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alarge
alarge
12:03 AM
@TanMath No, what you've done is to say I have Lindblad equation here and I want to drop down this Hamiltonian in it and I expect to get this and this as the output. You then use a solver made by someone else, write your matrix in it and ask why it is not giving you the output you expected. There's nothing physical going on here. Or mathematical. This is simply a programming exercise in reading documentation of the library you wish to use.
 
HDE 226868
HDE 226868
@no_choice99 That has an upvoted answer, so the Community bot wouldn't have bumped it. I would think that an answer was posted today, then deleted. It shows up as having activity by a user, but that user doesn't have a(n) (undeleted) answer to the question. Methinks deletion is afoot.
 
TanMath
TanMath
^ i agree
 
dmckee
dmckee
@HDE226868 I can confirm that there was activity that is now only visible to mods and 10k users.
 
HDE 226868
HDE 226868
@dmckee Gracias.
 
0celo7
0celo7
So you're a Mexican British Canadian
@HDE226868 let me guess, you're also Japanese and Swahili
With some Cherokee
 
0537
0537
12:16 AM
My cat died, he was only 3 years old. =(
 
TanMath
TanMath
@0537 I am so sorry... it is sad when your cat passes away... I have experienced it too...
@0537 think about getting a new cat a couple of months from now... I bet he/she will continue to brighten your day...
 
0537
0537
It won't be the same. =(
I don't think I will.
I think I posted a picture of him a few months ago.
 
TanMath
TanMath
@0537 but the sorrow will be masked at least...
 
dmckee
dmckee
@0537 It certainly won't be the same, but it can be as good again. Just different.
My better half and I have been ready to get a new pet for some months now, but we're waiting until there is no travel scheduled.
 
0537
0537
=(
 
TanMath
TanMath
12:23 AM
@0537 soo cute!
@DanielSank according to my friends in code review, this is not what I should be doing at least for this project...
 
0537
0537
I don't know why he died. It was like some badly placed kidney stone according to the doctor.
 
TanMath
TanMath
oh.. so @DanielSank is here...
I just wish MM was here instead...
 
0celo7
0celo7
Finally home.
 
alarge
alarge
12:42 AM
@TanMath Well then you understand that there is little that anyone here can do to help you. Go read the documentation, get correct results for some simpler 2x2 harmonic oscillator or whatever, and then try to get your Hamiltonian to work. There's no shortcut here, and you should stop trying to wait and see if someone will provide you one by solving your entire problem.
 
TanMath
TanMath
@alarge huh?
 
alarge
alarge
@0537 I was probably around your age when my dog died. I'm very sorry. I never did want to get a new dog after the loss.
 
0celo7
0celo7
@alarge My dad was that way for 40 years until our current dog
 
TanMath
TanMath
12:59 AM
@alarge I think it is a problem with the physics and that is final....
I must have messed something up with the model...
 
DanielSank
DanielSank
1:17 AM
@TanMath Thanks a lot.
Who are your "friends in code review"?
 
TanMath
TanMath
@DanielSank Quill, Phrancis, and holroy...
@DanielSank what to do... I am getting little support here... maybe I shouldn't have had the "instead" at the end...
Oh... and just for the sake of saying...the plot I currently get looks like the site 3 population plot without loss and trapping...
 
ACuriousMind
ACuriousMind
@TanMath You know, you're "getting little support" here because you act as if you're entitled to it, and you never really give the people who try to help you what they are asking for, but instead just ask another question, or say they don't understand.
You would do well to remember that you are asking for help from people who have no obligation at all to help you.
 
TanMath
TanMath
@ACuriousMind i do not understand... I have asked the question, yet people are telling me to do stuff that does not even matter...
For example, what is the big deal about PEP8 here? if it is such a big deal, I will fix it later...
 
ACuriousMind
ACuriousMind
@TanMath People told you to test your code. And you mostly reply by "it's not the code" without indicating what you have done to ensure that.
 
0celo7
0celo7
1:45 AM
@TanMath lol
 
DanielSank
DanielSank
@TanMath You ask people for help. Several of them tell you that they will help you if you clean up your code and test it. Now you come back several days later, without doing what the people asked you to do, and you're wondering why you get "little support".
Even if you have no idea why PEP8 matters you should do it because the people who are able to help you asked you to do it.
You should understand that you do not know what matters and what does not matter.
I think you might want to regard our suggestions and requests with more faith that they are designed to help you, whether you understand how they help you or not.
@TanMath Unless you fix up your code to adhere to the PEP8 style guide, I will no longer respond to any chat messages about this issue.
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I hope @MarkMitchison will do the same and refrain from handing you the solution to your problem, as I think it would produce an undesireable result in this case.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
2:09 AM
@0537 that's a smart cat
 
0537
0537
@FenderLesPaul Well it's a dead cat now.
 
