« first day (2481 days earlier)      last day (2455 days later) » 

2:00 PM
Haha, now I began thinking you were right in the first place •≈•
 
Anonymous
A quick google search doesn't bring up the book. Perhaps you should shift to more standard books. :)
 
(such as arnold)
 
@Blue Nope, my beloved professor gave me this book, can't just switch it
@Blue Well, the title is in Romanian
 
Anonymous
beloved ?
 
lmao
 
2:04 PM
@Blue Prolly misused the term, as I am not a native speaker
 
Anonymous
Nah, I don't think you misused it. I was just joking. :P
 
@Mr.Xcoder Step 1 in making that happen would be to gather evidence that we either do or should transfer a substantial number of questions to them, and that those transfers are (or would be) well received.
 
@dmckee OK, got it.... Wait... Were you a pro-temp mod on PPCG a while ago?
 
@Mr.Xcoder Yeah. But then I got elected on physics and my work situation became more intense so I gave it up. Just about stopped participating in the site, too, mores the pity.
 
Well, too bad we burned some tags since you left
 
2:08 PM
@Mr.Xcoder Sites evolve. It's only when you see how they actually work that you really know what the 'right' tags are.
 
@dmckee I don't dislike the fact that we burnt those tags. They were problematic.
 
@AccidentalFourierTransform and (on this site)
We still have pop-cons though, thankfully
 
::smirks:: I always thought those were a bad idea.
 
2:11 PM
Me too ^. I like pop-cons though, but unfortunately never took part of one.
 
can we have one of those here please? for example?
 
@AccidentalFourierTransform Not sure how that'd work?
 
I would be the top user, that's for sure :-P
first golden badge
 
yeah, prolly a nice idea
 
ahhh, I put my socks on my PC and now they're warm
 
Anonymous
2:13 PM
If it were physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/… , I wonder who would be the top user.
 
Anonymous
BTW how do you put those tags in chat?
 
only >10k users can use tags in chat, sorry
 
@Blue [tag:tag-name]. Like: [tag:quantum-trolling]
@AccidentalFourierTransform That's not true, you quantum troller!
 
2:15 PM
@AccidentalFourierTransform can I have ?
 
no you cant, too many chars
 
Ugh
 
there are very few physicists I would want to do that with
 
I'd like to have some Physics exercises to solve, but all this mechanics bores me. What should I pick: or ?
 
Anonymous
optics
 
2:18 PM
quantum field theory
 
@AccidentalFourierTransform Doesn't really fit my capabilities.
 
sobolev spaces
 
> @Mr.Xcoder i don't have any intension to force you to do that question but if you feel that way then go to he**
Some M.SE mod pls remove that
 
Anonymous
Flag it
 
I did
 
Pls no onebox
 
Anonymous
@Mr.Xcoder y?
 
@Blue Nvm
 
2:25 PM
@AccidentalFourierTransform you have a gift
=P
 
@Secret The expanded tag length we got recently (last week) is 36 characters. No idea if the formatter enforces that or some other limit.
 
@Secret you called?
5
 
nope, did tag end up pinging you?
that tag is clearly longer than 36 characters, so... no idea
 
[meta-tag:that-is-a-@Secret]
 
Guys, this is what the Sandbox is for.
 
Anonymous
Test any chat features there
 
@Mr.Xcoder Denizens of the hbar sometimes make a joke out of playing formatting games. Just be happy they aren't doing everything in MathJax with fraktur.
 
...you got a problem with Fraktur? :P
 
@dmckee I'd like to see MathJax, since I just installed the usersript
 
2:33 PM
Example franktur: $\mathfrak{c}$
 
$$x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c}}{2a}$$
 
#FrakturInMathJax: $𝕬 𝕭 𝕮 𝕯 𝕰 𝕱 𝕲 𝕳 𝕴 𝕵 𝕶 𝕷 𝕸 𝕹 𝕺 𝕻 𝕼 𝕽 𝕾 𝕿 𝖀 𝖁 𝖂 𝖃 𝖄 𝖅$
@dmckee Incomplete :)
 
Mismatched brackets.
 
