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6:05 PM
@KyleKanos Why this question isn't seen in the queue of unanswered?
 
@Sofia Why would it be in an unanswered queue? There are 4 answers, half of which are upvoted
Scratch that. What is an unanswered queue?
 
6:26 PM
I take it that means there is no unanswered queue?
 
@StanShunpike Well, there is this, but it's no queue, it's a tab.
Great, we've got a bounty-offering philosopher
That also prefers to hide the definition of the terminology used in papers that speak of things like "experimental verifiability" of physical theories
But other than that, does anyone else feel that question is off-topic as either being about epistemology or unclear what you're asking?
 
somebody could check this please? goo.gl/MCPMDj
 
vzn
6:42 PM
@Sofia do you have any published papers?
 
@ACuriousMind I think it's too philosophical, not physical enough
@JoeStavitsky I looked at it. There's no context. So all I saw was arbitrary equations and expressions. Also, we don't generally check other people's work here
 
Can a question be closed if it has a bounty?
 
@StanShunpike only by a mod
 
@JimdalftheGrey, I understand, thank you.
 
@JimdalftheGrey are the points returned or lost forever?
 
6:48 PM
@StanShunpike The bounty is refunded by the mod and then the question is closed by normal procedure, usually
It doesn't happen that often, though
 
@StanShunpike I think that's up to the mod. They can refund the points, but sometimes they don't. It depends on the question and why it was closed and who put the bounty on it
 
vzn
@Jiminion way cool/ favorite steampunk art/ sculpture
 
vzn
7:05 PM
@Sofia I also have a wonderful proof but this chat room is too small to contain it :)
 
@vzn yes, you can find in the arXiv quant-ph. But some of them are outdated, i.e. since I published them I changed my mind. I especially recommend "Where was the particle".
 
vzn
ok great, where?
 
@vzn wait!
 
Soo, @dmckee , @DavidZ , @Qmechanic , @ManishEarth , what do you think about this question? Off-topic enough to refund the bounty?
 
@vzn Here
 
vzn
7:08 PM
@Sofia ??? how long?
 
@vzn essentially 5 pages, the rest is references.
 
-1
Q: What's your physics question? Be specific

Ankush Mandalyou r given a pencil and a sheet of paper.there is a function such that f(x, y, z). my question is can we plot this function by these three variables x, y, z on the paper??

Seriously?
The system doesn't block that title? :D
 
@vzn it's a good article and easily readable.
 
vzn
impatient as all the bohmian/ realism naysayers (thx much!)
 
@vzn there are other good articles too, but I am afraid that they are more difficult.
 
vzn
7:11 PM
yes can now find them thx :)
an impressive list....
why not put them on your se profile?
are you really working on a bohmian mechanics paper?
 
7:24 PM
@ACuriousMind Searching Meta hasn't found anything yet....
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Q: Auto-reject questions titled "what's your programming question? be specific."

Daniel DiPaoloThe helper text what's your programming question? be specific. has shown up as the title of a question a number of times that I have seen, (with this being the most recent one) and it's obviously never ever the proper title for a good question. Can we just have the submission process detec...

I ported that guy's Data Query to our site: data.stackexchange.com/physics/query/278809/…
 
I get no rows returned
 
I'm not finding anything in that search, so it seems that this post might actually be the first to do so....
 
@ACuriousMind I can't believe ppl post that stuff. Its so ambiguous! It barely asks a question
@Sofia nice list of publications!
Anyone heard of Patricia Burchat?
 
unrelated note: How is it that "Jimeese" has just as many votes as "Jimperator"? I thought Jimperator was clever. Jimeese is Jim + cheese.... Why? Am I missing something?
 
@JimdalftheGrey Torture, obviously. We want you to have a ridiculous name
 
7:38 PM
@StanShunpike Part of them are outdated. But I had a quarrel with the arXiv, and I can't make changes. Meanwhile I changed my email, and I wasn't enough conscious to contact the arXiv for changes. It's irresponsible from my part, but I really was very busy.
 
@KyleKanos If I get stuck with Jimeese, I'm taking you down with me
 
How, I didn't make a proposal to change my name
 
I'll think of something
 
Good luck
 
vzn
@StanShunpike yes have pondered how math/ physics interrelate a long time as have others famously (eg wigner). once in school saw a number theorist/ diffeq expert blanche at special relativity (which was probably significantly easier to understand than a lot of his expert areas). what kind of math does your uncle specialize in?
 
