@vzn sorry, I forgot to tag you in the response about the thesis. I'll copypaste it real quick: So there is this astro simulation code RAMSES that my professor wrote (bitbucket.org/rteyssie/ramses).
For dark matter particle simulations, it had a segmentation tool to find density clumps. My job was to implement a tool that checks if the particles are energetically bound to those clumps. It gets a bit more complicated than that, but that's the main outline.
I noticed that '
Programming Puzzles & Code Golf' have a best of 2016 meta competition kind of thing (see here for the post). Should we do the same? If not why not?
Suppose we do a simple mass balance on the reactions for beta plus decay and electron capture. We'll ignore the kinetic energy of the reaction products to get the minimum energy required.
The neutron is heavier than the proton by $1.293$ MeV, so for beta plus decay the reaction is:
$$ p + 1.804...
Best Most Stereotypically English Englishman
Ahem, John Rennie, I'm looking at you.
(Seriously, 209,107 rep? Stop embarassing us, please! =)
As suggested in another meta post, let's do a Physics Stack Exchange "best of 2016".
There's a nice precedent for this in the Puzzles and Code Golf site.
Objective
We will vote for the best posts of 2016 and rewarded them with bounties and challenges.
In this way, we reward and draw attention t...