 
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FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
3:23 AM
@0537 :(
 
Slereah
Slereah
A dude on a physics chat says he published this paper
On vixra
Quite amusing
 
dmckee
dmckee
Why link to the PDF? The abstract page is nicer: vixra.org/abs/1601.0082
But either way it's a riot.
 
GBeau
GBeau
I was double charged my physics PhD application fee by a graduate school :<
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
that sucks
threaten to sue them if they don't accept you
 
user54412
and then break their knee caps in a back alley to drive home the lesson
 
GBeau
GBeau
3:26 AM
Can I have "things I wish I didn't have to email a potential graduate school about" for 200, Alex
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
better than having to email them explaining why you uploaded your manifesto instead of SoP
what are you applying for?
 
GBeau
GBeau
HEP-Exp
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
ah ok
best of luck!
 
GBeau
GBeau
thanks
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
do you have like a dream school?
a school of dreams
 
GBeau
GBeau
3:29 AM
I didn't apply to it
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
oh
holy shit that reminds me I still have one application left
 
GBeau
GBeau
It's far too late to second guess myself at this point, though
what school?
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
stupid winter break
penn state
 
GBeau
GBeau
I have one application left
Stony Brook is due the 15th
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
That reminds me I still have two left
 
user54412
3:31 AM
::scratches head:: did I forget an application?
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
one due in two days
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
there are applications due on Jan 12?
that's screwy
 
GBeau
GBeau
I have a .txt of notes for schools
since I applied to 11
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
I heard UCSB starts emailing people late January
that's terrifying
 
GBeau
GBeau
yeah but they reject everybody ;)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
3:32 AM
they don't even give you a chance to enjoy the start of school
 
GBeau
GBeau
I just want to know
but only if the answer is yes, otherwise they can think about it some more ;)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
they're just like "welp here's a crappy start to your last semester of college courtesy of us"
 
GBeau
GBeau
what are you taking
I'm taking Quantum 2, a math grad course, cryptography, and I'm writing a math thesis and a physics thesis
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
I don't think I'm going to take any classes; Cornell has a policy where seniors only need 8 credits to be in academic standing so I'm just using my two research groups to get 4 credits from each
 
GBeau
GBeau
grad course is basically graduate calculus analysis 2
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
3:34 AM
that way I can just focus on research
 
GBeau
GBeau
nice
luckily I got a lot of my thesis stuff done already so I'm mostly just writing
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
write like there's no tomorrow
cryptography sounds dope
 
GBeau
GBeau
yeah it's taught as a senior math course
I needed one more senior math course to finish my math BS, and that course is taught by my thesis advisor for math
plus it looked way better than some of the alternatives, none of which were otherwise relevant to physics
it should be fun
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
sounds fun
hope that goes well
do you happen to know when UChicago or Caltech send out their first round of acceptances?
 
GBeau
GBeau
what's your top choice from what you applied to
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
3:38 AM
@TanMath Just fix the code, use autopep8 if you have to but make it bloody PEP-8 compliant.
 
GBeau
GBeau
nope
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
UChicago
 
GBeau
GBeau
good school
 
dmckee
dmckee
@GBeau If you've ever lived there you know why the have an overabundance of applicants.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
good school indeed
 
dmckee
dmckee
3:39 AM
Sadly the only one of my peers from undergraduate days that has managed to stay in town in the guy who had financial trouble and never graduated.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
If I get into UChicago I will sacrifice a goat to the gods
 
GBeau
GBeau
@dmckee I heard they have free ice cream ;)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
ice creaaam
 
dmckee
dmckee
They have ~330 sunny days a year and weather that rarely gets over 90 or under 45 F.
 
user54412
@FenderLesPaul so that's why you applied to penn state? :p
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
3:41 AM
sigh why are applications such a bummer to fill
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
@ChrisWhite haha
 
dmckee
dmckee
I used to go swimming in February so I could go home for spring break wth my tan already in place.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
@ChrisWhite goats for everyone!
 