7:41 PM
@vzn here's his publications math.drexel.edu/~eschmutz
@Sofia that's annoying. An understandable mistake. Most people are very busy and it's easy to miss something like that.
 
vzn
S who is patricia burchat? so are you delving into string theory yourself?
 
@StanShunpike of what you talk? I lost you.
@StanShunpike no, no. It's irresponsible from my part.
 
I made a slightly better version of my previous Data Query: data.stackexchange.com/physics/query/278809/…
Still returns 0 rows (which is good) but it definitely will pick out them
I'm still not sure about case sensitivity with DQ
 
@StanShunpike the truth is that I tried to contact the arXiv, but failed. And as I don't send to them articles for a few years, I didn't insist.
 
Or the matching ' in What's for the main title, so I stripped that aspect out and only count where your question and specific appear
(the your part needs to be there, otherwise you'll get 4 or 5 valid questions with physics and specific in it)
 
7:46 PM
@vzn she gave a ted talk on dark matter and dark energy. I just ordered A First Course on String Theory. Great deal $11
 
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Q: On the possibility to re-vote after some time

FraSchelleI wonder why it is impossible to vote several time for the same question and/or answer (Q/A). Indeed, to understand a good question and/or answer usually requires time. Lazily enough, most of the time I read them quickly, before I vote up when I feel they are of some interest. A few months late...

 
@Sofia How does arXiv work? Are they a publication company? I find lots of papers there but I really don't know much about how it works.
Its not like Springer or something where I own books published by the company
 
@KyleKanos I need some help. Do you have any idea where @JohnRennie can be found? He wrote an answer to a disputed question, and truly speaking I am not sure whether I understand him.
 
vzn
ah ted, ok, its easy to find info on authors there, eg burchat, impressive bkg
 
@KyleKanos so you've broadened its ability to tell me there are no other posts with this title
 
7:49 PM
@Sofia My guess is that he's probably home. It's something like 9 pm where he is
@JimdalftheGrey Yes.
 
@StanShunpike to publish in the arXiv you need the recommendation of a person (endorser) appreciated by them.
 
@Sofia If you comment on that answer, he will get it whenever he comes online
@KyleKanos How productive of you
 
vzn
sof wrt arxiv/ endorsers afaik thats only in physics possibly. some CS types told me it is more open in that section.
 
@KyleKanos aha. Thank you.
 
7:51 PM
@JimdalftheGrey Like I said, I am unsure about the case-sensitivity of SQL. So I redid it in a way such that I didn't have to worry about it
 
vzn
vixra is more open but with less esteem than arxiv... anyone being hassled by arxiv (and they do indeed have barriers despite their assertions to the contrary) should try vixra
 
@vzn Yeah....no
 
@vzn no, they should not try vixra
 
If you want to be viewed as a crackpot, sure, post to vixra
If you want to have your paper accepted by physicists, you should not try ever posting on vixra
 
vzn
imho vixra is better than nothing. who among us has published nothing?
 
7:54 PM
@JohnRennie Hi! You gave an answer to a question and I believe that it is misinterpreted. As far as I understand, people take it as allowing to make all sort of wanders that in our modest universe are not allowed. So, please be kind, would you notify me when you are around?
 
viXra is a joke. No serious scientist takes it seriously. It was not intentionally made this way, but it has become the place where garbage papers from crackpots and uneducated laymen are posted. Putting a paper on viXra is the same thing as dooming the paper
 
This thread obviously suggests vixra is held in very low esteem. math.stackexchange.com/questions/401974/…
 
vzn
jimdalf, vixra now has hundreds of papers & am sure some are halfway credible.
 
I'd rather throw the manuscript in the physical trash than post it to an online wastebasket.
 
vzn
its just a repository.
 
7:54 PM
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A: Submit papers: arxiv or vixra?

Douglas S. StonesThe arXiv is the natural place to send mathematics preprints. Many of the worlds mathematicians (ranging from the very top to undergraduate-level) send their preprints there. One can also submit a paper to the arXiv then subsequently update it. Vixra is an absolute joke. It's where people sen...

 
vzn
and how many manuscripts have you thrown in the "physical trash", kyle? how many arxiv papers have you published?
 
@vzn 0 & 0
 
vzn
score!
 
And while I'm not interested in the academic life, I know that I sure as hell am not posting on a crank website
 
@JimdalftheGrey what is vixra?
 
