The h Bar

Great idea

Let's send all our unwanted questions to other SE

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1:34 PM

@ACuriousMind Those are the best plots

@PhysicsMeta What a ridiculous question

I accidentally approved the edit here but it should be rejected. Someone with the priviliges to review it, please do so and reject.

@Danu I got Dishonored GoTY for $15.

@Danu what the fuck is that

@Danu ...I don't see an edit pending there

@0celo7 Adventure time

@0celo7 It's from Adventure Time

You're missing out

@ACuriousMind Oh... maybe I made the decisive approval... sigh

1:41 PM

...seems like something for crack addicts

no offense

Seems like you're a boring conservative US citizen :D

@ACuriousMind My fps issues have magically disappeared. Windows is crazy.

@Danu I don't see an approved adit anywhere, either. I'm confused.

@Danu Guilty on all three counts.

@0celo7 Dishonored is good.

1:42 PM

@ACuriousMind Hmm maybe it was rejected

@0celo7 You're actually a conservative? By US standards?

@Danu Yes!

@ACuriousMind Yeah, and it runs really well too. High settings in 1200p is 60fps.

@ACuriousMind Nice

@Danu Of course.

Yiiiikes

1:44 PM

Then again, most people think Republicans are conservative.

I guess you have to specify "US conservative".

War mongering, gay hating, etc. is not conservative.

HDE 226868

@Slereah That already happens in some places. :P

2:23 PM

This purely mathmatical question of mine was closed - not migrated, and John's answer was maliciously deleted. — Dale 36 mins ago

Apparently, @DavidZ is a malicious deleter!

What was the deleted question?

I don't believe that's the first time that accusation has been made :/

@0celo7 The answer was deleted to Dale's question

@KyleKanos Then there must be a kernel of truth.

Isn't it site policy to delete answers to blatant HW questions?

@0celo7 Only if you believe moderating in general is malicious. I choose not to believe that

@0celo7 Exactly. Apparently, that's "malicious" in this case

2:26 PM

@0celo7 Yes, and DavidZ's comment on the deleted answer says something along the lines of I'm temporarily deleting this in view of the HW policy. Please don't give full solutions to HW questions

lol

@KyleKanos It is not because participation on this site is voluntary.

I agree with you then that this claim is ridiculous.

Traversable wormholes are a fantasy, Randy. So are traversable furnaces. — John Duffield 1 hour ago

So he's telling me the Floo network does not exist!?

Why are all these texture packs manual download...@ACuriousMind is there a way to import into NMM so I can have a backup?

@0celo7 I don't use NMM, remember

@ACuriousMind How do you manage all your crap?

2:31 PM

@KyleKanos Don't trust everything you hear from muggles!

@0celo7 ...what is there to manage? I download the mods, unpack them in the right place, and adjust the load order.

@ACuriousMind How do you back up so when you encounter a horrible conflict, you can resolve it?

@0celo7 I, uh, don't

@ACuriousMind Words of someone who's never lost data in a HDD crash

@KyleKanos I do back up actual data I don't want to lose...but in this case, I don't see what could happen that isn't fixed by reinstalling.

Oh god

I'd have to do hours of patching if I did that

Getting SkyRe to work with everything is horrible

::sigh:: I have to back up the texture folder manually I guess.

2:39 PM

@ACuriousMind You lose your saves?

@KyleKanos Letting Stream fix the installation doesn't remove the saves.

^^

Hmm. Well then that's fair

@KyleKanos Your 2009 is showing.

I love how goats get their own file in the skins folder

Fuck the trolls, cows, etc.

well these textures need to go into a file that doesn't exist

@0celo7 I had to reinstall CSS twice back in 2008 (maybe 07), all textures and such were lost when doing the reinstall

So yes, my 2009 is totally showing

> I'm typing this blind since my browser is rendering it in white on white.

Ouch

2:50 PM

@KyleKanos Sorry didn't read the comment name.

That's not me

Someone else did that (hence the quote & link)

@obe you know what being here means

@0celo7 I had a CT scan this morning and I'm tired lol.

I read carroll until 3am last night.

What kind of mishap render text white on white?!

@ACuriousMind God. Damn. Windows.

2:54 PM

Lol...I have 13 upvotes on answers where the question is tagged QFT, the same number of upvotes as I have on questions tagged MHD, which was the basis of my dissertation work :/

MHD? I thought you got a CS degree...

holy crap this is embarassing

You're telling me you didn't get a CS degree?

