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1:04 AM
@skullpatrol TIL it's pronounced "kuh-nooth"
 
1:19 AM
:-)
 
Hi.
 
Skull patrol what does this name refers to?
 
The Oakland Raiders
 
Okay a true football fan
 
Do you got something funny?
 
yeah, it is funny that next year the team is moving to $1.9 billion stadium in Las Vegas >8(
 
@PM2Ring I have to calculate the path difference when I place a slab of some refractive index $\mu$ of width w. Please tell me how to begin. Should I drop a perpendicular from one ray to the other.
@skullpatrol Well it’s totally a new thing.
Skull Patrol Do you have any interest in boxing?
 
Yes, I enjoy watching heavyweight boxing
UFC also
Heavyweight boxing has always been my favourite sport @Knight
@Knight football is second :-)
 
@skullpatrol Who was/is your favourite boxer?
 
1:40 AM
Of all time it would be Ali
 
Oh! Great
What about Jake LaMotta?
 
Today I like D. Wilder.
LaMotta was a middle weight
Have you seen The Raging Bull?
 
Yes. The Raging Bull is the greatest movie
 
A lot of people say that.
 
Did LaMotta became more famous through The Raging Bull? Or was he really like Rober DeNiro in the movie?
 
1:45 AM
Yup, but he didn't make any money on the movie :(
 
Was he really the way it is shown in the movie?
 
Yup, go to YouTube and see the real thing pal.
LaMotta was a real life raging bull of a fighter because nobody could knock him down.
 
Okay. Did Scorsese put something in it or wa it a complete and unaltered version of the novel?
 
Search for "Sugar Ray Robinson vs LaMotta"
 
For me you are more knowledgeable than Google.
 
1:51 AM
@Knight good question, sadly I never read the novel.
 
Okay.
What are some of your favourite human psyche / crime movies?
 
I like classics mostly.
How about you?
 
Please name them.
 
Gone With The Wind.
 
Who’s the director? Who’s the actor?
Okay I searched
What about Francis Coppola’s movies? Which one is your favourite leaving The Godfather trilogies
 
1:58 AM
Yup, the first was the best imho
Rocky 1 was good.
 
Yeah it’s almost undecidable between 1and 2.
What about Brian De Palma’s ?
 
Scare Face is a classic
as I said I like classics mostly
 
I want to ask something. Why some great directors like Palma and Lynch make use of explicit scenes for converting their idea?
 
"Explicit" leaves no room for doubt, right?
 
Yes. No doubt I meant what you are understanding
What?
 
2:08 AM
I don't understand your question pal.
Give me an example movie.
 
Have you watched blue velvet?
 
nope
 
Dressed to kill?
 
nope
Try Scare Face
 
Scar face is just a remake he can’t put anything in it. What about Body Double? Have you watched Bidy Double?
 
2:12 AM
nope
A remake of what?
 
Scar face is a remake of Howard Hawk’s and Howard Hughes Scar face
 
Really? TIL
:-)
 
Yes.
Both are masterpiece.
 
Wow 1932
 
Yeah
 
2:17 AM
I think LaMotta was fighting back then :-)
 
Hahahahaha
 
> Afterward he fought undefeated in amateur bouts, turning professional at age 19 in 1941.
^From Wikipedia
 
2:55 AM
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Q: Lots of deleted users

stafusaApparently, quite a number of users have been deleted in the last month or so. I've noticed it because, as I haven't been very active lately, my rep score has been declining due to their removed votes. I saw that 155 users have been deleted in the whole year, so unless they'd been very active in...

 
@PM2Ring Unfortunately there is not much to do individually beyond going through the review queues and proposing deletions for the more extreme cases.
methinks new users should have to wait for some time before posting but that would run against Company credo. Impatience - no proper research on the site or elsewhere- on the part of new users is for me a constant source of irritation.
 
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@Knight so that means the real Jack LaMotta grew up watching the original Scar Face.
No wonder he was so tough.
TIL
 
3:16 AM
Yeah
 
did you check YouTube?
Actually, I always start with Wikipedia first @Knight
 
3:59 AM
What? I mean what should I check?
 