7:55 PM
Also, I don't see how that's a score for you
Or anyone
 
@vzn whether or not the papers have merit on their own is not the point. Putting them on viXra these days makes them lose all credibility in the eyes of respected scientists
If you must post a paper online and can't do it on arXiv or something, put it on your personal website. That's at least better
 
From Philip Gibb's own mouth: viXra does not make any attempt to build a reputation for quality by filtering papers or through the reputation of any of its administrators including myself
So he knows full well that he's hosting garbage
And he gives not a care in the world
 
vzn
this is a complicated/ multidimensional subject involving peer review & many other aspects. dont really feel like fighting any battle here. agreed web sites are another alternative. however think there is some valid place for vixra.
 
Also from Philip Gibbs: If you are seeking a place to publish your paper that will bestow it some credibility then you must find a peer-reviewed journal, not a repository
So he himself says that if you want to have some credibility, don't published to vixra
From the guy who made the website
 
@JimdalftheGrey the arXiv is not a joke. All the who & who send there. The purpose is to make the works available to the wide public. Everybody looks in the arXiv as everybody looks in Wikipedia.
 
7:58 PM
... The purpose of viXra is to provide a long-term open-access and fixed reference point for any scientific paper and any author who requires it, without restriction. If you are seeking a place to publish your paper that will bestow it some credibility then you must find a peer-reviewed journal, not a repository. continued... — Philip Gibbs Jun 18 '13 at 20:35
 
vzn
no, he did not say anything about not publishing there, that is putting words in his mouth.
 
(sorry, wrong link)
 
@KyleKanos what's the point then?
Like why have it?
 
The point of vixra is to host an article online in hopes that someone looks at it
 
@Sofia viXra is an online repository, like arXiv, but they have no standards for accepting submissions, and so they have become the standard place where people with crackpot theories and awful science/math/etc post garbage papers. I'm sure not all papers are garbage on their own, but a delicious piece of chocolate cake, when found among garbage, becomes garbage
@Sofia arXiv is great! viXra is not
 
8:00 PM
It does not mean to be a means of publication, it's a simple online hosting service for PDF & Word documents
 
@JimdalftheGrey I bet you will, Jack L-a-a-a-me!
 
The problem is people view vixra as some sort of valid alternative to publishing works
It's not because nothing is published
There are no copyrights
 
@KyleKanos , @JimdalftheGrey , @StanShunpike , @vzn but the problem is that journals don't agree to put an article also in the arXiv. I have big problems with that.
 
vzn
you guys all have understandable points but there is some massive thinking error/ fallacies being passed off here. eg
Credentialism is a reliance on formal qualifications or certifications to determine whether someone is permitted to undertake a task or to speak as an expert. It has also been defined as "excessive reliance on credentials, especially academic degrees, in determining hiring or promotion policies." The term also refers to an over-emphasis on certificates and degrees as a way of determining social status. Credentialism can lead to credential inflation. Sociologist Randall Collins' 1979 book The Credential Society "examine[s] the connection between credentialism and stratification." An employer may...
 
@Sofia why? What's the problem?
 
8:01 PM
To journals one waits until one gets sick.
 
@Sofia Understood, that can be a problem. But you can't post that pre-print anywhere with those Journals
 
months you wait until the journal answers.
 
vzn
"publication" is a tricky word in the cyber era & takes on new connotations.
 
@KyleKanos what is a preprint? When sending to journals I have to sign that the article wasn't sent to another place - because they sell articles.
 
@vzn: In the US, we define it as the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.
 
8:03 PM
@vzn I said posting a paper on your personal website is okay and good but posting on viXra is a bad idea. What does that have to do with credentialism?
 
When posting stuff online, where is the transfer of ownership?
@Sofia Almost everything that is on arxiv is a pre-print.
 
@KyleKanos no, I am not allowed.
 
@Sofia everyone I know posts to arXiv first and then sends off for publication in a journal. It's fairly standard practise
 
@KyleKanos there are journals that allow no "tricks". They sell articles, they don't want to loose money.
 
Lol my father teaches copyright law. We have these kinds of discussions all the time
 
vzn
8:05 PM
jimdalf/ KK this is all hypothetical unless anyone here wants to "post" an article to an online repository. already said even in the sentence introducing it, vixra was held in low esteem.
 
@KyleKanos the arXiv is so popular that some journals don't permit.
 
@Sofia Not every journal is that way. Astrophysical Journal is one that allows both
 
@KyleKanos not the journal where I send.
 
@JimdalftheGrey Cheese is good. Mhhhh, cheese...
 
@Sofia Which is a problem with the Journal. Have you tried a different Journal?
 
