The h Bar

I have to dash out. Let me know when you've got the cable. It's worth getting a good cable. I have some cables with gold plated contacts that I use for stuff like this. How much difference it makes I'm not sure, but the gold plating means the contacts don't corrode.

Bernardo Meurer

2:09 PM

And I got these to pair it with head-fi.org/products/sennheiser-hd-650-headphones

:)

@JohnRennie Yep, I saw a pack of bottom of the line Audioquest cables for 30 bucks I think, I'll get those maybe

I'm pondering

John Rennie

I'm ot familiar with that model but I'm a fan of Sennheiser headphones. I have a pair of Sennheisers.

Bernardo Meurer

Sennheiser is awesome :)

John Rennie

$30 ... maybe get a cheap cable to start with for a few $ and see how well it works.

$30 is more than the amp is worth :-)

Anyhow I must go. Back in a couple of hours.

Bernardo Meurer

It's for a RCA-RCA, a 3.5-RCA and a pair of speaker cables :P

I ain't payng 30 bucks for one cable!

@JohnRennie See you later!

Jim

2:22 PM

@SirCumference well, the hubble radius is usually a good approximation of the cosmic EH and is denoted as $\frac{1}{aH}$. A universe dominated by a cosmological constant has $H\propto const$, which makes $d_{EH}\propto\frac{1}{a}$, but phantom energy is not a cosmo. const. It causes more excessive expansion

so, you'd probably find it proportional to a function that decreases faster than $\frac{1}{a(t)}$

Qmechanic

2:36 PM

@JohnRennie : Nice. Out of curiosity: Who suggested that?

Emilio Pisanty

2:48 PM

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A: Choosing the name of the chat room

How has Schrodinger's Chat not been suggested? It's both alive and dead until you open it to observe.

@JohnRennie you know how that looks like under chatjax, right? =P

Oh wow, does this ever probe the depths of off-topic.

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Qmechanic

@EmilioPisanty : Thx.

Sir Cumference

@Jim If, for a Big Rip universe, $a \propto e^{k(t)t}$, where k is increasing, will the event horizon's distance be $d \propto \frac{1}{a(t)k}$?

Bernardo Meurer

3:07 PM

@ACuriousMind Enjoyed solving that problem? :P

Physics Meta

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Q: Re: Downvoting with no feedback

I have tried very hard to comply with the spirit of this forum but obviously still have not got the hang of it. I write a short comment and then am told it should be an answer. I answer a question and it is down voted but no reason is given. Here is an example http://physics.stackexchange.co...

ACuriousMind

@BernardoMeurer Not really but after I had started I had difficulties to stop :P

Bernardo Meurer

@ACuriousMind Hahaha, how long did it take you?

Jim

@SirCumference That'd be a good approximation, but the actual event horizon would be a bit more complicated. After all, the Hubble radius is only a good approximation for the event horizon

ACuriousMind

@BernardoMeurer About half an hour of scribbling various pointless approximation until I found one that gave a better bound than $2\beta$

Bernardo Meurer

3:16 PM

@ACuriousMind How the heck was I supposed to solve that in an exam with no calculator or nothing?

:(

Balarka Sen

Hi @ACuriousMind

ACuriousMind

@BernardoMeurer The other new answer gives a way without a calculator, I think

@BalarkaSen hey

Balarka Sen

How's things? Still doing strings and holonomy?

heather

::sleepily clicks on review button::

::jerks awake::

geesh

i don't think i've seen this many in the review queue since...well, i'm not sure i ever have. wow.

ACuriousMind

@BalarkaSen Basically yes

Not much interesting math lately though

Bernardo Meurer

3:26 PM

@ACuriousMind I can send you my exam to solve

ACuriousMind

@BernardoMeurer No, thank you :P

Balarka Sen

Gotcha. I have been trying to learn a thing or two about foliations now-a-days

Bernardo Meurer

@ACuriousMind It's great, I swear

Very nice limits to compute

@ACuriousMind math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~fteix/CI2016_17_1S/…

Sir Cumference

@Jim So, my question is: if the scale factor constantly increases in a de Sitter universe as well, and $d \propto \frac{1}{a(t)H}$, then shouldn't the event horizon be increasing in distance over time?

ACuriousMind

@heather The reviewers seem lazy, we've only had three reviewers (including you) today so far. And that's the UTC day, i.e. within the last 15 hours.

It's an unusual state, usually the queue grows to around 30 items and then goes back down after the weekend

Emilio Pisanty

3:47 PM

@heather If ever the review queue looks bad, have a look at stackoverflow.com/review for an instant feel-good moment.

and/or a gawk-in-horror moment

(keeping in mind that it's currently at under 10% of its historical maximum)

heather

@EmilioPisanty 8.4k!? under 10%?!

Emilio Pisanty

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