4:20 AM
Would anyone have a good reference on why the MKSA system (with 4 basic quantities to determine) eventually became more popular than the cgs system (with only 3 basic quantities)?
 
 
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user434058
5:21 AM
Which flag should I use for questions involving no prior elementary research?
 
9:22 AM
@FakeMod Why to flag it? Just tell them politely in comment that they should do some research, that would do better than anything.
 
9:36 AM
@Knight flagging is done to make other community users aware of the case of a question. And I believe yes referring them to correct site would be much helpful (though it does require time to do so).
 
user434058
@Knight Hmmm... That's a good idea! Will do that in the future!
 
Communication is the key.
 
No
Customer service is the key.
lol
 
10:10 AM
McDonald's
RAY KROC
RayKrocnald's
 
10:27 AM
@FakeMod I saw that Mr.Guru Vishnu did something unethical with you.
 
user434058
@Knight That isn't unethical! It might just be a mistake, or a slip of fingers! Or he might want more upvotes by getting his question repeatedly bumped to the homepage! Or he might want a better answer(which is obviously not the case).
 
user434058
@Knight And yeah, now someone deleted my comment! Funny, isn't it?
 
@FakeMod What? Why?
Give me the link
 
user434058
@Knight I again wrote it 10 secmago
 
user434058
10:32 AM
It was deleted by someone!!
 
user434058
Not by me
 
Is M.Guru Vishnu your personal friend?
@FakeMod His name seems Indian? Is he Indian?
 
user434058
@Knight Not friends, but we know each other.
 
user434058
@Knight Yup!!!!
 
@FakeMod In real life do you know each other?
 
user434058
10:35 AM
@Knight I do not know any other Physics SE user in real life....
 
@FakeMod Teenage Indians are striving for reputations so much. The answer of that $\int dp dV$ user, do you remember?
 
user434058
@Knight See this. Hahaha!!!
 
@FakeMod HAHHAHHAHAH
 
user434058
@Knight Yes, he was suspended and then he willingly deleted his account!!
 
user434058
@Knight His original name was ramanujan-π
 
10:37 AM
@FakeMod His name was Ramanujan_$\pi$ and then he changed it to The Last Airbender and
 
user434058
@Knight Yeah!
 
His questions were not of his level. He used to accept the answers very badly.
 
user434058
@Knight But he had upvoted me!!
 
AHHAHHAHA
 
user434058
And accepted my answer
 
10:38 AM
I'm not talking about that
 
user434058
@Knight Then what!?
 
Once he asked a question about the speed of the molecules in the gas, he received an answer from Anna V which was incomplete and the great answer was given by Philip Woods.
he corrected Anna V as marked correct.
 
user434058
@Knight Hmmm... I don't know bout dat question.
 
Then someone asked him about his class and he replied 11th, and when I saw his book of class 11 th (he gave us the link) the book wasn't of the level of which Anna V replied.
And he used to get upvotes for simple question that a simple student would ask. There was something wrong with him.
 
user434058
@Knight That happens very often. Many people are afraid to say that :- "hey your answer is good but I did not understand a thing bout it coz I am dumb"
 
10:45 AM
@FakeMod HAHHAHA. You're a funny guy.
 
user434058
@Knight that kind of stuff also happens with me but rarely
 
HAHAHHA
 
@ZeroTheHero Sounds like a case for History of Science and Mathematics!
 
Someone deleted @FakeMod comment. Why it was done?
 
@ZeroTheHero Making people wait wouldn't do more harm than good, I think - you'd annoy more people ("What a stupid site that makes me wait before I can do what I came here to do") than you actually get to look around - I feel most users that didn't bother to look around before won't use that time to look around either, but just do something else and then come back.
 
user434058
10:58 AM
@Knight Its Ok. i wrote it again! Hope this time it stays.
 
@FakeMod Do not repost deleted posts (whether comments, questions or answers).
 
@FakeMod I think you should adhere to ACM.
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind Ok sorry!
 
He hates to get pinged. (lol)
 
user434058
Alright its again deleted!
 
11:00 AM
In this case, your comment was auto-deleted via flags (the system has heuristics for "probably not useful" comments which can be deleted by less flags than usual)
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind And I suppose the OP flagged it.
 
