The h Bar

Mostafa

16:00

@Secret Are you guys ready for a huge nuclear war? I mean, if tomorrow a worldwide nuclear war happens, what are you gonna do to survive, as scientists?

I'm looking for some thoughtful advice to stay safe

Secret

Wrong person to ask that question. I am eager for all of us to simultaneously die, be alive and nothing happened

The End - 6blocc

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This music describe it really well:

Slereah

@Mostafa Duck and cover!

Secret

An eternally unchanging, calm, still, stagnant, hopeless, .... (omitted countable number of words)
... that nobody and no metaphysical entity can dreamt of escaping

Where all concepts are meaningless, because they blend and fuse into one. There is no distinction between reality, fiction, fanon, canon, surreal, superntural, (omitted countable number of words) ...

Jaime Gallego

@Mostafa Selling herbal potassium iodide

John Rennie

@ACuriousMind: are you (a) around and (b) interruptible?

Slereah

16:14

everyone is interruptible

it's easier when they're around, of course

ACuriousMind

@JohnRennie Aye and aye

John Rennie

@ACuriousMind that space probe/laser problem ...

I was having a quick play with it and found what seems to be a simple way to describe the motion.

This is your chance to express your deep and committed lack of interest in the problem :-)

ACuriousMind

16:30

@JohnRennie Nah, I'd be curious if there's a nicer way than that ugly differential equation

John Rennie

Well start with $E^2 = p^2c^2 = m^2c^4$ and differentiate wrt time to get $$2E\frac{dE}{dt} = 2pc^2\frac{dp}{dt}$$

And rearrange to get: $$ \frac{dp}{dt} = \frac{E}{pc^2}\frac{dE}{dt} $$

$E=\gamma mc^2$ and $p=\gamma mv$ so that simplifies to: $$ \frac{dp}{dt} = \frac{1}{v}\frac{dE}{dt} $$

AccidentalFourierTransform

is that $==-$?

John Rennie

And $dE/dt$ is just the rate that the probe is absorbing energy from the laser, which is $(1-v/c)P_0$ with $P_0$ the constant laser power.

Oh wait ...

Rats ...

Not all of the absorbed light will be going into kinetic energy ...

OK, carry on, nothing to see here.

Melanie Shebel

Hello

AccidentalFourierTransform

> Are you scientists happy with your life and your job?

John Rennie

16:42

@AccidentalFourierTransform I just saw that too :-)

AccidentalFourierTransform

well, are you?

John Rennie

@MelanieShebel Hi

Jaime Gallego

Hello @Melanie

ACuriousMind

@AccidentalFourierTransform ::faint sobbing:: ;P

John Rennie

@AccidentalFourierTransform Me? Yes, a career in physics (sort of) has been very good to me.

Melanie Shebel

16:43

I went to a session where the chemist behind "Breaking Bad," was talking about her work on the set. she said the first day she got there, they asked, "What do scientists do... for fun?"

"How do they act?"

ACuriousMind

@JohnRennie Yeah, I think that your approach comes down to pretty much what it did, once you do the chain rule on the $p$ it becomes just as ugly

Melanie Shebel

That question just reminded me of that session, haha.

AccidentalFourierTransform

@JohnRennie yes, you told us about those large cheques ;-)

ACuriousMind

@JohnRennie Call your soap science what it really is ;)

John Rennie

@MelanieShebel while I'd hesitate to describe any of the ruffians and scoundrels that hang out here as normal, I suspect we do much the same as normal people do for entertainment :-)

Jaime Gallego

16:46

Hey!

Melanie Shebel

We just do it with a lisp.

jk

0celouvskyopoulo7

I'm normal.

The normalest.

AccidentalFourierTransform

no

btw

ACuriousMind

@MelanieShebel Like (have fun me)?

Fawad

@MelanieShebel edits are over on chemistry.se ? You are here..

John Rennie

16:48

@AccidentalFourierTransform the joke never gets old :-)

@AccidentalFourierTransform why did you delete it?

Melanie Shebel

I don't get it. :'( Just a chemistry undergrad that realized she likes physics more. :'(

ACuriousMind

@AccidentalFourierTransform Didn't we talk about these images? Don't use 'handicapped' or 'retarded' as an insult.

