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ZeroTheHero

00:36

Does anyone have a recent list of predatory publishers?

alarge

00:47

@ZeroTheHero Isn't Beall's list still being updated?

David Z

I think Beall's list was taken offline

ZeroTheHero

01:06

The status of Beall’s list unclear: Beal no longer officially maintains it.I would prefer another source, possibly equivalent.

Emilio Pisanty

01:33

@ZeroTheHero we're unlikely to get one any time soon, I think

Anonymous

05:29

@peterh @EmilioPisanty Hey, please take it easy! This kind of conversation is better carried out via off-site private channels rather than here.

Anonymous

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Avnish Kabaj

I disagree

Though thanks for trashing my message

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj This is a publicly visible chat, and we are given the responsibility to keep it reasonably welcoming for visitors. Accusing each other and engaging in extended heated debates is not suitable in here.

Avnish Kabaj

06:20

I see

PM 2Ring

07:48

Is this a good fit, or should it be migrated to Engineering? I guess it might get popular & go on the HNQ...

physics.stackexchange.com/questions/459098/… should be closed as a dupe. I left a link to a good target in a comment.

Captain Bohemian

I find how self feels is the most important; if someone intends to say something to infuriate you, but you somehow can't perceive it or overhear it, that person just wastes his energy.

@Mo_ nowadays some application websites have progressed to automatically send mails to remind you the deadline when it's close.

John Rennie

08:06

@PM2Ring thanks, done

Captain Bohemian

waiting for editor's response is easier than recruiter's response.

David Z

@PM2Ring I closed it

It doesn't strike me as a particularly good question, but if people on Engineering want it, we can send it there

PM 2Ring

08:31

@DavidZ It's a bit too broad, IMHO. And I'm not comfortable with people writing answers that may have adverse health impacts on a baby.

PM 2Ring

09:10

Now the OP has edited, removing the info about the baby, but also removing the stuff about air flow

David Z

Hm, yeah, in the new version the problem seems more like insufficient research

Slereah

10:04

Morning folks

Captain Bohemian

I feel posting in LinkedIn is really daunting--it can only accommodate 1300 words each post and most of time I can't rant in fewer than 1300 words.

dark just falls.

Slereah

Pretend you're a caveman

We'll call you... Captain Caveman

Captain Bohemian

here is a concrete jungle, no cave at all.

Slereah

what really counts is the caveman on the inside

Captain Bohemian

10:25

during Chinese new year, everyone indeed hides as a caveman. The street is so desolate and every store is closed.

Slereah

you know one thing I usually wonder is

What do cavemen sound like in other languages

I've got a pretty good grasp of what cavemen sound like in French and English media

But beyond that, who knows

PM 2Ring

10:47

Once again, I'm reminded of...

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (simplified Chinese: 施氏食狮史; traditional Chinese: 施氏食獅史; pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si sī si̍t sai sú; literally: "The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions") is a passage composed of 92 characters written in Classical Chinese by linguist and poet Yuen Ren Chao (1892–1982), in which every syllable has the sound shi when read in modern Mandarin Chinese, with only the tones differing. It is an example of a one-syllable article, a form of constrained writing possible in tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese. == See also == Homophonic puns in Mandarin...

Secret

11:17

3 hours ago, by Captain Bohemian

I find how self feels is the most important; if someone intends to say something to infuriate you, but you somehow can't perceive it or overhear it, that person just wastes his energy.

Lol, my entire life and personality is specialised in rebel specifically against that

People don't understand the true nature of the vacuum:

Nothingness and the vacuum, is more full than you expect, and it may, even be possible, to encode a message

Imagine, if we can harness the power of nothing, then government censorship will be useless because then "it will be possible to listen to silence and get a message"

Seriously, China need some of that

And it seems we can actually hear silence, not just inferring it as the absence of sound