And the system is right - your comment is not aimed at improving the post being commented on or providing useful auxiliary information, so it shouldn't stay
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind but what do you think. Wasn't my comment reasonable? Or else how should I communicate with the OP.
 
I think it was reasonable. Getting negative 15 for no reason is hurtful.
 
@FakeMod If OP had been interested in communicating with you, they'd have left a comment on your answer when they unaccepted it.
 
user434058
11:02 AM
@Knight Thanks bro :)
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind So does "no comment" imply that the OP just doesn't wanna let me know why he unaccepted my answer? And should I just wonder?
 
No the main thing is that OP is running away from @FakeMod, OP should answer why he done anything like that or should simply say that he doesn't like @FakeMod getting more and more reputations
 
@FakeMod Yes. Users are free to vote on and (un)accept answers as they like. Of course it would have been nice if they had told you why, but they are in no way obligated to do so.
 
@Knight there is no obligation on an OP to say why they did or didn't accept and answer, and it is rude to press the OP on the subject.
 
@JohnRennie I'm sorry sir for doing that. I think you're right.
 
user434058
11:07 AM
@ACuriousMind As I said, then OP might want his question to be bumped often more so he might not want an accepted answer to his question!! Or he might have done it by mistake (impossiblemas he has seen my comment still not reverted his actions). Or he might want a better answer (again, then he shouldn't have accepted mine in the first place).
 
user434058
@JohnRennie Ok then I think we should leave this matter here. Forget what has happened and move on (no sarcasm intended).
 
Yes we should just accept what @JohnRennie and @ACuriousMind is saying because they must have seen things like this or much worse than this in their stay on SE. Just do what they tell us.
 
11:20 AM
@FakeMod don't worry a good post would always garner upvotes wethere it's accepted by OP or not.
 
user434058
@JohanLiebert yes, you are right. The best example is your answer onthat 150 bounty question :)
 
@FakeMod no the best example is this👇
106
A: Why doesn't the road lose its thickness to the tyre?

niels nielsenAnyone who has lived near a major thoroughfare knows that tire wear creates rubber dust that gets spread around everywhere. In some parts of Los Angeles, the residents have to hose off the sidewalks every day or so in order to prevent that dust from being tracked into their homes. Some of it also...

 
user434058
@JohanLiebert yes u r right!! I had encountered this question and edited it....but there might be even better examples. You may uee SEDE to find them.
 
wHo hErE lEiKs mCdOnaLD''s?
 
user434058
I d0
 
user434058
11:29 AM
@NovaliumCompany
 
@NovaliumCompany Не харесвам пица
 
user434058
@Knight Even I like Pizzas
 
@FakeMod I wrote I don't like pizzas
 
user434058
@Knight I forgot "He"
 
user434058
11:34 AM
I thought you were typing hey
 
@FakeMod can you understand what he wrote?
 
user434058
@JohanLiebert Google Translate to the rescue!!!
 
@Knight so you are from Bulgaria. (though Google Translates He as Russian )
 
@FakeMod: Yesterday, I deleted "Thank you in advance." from all my posts, as my latest posts were edited by others removing that and so I felt I need to make the same changes to my older posts. So, let me make it clear that I did not edit to bump my questions to the homepage. If I wanted more reputation points I would have written good questions and answers but not edited the same thing again and again. You may look the edit history of a series of question by me which removed that message.
 
user434058
@M.GuruVishnu Yes I had seen that! I am not saying that you wanted to bump using edits, rather it might be possible that you wanted your question to have no accepted answer, so that the community bumps your question regularly.
 
user434058
11:46 AM
@M.GuruVishnu The above conversation might look like me criticizing you but let me tell you, there are no evil intentions. All of this was done to just find the reason for unaccepting the answer. If you find any of my statements objectionable, then I am really sorry for that! Do not hold grudges against me or anyone else.
 
@JohanLiebert Yes. My friends' land is my land.
 
user434058
@M.GuruVishnu I respect your decisions. (A short comment from your side was not necessary but it would have been helpful) Lack of response made me a bit more enthusiastic to know about the unacceptance.
 