John Rennie

@MelanieShebel I'm a chemistry graduate as well. I did my PhD on solid state photochemistry then wandered into colloid science. The great thing about physical chemistry is that you can choose as much or as little physics as you want to do.

Fawad

@JohnRennie I saw something -+++ , can you explain what's joke ins it?

Melanie Shebel

I just don't want to stir things. I got tricked into thinking a chemistry major would help me focus on whatever was in chapter 7 of my chemistry book.

Which happened be photons, electrons, light, particles, and waves.

Correction: particles and/or waves.

John Rennie

16:53

@MelanieShebel I don't think I did any wet chemistry in the three years of my PhD. The closest was making up solutions to clean my vacuum kit. Chemistry is a vast subject and there's bound to be something that interests you towards the more physics end of it.

Melanie Shebel

Yup, @Fawad, I am here. Don't worry, I won't flood the page with edits.

ACuriousMind

Just FYI: You can edit chat messages for two minutes after they're posted - press the up arrow key to do so or click on the left side of the message and choose 'edit'

mathvc_

How can I create a space that its fundamental group is isomorphic to S_3? (without wedging circles, maybe by quotient)

John Rennie

@MelanieShebel I specialised in quantum chemistry in my final year then went on to do photochemistry, which is all photons, electrons, light, particles, and waves!

Melanie Shebel

That sounds like a blast.

John Rennie

16:55

@MelanieShebel That's the point. There is loads of scope in chemistry to do what is basically physics. The two subjects overlap a lot.

Fawad

@ACuriousMind you free to help others. You know what's joke in -+++?

Melanie Shebel

Yeah! I used to get, "This question belongs on Physics.SE," a lot!

John Rennie

@Fawad -+++ is a metric signature.

mathvc_

Chemistry is molecular physics

John Rennie

@Fawad There are two equivalent metric signatures in use, -+++ and +---. Each form has its dedicated followers who think using th other form is stupid.

Melanie Shebel

16:57

Haha

Secret

In chemistry, there are many subfields that involve photons and quantum stuff.

If you are working with photovotalics, then things like triplet fission and excited states are common things.

In atmospheric chemsitry, photochemical reactions are complex to model and just any one molecule alone is already a honours or PhD project

Photocatalysis is also a huge topic, and DFT modelling of metal complexes that can take many electronic and spin states are common things

Any domain in computational chemistry necessary involve solving multiple electron schroedinger equations, though the really qua…

Fawad

@JohnRennie thanks. I thought people put me on ignore..

John Rennie

The sadly deceased (temporarily) @AccidentalFourierTransform was making a joke that saying the correct signature is -+++ means you're a fool.

As a rule people who study quantum field theory use +--- and people who study general relativity use -+++. Naturally each think the other is using the wrong signature.

ACuriousMind

@mathvc_ Wedging circles is in general the best way to construct first-level Eilenberg-MacLane spaces, although there are more abstract constructions. Why don't you want to wedge circles? (Also, you might consider asking in the math chat instead, there's a (slightly :P) higher chance to find topologists there, I think)

Fawad

@JohnRennie that's funny.

Secret

17:02

All the above subfields I have listed have both industrial and fundamental reserch ties. For example, artificial photosynthesis is an emergent thing

John Rennie

@Fawad Physicists don't really argue about the metric signature because the different forms have advantages in different circumstances and everyone understands that. However it has become a meme that people joke about.

Rishi Kakkar

How do LHC work?

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar that's an awfully broad question. Was there some specific aspect of the LHC that interests you?

Rishi Kakkar

yes the collision process

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar that turns out to be remarkably complicated. At LHC energies particles are described as the states of quantum fields. So the collision is really the interaction between quantum fields.

Rishi Kakkar

17:07

Can you please explain this

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar have a read through:

48

A: What keeps mass from turning into energy?

This is inevitably going to be an unsatisfactory answer because your question is vastly more complicated than you (probably) realise. I'll attempt an answer in general terms, but you have to appreciate this is a pale shadow of the physics that describes this area. Anyhow, Einstein was the first ...

