The h Bar

12:12 AM

@ACuriousMind what's a linear op in German?

@loltospoon No, there are infinitely many excited states - look at the formula for the energy levels, it goes like $\propto 1/n^2$, so they get closer and closer the higher they are.

@0celo7 Care to take a guess?

0celo7

@ACuriousMind Say the English word with a German accent?

loltospoon

@ACuriousMind what do you mean by "they get closer"?

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 Yep

loltospoon

Physically closer?

ACuriousMind

12:16 AM

@loltospoon The difference in energy between two successive levels gets smaller

"physically closer" would need a careful interpretation before I'd apply it quantum mechanically.

loltospoon

Ah ok.

So what do you picture in your mind when you think of an excited electron? And what changes in your visualization when you think of increasing its energy state?

ACuriousMind

Honestly, my only "visualization" of an electron in an atom is a term diagram and for the lower levels those fancy pictures of orbitals.

loltospoon

12:32 AM

Ah I see. What is your opinion on this - I'm having issues keeping up with the math and science in my undergrad physics career. I've noticed that it seems to be because I try to visualize everything, i.e. I try to associate a physical representation to everything I learn. Did you ever do this and notice that it was slowing you down? Or have you never had this problem?

ACuriousMind

Can't help you there I'm afraid, I've never had that problem. Maybe someone else here knows what you're describing

loltospoon

12:49 AM

Yea hopefully. It seems to be common to not visualize things. I was talking to my friend who is double majoring in physics and math and he said that he doesn't even try to visualize things. That drives me crazy - how, then, does he think?!

DanielSank

1:05 AM

@loltospoon Lots of people have this problem.

Lots

loltospoon

@DanielSank hooray!! It's very relieving to hear that!

Do you have any advice? What are your thoughts on this topic??

Emilio Pisanty

Can somebody explain wtf happened to this bounty?

I was really looking forward to making the rep cap 'yesterday'

HDE 226868

@EmilioPisanty I suspect it's caching. There's a discrepancy of about half an hour sometimes between the notice and the bounty actually being removed. The revision history does not indicate that the bounty has ended.

Emilio Pisanty

@HDE226868 'caching' is some pretty cold comfort ¬¬

HDE 226868

Unless SuperCiocia awards it sooner, I think you'll be awarded it within an hour.

Emilio Pisanty

1:17 AM

Naw, grace period was set to expire before midnight UTC, by rights the bounty award should be timestamped then

rep-caps don't come often, y'know

¬¬

DanielSank

1:29 AM

@loltospoon Yeah: practice going between math and physics a lot.

Get comfortable with both and with going between them.

Practice practice practice.

As a student, I regularly would go through mathematical descriptions of various things to become more familiar.

ACuriousMind

@EmilioPisanty You know that bounties, like accepts, don't count towards the rep cap, right?

Emilio Pisanty

@ACuriousMind bounties don't count towards limiting your rep (like accepts), but they do count towards the badge

ACuriousMind

whaaaaaaat

hitting the rep cap in the sense of the badge does not mean...hitting the rep cap?

Emilio Pisanty

physics.stackexchange.com/help/badges/26/epic

> Epic - Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times.

ACuriousMind

Hm, right. Have you tested that it actually means exceeding 200 and not hitting the rep cap?

HDE 226868

1:33 AM

@ACuriousMind I can confirm that it does.

Emilio Pisanty

pretty sure

nnyways, whaddayer complainin 'bout, you're at 43/50

though still well behind in rep if you factor in offered bounties =P

ACuriousMind

@EmilioPisanty My most recent >200 rep gain is in October '16, I guess I should aim for more HNQs :P

Emilio Pisanty

@ACuriousMind huh

I had a ridiculous streak at start of term

100+ rep coming in from ten different votes in year+ old answers

dmckee

1:54 AM

Every once in a while I suspect that a user is following the path that Douglas Adams made so plain in his line concerning Slartibartfast's plans for his retirement

> He had also been planning to write an eccentric and relentlessly inaccurate monograph on the subject of equatorial fjords in order to set the record wrong about one or two matters he saw as important.

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0celo7

3:58 AM

@skillpatrol what's good

Pandya

@KyleKanos Hi! I don't know much about the likings of Physics.SE for community promotion ads. I posted one. Also consider to see revision. I want to discuss in order to get the idea and understand how should it looks like etc...

@KyleKanos can you give me suggestions?

help

5:45 AM

@anonymous

Mostafa

6:01 AM

The most viewed question on the site is closed as off-topic :)

( query )

and only its views account for %0.56 of the all-time views of the whole Phys.SE .

David Z

6:42 AM

@Pandya I think the reason your ad is not getting a good reception is that the thing it's advertising - Hinduism SE - is just not relevant to the Physics SE community, or at least no more relevant than it would be to a random group of internet users. Going beyond that, the reason it's getting a bad reception is that it tries to make a connection between Hinduism SE and Physics SE out of nothing, in a sense.