Let me try again.
Is $$...$$ a thing in chat?
 
2:36 PM
@Mr.Xcoder Yep.
 
$$ax^2+bx+c=0\implies x=\frac{-b±\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$
 
On the site you can also use \begin{align} ... \end{align}. Let's try it here.
 
What's going on here?
 
@skullpatrol Nothing... Just us playing
 
Mr. Xcoder learning mathjax
 
2:37 PM
\begin{align} x &= (a - b)^3\\ &= a^3 - 3 a^2 b + 3 a b^2 - b^3 \end{align}
Cool.
 
Are there two sides to this story :P
 
@Secret I know MathJax, I just didn't know why that didn't work
@skullpatrol Nope
 
Carry on.
 
$b^2-4ac$ is commonly denoted $\Delta$ IIRC?
 
@Mr.Xcoder I think I've seen that once or twice, but I wouldn't call it common.
 
2:40 PM
Gtg now. o/
 
Anonymous
\o
 
Cya
 
@Mr.Xcoder yes. Discriminant
 
\o
Let's not discriminate against the discriminant :P
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
2:42 PM
Is the rectifying plane also called the normal plane?
 
Anonymous
I'm not sure about the terminology
 
Anonymous
I might be wrong. Is the normal plane perpendicular to both the osculating plane and rectifying plane?
 
Anonymous
This Vector Calculus book by Spiegel lacks digrams. :/
 
Hello everyone!
 
Anonymous
@PrittBalagopal Hi!
 
2:57 PM
@heather @Mr.Xcoder solved! the problem was with keyboard. Disabled ''key presses repeat when key is held down" feature..
 
that's good =)
 
Hey @Blue long time no chat!
 
Anonymous
Yeah. How's it going?
 
Anonymous
You took Chemical Engineering at IITH ?
 
I'm in my college now. Trying to get accustomed to this new environment lol.
Not IITH, I went to NIT Trichy instead.
I couldn't get IITH sadly.
 
Anonymous
3:09 PM
I see. Yup, the first few days of college is tough. Hope you get accustomed soon. One of my friends named Paranjoy Paul also joined NIT Trichy this year (Electrical dept). I've heard that the campus is pretty nice with lot of clubs. :)
 
Paranjoy Paul? Hmm, I'll try to meet him.
 
Anonymous
:P Okay
 
Btw do you mind telling me your name?
 
Anonymous
@PrittBalagopal I don't. But not here.
 
Anonymous
You can give me your facebook id
 
3:16 PM
Sure, I understand. You can find me on Facebook, no one else is named Pritt Balagopal lol!
 
Anonymous
Ah. I sent you a friend request there. :)
 
can I have a friend request too please?
 
Anonymous
Tell me your real name first, granny. :P
 
Sid
@AccidentalFourierTransform searches accidental Fourier transform on Facebook :P
 
3:21 PM
This is not a dating site.
 
Sid
@PrittBalagopal majoring in?
@Loong did anyone say it is?
 
loong is salty because s/he didnt get a friend request
 
@Sid No, but it's terribly similar to one atm
 
Anonymous
I don't think @Sid is interested in dating grannies. :'D
 
Anonymous
Or, are you?
 
Sid
3:25 PM
Lol. Did anyone think I was serious?
 
3:50 PM
@Sid I'm studying Chemical Engineering.
 
4:07 PM
0
Q: Are there any special packages enabled for MathJax?

Pritt BalagopalI usually hang out at ChemistrySE, where I use \ce{} to format chemical equations. I once tried to use \ce{} here to write a nuclear reaction, and was perplexed when it didn't work. Someone told me that mhchem isn't enabled here. I ended up having to use \text{} instead. So, are there any specia...

 
4:44 PM
@AccidentalFourierTransform Why did you reject the edit?
 
4:55 PM
@Loong I'm looking for a European daddy
 
@AccidentalFourierTransform I found the place from where the OP had gotten the quote in his question. I found it on Quora and edited it to add the detail from where he got it. Was something wrong?
 