Secret

Some days ago when I sat through one of my friend's QFT lecture that talks about scattering of electrons and positrons, the fact that none of the individual feymann diagrams is the real process but that their sum is sounds awfully similar to how we deal with resonance contributors in delocalised systems in chemistry

except (pardon if my level is still insufficient to make correct remarks) for chemistry, we can do away with the resonance contributors completely and work with the wavefunction or (for most cases) the probability density (as in DFT methods), but we cannot do the same for interacting quanutm fields since that variation equation is extremely hard to solve directly

Rishi Kakkar

can antiparticles do the same collision according to QFT

AccidentalFourierTransform

:-(

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar Particles and antiparticles are basically the same thing. See for example this question of mine.

AccidentalFourierTransform

17:20

mean, mean people over here

Rishi Kakkar

And a general question?

John Rennie

QFT requires that both particles and antiparticles exist, though it is possible for a particle to be its own antiparticle (e.g. a photon). So QFT describes antiparticles in the same way it describes particles.

Rishi Kakkar

what are the rare cases for an electron "the rare and unusual positrons"?

Slereah

Well not exactly

They have different ladder operators

A particle state isn't the same as an antiparticle state

(unless the field is real, of course)

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar for some reason that we don't understand there is far more matter than antimatter in the universe. So electrons are common but positrons are rare.

Trying to find out why there is this difference between matter and antimatter is one of the big unsolved problems in high energy physics.

Rishi Kakkar

17:25

What are the cases that an electron converts to positron?

AccidentalFourierTransform

the cases are not.

John Rennie

@AccidentalFourierTransform I thought your punishment was a bit harsh. Your post made me laugh.

AccidentalFourierTransform

Rishi Kakkar

but as the physicists say there are more matter then antimatter

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar ??? there is more matter than antimatter not the other way around.

Jaime Gallego

17:26

@RishiKakkar Huh? That's certainly not the case.

Rishi Kakkar

Explain

AccidentalFourierTransform

EXPLAIN

2

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar explain what? There is obviously more matter than antimatter because everything you see around you is made from matter.

Fawad

@JohnRennie and space? It's huge..

Jaime Gallego

@Rishi Positrons are rare, but they are not that rare. We can use ${\beta}^{+}$ decay to produce plenty of positrons.

Rishi Kakkar

17:31

What is annihilation?having a hard time to understand this

AccidentalFourierTransform

when you have and then you dont

Secret

$$\Huge{e^{\chi}P(\Lambda \alpha I \mathcal{N})}$$
Uh, that renders really badly

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar In QFT the quantum fields can exchange energy with each other. That means in an interaction some particles disappear and other new particles appear. This is how new particles like the Higgs boson appear in collisions at the LHC.

For a particle and antiparticle the energy can be transferred into two photons, so the original particles disappear and the two new particles (the photons) appear.

It is just another scattering process, but one that doesn't require a high collision energy and proceeds with a very high probabilitiy.

Decades of science fiction books have left people with the idea that annihilation is somehow weird and mysterious, but it is just another type of QFT scattering and is described (to great accuracy) by QFT calculations.

AccidentalFourierTransform

ugh, I have three emails that I have to send, and I've been putting them off all afternoon

should I do it now? or should I do the dishes?

Rishi Kakkar

If someone wants to study high energy physics is that a good topic?

Secret

17:41

@AccidentalFourierTransform depends on which is more urgent

AccidentalFourierTransform

@RishiKakkar no

@Secret the emails, clearly

but I think im gonna go with the dishes

Jaime Gallego

Just throw them out the window and buy new ones

You're poor or what

AccidentalFourierTransform

very poor, yes

actually, do the dish

I only have one

sup with the stars peeps?

user41508

Hello people! What do we talk about here?

John Rennie

@RishiKakkar it's impossible to tell what you'll enjoy as a researcher. I ended up working in a field that i didn't even know existed when I was at school.

AccidentalFourierTransform

17:44

@user41508 communism and slaughterings of animals

ACuriousMind

@user41508 Whatever we want to talk about - you are currently witnessing a rare time where there's actually physics going on ;)

Rishi Kakkar

i am like mad about the particles i find them intriguing but my father never allows me to touch the books of the nuclear physics and quantum field.

user41508

haha, ok, a casual chat. Nice to meet all of you

causal casual chat

AccidentalFourierTransform

ah, good old sacrilegious nuclear physics books

ACuriousMind

Well, you should read the books, not fondle them!