8:07 PM
@Sofia do you make any money from publication?
I have no idea how finances work on publishing articles
 
@ACuriousMind Would you say the same thing about Jim cheese.... Jimeese?
 
vzn
guess the jims are not interchangable
3 hours ago, by Jiminion
viXra sounds bad. But academic publishing is pretty bad too. Sort of horrible, like end of science horrible. Maybe it's not so bad for Physics stuff, though.
 
@vzn I don't believe I've yet said that posting to a repository is bad in general nor have I commented on the qualities of academic publication. I maintain that viXra, specifically, is terrible.
 
hey guys! I just joined the physics stack. any pro tips from the physics aficionados?
 
@Siddharth'elMásGrande' such as?
 
8:11 PM
@JimdalftheGrey Mhhh, Jimeese is the best kind of cheese
 
@ACuriousMind That is just creepy
 
@Siddharth'elMásGrande' don't publish on vixra
 
vzn
jimdalf, arxiv has dozens upon dozens of crank/ crackpot papers also etc., and arxiv has rather low standards. actually they have a sort of/ at times "schizophrenic" attitude about what papers are allowed, which probably relates to founder ginspargs attitude/ personality...
 
@vzn arXiv has some crackpots. viXra consists of crackpots.
 
vzn
AC yes exactly touche thx for clearing that up! :p
 
8:15 PM
@JimdalftheGrey like how did you guys manage to get so many points?! i'm at 20 xD you must be physics gods.
 
@Siddharth'elMásGrande' Having a lot of time to waste helps ;)
 
@vzn I know full well that arXiv has crackpots. arXiv is generally chocolate cake with a rare piece of used toilet paper. viXra is generally used toilet paper with a rare piece of cake. Which do you want to get your dessert from?
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@Siddharth'elMásGrande' magnets
 
Most of us have spent over a year mostly answering questions (and occasionally asking them too)
 
so like, can we discuss specific questions over here?
 
You might try the FAQs to get you started. Always helps to know the rules of a game before you start playing.
 
8:19 PM
You can
 
Speaking of crackpots
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/25/astrology-help-nhs-claim-conservative-mp-david-tredinnick
 
@Siddharth'elMásGrande' I have a theory on that (lots of points) I think early birds can get points that newer people might not ever match because newer questions come in at a slower pace (and require higher skills) than in the initial growth phase. Kind of an early expansion theory of SE.
 
@Jiminion Somewhat true, but I've been here only 8 months and have overtaken most of the older users
 
@Jiminion Actually in my experience that's not really true. We have frequently seen new users very rapidly reach ~20k reputation
Yeah, @ACuriousMind being one example of this
But those people are usually very good, and spend more time than they probably should on this site ;)
 
@MarkMitchison At least, thankfully, most physics crackpots are harmless to the population at large...
 
8:23 PM
@ACuriousMind I know
It's awful
At least this guy has relatively little political power in the government
The Health minister of the same government has advocated homeopathy on the NHS
That shows a truly terrifying lack of scientific understanding
Given that he effectively controls the NHS!
 
The biggest worry is people's fear of vaccines. Its the dumbest thing ever.
 
@Jiminion yeah, makes sense!
 
@MarkMitchison A good question can really take off. I'm more experienced with Stack Overflow. Someone thinks of an interesting point and it gets upvoted like 7000 times. That's a lot of rep. from just one question.
 
this site, though. so helpful. just when I thought my studies were getting to a point where even google didn't have answers for my questions, I discover this gem of a site.
 
@Jiminion The hot questions are not that useful because rep is capped at 200/day, remember?
 
8:26 PM
@Jiminion Also there is a difference in scale between here and Stack Overflow by many orders of magnitude
There 100k rep is fairly common.
 
Only if the question is continually hot, or repeatedly bumped with some days in between you can actually get a lot of rep from one question
 
Here I think we maybe have one user with that much
And the majority of regular contributors are more around the 5-10k mark
 
@MarkMitchison 2, John Rennie and Lubos Motl
 
@ACuriousMind I stand corrected :)
 
@ACuriousMind (remember?) um, no. I don't know all the details with this place.....
 
8:28 PM
@Jiminion Well, you know now :) - you can get at most 200 rep/day from upvotes
 
@StanShunpike no, no money. I am a researcher and due to family problems I had to remain at home. But research continues. In fact, it's even better, because at the institute I had a lot of work to do. At home I also have duties (not exactly scientific) but at least, I can sleep until later in the morning.
 