GBeau
GBeau
I currently go to a school in a small college town, so I almost exclusively applied to graduate schools in inner cities (because that is where I would like to live for the next...6 years?)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
@BernardMeurer Did you apply to MIT?
 
dmckee
dmckee
3:42 AM
@GBeau In HEP experiment? Could be 7 or 8 all too easily. I was slightly over 9 and I knew people who took even longer than that.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
They have the most hipster application I've seen
 
user54412
@dmckee Great. Now I'm nostalgic for socal.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@FenderLesPaul I don't have the brains for that. Top school I applied to was Berkeley
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
it looks like it was made in 2001
 
dmckee
dmckee
I knew a couple of people who got out in 6, but it takes luck as well as interlligence.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
3:43 AM
dude Berkeley's application is even more hardcore
they're the only school I know that makes you list a separate GPA for grad courses
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Meh, I thought it was alrighty, specially me being a foreign
I'm undergrad as well
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
even Harvard just asks for a small list of your most advanced classes
 
dmckee
dmckee
Your experiment/data has to come up at just the right time and you have to have relatively few unexpected snags.
 
user54412
^ I remember calculating a different GPA for each school.
 
GBeau
GBeau
@dmckee Yeaaaaahhhhhh....
 
user54412
3:44 AM
turns out my physics GPA was a lot less impressive than my overall GPA
 
GBeau
GBeau
I have, by some miracle, maintained a no-calculations-necessary GPA
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
Yeah but you went to caltech
so your GPA has to be scaled to be compared with every other school's GPA
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
GPA's are a bummer, the brazilian grading system is a total chaos
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
I feel like caltech shouldn't have a GPA
 
user54412
@FenderLesPaul where everyone slacks off in the required humanities -- perfect grade boosters
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
3:46 AM
it should just have P/F
and when you apply to grad schools there's a separate option that says "I went to caltech"
 
user54412
lawl
 
GBeau
GBeau
When trying to determine likelihood of acceptance for graduate schools when picking where to apply, I essentially viewed my GPA as neutral
 
user54412
I bet y'all are too young to remember the pre- common app days for college
 
user54412
fun times
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
I think mine translated is 3.8 unweighted
 
dmckee
dmckee
3:48 AM
@ChrisWhite Wait. There's a common application? Since when?
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Bloody literature dropped it
 
GBeau
GBeau
@dmckee <<<
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
@dmckee for undergrad applications
 
dmckee
dmckee
@FenderLesPaul Yeah. Since when?
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
idk since when but when I applied for college it was there
and I applied in 2012
it was pretty new around then
not all colleges had it but most did
 
dmckee
dmckee
3:49 AM
Ah. So it happened while I was postdocing. No wonder I didn't notice.
 
user54412
It was phasing in when I was applying ~2006.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
many moons ago
 
user54412
Caltech and Chicago were staunch holdouts -- they prided themselves on the unusual parts of their applications.
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
fuck chicago's undergrad application
with their stupid essay prompts
"Where's Waldo?"
who cares
 
GBeau
GBeau
some graduate schools applications asked...more than others
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
3:52 AM
LOL did you apply to UCLA?
they ask for your sexual orientation
 
GBeau
GBeau
5 questions
about your gender
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
and whether or not you identify as mostly feminine or mostly masculine or something in between
like jeez I just want to apply for grad school
not make a tumblr account
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dmckee
dmckee
@FenderLesPaul I'd be sorely temped to answer that I identify at right angles to the the male/female axis.
 
GBeau
GBeau
I think the most interesting one was Columbia where I read I was to write and upload an essay in Japanese before I read the text that it was only for Japanese pedagogy applicants
The momentary look on my face was presumably amusing
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
@dmckee dude you could've done that and they would've accepted it as valid
 
GBeau
GBeau
3:54 AM
@FenderLesPaul so yes, I applied for UCLA ;)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
anything is valid
other schools were just like
are you a boy or a girl? Ok thanks.
 
GBeau
GBeau
one of them had a fill-in-the-blank, and the other questions had all gender options I could think of, plus a gender option that equated to "other gender", PLUS an additional option of "not applicable"
not applicable was NOT, for example, for agendered options (this was already a choice)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
haha
too good
caltech and uchicago were the only schools that completely fit my desired interest
so I'm looking for a needle in a haystack :p
 
GBeau
GBeau
I would absolutely attend everywhere I applied to
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
boo
 
GBeau
GBeau
4:00 AM
but my top choice is Columbia ;)
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
nice
hope you get in!
 
GBeau
GBeau
thanks
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
NYC is definitely a place
 
GBeau
GBeau
on a side note why does Physics.SE have so many people who don't know what they're talking about arguing
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
human nature or something
 
GBeau
GBeau
4:01 AM
it just seems so much worse than math.se
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
never been on math.se so I can't say
 
GBeau
GBeau
usually I visit Physics.SE, click a question, see a comment patently incorrect with 14 "ups" and lose hope and go back to looking for interesting math.se questions
although you could argue I'm part of the problem (by ignoring what I believe to be incorrect)
 
user54412
Maybe math crackpottery is limited to number theory, whereas physics has crackpots in relativity, cosmology, quantum, perpetual motion, fusion, ...
 