AccidentalFourierTransform

17:46

you know, you can always hide QFT texts inside Playboy magazines

user41508

that'd be easier to explain than the other way round? :P

Rishi Kakkar

that's a great idea @AccidentalFourierTransform

AccidentalFourierTransform

you heard it here first

Jaime Gallego

::looks at Ocelot cuddling with a Spivak book::

Rishi Kakkar

What is dark matter ? like space is filled with it

Secret

17:49

why will your father not allow you to touch his nuclear and quantum books?

you are not gonna make a nuclear bomb from just reading that, right?

Rishi Kakkar

A guy after reading science fiction"We can open a worm hole here "

AccidentalFourierTransform

A guy after reading a Playboy magazine "we can..." actually, nevermind

Rishi Kakkar

@Secret I am just a kid of 16 what he did say is" i don't expect you to do phd in the branch of nuclear physics just read your course books"

Jaime Gallego

What?

user41508

And you're too curious?

Balarka Sen

17:52

There's a urban legend along the lines where a math grad student hid his "magazine" when his advisor came in and when he pulled it out - with a serious face - of the not-so-well hidden place, looked, and commented, relieved: "Oh! I thought it was Bourbaki."

5

(The urban legend is almost certainly a fact, but maybe I shouldn't spell the names involved out loud)

Secret

That's typical, but QFT is really high level stuff, you cannot expect to start reading it before you adequately study quantum mechanics, representation theory, functional analysis, linear algebra (and did I miss anything else important, guys ?)

Even if you are interested in it, you cannot just hop right into it and expect you understand it quickly

user41508

Electromagnetic theory and relativity

Rishi Kakkar

i know linear algebra differentials ,electromagnetic

relativity includes in book and the others too

Slereah

@BalarkaSen I don't think any Bourbaki edition has ladies on the cover

user41508

You know Maxwell's equations in 4-vector notation?

Rishi Kakkar

17:56

Still hasn't taught

user41508

I'm guessing you know Gauss' law, Ampere's law and the like?

Rishi Kakkar

yea more kind of like that stuff

user41508

yeah, typical high school physics work

AccidentalFourierTransform

18:28

I already sent 2/3 mails :D

user228700

Wohoo!

AccidentalFourierTransform

whos dat chick

user228700

Haven't you ever watched The Big Bang Theory?

AccidentalFourierTransform

what? I was just singing Rihanna

user228700

18:31

-_- Nice.

AccidentalFourierTransform

:-P

Balarka Sen

@Slereah The advisor clearly had a thing against Bourbaki

user41508

big bang theory is so boring

Mostafa

@user41508 TV in general is boring.

Slereah

bourbaki is fine

user41508

18:35

exactly

Slereah

it's the only math book that doesn't need any reference

well that and Russell

user228700

@user41508 It helps to kill time on lazy Sunday afternoons for sure.

Balarka Sen

there's a lot of better things to do on a lazy sunday. pondering your existence is one

AccidentalFourierTransform

Queen - Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon (Official Lyric Video)

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user228700

> pondering your existence is one

user228700

18:39

certainly not on a lazy Sunday afternoon, for God's sake! That's when the existential crises tend to hit.

Balarka Sen

what do you mean? existential crisis is great

user41508

lazy sunday afternoons are for sleep ;)

user228700

@BalarkaSen Nope, my brain handles them quite...destructively so no no no, thanks.

Balarka Sen

read Dostoyevskii to get better ideas at handling them

AccidentalFourierTransform

big if true

user228700

18:41

@BalarkaSen Please recommend something and I will make sure that I add it to the top of my "to-read" list for the summer.

Mostafa

@user41508 Never sleep in the afternoons

Balarka Sen

spoiler: in "Crime and Punishment", the main character murders people to see if he can become Napoleon

user41508

why so?

AccidentalFourierTransform

"people"

Balarka Sen

@Kaumudi My own personal religious textbook of existentialism is Notes from The Underground.

user228700

18:43

OK. I will certainly read it, then.

