In fact, if I had my legs broken with big mallets not only could I get a sick wheelchair and get cool wheels for it, I wouldn't have to go to any Labs because I'd be phobic of the mallets they use to measure weight
@Phase I once had to do a lab about measuring the rotation frequency of a coloured top with a stroboscope while being terribly hungover. Now that was torture :P
@Danu Eh, I'm really not convinced I'd have been as great at research as everyone else seems to think :P Anyway, I'll not leave physics.SE any time soon, at least, so there's that :)
@Phase Heh. I'll consider it :P
@Danu Uhhhhhhhhh...I don't think I have anything I liked learning it from.
Hartshorne is good, I guess, but it's not very fun
@ACuriousMind The trouble I find is that there's research in the amateur sense and research in the professional sense. In the sense of teaching/learning/discovering, I love research. But making a career out of it...that's different.
@Semiclassical ... It appears that my woefully inadequate attempt to comfort you by showing that it's not just you with existential dread was... Woefully inadequate
idly googling those terms (nothing better to do around here!) gives me this article "Lego Batman Finds the Funny In Existential Angst" time.com/4665019/the-lego-batman-movie-review
[Updated] The proposed GOP tax bill would slam grad students and schools by taxing tuition waivers. Learn more: https://bcide.gitlab.io/post/gop-tax-plan/
Our DGS's response was basically that the house proposal isn't the last word on this, so we shouldn't be too alarmed yet; and, if it does pass, in all likelihood they'd just end up increasing grad student salaries. So he was pretty sanguine about it.
@Semiclassical so you are bored enough yet to hear about a revolutionary qm + fluid dynamics finding, 2016? one might say it could be highly related to your research interests... just found it less than few hrs ago
i'm near the end of the program either way, i'm an in-state resident so (I think?) my tuition is already lower, and i live with my parents so food/rent is not really as big a problem
the people I really worry about aren't so much those at the start of grad school, though, as much as those who are midstream right now
to put it a little differently, I'm more worried about the people who will have to drop out of grad school than I am about the people who won't be able to start in the first place.
which I understand, to a certain extent. it's not at all clear what the senate bill will look like, to say nothing of whatever final bill comes out between them
> Quantum mechanics has been argued to be a coarse-graining of some underlying deterministic theory. Here we support this view by establishing a map between certain solutions of the Schroedinger equation, and the corresponding solutions of the irrotational Navier–Stokes equation for viscous fluid flow.
> As a physical model for the fluid itself we propose the quantum probability fluid. It turns out that the (state-dependent) viscosity of this fluid is proportional to Planck’s constant, while the volume density of entropy is proportional to Boltzmann’s constant. o_O
@Semiclassical extraordinary (new) truths take extraordinary time/ effort to accept/ verify. am skimming paper, dont see immediate red flags. it cites madelung formulation which is undergoing increasing attn/ scrutiny/ resurgence lately.
@0celo7 It's really hard to go to colloquia when the two colloquia per week are when you've got other things on and the main seminar involves pizza, which I can't eat, so going to them just makes me sad :(
I think the numerical methods seminar is well-attended.
The algebraists don't even advertise their seminar which is damn strange.
@Mithrandir24601 No offense but I have this (possibly insane) idea that lactose intolerance is a weakness of the mind. Have you tried exposure therapy?