TanMath
TanMath
@DanielSank fine! but why do like PEP8 so much??
 
GBeau
GBeau
@ChrisWhite Heck, if you try hard enough you can find rotational newtonian physics crackpots
 
TanMath
TanMath
4:05 AM
Plus, I have tried it and had problems with the PEP8...
 
GBeau
GBeau
@ChrisWhite en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite "suggested that Newton's laws of motion could not account for the behaviour of gyroscopes and that they could be used as a means of reactionless propulsion" back to math.se :)
 
Slereah
Slereah
Math has a lot of crackpottery when it comes to unsolved problems
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
5:14 AM
ughh
only 2 weeks left before school starts
I can do this
 
Slereah
Slereah
No you can't
Give up
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
:(
 
DanielSank
DanielSank
@TanMath I (and @dmckee, and probably others) already explained that to you. Did you stop reading when we took the time out of our days to type that explanation?
 
knzhou
knzhou
5:39 AM
@TanMath, whenever people run into hard bugs for the first time, they tend to blame anything besides the code itself. I definitely did this, the first few times I spent over 1 hour debugging, but in each case, it turned out to be a dumb mistake in my code.
As programmers get more experience, they learn not to trust themselves, and instead trust tools like unit testing. And also pretty formatting, like PEP8, which makes it easier to catch dumb stuff.
This is why people are suggesting these things to you.
 
dmckee
dmckee
6:01 AM
To echo @knzhou here: every beginning programmer thinks they've found a bug in the compiler or the standard library or some other piece of foundational code at some point.
They haven't.
There is a rule of thumb that it takes ten year to become good at anything worth doing. For programming that might be an understatement.
I've been programming (after a fashion) since 1983. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I have code in ROOT. I have many hundreds of lines of code in large-scale particle physics analysis codes.
I've written a toy compiler, a toy ray tracer, a crappy little break-out clone and a couple of toy Monte Carlos.
I consider myself ready to start learning what the craft of programming really is, instead of the this slipshod, piddly little fooling around I've been doing...
 
0celo7
0celo7
@GBeau I've never seen one that bad
link?
 
Slereah
Slereah
Don't do it @dmckee
Programming is all bullshit
Especially nowadays
 
0celo7
0celo7
Uplay is trying to sell me Fallout 4
maybe I should buy it again
 
Slereah
Slereah
6:17 AM
I've bought some games twice
Mostly when I can't be arsed to make it run
 
0celo7
0celo7
@FenderLesPaul you've got to be kidding
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
what?
 
0celo7
0celo7
@FenderLesPaul there is no what
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
I don't know what's going on
 
0celo7
0celo7
too bad
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
6:26 AM
are you ok
 
0celo7
0celo7
yes
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
good
what are you up to
 
0celo7
0celo7
pirating
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
dope, pirating what
 
0celo7
0celo7
the Carribean
Assassin's Ceed 4
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
6:28 AM
did you know there's going to be an AC movie
 
0celo7
0celo7
it will probably suck
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
also have you played Witcher 3?
it probably will
 
0celo7
0celo7
no my laptop dies when I try to run it
there's some hardware incompatibility
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
eh it's not that great anyways
 
0celo7
0celo7
I'm enjoying AC4
will probably stop after it
it's straining my hardware like crazy
it's not very well optimized
and school starts in two days anyway
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
6:32 AM
lucky
wait is AC4 the sailing one?
 
0celo7
0celo7
@FenderLesPaul since you're not going to answer my light rays question just give me the relevant article titles
@FenderLesPaul yes
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
oh shit
ok read the section in MTW on geometric optics approximation in curved spacetime; it's in chapter 35
it's not just about geometric optics though
it talks about how to do light propagation perturbatively in curved spacetime beyond WKB order
and also talks about what happens at higher order i.e. backscattering and tails
 
0celo7
0celo7
fucking MTW
I checked every other GR book
where is my MTW pdf
 
Slereah
Slereah
They say that quantum gravity is solved somewhere in MTW, but nobody has found it yet
3
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
and references therein
actually read all of that pdf
 
0celo7
0celo7
6:45 AM
ok
I'll answer the question myself eventually
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
mainly just read that last pdf
the tapir one
 
0celo7
0celo7
gravitational waves?
I'm talking about Maxwell waves
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
the idea is the same
almost nothing changes
 
0celo7
0celo7
how do you know
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
A great man once told me
 
0celo7
0celo7
6:48 AM
can't find MTW
have to convert a djvu
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
people who own a copy of MTW are insane
 
0celo7
0celo7
I would own it if I were a relativist
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
or old
 
0celo7
0celo7
my math advisor owns it
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
if you didn't know who the authors were
 
Slereah
Slereah
6:51 AM
I want MTW
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
you'd think the book was written by crazy people
 
Slereah
Slereah
But it's expensive IIRC
 
0celo7
0celo7
like $140?
or more?
 