@NovaliumCompany is from Bulgaria, so I'm too from there.
 
user434058
@Knight I am from MARS!!!
 
@FakeMod I know that.
It's not funny, you don't have any good food there because you can't combust
 
user434058
11:50 AM
@Knight This vacation, Imam going to Jupiter!! Where are you going??
 
@FakeMod Let's go to Andromeda
I will come a little later okay?
 
user434058
@Knight That's too far away! We will go there when it collides with the Milky Way!
 
@FakeMod what happens when I select no action need in the first post queue? Does it get passed on to others?
 
user434058
@JohanLiebert No! It doesn't! Correct me if I am wrong!
 
12:07 PM
@FakeMod No problem :-) I understand that it'll be very sad to loose reputation points because even I've lost some on this network either due to downvotes or user removed or bounties (not on PSE). Regarding your answer: There is nothing wrong in your answer. After all, it's upvoted by other users besides me! Regarding the unacceptance I'd prefer not to comment anything. Please don't take it too seriously. I'm sorry for your loss.
 
219
Q: What are the review queues, and how do they work?

ManishearthI see a "review" link on the top of the page, which takes me to a few "review queues". What is a "review queue"? What are the various queues for? What can I do in each queue? Return to FAQ index

@FakeMod There is a lot of info regarding this over there. Especially "if you review a post in a queue, it is not necessarily removed from that queue for other users. It gets removed for all users after a few more reviews by other users".
 
user434058
@M.GuruVishnu 👍
 
user434058
12:24 PM
@JohanLiebert Thanks! It helped
 
Transfer photosynthesis gene from plant to a human and boom, humans won't have to eat anything anymore, we'll just be exposed to sun and get energy that way.
Or literally create something like an attached lightbulb to replace sun during the night or something
 
That's...not how genes work :P
 
12:39 PM
:(
then we'll make them work that way
if we can color neurons, we can make people eat sun.
i'm genius.
@ACuriousMind U got a better idea, I'm tired of eating? :(
I just want to exist without having to eat, drink, poop and pee.
 
3
Q: Sources on Screens and the Gibbons-Hawking term

Naveen BalajiIn the theory of junction conditions, the Riemann tensor in terms of the Heaviside theta function is expressed as follows $$R^{\alpha}_{\beta\lambda\mu} = \Theta(l)R^{\alpha^{+}}_{\beta\lambda\mu} + \Theta(-l)R^{\alpha^{-}}_{\beta\lambda\mu} + \delta(l)A^{\alpha}_{\beta\lambda\mu}.$$ Now, the tr...

Interested?
 
Btw it's quite hard for me to understand how exactly DNA operates. Like, can I cut the dog's nose dna and put it in mine and I'll have a dog nose a few weeks later?
 
12:54 PM
@NovaliumCompany Certainly not - there is no "nose DNA", a nose cell contains the same DNA as any other cell.
 
user434058
@NovaliumCompany Nope! It isn't that simple! DNA isn't like the code which everyone copy-pastes from SO to their project!
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind But there is a segment of DNA which is responsible for one's nose.
 
Ok how does it work? I mean, there must be something telling something to form the cell to represent a nose?
 
Cellular differentiation is a complex process.
 
user434058
See this.
 
12:56 PM
holy sh*t
nvm
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind Do you watch Kurzgesagt videos? You are from Germany so I think you might watch and love 'em
 
@FakeMod Not necessarily so straightforwardly - many traits are polygenic and the genes involved in them then also affect many other traits, so there doesn't need to be an identifiable segment specifically repsonsible for noses.
@FakeMod No, I don't know what that is
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind Yeah.... It's complex. But it's achievable!
 
user434058
@ACuriousMind Check them out, you might like it.
 
user434058
It means in a nutshell (in German)
 
1:12 PM
Thank you Kurzgesagt.
I'mma have nightmares now.
 
user434058
@NovaliumCompany Hahaha!!!
 
Are you telling me that X-Ray scanners have a chance to cause alternations in my DNA. What the f*ck Doc, I don't wanna end up like that up there.
 