@ACuriousMind How does the Steam screenshot thingie work? Does it upload images right within Steam to Steam.com?

@0celo7 I've said it numerous times too.

@KyleKanos Huh, I must have missed it.

Jul 21 at 20:16, by Kyle Kanos

Physics major + Mathematics minor at BS, Physics MS, Physics PhD

Never saw that.

2:58 PM

Jul 9 at 13:10, by Kyle Kanos

@0celo7 Hmm. Well I didn't get a PhD in astrology, I got a PhD in Physics with emphasis on computational astrophysics

@0celo7 Uh...I think it just takes a screenshot and stores it in the Steam cloud (where it also stores your saves for some games), but I'm not sure.

Jun 29 at 22:44, by Kyle Kanos

@GeorgeSmyridis Depends on what type of engineering. That said, I do not regret getting my PhD in physics

@ACuriousMind I'm not using it right now because Steam Overlay conflicts with mods.

I use MSi Afterburner for screenshots, fps and temperature.

Apr 20 at 16:58, by Kyle Kanos

@ACuriousJim I switched undergrad majors after 2 years (poli sci to physics) and then did a 2-year MS in condensed matter theory before getting into a PhD program where I did astrophysics. Huge time loss across the board.

Wait, you said you finished in 3 years.

How did you do that if you switched majors?

3:02 PM

I did a 6 year BS, not 3. Not sure where you got that though

Then 2 year MS and 6 year PhD = me being old :/

2 days ago, by Kyle Kanos

My wife did like 18-21 credit hours, plus summer & winter courses and finished in 3.5 years

2 days ago, by Kyle Kanos

Half a semester behind me

3.5-.5=3

@0celo7 Nothing there says he and his wife started at the same time

Yes that occurs to me now

The way he worded that made me read it the other way.

Like she did all this crap and he was still better.

Yeah, she's 2.25 years younger than me

@0celo7 She is better than me

@ACuriousMind Dead Space is banned in Germany?

3:22 PM

@0celo7 The shankar solutions on that website don't work.

@0celo7 No idea

Did anyone download them before they broke?

whaaaaat

huh?

yeah they're broke

@obe look at the comments on the bottom

very last one

or not

3:28 PM

There are no downloads.

astrophysics supernova stellar-evolution

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Q: What is the supernovae?

Supernovae are exploding stars. They represent the very final stages of evolution for some stars. Supernovae, as celestial events, are huge releases of tremendous energy, as the star ceases to exist, with about 1020 times as much energy produced in the supernova explosion as our Sun releases ever...

@0celo7 Did you try the filedropper link?

Getting those links took a while :/

@0celo7 I'm downloading it right now, though it is probably fake.

Q: Does Only Flat universe have zero energy?

How come Lawrence Kraus gets labelled as astrophysicist while Stephen Hawking doesn't get labelled cosmologist (or even general relativist)??

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Hello I am very new to cosmology and quantum physics. I need some basic understanding (in LAYMANs term )of the following: I read that only closed universe has zero energy. But I heard Astrophysicist Lawrence Kraus saying that flat universe can also have total zero energy. How is it possible? Is ...

quantum-mechanics cosmology energy-conservation vacuum

3:33 PM

@KyleKanos Because it is obvious?

Isn't it obvious who Kraus is?

Never heard of him.

Q: Topological order and entanglement in quantum quench problem

3:49 PM

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I would like to ask about useful reviews, must-read papers on the study of topological order and entanglement in quantum quench problems that give a good introduction to the topic.

statistical-mechanics condensed-matter resource-recommendations quantum-information topological-order

One that I'm not really sure about whether it's on topic for us

I hate this type of question... "give me some resources on this topic"... Way too broad

@Danu well, arguably yes, but that's exactly what all our resource recommendations are

must-read papers seems to be POB, no?

Why all this hate for resource recs?

They're really too broad because any textbook on the subject is an answer

3:55 PM

@KyleKanos Personally I'd be willing to interpret that wording loosely - I mean, even though opinions on what papers one must read will vary from person to person, sometimes there are papers that are broadly agreed to be pretty standard. Plus all answers to resource recommendations are a bit opinionated

BTW I'm not defending this because I personally believe the question is on topic, I'm just playing devil's advocate, basically

@DavidZ Hmm, that is true.

@DavidZ Resource rec. is just not a good fit for physics.SE, period.