Slereah
Slereah
MTW is a fine book written by decent people
But it has no organization
It's a mess
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
dude the last page of the book has a wizard on it
 
0celo7
0celo7
6:51 AM
Amazon does not even sell it new
 
Slereah
Slereah
$175 used
$538 new
 
0celo7
0celo7
pic
oh down there
it's 179 for me
 
Slereah
Slereah
You know what has a wizard on the cover?
 
0celo7
0celo7
jesus 200MB
MTW needs to go on a diet
this PDF is too large
@FenderLesPaul dude this is all g wave stuff
 
FenderLesPaul
FenderLesPaul
it's the same formalism
for EM waves
 
0celo7
0celo7
6:56 AM
I have to try to translate it to EM waves
 
John Duffield
John Duffield
7:54 AM
@0celo7 : what Einstein had to say on the matter was "Eine Krümmung der Lichtstrahlen kann nämlich nur dann eintreten, wenn die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit des Lichtes mit dem Orte variiert".
@Danu LOL yourself, I nailed you down, then you did a runner. Translate the above.
 
 
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user54412
9:06 AM
Did the site fonts just change for anyone else?
 
yuggib
yuggib
@ChrisWhite check
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
check
I think
 
yuggib
yuggib
@Slereah so the copy in my possession (paid new $80 ten years ago) got a more than 100% revaluation in 10 years....not bad B-)
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
at least this for sure
Bounty markers were red last night
 
yuggib
yuggib
honestly, I like the new look better
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Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
9:21 AM
Up & down vote arrows are different too
It's subtle and I can't quite place it but I'm pretty sure it's changed
 
user54412
The lack of serifs still disturbs me.
 
yuggib
yuggib
also the pages counter is changed, and the boxes with votes e.g. in the profile
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
The old version
 
yuggib
yuggib
and the tags now have a rounded on the right, straight on the left box...
maybe SE wants to check our visual memory :-D
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
@yuggib I think they've always been that way
Or at least they're like that on the wayback machine
Also meta is apparently now called Physics me
 
user54412
9:36 AM
^ that's got to be a bug, right?
 
user54412
or is dropping half the word the hip new thing kids are doing these days?
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
surely a bug
But it does seem like we're programmed for a brave new Android Lollipop aesthetic with the redesign
 
Physics Meta
Physics Meta
10:31 AM
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Q: What happened to the appearance of Physics Stack Exchange all on a sudden?

user36790Physics Stack Exchange is changed! Even at 11:30-12:00 IST, the site was as usual. But when I visited the site again at 2 IST, the appearance of Physics SE. was different! Picture speak more than words: This is the snapshot of a question of mine at the past: Now, it appears as: This ...

discussion
 
Slereah
Slereah
11:10 AM
"Crackpots do not go for the small problems, for what Kuhn called the puzzle-solving of normal science, they invariably shake the foundations of modern physics. They provide a new structure for the atom, a new unified theory of field and energy, a complete alternative to general relativity, an entirely novel cosmology, etc."
heheh
" In the same way, the crackpot alternative is, almost universally, less mathematically challenging than the standard account. For instance, tensors and other complicated tools of SR are replaced with college-level calculus, and in many cases with high-school algebra."
"Most of my cranks cite virtually no recent publications in physics. Almost all of them rely, for their understanding of modern physics, on what is in the textbooks. This explains some quaint, often comical aspects of their prose."
:D
 
yuggib
yuggib
source? :-D
this is a very uninteresting open problem
which crackpots should focus on
actually, I would be very interested in the answer
 
Emilio Pisanty
Emilio Pisanty
12:07 PM
@Slereah source?
 
 
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Danu
Danu
1:10 PM
Oh god, I think we got the update
Don't like it!
@JohnDuffield Yes, yes, exactly :)
Nailing me down like a boss!
 
Sidarth
Sidarth
1:39 PM
hullo
 
ACuriousMind
ACuriousMind
1:50 PM
@FenderLesPaul ?!?!?! Take that back :P
@Danu Still not the new profile, though
 
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