38 mins ago, by ACuriousMind
That's...not how genes work :P
 
Yes.
They are.
X-Rays are ionizing and can result in changes in DNA.
 
sigh
But that has nothing to do with your picture.
 
1:18 PM
Well, too much exposure to DNA altering radiation and I might end up like it.
 
no
 
@NovaliumCompany Take a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeobox
 
You would get a higher chance for cancer and similar effects, but not a whole-body mutation.
 
So the homeobox alone is responsible for how I look or?
@Loong Why not? If it's severe enough?
 
You would have to change the DNA of all concerned cells in the same way. That's impossible for a big multicellular organism.
 
1:27 PM
Be careful using that word, impossible.
 
I am.
 
Are you a biologist or something?
Why should I take your word for it?
 
radiochemist
 
I'm not a biologist so I can't say if X-Ray can make me a spider or no.
Can we use CRISPR to make ourselves smarter?
 
Do you have any idea how many cells there are in a single human organ? Or a single human arm? And now you want to shoot ionizing radiation at that arm and make random changes to the DNA of every cell in that arm so that each cell has now the DNA of a cell in a human leg and still lives and works? And that changes a human arm into a working human leg?
 
1:36 PM
@NovaliumCompany Sure, radiation (or whatever) could make random changes to the DNA of millions of cells. But to make the same random change in each of those cells? Forget it!
 
Thank you for explaining it to me properly. Of course I know it's not possible right now, I just wanted to know why.
If a women decides remove the baby, does it mean she can't have any more babies?
 
dsm
Anyone keen on group theory at the moment? I'm considering the Lie algebra of the isometry group of some vector space $V$ that has some non-degenerate bilinear form $(\cdot|\cdot)$. If $X$ is in this Lie alegbra, then $(e^{tX}v|e^{tX}w) = (v|w)\hspace{2mm}\forall\hspace{1mm}v,w\in V, t\in\mathbb{R}$. What I don't understand is how taking the $t$ derivative of this expression gets $(Xe^{tX}v|w)+(v|Xe^{tX}w) = 0$. Anyone see this LHS as obvious?
@ACuriousMind
 
@dsm It's just the product rule
 
dsm
1:56 PM
why not $(Xe^{tX}v|e^{tX}w)+(e^{tX}v|Xe^{tX}w)=0$?
 
oops, you're right. Then I guess your expression is just a typo.
 
dsm
except it seems right, because my author then evaluates it at $t=0$ to show that the elements of that Lie algebra satisfy $(Xv|w)=-(v|Xw) \Rightarrow X^T=-X$, the set of anti-symmetric matrices
which I guess is also true for the expression I wrote down above. so a typo?
 
@dsm You get the exact same result from the expression you wrote down at $t=0$, which is probably why no one caught the typo
 
dsm
ahh, ok got it, thanks!
 
(I in fact also did that sanity check of seeing whether the anti-self-adjointness of $X$ follows before I said it's the product rule :P)
 
dsm
2:09 PM
haha I assume the author did so as well
 
Ray Kurzweil says that the brain has a hierarchical structure
and the brain is divided into cortical columns.
The model I've drawn seems to fit the description.
Someone try it and see if general AI pop up plz, I have school :(
i'm too busy with my unbelievably uncreative, dull, rule-following geography teacher.
she's a good woman tho.
 
dsm
2:29 PM
@NovaliumCompany strange, I put your model into the spare quantum supercomputer I have lying around, the AI came-to, paused, said "hm, ehhhh", and then destroyed itself. I'd pursue it further.
 
@dsm yezzzz
 
@PM2Ring hi sir! How are you?
 
I just saw a question of why does the shorter wavelength experience more refraction and tried to prove it. But I’m unable to prove it with the equations:
$n_1 \sin\theta_1 = n_2\sin\theta_2$
 
@NovaliumCompany Australian science fiction author and programmer Greg Egan has written quite a few great stories involving AI. Here's a nice example that he has made available for free on his site: Crystal Nights. It's a short story, so it won't take long to read.
Hi, @Yuvraj.
 
