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Q: Reputations per view of a question?

Will it be better if a user gets some reputations for views of his question.

skull petrol

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy @user36790 :-)

user116211

@skullpetrol yeh.

skull petrol

@DanielSank not to mention a raider fan ;-)

DanielSank

07:33

@user36790 Define "better".

@user36790 ...and then later leaves it for another more static language. Python is a fling... the first love for many of us, because it's easy. However, after enough time that passion wears off and we desire something more stable. Something that can grow with us as we grow. In our relative maturity, that initial sexiness gives way to all of python's faults.

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Of course, we always come back to python, at least once in a while.

user116211

@DanielSank Well, JEE questions are tougher than SAT; the latter also contains English which JEE doesn't. Also, the admission solely depends on marks- no letters, no curriculum nothing.

DanielSank

@user36790 Why is it "better" to look only at marks? Why is it better to not consider a student's other activities?

I am wondering about your opinion and the use of the word "better".

user116211

@DanielSank Then you have to consult Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India :D

DanielSank

@user36790 I'm asking your opinion.

You said "better". I want to understand why you have the opinion that India's system is "better".

user116211

@DanielSank Hmmm.... I am basing my arguments on question pattern and on the flexibility of seeing only the students' academic performance and not curriculum. And of course, all do not excel at sports or other activitites, I suppose.

DanielSank

07:43

@user36790 Question pattern?

In what sense is it more flexible to look only at marks and not other information?

user116211

@DanielSank you can look at the archive of IITs and can check the questions and then compare SAT and JEE; you'ld get the answers.

DanielSank

@user36790 Oh, yes, the SAT is ridiculous.

Of course all do not excel at sports, but if I have two students with good marks, and one plays sports and the other doesn't, I am inclined toward the one who plays sports. That student may have better chance dealing with the pressure and difficulties of life, will be healthier, and probably less inclined toward depression.

Physical activity is incredibly important for proper brain use.

user116211

@DanielSank That being said, if I were the law-maker, I would made sure one look at how he handles pressure...

user116211

oh! you stole my words.

skull petrol

Looking at your avatar @DanielSank reminds me of the controversy about the plural of octopus.

DanielSank

07:48

@user36790 But how do you gauge that? This is precisely why we value extra-curricular activities in the USA.

We value leadership as well, so the swim team captain has an advantage, etc.

All the good marks in the world does not build a space craft without a talented leader.

user116211

@DanielSank: Can't unagree.

user116211

@DanielSank: BTW, I would take my remarks back on what I said about Reif.

DanielSank

@user36790 What did you say?

@skullpetrol There is no controversy. The obvious correct plural is octopodia.

Octopuses is also ok.

user116211

@DanielSank I said it was mediocre.

DanielSank

@user36790 Oh, interesting. I rather liked it.

@skullpetrol My fiancee gave me an amazing octopus hat for my birthday.

I cannot wear it without giggling with glee like a small child.

skull petrol

07:53

:-)

user116211

@DanielSank Actually I was talking about Baby Reif ;D

DanielSank

@user36790 What's that?

user116211

@DanielSank Berkeley Vol 5

user116211

Actually he wrote two different books of the same name.

DanielSank

@user36790 That is confusing. What a jerk.

user116211

07:56

Fundamentals of statistical & Thermal Physics is the original book for grads.

DanielSank

Can he not spend five minutes to think of separate titles and save us all a lot of confusion?

Bernard Meurer

@DanielSank The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a temporary octopus session, thought of you when I was there

it's pretty cool

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer They had a GPO last time I was there.

user116211

However, when the Berkeley Physics Course was proposed, he wrote a different book:

Bernard Meurer

Great Pale Orchid?

user116211

07:57

Berkeley Physics Course: Statistical Physics for high-schoolers and undergrads, I suppose ;)

DanielSank

Enteroctopus dofleini

Enteroctopus dofleini, also known as the giant Pacific octopus or North Pacific giant octopus, is a large marine cephalopod belonging to the genus Enteroctopus. Its spatial distribution includes the coastal North Pacific, along California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Russia, northern Japan, and Korea. It can be found from the intertidal zone down to 2,000 m (6,600 ft), and is best adapted to cold, oxygen-rich water. It is arguably the largest octopus species, based on a scientific record of a 71-kg (156-lb) individual weighed live. The alternative contender is the seven-arm octopus...

Bernard Meurer

Dayum

DanielSank

@user36790 Oh, interesting.

Bernard Meurer

That one was there yeah

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer Isabel.

Bernard Meurer

07:59

@DanielSank Juliana

Who's Isabel tho?