Well something like a python hint or trick that is constantly looked up and the viewers might uptick the answer or the question because it helped them. Like a little cottage industry.
What is the sign on the L.M. rep??? :)
 
@Jiminion Do you mean the diacritic over the s in Lubos' name?
It's Czech.
 
yoyoyo guizee
 
No, whether his rep is a very large positive or a very large negative number. (humor)
 
8:32 PM
@Siddharth'elMásGrande' Go through the help page, check out some popular threads, go through some of the meta site if you are interested. When you're ready, all you have to do is ask a good question or answer one if you know the answer. Be informative, clear, rationed, maybe a bit humourous, and courteous. It takes a while, but the rep will start to come in.
 
@Jiminion Are you afraid that a site that started with stackoverflow is going to have integer overflow? :D
 
::disappointed by lack of response::
 
@Danu 'sup? :P
 
@ACuriousMind Nope. Hey, I'd think Anna would be leading, she seems to be everywhere, like the ether that ACTUALLLY mediates photons....
@Danu I don't know what to say.
 
@Siddharth'elMásGrande' lots of users have different approaches. John Rennie answers as many questions as he can read practically. Some users only answer questions that take lots of effort. I only answer a few questions here and there, but I only answer the ones I know for sure and I know will be helpful. Others answer questions more often.
 
8:36 PM
So.....
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/167053/can-it-happen-that-in-less-gravity-clock-goes-slower-but-the-actual-time-remain
 
@ACuriousMind Interesting exercise in Fecko: Check the equivalence of the basis vectors in the four definitions of a vector, which are 1. an equivalence class of curves 2. a derivation on $\mathcal{F}(M)$ 3. a first order differential operator 4. an $n$-tuple of real numbers with the appropriate transformation rule
 
Is there a 0 Gravity? Could it be calculated?
 
@0celo7 That is indeed tedious, but worthwhile.
 
For 1. I got the class of constant coordinate curves. For 2. I'm not sure. For 3. obviously the partial derivatives. For 4. I'm also not sure.
@ACuriousMind If we call a vector just an $n$-tuple, what does it even mean to be a basis vector?
 
@Jiminion I'm more curious who understood and liked the question enough to upvote it. Can clock run slower but the actual time be the same? What does that mean?
 
8:39 PM
@Jiminion THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO SAY :'(
 
Oh, for 2. it should be the derivational derivative along the equivalence class of curves in 1., which are just the partial derivatives from 3.
 
@ACuriousMind Not much. Interesting situation with a girl
she just left
 
@0celo7 Well, n-tuples are obviously vectors in the abstract sense, so the basic definition from linear algebra carries over directly.
 
@0celo7 This will only work in the smooth case, methinks
 
@JimdalftheGrey I didn't upvote it. It seemed kind of silly.
 
8:40 PM
@Danu The curves are assumed analytic.
 
@Danu Do I want to know what interesting means?
 
since the space of derivations is infinite-dimensional in the $\mathcal{C}^k$-case, $k\neq \infty$
@ACuriousMind Possibly.
 
@Jiminion It never entered my mind that you did
 
@Danu Huh?
 
@0celo7 Yeah, it's pretty strange.
 
8:41 PM
@Danu Do you want to tell? :P
 
@ACuriousMind So for the fourth definition is a 1 in the $j$-th spot the $j$-th basis vector?
 
@ACuriousMind Sure! :)
So, the situation is as follows:
 
I'm listening to the Yang lecture. I FEEL myself getting smarter.....
 
@0celo7 Any set of tuples that do not sum to zero unless all coefficients are zero and that can sum to any other tuple are a basis. You just wrote down the most "natural" basis.
 
@ACuriousMind Alright, how do I show equivalence to the the other three? I have shown that they are equivalent, I'm hung up on connecting the fourth one.
 
8:44 PM
Since arriving here @ LMU, it has been (naturally) quite hard to find any female friends (or(potential) girlfriends, for that matter), since the TMP program is obviously a bad place to look and I hadn't really had much time or motivation to go out much. Now, right after the semester ended my Greek friend Alex introduced me to a female friend of his at an end-of-semester party.
 
@0celo7 Take the natural bases of the other three and map them to your natural basis of tuples, then check that this commutes with the transformation laws
@Danu "since the TMP program is obviously a bad place to look"...sad, but most probably true.
 
So, we spent a lot of time talking and it was all a lot of fun blahblahblah. At some point art came up and I proposed we should go to this amazing exhibition that's happening at the moment, she was like yeah cool and I get her number, text her later and a few days later we go there. Was all good fun, really had a nice connection with her, all good
 
@ACuriousMind The tuple transforms with the Jacobian, the partial derivatives with the inverse.
 