$\sin\theta_2 = \frac{\lambda_2}{\lambda_1} \sin\theta_1$
Now, I have to prove that for same angle of incidence the refraction angle increases with decrease in $\lambda_1$
 
2:40 PM
...how did the $n_i$ turn into $\lambda_i$?
You can't "prove" at all what you want to prove - whether or not short wavelengths experience more refraction depends on the material they're refracting in!
 
$n_1/n_2 = \frac{c/v_1}{c/v_2}$
$\frac{n_1}{n_2} = \frac{v_2}{v_1} \implies \frac{n_1}{n_2} = \frac{\lambda_2}{\lambda_1}$
Am I right?
 
Yes, but that doesn't help with what you want to do at all
 
Why?
Why so pessimistic?
 
@NovaliumCompany Regarding your question about humans photosynthesizing, we wouldn't get enough energy. There are no animals that photosynthesize directly, but corals have symbiotic bacteria that do photosynthesis. Note that corals don't need a lot of energy. ;)
 
@Knight The wavelength-dependent refraction is a property of the specific material, i.e. your $n_1$ and $n_2$ (or equivalently your $\lambda_2$) need to be functions of the wavelength. You can't "prove" in general that this dependence is that it's higher for shorter wavelengths because that's simply not true for all materials.
 
2:44 PM
OH! Means it’s an experimental result?
 
Also, some sloths have photosynthesizing algae (or maybe bacteria) growing on their fur. They get a small nutritional supplement by licking their fur.
 
Yes. In order to prove anything here you would need to do some condensed matter modelling of the refractive material (I actually don't know how well we can derive the refractive properties of materials from that).
 
@ACuriousMind what if we use wave theory to prove it?
 
What wave theory?
 
@Knight Do a search for info about anomalous dispersion.
 
2:47 PM
@PM2Ring okay i shall do it.
Thank you A Curious Mind.
 
@ACuriousMind A classical, microscopic theory of light-
 
@YuvrajSingh... The problem here is not that you need a theory of light, it's that you need a theory of the material's interaction with light that allows you to deduce anything about its refractive index
 
@ACuriousMind we can use a standard medium that is water
To check how the light wave of different wavelength behave!
 
Speaking of anomalous dispersion and Greg Egan...
Mar 8 '19 at 15:41, by PM 2Ring
Hey @pZombie You may enjoy playing with Greg Egan's Subluminal Java applet, which shows how anomalous dispersion can be used to give a composite wave a group velocity greater than c, even though all its component waves travel at <c. The app gives you control over a shutter so you can prove to yourself that you can't use that >c group velocity to send a signal FTL.
 
Even though we can't prove it. But can't we say we derived it from that?
 
2:52 PM
@YuvrajSingh... I'm afraid I don't understand what your point is.
 
differentialinism is the same as communism on photonemnic frybetics.
 
Thank you PM2ring.
 
@ACuriousMind yes! Sorry I misjudged your post!
 
:53122690 But water has all sorts of unusual properties, for various reasons. So we probably should not use it as a typical material to make general statements about refraction.
 
@PM2Ring @ACuriousMind is it correct For water, in particular, rotational modes for water molecules correspond to microwave frequencies, while vibrational modes correspond to infrared frequencies
Like wise we can see how the light interact with water.
 
2:58 PM
Eg, water becomes less dense when it freezes. Also, water has a small molecular weight of 18, yet it's liquid at room temperature. Compare that to the much heavier molecules like CO2, N2, O2, etc which are gases.
@YuvrajSingh... I think that's correct.
 
@ACuriousMind @PM2Ring Can you answer @Knight question now?
 
BTW, water has fairly high dispersion, so there's a large difference between its refractive index for red vs violet light. If the dispersion of water were lower, rainbows would be narrower.
 
@YuvrajSingh... I don't really understand what you want from me beyond what I've already said.
 
@PM2Ring yes!
 
It's fun to make a "water prism", using a flat tray full of water, and a small mirror set at an angle in the water. Using this setup, you can get a spectacular looking spectrum from sunlight on a white wall.
 
3:05 PM
Can you draw how it look like?
@PM2Ring
 
@YuvrajSingh... I have nothing to add to what ACM has said. But it's probably worthwhile looking at the Wikipedia articles on refraction and dispersion. In principle, we could use QED to predict the refraction behaviour of a given material from first principles. But in practice, those calculations aren't easy! It's hard enough just to predict the crystal structure of pure elements.
 