Jaime Gallego

@Kaumudi.H Wikipedia has some ideas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Common_activities

Slereah

here is mine

Balarka Sen

It's shorter compared to his other novels, hence more reasonable to read, too. Brothers Karamazov runs for two big tomes of volumes.

user41508

I should change my name and put up a pic..

Mithrandir24601

Malazan Book of the Fallen

user228700

18:44

@JaimeGallego HOW DARE YOU?! :'-(

Balarka Sen

was that a rick roll

(i didn't click wink wink)

user228700

@BalarkaSen Yes, it was :'-(

Balarka Sen

lol get ricked

good thing I am choosy about what I watch in YouTube

user228700

@Balarka: Have u been following the meme from last night about Shashi Tharoor?

Jaime Gallego

in Sandbox, May 4 at 20:57, by Jaime Gallego

Test en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Example

user228700

18:47

It's quite hilarious x'D

Jaime Gallego

I planned it beforehand >:)

AccidentalFourierTransform

"choosy", "Bowie", tsk tsk

@user41508 please do

Balarka Sen

I didn't see that, nope. I had to look up his tweet that's being meme-d.

I lol'd.

@AccidentalFourierTransform come at me bro

user228700

I mean, look at this: (x'D)

user228700

AccidentalFourierTransform

18:52

whos shashi tharoor?

user41508

an Indian politician

AccidentalFourierTransform

and why is buzzfeed suggesting the article "according to science, there are four types of penises"

user228700

@AccidentalFourierTransform I REFUSE TO ANSWER A GOOGLE-ABLE QUESTION!

AccidentalFourierTransform

i dont have a google

user41508

what about yahoo

AccidentalFourierTransform

18:54

yeah, I have three of those

user228700

Bing also works.

AccidentalFourierTransform

Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Melanie Shebel

Best comment ever, by @AccidentalFourierTransform

0

A: Will a helicopter hovering 24hs in the air came back to its initial position?

No. The helicopter will not move with respect to the ground if it is hovering. It will remain in the same spot. It is moving WITH the rotation of the earth and earth's atmosphere.

AccidentalFourierTransform

ah yeah, I'm a bit of a troll

can't help it :-P

user228700

@Balarka: Looked you up on Twitter. Is this you?

Balarka Sen

19:04

I do not exist on twitter

(lol that guy tho)

user228700

Is that a trick statement?

Balarka Sen

Nope.

I do not exist on any social networking site whatsoever.

user228700

His name is the same as yours and he's even from Calcutta!

Melanie Shebel

I would call chatting social.

And kind of networking. :P

Balarka Sen

there's a couple guys with my name out there.

AccidentalFourierTransform

19:05

what!? 25k followers?

Melanie Shebel

Who, me?

AccidentalFourierTransform

yes maam

Melanie Shebel

Yeah, I like Twitter.

user228700

In any case, @Balarka: It's a relief that you're not the same as that guy.

user228700

...his "Following" list on Twitter is a bit, erm.

Balarka Sen

19:06

hence the lol

AccidentalFourierTransform

what.. I mean how...

what do you do on twitter?

i mean, 25k is a lot

Balarka Sen

chatting is social to some extent, but can be made in a socially unconventional manner, which i strive to do

Melanie Shebel

Tweet, make jokes. Try to get people to read my chemistry jokes article.

Balarka Sen

an avant garde as i am

user228700

@BalarkaSen And you succeed to some extent! x'D

Balarka Sen

19:08

bows

Melanie Shebel

I used to work in marketing so I'm really talkative online. I accidentally fell into chemistry/physics.

It helps pay my tuition.

AccidentalFourierTransform

so, I should follow you or not?

hmm who else is on twitter here

is @dmckee on twitter? should I follow him?

would @Slereah be an interesting user to follow? how about @ACuriousMind?

(no love for 0celouvskyopoulo7)

ACuriousMind

@AccidentalFourierTransform I'm not on twitter

AccidentalFourierTransform

oh well

I dont remember my password so its fine

dmckee

@AccidentalFourierTransform No.

I do relatively little social media stuff.