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer It's what my fiancee and I named the GPO in Monterey.

user116211

@DanielSank But it was your remark that prompted me to read the former; and it actually covered all the problems that I've been facing then. Thanks for that. And now, Reif is Genius :)

Bernard Meurer

That's pretty cute actually

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer oh?

@user36790 Oh good. What problems?

Oh no, it's @Danu. RUN!

Bernard Meurer

::hides::

user116211

08:01

@DanielSank That fluctuations happen in equilibrium- how could it be?

DanielSank

@user36790 Oh, that.

I'm glad you found the answers you needed.

skull petrol

::RUNS::

user116211

@DanielSank Remember your two yes on my query? That indeed enlightened me. Thanks for that.

DanielSank

@user36790 Two yes?

Danu

@DanielSank you can run but you can't hide

DanielSank

08:02

@Danu <3

Danu

Today I'm going back from Amsterdam to Munich again

skull petrol

By train?

Danu

No hell no

DanielSank

@Danu Why is that a "hell no"?

Bernard Meurer

@Danu You insult trains we're gonna have a fist fight

DanielSank

08:05

@BernardMeurer Settle it with Smash Brothers. I'll be the referee.

user116211

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Bernard Meurer

I suck at games tho :/

DanielSank

@user36790 Ah, makes sense now, thanks. :-)

@BernardMeurer Hm, ok how about a yo-yo showdown?

Bernard Meurer

Nothing that involves fingers, they don't obey me at all

user116211

@DanielSank You play Yo-Yo?

DanielSank

08:06

@user36790 Nope.

Bernard Meurer

we can do a feet-yo-yo showdown

user116211

@BernardMeurer What?

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer Dance-off?

user116211

@DanielSank Thumb-wrestling.

Bernard Meurer

Dance-off, definitely

DanielSank

08:07

@Danu do you accept?

(I got wrecked by my friend today in Smash Brothers)

@user36790 But @BernardMeurer said no fingers...

user116211

o.O

user116211

@DanielSank: Have you met Lee Smolin?

user116211

Ever?

Bernard Meurer

@DanielSank Was it that cool guy from the lab

What's his name again ehm

Ben?

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer There is a Ben.

Bernard Meurer

08:10

Ben's the most grad student grad student ever right?

DanielSank

I didn't play Smash with Ben. I have a friend Jason with whom I play Smash. Jason is my nemesis.

@BernardMeurer How do you mean?

@user36790 Nope.

user116211

-_-

Bernard Meurer

@DanielSank Don't know how to explain it, he's just my mental image of a grad student

DanielSank

@user36790 What?

Bernard Meurer

If I recall he was either almost bald or had very short hair and wore a cap

user116211

08:12

@DanielSank Just by the by, I wanted to ask you. He is also working UCSB

Danu

@DanielSank He don't stand a chance

Bernard Meurer

And went to fast on the liquid helium valve so it filled the lab with that stuff

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer That's Ben.

user116211

You people don't play Assassins Creed?

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer Ah yes. That was Ben.

@user36790 Not me.

Bernard Meurer

08:13

There we go, Ben is such a grad student

user116211

@BernardMeurer: AC?

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer Bald, cap, too much helium = grad student?

Bernard Meurer

@user36790 I don't play video games much

Danu

bald?

I dont know any bald grad students

Bernard Meurer

@DanielSank Perhaps, don't know what it was he just marked me as the model grad student

now everytime I hear someone is a grad student I picture him

DanielSank

08:15

that's funny

user116211

Bernard Meurer

Oh, which reminds me, @DanielSank There's a classical piece I've been wanting to show you for a while

Ravel Piano Trio in A minor - Menuhin, Cassadó, Kentner

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user116211

@BernardMeurer Van Gogh?

Bernard Meurer

Ravel

Danu

It's always funny to hear foreigners trying to pronounce Van Gogh

@DanielSank Oh, and that's a hell no because it's both slower and more expensive than taking a plane

user116211

08:21

The Starry Night

The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an idealized village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. It is regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, and is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of Western culture. == The asylum == In the aftermath of the 23 December...

user116211

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Q: What are the pros and cons of being a physicist?

I'm extremely fascinated by the subject and I want to consider pursuing it. Note: Please comment below if this is the wrong site, I'm not sure if this question goes here or in Academia.

physics-careers

user116211

^^^ WTF!

user116211

Cons of being physicist?

user116211

hmm.... I can't recognize any cons ; /

Danu

Shitty opportunities at nice family life

GPhys

08:33

@FenderLesPaul I'm expecting first rejections this week

(or waitlists/acceptance, I guess)

skull petrol

@Danu that would make it a "hell no" :)

Enjoy your trip.