5:15 PM
@Blue No. B is orthogonal to the curve, but it's not called the normal. In the TNB frame, the normal is the derivative of T.
That is, N(s) = T'(s)/|T'(s)|.
Oh, maybe I misunderstood your question. Normal plane is simply the plane spanned by N and B, the plane normal to T.
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen Oh, that's what I was asking. I know what normal is :P
 
Anonymous
Thanks
 
@PrittBalagopal I see nothing wrong with that edit - in fact, adding the source is a good thing to do - and have approved it, but we'll have to wait for AFT to see why he rejected it.
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen Tomorrow any exam?
 
No. The day after tomorrow is math, and then I'm free.
 
Anonymous
5:20 PM
I'm so bored of studying this English :P I have a test this Wednesday
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen Oh, cool! Then we can continue with LA
 
Sid
I have a test tomorrow. In Maths.
 
@Blue so soon?
 
Sid
And I am studying Environment Engineering
 
Anonymous
@Sid Wow. What chapters?
 
Sid
5:21 PM
Sequences
 
@Blue Yep, any time you want.
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Yeah. The teacher wanted to finish off with English as soon as possible
 
@Blue So no more english then? :P
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen I'll ping you on Tuesday afternoon after I get home. I'll complete with this English by then (hopefully) :D
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Yeah. Only in 1st sem
 
5:22 PM
Great
 
Anonymous
From 2nd sem it is not there
 
when is you're semester ending?
 
Sid
Any further grammar thing for the h bar? @blue
 
Anonymous
@Sid I'll revise grammar tomorrow. Today I am reading the stories. "After Twenty Years" by O' Henry and "The Barber's Trade Union" by <someone> :P
 
O'Henry is enjoyable.
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
A short movie. If anyone is interested. ^
 
Anonymous
I'm watching it on repeat mode to memorize the storyline
 
@Blue I did that in 10th, for that 3 men in a boat
wasn't much use :P
 
He writes nothing earth shattering but half-comedic surprise stories.
It's a shame that the kind of English literature we high schoolers are exposed to are not really representative of the English literature.
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen What type of English Literature syllabus would you like ?
 
5:34 PM
@BalarkaSen Is that code for "We high schoolers are not exposed to the kind of English literature I like"? :P
 
Anonymous
Tbh, I did like the English stories and dramas we read in high school. We had a play by George Bernard Shaw in grades 11 and 12. I absolutely loved it.
 
Because I struggle imagining an objective way to determine which works are "representative" of literature that's not confounded by such categories as "literature I like" or "literature that gets talked about".
 
@ACuriousMind Not really. I liked my 11th grade literature, but did not think it was representative of the English literature.
Isolated poetries I liked were one by Blake (great guy!), Rimbaud (even greater!), Paz (fantasio!), and the stories consisted of a Nobel lecture, an article by an Indian artist, which I both liked.
I do not think these should be in an 11th grade English literature syllabus.
Eg nobody the fuck can appreciate an isolated poetry from Blake without reading his series of poetry and how it transformed through the years and the 18th century post-Romanticist context of it.
 
@BalarkaSen Now that sounds more as if you are disagreeing with the way these works are taught than with the choice of work.
 
Eh, sure. I also disagree with the choice of works. Eg we have Chekov's The Proposal in our syllabus this year, which I do not think is even a representative of Chekov's work.
 
5:42 PM
Are these works supposed to be representative? I.e. is English class expressly meant to teach representative works?
Because I was more under the impression the main goal was to learn how to (pseudo-)scholarly engage with literature in select examples, not to give a representative cross-section of the literature
 
Literature
Stamp collecting amirite
I feel bad for Rutherford tbh. Poor man's wife left him for the type of chemist he already hated
 
I do not think scratching aimlessly at an isolated sample of works of literature is an engaging way to interact with English literature.
 
@ACuriousMind How about this, I give you a William Wordsworth poem, a story from Sherlock Holmes, Bergman's essay on film theory, and a chapter from Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Is that an ideal English literature syllabus? Would you like to read this shit?
It's just a bunch of random shit collected in a textbook.
 