Balarka Sen

19:13

yeah meh society

AccidentalFourierTransform

twitter is love, twitter is life

I was looking at @Kaumudi.H's twitter and I found this

pbs.twimg.com/media/C8gJ6ghXkAEKBQO.jpg:large

user228700

:-P

AccidentalFourierTransform

and I swear I first read "boobs" instead of "books"

and I was like "well, yeah"

user228700

x'D Geez.

user228700

I guess I'm pretty easy to find on Twitter.

Sha Vuklia

19:16

Guys, why can we still use the Gaussian cylinder for Gauss' law when $L$ is finite and $r\ll L$? Because in this case you don’t “feel” an equal amount of field lines from above as from below, if you’re not close to the center of the line. So things don't cancel in the same way they do for the hypothetical infinite line.

Balarka Sen

a twitter used to visit my window pane every morning
i brutally murdered it.

- gripping 2 line short story, titled "Why I Dislike Twitter"

Sha Vuklia

omgoodness where are the experts:l

Melanie Shebel

Sure, go ahead and follow

Sha Vuklia

i hate that i love physics, for real

i'll post it on the main forum, so never mind

ACuriousMind

@ShaVuklia The approximation breaks down both for $r$ not much smaller than $L$ and being too off-center from the line.

Sha Vuklia

19:23

ahh, right

AccidentalFourierTransform

also, you can always use Gauss law, because it always holds

its just that sometimes, its useless

Sha Vuklia

Useless in the sense that we can't evaluate it analytically?

ACuriousMind

@AccidentalFourierTransform Thank you for this insight into your mind :P

@BalarkaSen Sounds more like "Why Twitter Dislikes Me"

Balarka Sen

I like that!

AccidentalFourierTransform

can I post a Looney Tunes youtube video?

ACuriousMind

19:28

You can post anything, you just have to bear the consequences :P

AccidentalFourierTransform

I mean, its a Looney Tunes video

you know, its for kids

Balarka Sen

there are still consequences

ACuriousMind

The consequences might be laughter.

Physics Meta

0

Q: Problem in viewing MathJax formatted writing in smartphone

I access this site using Chrome from myou smartphone. Recently, the MathJax formatted writings appear overlapped, for example in the following answer: What could be the reason for this?

AccidentalFourierTransform

Porky the Pig says Son of a bitch!

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his smartphone or mine?

ACuriousMind

19:31

@AccidentalFourierTransform Now, I mean, it's pretty tame but why did you feel the overwhelming need to post that?

AccidentalFourierTransform

youtube suggested it to me, I posted it here

thats kinda my usual mental process anyway

find something stupid online, come and post it here

remember that I dont know my twitter password

Balarka Sen

@ACuriousMind Speedy Gonzales got sued for bearing Mexican stereotypes I think

so... nah

Mostafa

You behave too *logical*; always asking people why....
Typical German I guess ;)

Balarka Sen

No, typical theorist.

Mostafa

No, other theorists here aren't that way. Only Germans

ACuriousMind

19:36

@BalarkaSen I said might. If porky the pig had spewed some racist screed the consequences would have been that we wouldn't have seen AFT for a while :P

Balarka Sen

not many theoretical theorists here. everyone seems to be either a physicists, chemist, engineer, worm-hole fanatic, ...

I am the only mathematical mathematician ($\neq$ mathematician), which is close but no cigar.

ACuriousMind

@Mostafa I like to understand people :P

Mostafa

AFT is a pure abstract mathematical theorist.

Balarka Sen

@ACuriousMind Me too, man, me too.

ACuriousMind

My mental model of @AccidentalFourierTransform after his response is now an incarnation of the YouTube suggestion algorithm trapped in a human body.

Or a cat body, come to think of it

Balarka Sen

19:40

brutally fourier transformed

AccidentalFourierTransform

I would probably be a better algorithm than the one responsible for the HQL

@ACuriousMind a very beautiful human body

Im so proud of myself, I already sent the three mails that I had to send today

and to think that it only took me all afternoon!

BTW @ACuriousMind I found the Scholarpedia article in arxiv.org, so I can now plagiarise it as long as I cite it!

all's well that ends well

ACuriousMind

@AccidentalFourierTransform You have no idea what I find beautiful :P

Mostafa

@ACuriousMind Knorkator, for example.