So, after that we had dinner at my place with another friend (the one who threw the party), all in all a great day. Then two days later or so we go hang out again, again with this other friend there too, we have dinner and watch a movie.
She lives quite far away but the Greek guy Alex, who had already left for holidays in Greece, told her he needed something from his appartment so she was like yeah I'll go there and sleep there after the movie (he lives relatively closeby)
 
@0celo7 I'm not sure why I would want to define the tuple to transform inversely. Do you have a metric?
 
8:50 PM
...but it got a little late and at some point I offered that she could just stay over, and she was like yeah sure. Other friend leaves and we just have a good time talking and drinking some more, I unfold the couch for her (I have one of these neat sleeping couches) and we keep on talking while we both sit on the couch-bed, and at some point we both lie down, and end up falling asleep next to each other
 
@ACuriousMind When we write the vector as a differential operator, it's always something like $a^i\partial_i$. I think Fecko is saying that we can just take $\{a^i\}$ to be the definition of a vector, assuming it transforms inversely to the partial derivatives, i.e. with an Jacobian.
 
Nothing really happened, but there was a little bit of tension, nothing too dramatic though. Next day we hang out some more, talk a lot, and at some point it comes up that she's got a boyfriend. I'd already vaguely heard something like that from friends, but she'd never brought it up so I was a little surprised that she'd be okay with sleeping next to me and stuff
 
@Danu You're toast when he finds out.
 
Meh, I doubt it
Nothing happened, like I said
 
update your life insurance :P
 
8:52 PM
Anyways, we hang out some more and she just appears totally comfortable with it and at some point naps for a couple hours lying next to me, it was a nice day
 
@Danu ... Well, some people don't feel such tension at all.
It appears you've found one :D
 
Does https work on meta?
It doesn't work for me.
 
@0celo7 Ahhhhh. Yeah, think about how you express your abstract tuple vectors in terms of the basis
 
We'd been planning to hang out again soon, and after plans for tomorrow evening ended up not happening we decided to just chill out today. She came over and we just talked for a few hours and then got food, cooked A+ chili con carne and watched Paprika (one of my favorite movies). When the movie finished she was like, uuuurgh to get home I have to go through the coooold noooooo it'll suuuck
 
And how the coefficients there must transform then, naturally
 
8:54 PM
@ACuriousMind I'm asking what the basis is.
 
I semi-jokingly said well...you could stay over again if you wanted. She was like yeaaaah I really wanna... but I can't because I don't have my contact lense fluid and stuff with me.
 
@0celo7 Pick any. Doesn't matter, the basis always transforms inversely to the coefficients
 
So she went home but was like yeah next time I'll stay over!
Today the tension was a bit stronger, like lying pretty close together and stuff (we were on my bed) during the movie etc
 
Go buy some contact lense fluid :D
 
I'm puzzled as to what my position is here ^^
 
8:56 PM
@Danu: You sure she has an actual boyfriend? Or perhaps they've got an open relationship?
 
@ACuriousMind Yes, and no!
 
@ACuriousMind I don't see how I can arrange the $n$-tuple into a single object without doing a linear combination. So I just pick a random $\{e_i\}$ basis? Then picking $e_i=\partial_i$ trivially completes the question.
 
Especially just staying over when there is no apparent reason to do so is something I'd consider strange if I had a gf
 
Well, interesting describes the situation well then :D
@0celo7 Yep^^
 
@ACuriousMind Only 10 minutes wasted on a trivial problem this time!
 
8:57 PM
All $n$-dimensional vector spaces are isomorphic, there's essentially nothing to see :P
 
So, I'm not entirely sure whether a) she's just totally oblivious to the abnormality of this situation and is totally comfy sleeping next to me etc etc without feeling the tension b) She is into me
I was totally leaning towards a) before today, but now I'm not 100% anymore
 
@Danu Well, I'd ask her before this gets any more interesting ;)
 
@ACuriousMind That'll totally ruin the tension :P
...and our friendship if the correct option is a)
 
@Danu loooooooool
 
I'm just joking pal
 
8:59 PM
And it'll be a bit awkward, but I've had such a conversation and we're still friends :P
 
I'm not like desperate to get with her or anything, so I'd really value this as a friendship too
@infinitesimal Hahaha neat
@ACuriousMind Lol, were you the one who had hopes? :P
 

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