I think it very much depends on what you want/expect me to do with it
 
5:50 PM
I want you to get good grades in your exam :P
 
I mean, if you were genuinely trying to teach me something, I'd assume you have some algorithm for selecting these
The question is what that algorithm is - you seem to be complaining that it is not "choosing representative examples", but I'd have to know what the thing we're comparing against is and what goal we have to determine whether representative examples would be better for what we're trying to do.
 
Anonymous
Actually, I've seen that most high school English books try to cover as many different genres as possible. Say, around 15-20 in a book. Whether that is good or bad is open to debate.
 
@ACuriousMind If it's an English literature syllabus for a generic high schooler who most likely will not study English literature later in his life, surely you'd want to just introduce him to "English literature as a whole"? A generic (not his magnum opus!!) work by the influencial writers through the centuries, ideally?
 
I'm not sure. Maybe I want to teach them about specific literary techniques and genres and am picking examples that exemplify these particularly well, regardless of their position in the greater body of "literature as a whole"?
Maybe I'm picking a magnum opus simply because it is an unspoken cultural expectation that everyone knows about it, not because of any other qualities it has
 
The thing with including a magnum opus by an arbitrary writer straight off the bat is it'd usually be unappreciated. If I were to include Eliot in, I would not start off with The Waste Land or The Hollow Men
Usually magnum opuses are complicated and big works of literature which the author pours all his literary styles and philosophical realizations in.
Opus? Opuses? Opi? lol
 
6:03 PM
Again, maybe the goal is not "appreciation". I suspect you simply have a very different idea of what these courses are supposed to do.
@BalarkaSen The correct Latin plural would be magni opera.
 
@ACuriousMind Huh! Thanks
I dunno, maybe. I am not quite sure what the theoretical purpose of these courses are, so maybe you are right. Practically I'm sure it's just getting a certain grade :P
 
a sad story: we just went grocery shopping, and my dad saw someone walking around selling eclipse glasses for $5 each (!) and he asked to look at one. This is indoors, of course. When holding up the glasses and looking at the light he could faintly see some, meaning, of course, that they were junk eclipse glasses. He said, "I'm not sure these are real" and the seller says "Well, I've sold 300 of them" (in that day alone). After my dad talked to them, they left
but if they'd been doing that multiple days, i mean - think how many people could've bought bad glasses. they could go blind!
 
But I mean like if I were to introduce students to American works of literature it would not be O'Henry. It would be Poe with probability 0.9.
He is a massively influencial American writer whose more or less every short story is literally representative of his larger mass of work.
 
you like Poe? O'Henry is much better @BalarkaSen - more interesting, less creepy.
 
"better"
OK.
 
Anonymous
6:09 PM
@BalarkaSen I'd say it is teaching (basic) vocabulary and usage of sentences. Most students are not interested in literature anyway. Those who are, read a lot of books by themselves.
 
::shrugs:: I like him better, anyway.
 
I have nothing to comment on personal tastes. That's fine.
 
i don't know; i've read the raven and the tell-tale heart in english and found them both quite creepy, and not particularly good writing. i do want to read the gold bug, though.
i like O'Henry's surprise endings.
 
I do not know why one would dismiss a writer's work based on them being creepy. Sounds pretty sad.
 
Anonymous
@heather Same here
 
6:10 PM
But again, I have nothing to comment on that.
 
Anonymous
I really liked Gift Of the Magi by O'Henry
 
Gold bug is a good story, but not his major work. A Holmes story was ripped off from that one, by the way :P
 
Anonymous
And, even the one I'm currently reading.
 
Dupin is an interesting character.
 
@Blue Well, in my experience, most students aren't interested in math, either. We teach it to them nevertheless.
 
6:12 PM
@Blue yes! that's an amazing story.
 
Anonymous
@ACuriousMind Heh. High school level maths is ridiculously easy for someone who likes math and has been working on it for a long time. It's just the basics as I said.
 
