« first day (1997 days earlier)      last day (2934 days later) » 

8:00 PM
Hm
I think I might see a difficulty for the boundary conditions with the scalar field
 
I was going for a joke there, but failed. Not surprising really.
 
At the first step, it depends on the lattice point immediatly around it
 
You think that being a stick figure is a joke?
 
Are you going to give me a poke?
 
at step N, it depends on the lattice points N distance away
 
8:01 PM
No, you need some hope.
 
Hopefully this dependancy goes away with integration
 
Or maybe just a short rope?
 
Nope, you need to taste a semiconductor which is doped.
(sorry, couldn't comeup with anything better. :p)
 
Really? There's like a jillion rhymes for rope, you ratty little orange.
 
I don't think that I can play this game. It's out of my range.
 
8:05 PM
My dog is covered with mange (ok, that was pretty bad)
 
If I compare you and your dog, then I think that your dog is more strange.
 
(you meant that the other way, right?)
 
user116211
::Trying to understand the long psychological trauma::
 
(Strange = Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
 
@manshu Yes, but you meant to say I was more strange than my dog, presumably
"Between you and your dog, you are more strange"
 
user116211
8:08 PM
Strangest chat ever!
 
@MAFIA36790 No, we've had much worse.
 
I said "your dog"
 
@manshu Yes, but that's less insulting.
@manshu Presumably, the insult is strangeness(barrycarter) > strangeness(dog(barrycarter))
 
Well Done...now I don't know what "strange" means
gotta study now.
 
If I can't break @JohnRennie you'll do :)
I think I've found a way to unify the Lorentz contraction and the twin paradox.
 
8:11 PM
If you'll break John Rennie one day, then you can easily level up by trying to break QMechanic
 
@manshu He's on my list.
 
When I first visited this site, I thought that QMechanic is a site bot. :p
 
My current goal is to break @ACuriousMind
 
kinky
 
Breaking Rad (as I call it)
 
8:14 PM
awkward
 
nah, "breaking" isn't really a kinky enough term.
Do the Lorentz contraction, the relativity of simultaneity, and light travel time somehow cancel each other out?
 
@ACuriousMind : I suspect the lattice thing isn't gonna work out too well
Terms just keep piling on with every integrals
 
Well, to my mind, the main use of lattice QFT is to use it in simulations, not to calculate stuff by hand
 
Well I was hopeful that like for the point particles, the integrals in between the two fixed points would compensate
But from what I can see, I suspect that you just get more and more terms
It's basically a Cauchy horizon thing
A point at a time $t_n$ is gonna depend on all the terms of the lattice in the past cone
Although
Hopefully maybe I can integrate out at least everything not in the boundaries
Yeah I think that's the thing
Integrating over all the field configuration at $t_1$ leaves me a whole bunch of field configurations at time $t_2$ and the ones at $t_0$
Might take a while though
I need to do from $x_i -a$ to $x_i + a$ and $t_0$ to $t_3$, I think
 
user54412
8:34 PM
@ACuriousMind It's so prominent in numerics I recently filled out a form for a national computing center asking what field I was in, with the choices being things like "astrophysics" or "chemistry" or "plasma physics" or else "lattice QCD." One of these is more specific than the others...
 
Hehe
 
user54412
8:51 PM
Ok here's something that really bothers me. Why are there so many people who randomly put newlines but not blank lines into the text they write on this and many other sites? Do they realize all they've done is insert linebreaks without actually starting a new paragraph? Is there some language where this is considered appropriate?
 
user54412
Or is everyone illiterate and just hitting the Return key a number of times proportional to how long they pause to think?
 
@ChrisWhite What do you mean?
 
user54412
9:07 PM
@ACuriousMind Like what happens on the main site when some sentences are ended with a space, some are ended with a single newline, and others are ended with multiple newlines.
 
user54412
The middle option is the problem.
 
user54412
It just abruptly ends the line and starts on the next, with no indentation or spacing between paragraphs.
 
Oh, you mean people who insert the line breaks manually with <br>?
 
user54412
this is the most recent example
 
Ah, now I understand what you mean
Yeah, I don't know why one would break a line but not make a paragraph, either
 
user54412
9:17 PM
@ACuriousMind 4 words. Your shortest answer?
 
user54412
And no, that's not my vote. But I half expect the question to go HNQ :p
 
@ChrisWhite I think so. In this case I really didn't have anything more to say
@ChrisWhite Great, now that you've said it, it definitely will.
 
 
1 hour later…
10:22 PM
Hey @0celo7!
How's life?
 
@Danu Check his chat profile.
 
@ACuriousMind Ah... I see.
Sorry 'bout that :\
 

« first day (1997 days earlier)      last day (2934 days later) »