@0celo7 resource recommendation questions don't fit the SE model very well. We're best equipped to handle questions that have a definite right answer, but a resource recommendation is really looking for an open-ended list.

We didn't allow them at first, but there was a very strong push from the community to let those questions exist on the site

But most of the push was directed at books, no?

@DavidZ Why don't they fit the SE model?

3:58 PM

It's not so bad on sites like e.g. HSM, but here it's just bleh

@0celo7 No definite answer, for one

Or, rather, answers can't be "right" in the sense they can be in almost all other cases

Disable check marks for those questions then.

@KyleKanos I don't think we've ever drawn a distinction between books and other types of resources

@0celo7 and answer votes too

@DavidZ No, poor resources need to be downvoted.

There's no such thing as a poor resource when you're trying to accumulate a list of recommendations. That's the problem.

4:01 PM

viXra

viXra is the best ressource

How many papers on Atlantis are there on arXiv, I ask you

viXra is not a resource in this sense

How many papers solved all of physics on arXiv

An individual paper on viXra might be, but not the site as a whole

Qmechanic

@KyleKanos : Resources recommendations can be books, journals, websites, vidoes, you name it (if that was what you were debating).

4:02 PM

Ironically, if I wanted to publish a paper

viXra would probably be the way to go

Since I'm not in a university anymore

Not sure how I could publish a paper outside of the university system

Well, but I'd call that publicization, not exactly publishing, at least not in the academic sense

Then again, while I do want to write a paper

DEM VIDEO GAMES

@Slereah you just send it to a journal, same as anyone else.

@Slereah You can upload on arXiv as well, you just need someone to endorse you, if I understand the system correctly

I am sure not spending my week ends constructively

@DavidZ Is it free to do so, though

yeah, you need two people to endorse you

4:04 PM

Yep. Well, depends on the journal, but generally yes, it's free

I guess I can find two arXiv people

I guess first though, I need to write a paper

@Qmechanic I wasn't debating much, I just thought that the push for allowing resource recommendation questions was due to books and was asking for clarification. That decision occurred around the time I started becoming active

I want to do a paper on like, energy conditions in interacting fields

But it is pretty hard finding time and motivation

Because so it turns out, according to recent papers

(Well they are ten years old by now)

Energy conditions basically don't mean shit in the interacting regime!

At least as they stand

I think Visser created a bunch of new energy conditions but I dunno how they stand currently

Qmechanic

@KyleKanos : Yeah, it was discussed quite a lot on meta and in chat a few years back. Res. recom. questions are problematic for various reasons.

4:35 PM

I am pretty glad that arxiv exists

the situation in other disciplines isd pretty grim

vzn

5:01 PM

in theory salon, 6 mins ago, by vzn

NASA Hosts ‘Quest for Quakes’ Data Challenge, $25K prize, 2wk only!

The hardest part of writing a paper is finding a thing that is both doable and that nobody did before

Half the time when I get some idea I find out some dude solved it like 40 years ago

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5:30 PM

Nomnomnom, found a new way of making tofu :3

Oneirology is a subject though there are no books that teach it.

None? I doubt it

5:52 PM

One of the costs of duplicate questions rarely mentioned is that users with a lot of time on their hands and a burr up an orifice for some reason or another can use them as a platform to reach beginners with less contradiction that they would receive on highly trafficked master questions.

This problem has been on my mind for some time, but I can't see a way forward aside from (re-)rallying the troops to close fast and close often.

Anyone have a good idea?

@Danu Find me one.

6:28 PM

@Slereah If by "publish" you mean "in a formal, peer reviewed venue", you would send it to the editor of an appropriate journal. There is no requirement that you have an academic affiliation to do that.

@loser amazon.com/Ancient-Science-Dreams-Oneirology-Greco-Roman/dp/…

The editor might give it more scrutiny before sending it for review if he can't find some sign that you have a history of publishing in the field, but he won't circular file it just because you don't list a university address.

@Danu I saw that too, technically it is not an introduction to the subject and it's too specific.

If by publish you mean getting it on a preprint archive, then you should use your contact from when you were in university to get in touch with a couple of endorsers in your discipline.

@obe Hey, all I claimed is a textbook on oneirology

6:31 PM

@Slereah If it's only half you have a great batting average.

@dmckee : The other hard part is actually solving that half, though

A lot of them involve horrible nonlinear stuff

Because everybody hates nonlinearity

So there's a ton of nonlinear problems up for grabs