SN10 managed the landing!

It was, erm, rapidly dismantled a few minutes after landing :-)

But it's still a huge step forward.

morning

@JohnRennie I'm not sure I see the advantage of exploding after landing compared to exploding in the air :P

Look on the bright side, it was the fastest turnaround time between launches ever recorded.

Admittedly the second landing was a bit hard :-)

oh, so they were fastest to explode two rockets in succession? ;)

No, I mean if you watch the landing the explosion launched the starship in the air. It wasn't actually that big an explosion - unlike the previous two landing attempts.

Let me see if I can find the video ...

See 00:30

There was obviously a fuel leak as you could see the flames from the leak immediately before the landing. Hopefully a fuel leak is easy to fix compared to manoeuvres like the flip.

The Witt/Virasoro algebras in string theory are infinite dimensional right?

nvm I'm almost certain the answer is yes

@Charlie yes

and other than one might expect, there are also not really groups corresponding to them, see Schottenloher's CFT book for details on that

ah, wondered when I might run into something like that

Can thermodynamics be viewed as an Effective Theory?

@newUser Basically, yes

You can derive thermodynamics from statistical mechanics in some limit

Up to maybe some subtleties regarding the second law

Hi, so I am solving this problem where I have to calculate the potential due to an infinite chain of particles with charge +q at a mutual distance of 'a' apart. Now, for a point that lies between any two such charges (the point lies on the infinite line somewhere between any two charges), I am getting the potential to be infinite. I checked my calculations and they seem to be fine. Does my conclusion seem fine?

I mean, I am thinking of a physical explanation as to why does this makes sense (if this is in fact true).

Errr I think that's similar to the Newtonian homogeneous universe?

For which yes the potential diverges

Both obey the Laplace equation so it makes sense

@ACuriousMind or some other mod

this physics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/332884 is part of a longish streak of tag-wiki edits by the same user

they're generally good

but they abuse some html formatting such as <br>

maybe one of y'all can contact them to point out that best-practices are to use Markdown formatting instead?

@Slereah Yes. As a matter of fact, I am getting potential at a point outside the axis of infinite charges as infinite too. Does that make sense too?

I think so, yes

you can find proper explanations for this regarding solutions of the Laplace equations, IIRC

@Slereah Thanks a lot. Really appreciate it. Thanks!

@EmilioPisanty @nmasanta see the linked message, if you can please consider not using <br> and other HTML formatting since it works somewhat inconsistently across different displays

That should've pinged them, I don't think this is worth writing a mod message over

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