Jan 16 '17 at 16:58, by AccidentalFourierTransform

let us code someting with while-do

Good times indeed

Sir Cumference

15:42

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Secret

16:01

You can ask what would happen if we create stronger and stronger magnetic fields. As pointed out in this article: "We argued above that a uniformly magnetized vacuum is stable against spontaneous electron-positron pair production. Nevertheless, at sufficiently high B the vacuum must break down. Magnetic monopoles with mass $m_\eta$ and magnetic charge $\eta$ are spontaneously created when the energy they acquire in falling across a monopole Compton wavelength, $\epsilon\sim\eta B\frac{\hbar}{m_\eta c}$, exceeds their rest energy $m_ηc^2$". — Count Iblis Aug 22 '15 at 4:20

Hmm... how close is half the schwinger limit to this

We might be able to get some dirac monopoles from the ELI

Avnish Kabaj

@SirCumference Damnit your memory game is far better than mine Sir Cumference

This is not the last that you've heard of me

Cabbage will be back

*meme

Emilio Pisanty

17:22

hehehe

Sir Cumference

17:54

@EmilioPisanty Truth

Very glad I'll never be tested on memorizing derivatives/integrals again

Anonymous

This one came handy for me. :P

Sir Cumference

@Blue I mean let's be real, if I happen to need those in real life I could quickly look em up :P

Calc II was probably the most pointless class I'd taken. The only useful thing was integration by parts, everything else was memorization that I inevitably forgot

Anonymous

18:09

@SirCumference Well, the education system is broken. That's not news. :)

Sir Cumference

@Blue True

Emilio Pisanty

any Mathematica users around?

can y'all run

  Quantity[-1, "Millimeters"]/Quantity[4.4, "Micrometers"]

through your system, and see whether it simplifies?

+ what OS and version you're using

=)

user2723984

18:27

it's taking a surprisingly long time

Emilio Pisanty

@user2723984 if you've never run Quantity commands then it does take some time to download a data package

user2723984

must be that then

Anonymous

@EmilioPisanty Returns -227.273 for me.

Anonymous

Mathematica 10 on Windows 10.

Emilio Pisanty

@Blue what does $Version return?

thx =)

Anonymous

18:30

"10.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (June 29, 2014)"

Anonymous

Mine is a pirated version basically. :P

user2723984

-227.273

Mathematica 11 (student edition) on Mac OS 10.13.6

$Version returns "11.3.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (March 7, 2018)"

Emilio Pisanty

18:52

thanks, guys

I suspect it's a linux thing, then

no, wait

not even that

I'm getting different outcomes on different notebooks on the same machine

now I'm thoroughly confused

ACuriousMind

Did you enable the experimental 'quantum' extension? :P

user2723984

@EmilioPisanty that's usually when I give up

Emilio Pisanty

@ACuriousMind I sure hope I didn't

I don't have it installed on this machine

I do have the Multiverse extension, and I very much hope it wasn't accidentally enabled =P

wait, it gets better

Larry Harson

Could some of you vote to reopen my question?

1

Q: Is gravitational inertial mass positive or negative?

I understand that inertial mass, at least in part, comes from the inertia of energy in the zero momentum frame or rest frame of some physical system. So for a static charge the corresponding field energy is positive giving rise to a positive electromagnetic inertial mass. Is it also possible to d...

Emilio Pisanty

I guess I've just got so much data on memory in that session that the kernel won't launch into trying to simplify the units?

Larry Harson

19:00

I need another three votes, thanks

rob

20:02

@ZeroTheHero I want to thank you for a couple of comments you left today where a new user had a question about the same (unusual, very specific, and off-topic) situation as an older user. The next time you notice something like that, could you also please raise a moderator flag? When that happens, it's frequently the old user trying to get around a posting restriction.

But seriously: you saved me a bunch of detective work. Much appreciated.

Anonymous

@LarryHarson We're always happy to help if you ask for suggestions for improving your post but please don't use chat to specifically ask for reopen votes. That is frowned upon all over SE. If you've edited the question, it should have automatically been sent to the review queue.

JMac

20:28

Is there any mechanism for changing which question is the marked duplicate? the answers to this physics.stackexchange.com/questions/69122/… are magnitudes better than the one it is marked a dupe of

Anonymous

@JMac Yes, site moderators can do it (if you have a convincing reason!).

ACuriousMind

@JMac We'd have to reopen the dupe and close the other question. Each question has a link to the other already in the comments and the sidebar, so I'm not sure what benefit it actually would bring

ZeroTheHero

@rob not sure what you mean but glad to have been of help, and hopefully will continue to be helpful in the future.