Anonymous
Yes, we teach them the basics. Students are supposed to pursue their own interests in their free time.
 
@Blue Sure. My point is that maybe the aim is to teach them something about literature - and not "vocabulary and usage of sentences" - regardless of their interest in being taught about it.
 
Anonymous
@ACuriousMind Huh. "maybe the aim is to teach them something about literature" - I'm not quite sure about that. Perhaps it depends a lot on who is teaching.
 
Anonymous
Obviously it acts as an introduction to literature.
 
6:15 PM
Of course I have no experience or insight at all into the Indian school system specifically
 
well, in the U.S. school system, english is really a couple of books with a lot of emphasis on how to read/write (sort of, because i haven't been taught any formal grammar, as @ACuriousMind can testify) - it certainly isn't about teaching an appreciation of literature, or if it is, they do a terrible job.
 
Anonymous
Anyway, I was lucky to have good English teachers in school. I did like reading novels and stories back then.
 
i think the best year of english i had was 7th grade - our teacher was amazing.
 
Anonymous
@heather We were taught formal grammar, but I never found it interesting. :P
 
Anonymous
My interest in English is limited to reading good stories/novels/poems/dramas.
 
6:21 PM
what's your favorite genre?
 
Anonymous
comedy :D
 
@Blue I find grammar very interesting, but then again I'm the sort of guy who enjoyed learning dead languages :P
 
Anonymous
@ACuriousMind That's typical for AIs :'D
 
I wouldn't know. ::whistles innocently::
 
@Blue have you read much sci-fi?
(Asimov, Clarke, and Verne in particular)
 
Anonymous
6:25 PM
@heather I am ashamed to say, but I have read a hell lot of pop-sci books rather than sci-fi books. :P
 
Anonymous
George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard. The book was followed by four sequels, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt in 2009, George and the Big Bang in 2011, George and the Unbreakable Code in 2014 and George and the Blue Moon in 2016. It is intended for readers aged 9 and up. == Synopsis == The main characters in the book are Susan, Ringo, George, Eric, Annie, Dr. Reeper, and Cosmos, the world's most powerful computer. Cosmos can draw windows allowing people to look into outer space, as well as doors which act as portals...
 
@Blue i have as well =P
 
Anonymous
This is perhaps the only sci-fi book I completely read
 
okay, you should read Asimov's short stories
they're amazing.
 
@Blue That's pop-sci, not sci-fi.
 
Anonymous
6:27 PM
@ACuriousMind Uh, but it is written in form of a story
 
Anonymous
Does that get classified as pop-sci ?
 
That does not make it science fiction. Science fiction does not mean "science inside of fiction", it means something like "fiction about a future/alternate reality where science is considerably more advanced and/or works differently"
 
Anonymous
I thought stuff like Brief History of Time, the books by Michio Kaku, Smolin Lee, etc...are called pop-sci books
 
Anonymous
@ACuriousMind Oh, I see
 
Anonymous
Clearly, I haven't read sci-fi then
 
6:29 PM
And most sci-fi - except the very "hard" end of the spectrum - isn't really about science at all except as a vehicle to drive the plot
 
where would asimov fall on the spectrum you think @ACuriousMind? probably the harder end?
 
Verne is good
 
@heather I'd say Asimov is soft - nothing I've read by him seems concerned with the actual scientific plausibility of the fiction, and elaborate descriptions of the tech are also not common.
 
I have only read the classics in sci-fi. (Verne/Wells/...)
Oh yeah no hard science fiction from my side
 
verne is good.
 
6:34 PM
True hard sci-fi is very rare - my main example would be Greg Egan, who writes stuff like a physically accurate description of a society living inside an asteriod orbiting a black hole
 
Hard science fiction are really, really technical.
 
Anonymous
BTW, the only math "pop-sci" type book I had read was "One, Two, Three,...Infinity" by Gamow. It was really enjoyable. :)
 
Sid
George Gamow?
 