Slereah

hey hey

So anyway

What is the fancy link between tetrads and the metric tensor

Between the frame bundle and the (2,0) symmetric tensor bundle

Is there any way to express it fancily other than just $g = (e,e)$

Emilio Pisanty

10:55

@Danu @user36790 What's with letting this one through?

physics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/120114

Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger? really?

user116211

11:06

@EmilioPisanty That's the correct spelling, I suppose?

user116211

@EmilioPisanty Oh!

user116211

Sorry :D

user507974

anybody here an active researcher?

user116211

@user507974 Everyone except me :D

user507974

@user36790 you'd be surprised

user116211

11:08

@user507974 why?

user507974

@user36790 so far havent bumped into one last 3 days here

or at least they werent here long enough to see my question

user116211

@user507974 What question?

user507974

simple formatting question for when writing research proposals

2 columns or 1

user116211

o.O

user507974

if there are any conventions in the community to follow

i mean i screw around here anyways so i figured id bump into one but alas no luck

user116211

11:11

@user507974 Come at evening; ACM, Danu and others would be present.

user116211

evening IST

user507974

Well I guess first time I asked ACM was online since we ended up talking about death metal concerts in Germany this summer...

ill probably bug him again next time im on

adieu

user116211

@user507974 eee....bye!

user507974

@user36790 ive been total piece of crap, got like 48 hrs of work to finish by 5 pm and its 3 am

bye

user116211

@user507974 :D Sleep well first.

user116211

11:19

Bye.

yuggib

@user507974 I am an active researcher

usually the institutions give the guidelines for the proposal (but mainly concern length)

as far as one or two columns are concerned, I think that apart from (some physics) journals, nobody uses them ;-þ

(the two columns setting I mean)

Danu

12:41

Lol @EmilioPisanty my bad!! Could've sworn it looked normal when I approved it...

user116211

:P

Danu

Could there have been a ninja-re-edit in the 5 minutes grace period?

user116211

@Danu Probably :)

user116211

@Danu How could I miss that ;/

Danu

13:01

Yeah, a bit strange to me, too.

Emilio Pisanty

13:32

@Danu No worries, I just thought I'd point it out.

Danu

13:48

@EmilioPisanty my position of authority has been compromised!!!

::cries in shame::

0celo7

@Danu What authority?

user116211

Mod??

0celo7

@user36790 Hahahahaha

FenderLesPaul

14:17

@GPhys yeah seems like it

although I'm done checking because I got into all the schools I cared about (except Princeton but meh)

Freeedoooooom

user685252

14:29

George Michael - Freedom! '90

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Sidarth

hey guys check out this cool thing,...

20th Century Fox Theme on guitar - Igor Presnyakov

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Bernard Meurer

14:56

@GPhys You applied to UPenn right?

@FenderLesPaul Hey there

0celo7

15:08

@ACuriousMind Sigh...algebra prof didn't grade that proof. Do you refuse to read it?

yuggib

15:19

@0celo7 You may want to consider why he didn't grade it...

0celo7

@yuggib Why?

Because he thought it was too hard/messy?

That doesn't change my OCD.

yuggib

@0celo7 it is a possibility

what's an OCD?

@0celo7 Ah ok, and what's your OCD?

user116211

@yuggib I thought Obsessive-compulsive disorder :D

yuggib

@user36790 yeah, I looked for it...

damn sassenachs and their OCD of acronymizing everything

0celo7

@yuggib What?

yuggib

15:31

to make acronyms out of everything seems a pretty legitimate OCD to me...

0celo7

What is a sassenach

yuggib

:-þ

Secret

Zzzzzzz....

0celo7

What's wrong with acronyms

yuggib

sassenach

Noun: sassenach ‎(plural sassenachs)

(Scotland, pejorative) An English person.
(Scotland, pejorative) A Lowland Scot.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.
sassenach (plural sassenachs)

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@0celo7 they may help typing faster, but do not help mutual understanding

user116211

15:38

@0celo7 Ooh! It's Scottish!

yuggib

@user36790 Technically, it pertains to all Gaelic languages

ACuriousMind

@Danu I guess that's further evidence of the new font blending well with MathJax ;)

@0celo7 Yes, I do.

0celo7

@yuggib I'm not English.

@ACuriousMind nooooo :(

@yuggib What?

yuggib

@0celo7 a mixture of German and American descent is more sassenach than English

0celo7

OCD is a very common acronym

@yuggib I'm of German and Bohemian heritage

ACuriousMind

15:42

@0celo7 Well, no, but Cerberus evidently knew that the Collectors were going to attack...and didn't really warn the people there.

user116211

@yuggib o.O

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 As it basically means "Saxon", and those were a Germanic tribe, yuggib is pretty right there.

user116211

Are you a linguist-cum-Physicist!!

