The latest edit I could have seen being declared off-topic because it is even more ranty than what was there before, but I'm rather interested what the reaction to KyleKanos' rollback will be
Extending Gaurav's statement, Ron's own words: That's not what I signed up for. I have refrained from advertising the site further, and I think it's time to call the experiment a failure.
Personally, I was never impressed by PO's site structure which they claimed to be was more democratic than ours. Ironically, their's is a sock puppet democracy where essentially three members claim to be the patriarch and others just play second fiddle no matter how hard they try.
It seems they're getting the taste of their own medicine now.
Their UI was a little poor in my mind, but I do like how you can see the upvotes & downvotes without extra clicking like here on SE (and after reaching some rep threshold)
@KyleKanos From there, too: "The story here is essentially the same policy as anywhere, with different people on top." That's a late realization of how human interaction works anywhere in the world, but good for him.
@ACuriousMind PO is a monarchy. And in a monarchy, no matter how good the intentions of the founders might be, it's bound to fall someday. We've seen that throughout history haven't we?
@Gaurav Well, with the moderators' power here, every SE is an oligarchy, too. We just trust them to be nice people. The difference is that we (or rather, some people in the past) elected them, however.
@KyleKanos Heh. That user has a very particular view of "geometry" and "distances", and often tries to recast relativity in the form of "metrics on sets". They seem uncomfortable with the assumption that we can model the real world by the continuum, and try to retreat to the case where we only have distinct, discrete points of measurement. It is indeed a "valid" research program, and certainly quite involved mathematics, if it is at all possible.
If the notation were explained, I think this is the kind of non-mainstream discussion PO indeed allows.
@ACuriousMind Yeah, so it makes ours a democracy. I don't know whether they're gonna change for good or just die out. Initially, I felt it was a good idea with paper reviewing and all, but then I'm realising now that the founders' principles are themselves not concrete. I never understood what Ron actually wanted, how many ever threads I read related to the whole incident.
:) But then I never actually read what Ron himself wrote, just other people describing what sort of a guy he was. The mods deleted all his offensive threads or something ?
@KyleKanos If the client has not been notified that the question was closed when it sends the answer, the server will accept the answer regardless of the current question status.
@Gaurav Yep. Some traces remain on meta, but the most inflammatory comments are gone for good, I think.
@Gaurav 1.3 answers per day is my average. I'm a student without much to do during the week, whenever I'm sitting at home not feeling like playing video games, I'm here ;)
@KyleKanos : I saw that you put this question on hold. This was expected, it belongs to mathematics. Just for you to know, the function of whose Fourier transform he asked is akin to the Breit-Wigner formula. It's not the same, but they are related - I won't get into details here. I am just asking, will he see my solution? It makes sense to ask about Fourier transforms of such functions.
@Sofia Yes, I put the question on hold because it's a pure math question (devoid of any physics) and should migrated there. Assuming the Questioner comes back , he/she will indeed see your post
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Sure, but the "Commented [timestamp]" under it is what bugs me
Everything we post on SE is creative commons, I can't stop anybody from taking the text and linking to the source. But it does go an extra step of also making it look like it's their content as well
How do they actually migrate posts from p.se to PO? Do they rely on some members within the se community or do they send probes to detect migrate-able questions ?
You know, I wondered why Lubos stopped allowing comments on his blog posts, but reading this has enlightened me as to a possible reason why it was done
Did a google search, and just found out that Lubos is actually a celebrity ! Sad to see that he and that other Nobel laureate left because of some misguided opinions..
@Kylekanos It's not exactly written that he actually helped in setting it up in the history page, but as I said I assumed that he was actually abetting the cause of PO by allowing these guys a free run on his blog.
@KyleKanos wow, this is way better than a soap opera!
@Sofia did you know that on SE sites it is okay to answer your own question (e.g. [this post on meta.se](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17845/276202) and [this blog entry](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/))? Please don't see this as a critique, I say this because I think it's kind of a waste to leave [good material](http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/161618/58382) on to be closed and possibly migrated questions who will hardly be found by others (if you don't provide the link yourself)
given that I took the links from the "share" of the questions they didn't have the http (and I took more than the editable-comment-time to figure it out)
it's weird though, on the site it works fine either way
I was reading Maxwell's paper titled A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. In part 2, section 3 ("Dynamical Illustration of Reduced Momentum"), Maxwell discusses a mechanical illustration for reduced momentum:
What is Maxwell trying to convey in this section?
hi TA read about QM bio conjectures long ago re penrose/ neuron microtubules & have been interested since then. have been interested in soliton theory for a long time, blogged about it over 2yr ago. no, have not written on qm bio previously. (& admit its just an offhand aside in that current post.)
@alarge those aren't pauli matrices, they are creation and annhilation operators...
@alarge I'll try.. let's see...$$\ \epsilon_1 \sigma^+_1\sigma^-_1 + \epsilon_2 \sigma^+_2\sigma^-_2 + \sum^2_{i\neq j} V_{ij} \sigma^+_i \sigma^-_j $$ the second term I am not sure how to expand..
That's the question, and I hope you answer.
I was reading Maxwell's paper titled A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. In part 2, section 3 ("Dynamical Illustration of Reduced Momentum"), Maxwell discusses a mechanical illustration for reduced momentum:
What is Maxwell trying to convey in this section?