AccidentalFourierTransform

I have a non-orientable manifold locally isomorphic to a torus somewhere in my body, I bet you'd like to see it

Melanie Shebel

You don't know my life!

:P

ACuriousMind

19:47

@Mostafa Okay, you have a sliver of an idea ;)

@AccidentalFourierTransform Ew, gross.

AccidentalFourierTransform

well, it is asymptotically free, so yes, its kinda Gross

DanielSank

20:18

Hi, everybody.

AccidentalFourierTransform

whats crackin

DanielSank

Octopuses edit their genetic material at runtime.

peterh

@DavidZ Hello

@DavidZ If mods of 2 SE sites would agree that they mutually understand their site topics, could it make easier to have mutually migration pathes between these sites?

@DavidZ I think, maybe a migration path to the chemistry SE, engineering SE, aviation SE, space SE, astronomy SE and to the worldbuilding SE could be quite useful.

AccidentalFourierTransform

oh wait I misunderstood you

peterh

:37285779 Yes, but they don't have to understand the site topic of the possible community migratable sites.

@AccidentalFourierTransform I am thinking on some like a "mutual migration agreement" or similar.

DanielSank

20:25

Before anyone says anything else about this, I'd like to remind everyone to please prefer improving crappy questions over migrating them.

ACuriousMind

@peterh Useful for what? The volume of questions currently migrated to these sites per month is in the lower single-digits, well within what can be handled by moderators.

peterh

@AccidentalFourierTransform It could mean some similar: 1) community wiki meta posts on both sites, about when to vote to migrate to site X 2) mods create migration pathes on both sites to the other 3) if there are migration rejections, they wouldn't create also problems, there would be a communication channel to handle it (and, to tune the relevant meta wiki post)

@ACuriousMind If a question is enough good to be migrated (not LQ, clear, etc), but offtopic, would it be really migrated?

DanielSank

@peterh Uh, yeah.

wtf

ACuriousMind

@peterh Sure, why would you think not? The only reason I would reject a migration flag is for the old "Don't migrate crap." reason.

DanielSank

Hi, @ACuriousMind. How's life?

I hear Breath of the Wild is good.

peterh

20:32

@ACuriousMind Ok, thanks. I will watch. :-) A lot of question is closed as engineering. But the engineering SE is a beta site, and there is also a rule that betas don't get migrated posts.

DanielSank

Also recently played a fan remake of Metroid 2. It's amazing and I recommend it highly.

peterh

@ACuriousMind But, I think mods still can migrate posts to betas.

DanielSank

It's called AM2R.

ACuriousMind

@DanielSank It's...lifey

DanielSank

One of the better games I've palyed, to be honest.

ACuriousMind

20:33

@DanielSank According to my flatmate, it indeed is (I don't have a switch myself)

peterh

@ACuriousMind Furthermore, the close reason about engineering still doesn't even contain a link to the engineering SE.

DanielSank

@ACuriousMind What happens if you use your flatmate's?

ACuriousMind

@peterh That's because our notion of "off-topic as engineering" does not equal Engineering's notion of what engineering is.

@DanielSank Then we play Mario Kart :D

DanielSank

@ACuriousMind Which is a rather annoying problem.

@ACuriousMind Hmph. Mario Kart 64 was the pinnacle of Mario Kart.

peterh

@ACuriousMind Comparing this to this I think the first is a subset of the second.

ACuriousMind

20:40

@DanielSank That was good, too. Not going to start a MK edition war here :)

DanielSank

@ACuriousMind Very well.

peterh

@BalarkaSen I think, it is because we are all theoretical theorists. :-)

rob

Just a matter of time until there's a YouTube video about me!

AccidentalFourierTransform

"guyWhomadethatVideo" ah, perfect

Slereah

21:03

da share z0ne

@dasharez0ne, YOUR ASS

https://t.co/sF9ATLXMh2

1.4k tweets, 61.6k followers, following 8 users

Here is a twitter to follow

Slereah

21:32

Is there a good book on renormalization

Slereah

21:43

unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html

This site is a warcrime

AccidentalFourierTransform

mes yeux!

Emilio Pisanty

21:58

@DanielSank 1k to go ::grin::

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