Anonymous
Yup
 
@ACuriousMind I guess you don't watch movies but there's this 2004 movie "Primer" you may like. One of the first things I want to do is to watch it after 22nd.
 
6:36 PM
@BalarkaSen Why do you guess I don't watch movies? (True, I mostly watch series, but still)
 
Apparently it's hard science fiction which has gained a cult following. Bonus: It's directed by a math major. :P
@ACuriousMind Oh you told me that when I suggested Tarkovsky
 
Ah, I think I remember that
 
This guy Dolan Darker is a meme god
He's the most fresh right now
 
7:28 PM
o/
That stuff is kinda funny, I have to admit @Balarka. Didn't know about it before.
 
@ACuriousMind I always got the feeling that Asimov wasn't concerned about the details of how stuff 'worked' but only only broke important rules by intent.
@Blue That's getting to be quite an old book, but it holds up surprisingly well.
I love the treatment of Cantor's diagonal slice argument.
It's so clear even an smartypants grade-schooler can follow it.
 
Hey guys. I have a very general question. I know using chi-squared minimization one can fit some data. What are some other techniques for fitting data?! (Or just what does this topic call?!)
 
@Kiarash The topic is "minimization", "optimization" or "fitting" depending on the source.
In particle physics "log likelihood" is a very common alternative to chi-squared.
 
@dmckee Yup! that's what I meant. Thanks
 
Anonymous
@dmckee Yeah, exactly. I loved the way he made such hi-fi sounding stuff so simple to understand (even for laymen). I read in when I was in grade 9 or 10 I think. But well, I've forgotten a lot of it. Perhaps I'll go through the book again, someday. :)
 
Anonymous
7:47 PM
Uh oh, I think hi-fi has a different meaning internationally. I should have said high-level instead.
 
7:58 PM
just a quickie question... $\epsilon_{ijk}a_jb_kd_i$ is equal to $\vec d\cdot(\vec a\times \vec b)$, right?
 
@CooperCape yes
 
thanks :)
 
Anonymous
That's the Levi Civita symbol, right?
 
Anonymous
@CooperCape
 
yeah it is]
 
Anonymous
8:00 PM
Thanks
 
Anonymous
I had read that notation before, somewhere
 
I can't say I know much about it but $\epsilon_{ijk}$are the components of the Levi-Civita Pseudo-tensor if that helps?
 
Anonymous
In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra, tensor analysis, and differential geometry, the Levi-Civita symbol represents a collection of numbers; defined from the sign of a permutation of the natural numbers 1, 2, …, n, for some positive integer n. It is named after the Italian mathematician and physicist Tullio Levi-Civita. Other names include the permutation symbol, antisymmetric symbol, or alternating symbol, which refer to its antisymmetric property and definition in terms of permutations. The standard letters to denote the Levi-Civita symbol are the Greek lower case epsilon ε or ϵ, or...
 
Anonymous
It's okay. I found it. :)
 
these symbols are trash of the highest kind
@Danu Jake Paul is a massive meme inspiration at this point. Trending hot.
 
8:05 PM
Pressure on the work-front is forcing me to give up my plans to travel for the eclipse, but I will be using a 8" telescope as a projection device from the lawn at school where we'll see about 95% coverage.
 
@BalarkaSen No idea who that is though... I don't follow this kind of... celebrity gossip?
 
I tested the procedure yesterday and was able to image the sun about 12" across in enough detail to see sun-spots despite it being near the minimum of the sun-spot cycle.
 
@Danu Me neither but this guy from Disney decided to write and sing a song about how much youtube subscribers he has and the internet exploded on him.
It's a super shit song. Shit of the highest kind.
Called, "It's Everyday Bro". If you want to spend your time doing shit I can recommend some rave reviews by top youtubers. Quality stuff.
 
Aug 10 at 19:33, by ACuriousMind
Until you mentioned him a few days ago, I literally had never heard of this Jake Pauler
High five for living under the same rock, @Danu!
 
He is technically not really a celebrity. His fan base is limited to 12-16 year olds.
And the memers.
 
