@0celo7 and?

@DanielSank That's a crazy long time.

^

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@0celo7 Wat?

@DanielSank you're very confused

@obe know QM yet

How are you supposed to get the legendary badge with the way the rep cap works? Seems like you have to write 150 dope answers on separate days.

@0celo7 Idk.

@DanielSank Yeah. Something like that. It is a little easier on big sites, but even on Stack Overflow it is a hard badge to get.

@TanMath How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions / Jim Al-Khalili, TED talks

A Higgs Boson particle walks into a church, but the preacher says "You are a fake! A disgrace! You call yourself the 'God particle' when there is only one true God! Blasphemy! You don't exist!" The Higgs Boson replies "Well if I don't exist, how can you have mass?"

crickets chirp

(You can still have mass from the strong interaction)

(that is where most mass is from)

(badum tish)

@Slereah lolol

Thank you I'll be here all night

Take my wife, please

@Slereah is married?

@0celo7 does not know bad comedy from olden days

@Danu Yesterday I thought I would have had a nice discussion on the use of the full axiom of choice in physics; sadly you started the discussion but never responded...

@DanielSank : re what I was saying yesterday, see this. Maybe that appeared on an HNQ list too.

@StanShunpike : boom boom! However the Higgs mechanism is said to be responsible for only 1% of the mass of matter. And it isn't responsible for the mass of the Higgs boson. Check out Matt Strassler's article.

@DanielSank Ask JohnRennie, he has it.

John Rennie is an anomaly.

@ACuriousMind You think fermions are normal particles? What is wrong with this generation...

@0celo7 Do you think fermions are somehow unnormal?

@ACuriousMind Uh, photons going around a Dirac belt = unnormal

Also how can you think spinors are normal?

@0celo7 Because they make up, like, all matter?

@ACuriousMind Dark matter is made of fermions?

::calls Sweden::

@yuggib The thing is that I don't really know anything about it; I don't have much to contribute to the discussion...

The best I can do is: I want physics to not depend on it :P

@Danu Why?

@ACuriousMind Seriously, is dark matter fermionic?

@0celo7 We don't know.

^that

We expect it to be...

Ok, that's what I thought.

heavy particles

but it's unclear what kind

or no, haha sorry I got it wrong, not baryonic---that's what we typically use for the stuff we do know

We all make typos

In other news, the tikz-cd package is da bomb

In other other news, all the professors I want to talk to are either at lunch or just gone.

@Danu :-D ok got it...Unfortunately, I am afraid it could depend on it. Anyways, a lot of mathematical things may change in a world with or without uncountable choice; how many of them are physical I do not know. As I said, the algebra of CCR is one of those non-separable spaces very relevant in physics, and maybe a physical necessity for uncountable choice

Yeah, it sounds like a good point.

I tend to stick to finite-dimensional things whenever I can :3

@Danu You have to think bigger ;)

@ACuriousMind Classical, finite dimensional things are comforting :)

@Danu You should look at the constructivst/intuitionistic mathematics then...there is a book by bishop where he reproduces a part of standard analysis by means of constructivist proofs. No axiom of choice there...just constructing mathematical objects from scratch :-D

@yuggib I don't find the premise of constructivism very convincing

You know what I hate? When people capitalize Words They Think Are Important.

It's like an instant crank/stupidity alert

@Danu Me neither; but I like infinite (dimensional, uncountable, etc ) sets very much ;-) In logic and proof theory, if it was for me I would even allow for proofs of uncountable length :-D

@yuggib That sounds like a terrible idea :P

@Danu Gödel capitalized the numerical realization of meta-mathematical concepts...

e.g.: "There are PROPOSITION-FORMULAE $a$ such that neither $a$ nor the NEGATION of $a$ is a PROVABLE FORMULA.

form his famous 1931 paper...

@Danu :-D probably....but it would be terribly fun

@yuggib Not just one letter? ALL-CAPS is even worse

@JohnDuffield cringe The original post is not grammatically an English question, yet there's a question mark at the end of it.

@dmckee Seems like a good challenge.

...but i need a cool 50 rep and my loan shark is outta town at the moment.

Anyone here good at classical/Hamiltonian/Lagrangian mech?

@DanielSank Just state your problem! :P

@Danu Already did

@DanielSank Ah, that one

@DanielSank Yeah. I have 7 (seven) qualifying days, but I think I got two of them from one post thanks to fortuitous timing and the HNQ.

@dmckee HNQ?

Hot Network Questions. The stupid sidebar that distorts the voting process.

Or brings in lots of new potential users. Depending on your POV, I guess.

@dmckee Heh, it's probably a good thing.

The biggest problem I think is how little we all vote (I'm super bad about this).

I was certainly in favor of it when it was announced. Since then, I feel like I need to know if a question appeared in the sidebar before I can interpret its score.

Yeah. More voting would be a good thing. I try, too, but only when I remember.