JMac

@ACuriousMind It just seems like the utility of the original is basically gone, it seems like we're redirecting the user backwards. Based on the wording in some of the answers, it almost sounds like there was a good answer posted by someone else that has since been removed (or someone changed names)

ACuriousMind

@JMac There is a self-deleted answer at the older question.

This is why we tell people not to rely on anything external to their post to stay where it is :P

JMac

20:41

@ACuriousMind Yeah, I see a few people referencing another answer, and given how well received the question was relative to its response quality, it made a lot of sense that something got deleted, I'm guessing that one actually talked about the solution to the tea leaf paradox, but now that it's gone that question seems barren compared to the other

David Z

20:56

We can add another question to the list of duplicates

if that would make sense

GodotMisogi

What is this smoking...

ACuriousMind

@DavidZ I think JMac is asking us to reverse the dupe direction - the eariler question should become the dupe since the answers to the newer question are better. Adding another dupe target to the newer one doesn't help that

@GodotMisogi The heuristic probably didn't find anything that matched the question title so it just picked frequent dupe targets from the classical-mechanics tag

Anonymous

In short, the in-built SE search sucks. If it can't find any PSE question with a title containing words like "solid" and "sound", it is broken. :P

ACuriousMind

@Blue While the search does suck, the "suggested duplicates" heuristic is often a lot better, in my experience

But it always has to show you at least a few suggestions, so when there are no good matches, you get bad ones.

JMac

@ACuriousMind Yeah that's what I was getting at. Having both dupes listed for other questions doesn't change what I'm talking about.

Larry Harson

21:12

@Blue OK; can anyone see a problem with my question on hold linked to above?

ACuriousMind

@LarryHarson It failed the reopen review 3:1. If I would have to guess why, then probably because attributing mass to the electromagnetic field is not really a standard concept, but you present it as if everyone should understand exactly what you mean without further explanation.

Electromagnetic mass has a long and storied history, and it is not clear which - if any - of these attempts to endow the EM field with mass you are referring to.

Larry Harson

@ACuriousMind I'm surprised. I thought it was common knowledge, at least for physics graduates, that potential energy has inertial mass.

Perhaps the ones that closed it aren't physics graduates?

ACuriousMind

@LarryHarson It is common knowledge that $E=mc^2$. I'm not so certain anyone would claim that "potential energy has mass" is the correct way to phrase what happens then the $E$ of a system in that equation contains contributions of potential energy. Again, if $E=mc^2$ is the mechanism of "having mass" you are referring to, you should say so explicitly in your question - there are others, as my link to the "EM mass" article shows.

As a more general point: Neither our users in general nor our reviewers in particular are required to hold physics degrees at all, and yet many questions about issues that only specialists can understand never accrue a single close vote. So unless you have been the victim of a statistical aberration, do consider that your question could use a bit more depth of explanation of what it's about.

Larry Harson

21:37

@ACuriousMind I can see why my original question was put on hold because of it referring to the possible motives of authors. So I took this out which should have been OK IMO. But I'll raise the matter on meta

David Z

Yeah that's probably a good idea.

Ideally someone who voted not to reopen it will respond with their reasoning.

ZeroTheHero

@rob yes I got it now... THAT case. Yes I will be more proactive with flags in such situations...

rob

@ZeroTheHero Oh, good. Yes, even the comments that you left were very useful.

ZeroTheHero

@rob I should add that really it should be I that thank you for your prompt actions in this case.

rob

21:58

@ZeroTheHero Well, you're welcome.

ZeroTheHero

@EmilioPisanty instantaneous.

Jake Rose

Howdy

ZeroTheHero

V11.3.0.0 Mac OS X x86

Larry Harson

22:53

I've reworded my question, so I'll see if that makes a difference

Sir Cumference

23:08

Bahaha

M.N.Raia

Good night/morning/afternoon/ for every one!

I'm a person who like to buy books. In particular about physics and math. But they are quite expansive here in Brazil, and also they are imported mostly by amazon.
But I would like to buy some used books, but I'm struggling to find an site that have a shipment to Brazil.
Do you have any tips?

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