Anonymous
8:12 PM
Any idea what the word uchkin means here? Sounds like a Sanskrit word...Can't find it on Google.
 
Anonymous
Perhaps something like a coat
 
8:32 PM
He's one of the people who came from the Vine exodus
Vine died so they flooded Youtube with their filth
 
@ACuriousMind Nice
 
@Phase It would be fun if that happens with the BGmedia
 
England is my city.
 
Roses are red, charcoals are black, what do I do if the haters dab back?
 
If photons are shifted by the expansion of the universe, does GR still conserve energy locally?
If the haters dab back then it makes you the hater
Who wants to read some utter nonsense I just saw in my FB feed
"Strings and branes at the quantum level are essentially transducers that convert waves of energy rippling through space into matter. Our brains are natural transducers that harness and convert the conscious field into sentience. Our bodies are natural transducers that harness organic compounds and convert them into energy. Mind in combination with body creates a transducer that converts perception into interaction.
All things are but transducers of energy and dimension."
 
8:48 PM
@BalarkaSen Can I make sense out of Euler classes for principal bundles of arbitrary compact, simple Lie groups?
For the classical groups $SU(n)$, $SO(n)$, $Sp(n)$, I can associate vector bundles via the defining representation... The exceptional ones... as well I guess? But the way of defining them is not as "canonical" for those.
 
@Phase What does it mean to "conserve energy locally", and why would it care about the redshift of photons?
 
@Danu You asked me that a while ago, right? I don't really know the answer.
 
Sorta
I'm just trying to cover all bases in seeing if this guy's claims are total bogus or not
 
@Phase You could've waited for me to "No, I don't want to read that" ;P
 
@Danu You could heads up the guy by asking him up front what Euler class of a principal bundle means
I don't know what it means, nor do I know why it should mean anything
 
8:56 PM
@ACuriousMind wouldn't the photon lose energy as it's shifted? Where does that energy go?
 
@Phase It goes...nowhere. Energy is not conserved in the ordinary sense in an FLRW universe.
 
So energy isn't conserved in GR?
Or is it just that energy conservation isnt a well defined thing
 
It's...a bit of a murky question
Usually, we sort-of implicitly define energy as the quantity associated to time translation symmetry through Noether's theorem
FLRW universes have no time-translation symmetry, hence this notion of energy is not conserved in them.
 
FLRW? and is that because it's expanding?
 
But the thing called "stress-energy tensor" is a "covariantly conserved current", and there's a funny thing called the "Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor" that you can add to it to make it a "conserved current" in the ordinary sense.
@Phase FLRW, and yes, it's basically because it's expanding.
 
9:06 PM
You lost me but I guess I'll be able to get it in time
Also
"[My name], you're an arrogant asshat. Do your research. Universal expansion is an undulating wave through the 2D surface of space. Maybe spend less time being annoying on the internet and a little more time studying holographic principle and basic thermodynamics.
All energy is being carried from the center of the universe in waves, you dolt. It's called a fucking particle wave."
a response from the guy I cited above
 
Anonymous
@Phase Whaaaaat. O_o
 
@ACuriousMind one more stupid question
Nevermind
in writing it out I answered it
 
@Phase yeah, you silly irritating little phase, getcho physics right
It's all about expanding timelessly in a quantum particle physics box, which warps and produces energy-momentum.
 
exactly
 
I just realized how hard it is to say quality nonsense for a sensible person.
Just dab on that guy and send him a mathgen paper
My mathgen produced an article which has this little gem in the bibliography:
"[7] Y. Dirichlet, X. Kelvin, and S. Einstein. Potential Theory. De Gruyter, 2000."
Makes me want to read that.
"[6] U. Desargues. Countably reducible sets of sub-reversible, geometric, finitely orthogonal equations and uniqueness. Journal of Number Theory, 78:154–194, October 2010."
Holy shhh
 
9:35 PM
@BalarkaSen you like PDE now?
 
No, just that Xenophilius Kelvin intrigues me.
So does Yves Dirichlet.
 

« first day (2481 days earlier)      last day (2455 days later) »