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8:19 AM
@holahola haha yeah. Some of my friends call $\hbar$ as h-cut for some reason.
 
9:15 AM
@Charlie No
It's something that generates the field
That we do not specify
usually something too complex to be described by a field theory
ie if your EM field is generated by an antenna, it's not a good idea to try to model every particle of the antenna
so you just write a function that describes the emission of that antenna
In QFT the source term is usually used more for mathematical reasons, since the term is $J \phi$
which means that a functional derivative wrt $J$ gives you $\phi$, which is practical to have
 
 
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11:24 AM
Ok I see thanks @Slereah
 
11:46 AM
A simple example is that the charge density can be a source term
the charge interaction term is $- ie j_\mu A^\mu$
This can be interpreted either as a given charge density, or you can express it as being another field, such as the fermionic charge $\bar \psi \gamma_\mu \psi$
 
 
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1:27 PM
but of course, when you consider the charge density from a real world current, you usually don't model it as fermionic currents
it's much more complicated
 
2:07 PM
Don't ask me what I'm doing...
cuz I have no idea :D
Fed a GAN 500 images of chess pieces hoping that it would produce new unexisting chess pieces but I think 500 images are not enough.
 
 
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5:06 PM
In calculating a Greens function, going from k-space to realspace, I encountered a sum, but how would I go about evaluating the sum? It seems pretty standard www5b.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/…
 
5:22 PM
$\sum_n{\frac{e^\frac{2\pi i n}{N}}{n}}$
where n goes from 1 to N
 
@B.Brekke that doesn't seem too much standard
 
5:44 PM
@JohanLiebert Hi, I am Dr. Kenzo Tenma.
 
@RajdeepSindhu wanna, kill me? Lol!
 
@JohanLiebert I saved your life, bro.
@JohanLiebert I'll leave that to Anna.
:)
 
@RajdeepSindhu Well, I'm a psycopath. I don't care.
 
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@JohanLiebert Why didn't you kill me when I was with Mr. Junkers, then?
 
5:46 PM
@PhysicsMeta I just read it as amine.
@RajdeepSindhu You never know what a psycopath thinks.
 
@JohanLiebert Fun talking to you, see you later :)
@JohanLiebert :/
 
@RajdeepSindhu Bye.
 
@JohanLiebert Bye
 
BTW, I really loved the character of Johan (more than that of Kenzo). And second best character (at least for me, tough to judge) is that of Inspector Lunge.
 
 
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9:14 PM
@JingleBells This is clearly summoning some kind of demon, please cease and desist
 
I, for one, welcome our new demon overlords
I'm not sure demon summoning even registers as a headline in 2020
 
9:40 PM
spooky stuff
:-)
 

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