to get past QED as quickly as possible to move onto QCD or something so Maxwells equations get relagated
 
@DIRAC1930 what do you think all the quantum optics people are doing?
I'm willing to bet there's more people "doing QED" in a broad sense than doing QCD
 
Yes, but amongst those interested in fundamental theory
 
4:36 PM
In another life, I wish I could have done quantum optics ngl
A couple years ago I almost had the chance to do a PhD in that field but funding fell through
 
5:15 PM
Is there anything broader than QFT? 💀
 
quantum theory :p
 
My man is using set theory at its deepest level
For what I've seen, QFT books seems the messiest of all
ST books are so tidy in comparison :P
 
the QFT books are messy because they're trying to get to QED/the Standard Model/cross section computations in too short a time
string theory books have no such constraint to have to reach actually useful results :P
 
@ACuriousMind they sure have other constraints :P
 
ahahaha
 
5:24 PM
Oh my god I got ACM laughing
 
you have to imagine this as a very pained laugh :P
 
I wanted to ask but I decided not to give away my lack of understanding of basic human emotions on chat
Like that time Qmechanic replied with "Ha-Ha" and I'm still haunted by the thought he was being sarcastic
 
oh I'm human now?
 
You were programmed to appear human and therefore display human-like emotions
 
5:29 PM
My biggest gripe with QFT books is that they are too heavily reliant on literature. I mean, that's how it should be in science but QFT books push it to the limit
Every two lines there is a paper that proved something in a very specific setting
That's probably because as you say they want to get you into the business of Feynman diagrams quickly
> For a one-dimensional compact manifold, two topologies are possible - corresponding to the closed and open strings
Aren't all 1D compact manifolds homeomorphic to $S^1$?
 
they forgot "with boundary"
 
I don't think I've read a QFT book that I would recommend
Hopefully going through this pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/30905879986.jpg will change my mind
 
@DIRAC1930 probably only Weinberg
 
Weinberg needs to learn how to write equations properly
 
That was God's nerf to that guy
 
5:42 PM
His historical introduction is fantastic in volume 1 however
 
He made sure to express his resentment towards Dirac though :P
 

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