0celo7

@ACuriousMind I know what the Saxons are

ACuriousMind

(Of course, one can't determine if your German part has actually Saxons in it without further genealogy)

0celo7

15:45

@ACuriousMind I think our clan was from the Hamburg area.

user116211

@ACuriousMind: Who are Huns?

yuggib

@0celo7 pretty saxon then

ACuriousMind

@user36790 Huh? Those came much farther from the East

user116211

@ACuriousMind oh.

yuggib

@user36790 I am not a physicist, technically speaking...and I like languages

(and I work with one of them)

user116211

15:46

@yuggib wow!

user116211

@yuggib what?

user116211

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Q: can we escape the death of universe?

In physics, past,present and future always exist. Time is a ocean which can go front and back and have whirlpools. Now, regarding the fate of our expanding universe, many believe that it's death is inevitable .The only question is whether it dies in big freeze or big crunch. Now, if we relate the...

time universe

yuggib

@user36790 Mathematics is a language

user116211

@yuggib Oh!

Sir Cumference

This is just so cringeworthy

Kudos to Hohmann

user116211

15:48

This same question was asked on WorldBuilding SE.

Sir Cumference

Really?

Link me

ACuriousMind

@SirCumference At least properly formatted and with correct punctuation :P

Sir Cumference

@ACuriousMind But the nonsense logic...

yuggib

@SirCumference I like the identification $\text{DarkMatter} \simeq \text{PureEvil}$

user116211

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Q: How to survive the heat death of the universe?

The eventual heat death of the universe is an awful time to be alive considering you wouldn't have long left after the last star finally fades away. In this scenario there is a small group of about a dozen human survivors who live in a colony on an earth-like planet that orbits the last star to b...

apocalypse energy survival universe death

ACuriousMind

15:49

If I cringed at every display of faulty logic here, I'd be in a continual spasm :P

Sir Cumference

@user36790 That's really just a bad question...

With way too many upvotes

user116211

@ACuriousMind: BTW, the English named German pilots as Huns in WW1.

Sir Cumference

Humans won't be around at the time of the heat death

user116211

@SirCumference AI will rule.

user116211

Rise of machines.

Sir Cumference

15:51

Far before 1 billion years from now, humans will go extinct

@user36790 Space robots?

user116211

We will be extinct then; why that matters ;/

ACuriousMind

@user36790 Nothing to do with actual relation, everything to do with it being derogatory as "the Huns" are generally seen as barbaric marauders who invaded the "civilized" part of Europe and contributed to the collapse of the (rest of the) Roman Empire

Secret

Sir Cumference

That answer is nonsense, just like the question

Secret

(worldbuilding) I doubt about that answer. How wil entropy be treated in such scenario to ensure consistency?

Sir Cumference

15:54

Almost certain that the only planets humans will ever step foot on are Earth and Mars

user116211

@Secret Second law is fundamental?

user116211

@ACuriousMind Attila the Hun?

Sir Cumference

And definitely not a habitable exoplanet

Secret

Second law is statistical, but I don't think it will allow that huge degree of violation

ACuriousMind

@user36790 Yes, Attila was the leader of that invasion

Secret

15:55

and also there's that issue of time. If the event in the past of some observer have different values of entropy (because the observer form the future necessarty have to have higer entropy than in the past), then you ran into consistency problems

Sir Cumference

Remind me why we don't think the Big Rip will happen?

user116211

@ACuriousMind Wow! You are history-buff.

ACuriousMind

@user36790 Not really, I just didn't forget what I learned in school :P

Sir Cumference

Also

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Q: Is this Universe scenario correct?

I will try to give you my reasoning behind my scenario. Ok I've researched and found That 95 percent of the galaxy has been formed already, And the other 5 percent is still to come.http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/almost-all-stars-are-old-and-universe-making-hardly-any-new-ones I...

orbit sun black-hole universe solar-sytem

Nonsense

user116211

@SirCumference -6 is quite less, though.

Sir Cumference

15:57

It was originally -7. Some guy upvoted it

Secret

so even in a scifi point of view, if an observer travel back to the past where they are not supposed to be there, it creates an inconsistency in the timeline of events

The result will either be back to the future style ripple effects or branching timelines

user116211

@SirCumference fanatic.

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 Someone being overly precise (i.e. what the Dutch call antfucker) is a Korinthenkacker (literally "raisin shitter", I have no idea why)

Sir Cumference

Questionable conclusion made from questionable assumptions

user116211

@Secret Than all the Flash series will be nothing.

Secret

15:59

I mean, if you allow inconsistent events, you either end up overwriting the old timeline or branching a new timeline, that's the typical rules of time travel in scifi

As for mainstream physics, it frowns upon any attempt in changing history via overwritting. Branching universe might still work as (forgot term) bifucated spacetimes that Slereah mentioend before

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