@PM2Ring ah, ook.
@PM2Ring one more thing I want to know from you, can you agree with me, maxwell there is not a permanent theory of light .
 
@YuvrajSingh... Like this:
That tends to put the spectrum on the ceiling. Use extra mirrors (outside the water) to control where the spectrum goes. It's fun to do this kind of experiment in the early morning or late afternoon, when the Sun is lowish in the sky. For that reason, wintertime is better than summertime.
@YuvrajSingh... I'm not sure what you mean. Maxwell's equations describe the behaviour of electromagnetic fields & radiation. They don't tell us why electromagnetism exists in the universe. And of course, those equations were developed several decades before quantum theory (& before relativity, but the properties of those equations were a major factor that led to the development of relativity).
 
3:29 PM
@PM2Ring Hello sir :-) Good evening. How are you?
 
This might be of interest: Musings on the Current Status of HEP
 
3:45 PM
@user8718165 hi:-)
 
@user8718165 Hi.
@JohnRennie Is there a TL;DR? In particular, would Sabine Hossenfelder agree or disagree? ;)
 
@PM2Ring I've only just seen it (on Woit's blog) so I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Woit approves, which is not altogether a good omen :-)
 
4:07 PM
@JohnRennie hi sir! Our room.
 
@ACuriousMind I'm sure it would annoy the least patient new users. I'm not sure I would mind that although if I were on the business side of SE the last thing I would want is precisely to annoy some new users. The "comforting" thing is this isn't new: see a related discussion physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5102/… and comments therein
 
@JohnRennie I see. :)
@ZeroTheHero One regular in the Python room quipped that posting questions ought to be a privilege requiring 1000 rep points. :D He got so sick of bad newbie questions that he wrote a userscript to hide questions from OPs with 1 rep point, which several people are now using.
On a more serious note, there have been proposals for a "sandbox" system. Low rep questions get posted to the Sandbox, and only get promoted to the actual site once they've been reviewed & improved where necessary. A couple of sites on the network do implement a kind of sandbox system, but it's an informal thing, and I'm not sure of the details.
Also, there was a mentoring experiment on SO about a year ago. New OPs could opt-in to post their question to the mentoring room, where they'd receive personal assistance in getting their question up to scratch. In theory, nobody was supposed to actually answer the question in the mentoring room, only give meta advice, but that didn't work out so well.
Some mentors had a tendency to just answer trivial stuff, and some OPs couldn't comprehend why the other mentors wouldn't answer their question, and got frustrated & angry. The overall conclusion was that the outcome of this experiment wasn't good. But perhaps it would've worked better if the guidelines & goals of the mentoring room were made clearer, and it had better supporting software (it was a slightly enhanced chatroom system).
Another issue was mentor burnout. There were lots of volunteers at first, but many dropped out quickly. So OPs would end up waiting for hours to get help.
 
4:36 PM
Diffraction in Borkenswien terms is the result of superposition of a vector machine on drugs.
 
 
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5:57 PM
@NovaliumCompany vector machine?
 
@JakeRose The purpose of the sentence was to make no sense.
 
Then what was the point?
A mathematician. Curious... @ThomasKlimpel
 
@JakeRose I doesn't have a point.
 
@NovaliumCompany Then it's probably best not put in this chat.
For the sake of others enjoyment.
 
I enjoy pointless stuff.
 
6:09 PM
Then make a chat for pointless stuff.
 
Actually, it does have a point.
 
I quite doubt it
 
I don't know the point, but it does have one.
Maybe we don't understand it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a point.
 
You are spouting nonsense.
 
If you don't understand the sense, it doesn't mean it doesn't have one.
 
6:17 PM
Further nonsense
 
6:32 PM
@NovaliumCompany Room owners have asked you not to do that here. But since you want to get into AI, and you find that stuff amusing, perhaps you should try writing a Markov chain chatbot. stackoverflow.com/q/5306729/4014959
 
6:59 PM
No one worth caring about has ever laughed at someone for having a go.
An interesting tip about getting a date.
 
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