@Allie i discovered bullet journalling specifically for research in the last 8 months of my phd and i wish i started it years and years ago

i dont really do enough these days to keep that system. i just chuck everything on overleaf or txt files

@Allie MM EE OO WW ~~

@SillyGoose what do you even mean by this? Stat mech is very much understood to its fundamentals, and it is now basically known maths. You can put it on a postulatory basis and fully understand what to do in any circumstance. That is very much not the situation in QFT, and plenty of people like stat mech.

@naturallyInconsistent I’m not sure this is true. Noneq statistical mechanics seems like an active area of research. Also “simple” models are not solvable (3d ising, for example)

@SillyGoose non-equi and quantum are separate offshoots of it, and still under active research. This is not the same thing as what you expect when you hear stat mech being thrown around as a term in itself.

morning everyone :)

hi

Ciao

"one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -MLK

and also a moral obligation to obey just laws

> Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Trying to sort the books by color for fun

Have you seen this, yet?

I have not

@Slereah solid collection

Much less yellow than I thought

Springer isn't pulling its weight

@Slereah do you curate your books to your favourites only? or is it more random

Well I didn't put in all the books, but that's a random selection here

Although this is specifically my shelf of science books

do u keep these as references or do u read them full?

I read them as needed

cover to cover, or when u need to read a sub-topic?

i think there is no point in reading cover to cover, as books have overlapping ideas

e.g. no point in reading multiple QM books cover to cover

one can read one book cover to cover and skip most parts of the other books

but this would only work with physics/math books. it should be harder to do with philosophy/history books, as all philosophers write unique ideas, so there is little overlap

@Slereah you hypocrite!

Le Japonais

You were one of us all along

u have a book called "how to read egyptian hieroglyphs"

emojis are a modernisation of this idea

@HerrFeinmann i ain't reading mangas

@Slereah I ain't trusting your word

And you said that because I was learning Japanese :P

I can tell your intentions for it were impure

The papers you read have more drawings than a manga

@HerrFeinmann not even realizing that this is also in the library

I didn't open the picture a second time :P

Is that GR or just SR?

Both

What is the level? Undegradish?

Or no equations? :(

pop sciency

a few equations but nothing much

hiiiiiiiii

hey

hiya tobias

i like to say hiya because then it rhymes with tobia

hehe

hi

@Slereah Very nice

I can't stop thinking about how lost I would be studying physics without the internet. I know I mentioned it once, but I find myself skimming through a different book every five minutes, books whose existence I learned about thanks to SE or other sites questions

50 years ago I wouldn't have gotten half a degree :P

:d yeah

also for finding papers, or integrals etc.

your success was much more dependent on the quality of the lecturer than nowadays, I'd say

@TobiasFünke if my success depended on my lecturers, I would enter physics university with the intention of becoming a theoretical physicists and come out of it as an astrologist

hehe

meowy

Allie's law: $\textrm{contentment} = \frac{d\textrm{meow}}{dt}$

Studying physics is certainly a lot easier these days

Imagine having to ask the librarian to order a paper every time you try to look up a reference

Imagine? I can still remember that.

And then you finally get a copy of the paper, only to find out that our princess is in another castle.

I've had to do it a few times for some very hard to get papers

It is very annoying

Went to the library and asked them about inter library loans

And they looked at me like

"Is that a thing that still exists?"

I ordered and bought a special issue directly from the publisher. I actually still have it here.

does it make sense to you guys that the eigenvalues are to the power m instead of $m/2$? i have looked at two different books and they wrote it like this. It is regarding the partition function of ising model.

@Slereah I would need a secretary

I was thinking this today. I am truly previliged to study physics in this age. I can save so much time just googling... its crazy, but the natural progression of mankind. At one point, we will cease to study physics, because we will deligate this objective to an AI and download information throught agumentations !

Nah, it's not like google is thinking for me now. It's just giving me access to sources faster. I do the thinking

for now.... :) Chat gpt already is very helpful and sees some stuff i miss. and it is not even a real AI

Seems like someone else had the very same problem 3 years ago D:

@HerrFeinmann and I've upvoted that lol.

@TobiasFünke now on 3 years ago?

I looked dozens of books today. Two of them mentioning this thing and then proceeding to not give a damn about it :P

@Slereah yes

we have access to most knowledge today

and i don't respect that as much as I should have if I was living in 19th century

@HerrFeinmann back then, it seems

@HerrFeinmann interesting. but what do you mean with "mentioning"? did they just say: this comes out, but we neglect it? or just state the result?

can you give the name of the books?

@Madder maybe the discovery of new physics could be left to ai, but humans would still be interested in learning physics

but maybe u could have a brain chip like in The Matrix to make u learn it easier

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