@ACuriousMind Have a look at the contents if you can---I think it's a really in-depth treatment of all the stuff behind (and beyond?) characteristic classes etc.
as in, it's not fun for people IRL most of the time because they either cannot distinguish the sounds of the words from the "expected ones", or are so surprised that they don't understand what you're saying
All the derivations of the Schwinger-Dyson equation I can find are done using either the path integral formalism, or for the oldest papers, Schwinger's own quantum action principle formalism, which, while it resembles the Heisenberg formalism, assumes that the operator derived in the process is a...
@JohnDuffield If you think this chat room is a disgrace, then stop visiting it and let us be disgraceful all we like. You don't get to barge into other peoples' communities and tell them how to behave.
Also, note that unreasonable flagging is (potential) reason for a ban @JohnDuffield.
If you've got a problem with the typical conversations going on in this room, tough. Just leave if you don't like it. Nobody is trying to force you to stay here.
@Danu : read that dialogue, it's offensive, it brings Physics Stack Exchange into disrepute. Any professional scientist reading that is going to run a mile.
@Danu : I'm not spam-flagging. I'm flagging sneering offensive posts containing word likes f*ck. If you're going to complain about such flagging instead of doing your job as a moderator, well, maybe name isn't going to be in blue much longer.
@Danu : well excuse me, but it surely isn't inappropriate to flag up foul offensive sneering language that results in newcomers to this chatroom recoiling in horror. N'est pas? @David Z : what say ye?
@HDE226868 : if Danu has no responsibilities here and is under no obligation to do anything about any of my flags, are you? Because if you are and you're giving a free pass to all this offensive crap that's bringing physics into disrepute, then step aside, and I'll be the moderator.
From The 7 Essential Questions of Every Beta:
Discussing the criteria of a great moderator is important and picking out potential candidates is a great way to introduce outstanding contributors to your community.
and from the Moderator Pro Tempore blog page:
If your meta site does not h...
@JohnDuffield All due respect? You wouldn't be a good mod with that attitude. Look, excess flagging and complaining is disrupting the chat, so you should stop.
@Daniel Sank : what I mean by that, is that when an electron falls down, gravity converts internal kinetic energy aka rest-mass energy aka potential energy into external kinetic energy. If you don't know what I mean by that, go look at pair production and Compton scattering, and if need be ask a question and I will answer it.
So back to my story. The daughter had been in the counting house when the beam steering went wonky, the beam scraped aperture, and the beam stop radiation monitors tripped and crash the accelerator. Our Dutch group leader was also in the room and he has a lyrical talent in the swearing department.
@dmckee : I refer to Einstein, and conservation of energy, and gravity is not a force in the Newtonian sense, and the mass deficit. And that 1kg brick dropped into the black hole. And the mass increase is?
@obe It's annoying. And leaves a permanent stain on your record, which makes some mods less well-disposed to you if they have some dealing with you. Not something you want, believe me.
@DanielSank Alas all the Russians I've spent time with were either not big swearers or we're restraining themselves around students and other delicate creatures.
@0celo7 It was discussed in the Physics mod chat. If you want my take on it in detail, I'll tell you in the chat room DavidZ opened about the suspension.
From The 7 Essential Questions of Every Beta:
Discussing the criteria of a great moderator is important and picking out potential candidates is a great way to introduce outstanding contributors to your community.
and from the Moderator Pro Tempore blog page:
If your meta site does not h...
