did you make the ipho?

@0537 Yeah, I was at ipho this year haha

you were 1 away from silver.

@0537 were you are ipho?

no lol.

I wish =/

@Huy are you joking?

@vzn why

Do we know magnetic field lines don't exist? Or is that predicated on the assumption that magnetic monopoles don't exist?

@0celo7 ^

@StanShunpike magnetic field lines? Integral curves of the magnetic field?

@yuggib it's not there in the shopping cart for me :/

And I have no clue what to do

@0537 what?

@JoshuaLin He always skirts the issue and brings in one of the following: inhomogeneous space, Breit-Wheeler, Einstein-de Haas, "quantum mechanics surpasseth all human understanding," some random Einstein quote, "you're not smarter than Einstein," "there is not motion in spacetime," "you're mixing up curved space and curved spacetime"

He provides crap answers, simple as that. Maybe he has some good ones here and there, but the vast majority are simply not good or even classify as "not answers."

but you are not smarter than Einstein @0celo7

he's right !

If Einstein is so smart howcomehe died

what is smartness anyway

"Why don't they use springs as an energy source for cell phones?"

Crank up the phone!

@0celo7 : I never skirt the issue. I give solid answers with robust references, only you ignore it all because you think you're smarter than Einstein. But in truth your ignorance is only exceeded by your arrogance.

@JoshuaLin : I get downvoted so much because I give solid answers with robust references.

By people like FenderlesPaul who has answered one question since August.

Merry Christmas everybody.

@0celo7 Then I don't know...for me the price is automatically set to the one for members

maybe you should write to them for support

@yuggib or call

@JohnDuffield lol

@0celo7 : LOL yourself, here you are saying you're smarter than Einstein. Here's another example: "What was his IQ? 160? I'm much smarter than him. Much smarter. So he's wrong. There you go." Which is why when I tell you about GR and give references to back it up, you airily dismiss 'em. An 18-year-old kid who thinks he knows better than Einstein. Sigh.

@0celo7 give it a rest. You should stay away from this issue.

I think I'm dumber than Hilbert.

@Huy why

pretty sure you're a genius

well I'm dumb.

perhaps, why?

can you prove that a compact metric space is complete

@Danu Exercise: Calculate the Gauss curvature of the Munich 2-manifold:

@0celo7: is that Olympiapark

Yes.

better go see Allianz Arena

No time. Also don't care about that sport.

Brb leaving for dinner

nub

No u

I wonder what the equation for that surface is

hi

Finally home

Tho not for long

I must go to part-ay for the new year soon

Off-topic?

@Slereah tho it's in a few days. =|

Yeah

Leaving on the 30th

Does anyone have a link to the paper where the King Model of globular clusters was introduced? I think it's from 1966, based on fleeting references I've seen, and I've found earlier work by King, but I don't think those latter papers are the same.

Hi, I'm trying to understand Knuth's Up Arrow Notation

Would 3↑↑↑3 be equal to the 3rd pentation of 3?

@SirCumference I'd be surprised if anyone here knew about that

Sigh...

@SirCumference the. wikipedia explanantion seems quite straightforward...what's bothering you?

Would 3↑↑↑3 be equal to the 3rd pentation of 3?

i need to clarify

and would 3↑↑↑↑3 be equal to the 3rd hexation of 3?

yes, even if the names are even worse than the notation @_@

okay, so i understand it all now...

now i think i can grasp some huge numbers

okay, how about chained arrow notation?

what is $3↑^↑3$

or $3\mathrm{e}^{↑}3$

holy...

the first one blew my mind

dunno if it's a thing though

I think the second one is infinite

I think that huge numbers are not so huge :-P

@yuggib "Almost all positive numbers are very, very, very large" -Frivolous Theorem

Love that

@Huy I saw the stadium

bravo

thought you had no time for it

liar

@Huy I saw it while driving to a restaurant for dinner

I didn't go near it

I saw the red lights from the autobahn

@0celo7: those lights can even be seen from Austria

hai