The h Bar

12:04 AM

Ah I forget about the right-to-left text. Then you could just write the text backwards.

Reading on of the questions on String Theory and an answer begins "Some of the leaders in the field are Brian Greene and Michio Kaku."

Your theory is SCREWED if Kaku is one of the thought leaders.

becko

2:09 AM

@DavidZaslavsky Sorry about the confusion. I'm not sure exactly how different this and this are. I know what an S-matrix is and how it can be used in scattering, but I don't have much experience with them. I would like to learn what S-matrix theory is about. I gather it is related to QFT. Hope it's clearer now.

David Zaslavsky

2:34 AM

OK, I see.

Yes, the S-matrix is related to QFT, or at least that's how we think of it these days, as a particular quantum operator which you can calculate in terms of fields. But you can also think of it as the operator that "connects" the initial and final states of a scattering process, and in that way you can describe it without invoking quantum fields.

Before it became clear that QFT was going to be successful in the long run, some physicists tried to calculate useful results from abstract properties of the S-matrix (chiefly that it has to be unitary to conserve probability).

That's S-matrix theory.

As the Wikipedia article explains, it produced a few useful results but nothing beyond that.

user54412

4:09 AM

ummm.... I just got 4 upvotes within 30 seconds of posting this answer

user54412

I hope that was just a bunch of people happened to be looking at the page and not some sort of script...

user54412

or maybe we now have stackoverflow levels of popularity??? :P

user54412

4:23 AM

@ManishEarth referencing ^ that, is there anything mods do in general with suspicious votes?

ManishEarth

Depends. Usually it gets reversed. 4 votes on one post isnt much

But we can look into it

Im on mobile right now, though, so no shiny mod toys for me. Ill have a look in half an hour or so

ManishEarth

5:08 AM

@ChrisWhite nothing suspicious from the tools I have

I guess that there just were 4 people looking at the page

ManishEarth

5:19 AM

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5:56 AM

@ManishEarth @ChrisWhite: I guess lot of users have lot of respect towards Chris... (Manish too <-- I've seen his posts getting votes) ;-)

nonagon

7:25 AM

@Gugg @ChrisWhite Regarding the discussion we did few days back on gravitational and inertial mass , someone said , I think David or Gugg , that they are equal because of equivalence principle but equivalence principle is itself an experimental law . Isn't it , thus restoring that gravitational mass and inertial mass are different .

Gugg

8:55 AM

@nonagon That wasn't me.

ManishEarth

10:10 AM

@ChrisWhite strange, I posted an answer, got +2 in a second, and got +1 10 seconds after that. shrugs

@nonagon I suggest you work a bit on improving your written English; your two recent questions were really hard to decipher :S

nonagon

10:32 AM

@ManishEarth Sorry , I'll try and be more clear from next time .

ManishEarth

good :)

btw, regarding your speed of light in medium q, where did you get that Einstein got that $c$ is constant from causality preservation?

nonagon

Casuality preservation ?

I think I read it at a couple of places , I think . One book and youtube too said this I think or may be my perception is wrong .

007

The most viewed question here :physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2605/…

Maybe because of search engines directing people searching "how to loose body weight" in Phy.SE

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

10:51 AM

My recent names override...!

My bad - It was reported already..! :(

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Q: Name Change Limiting can be Broken

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I can do nothing but upvote it :D

There's also a question closed as dup.

2

Q: Possible to bypass display name change restrictions

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bug usernames

So, I don't think I'd be encouraged :P

007

11:36 AM

@ManishEarth I was that 3rd one...... was reading it.

ManishEarth

k

007

But it was surely more than 10 sec.. I can't read that fast!

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

12:57 PM

@ManishEarth: I can guess something on "why" you've asked that MSO question..!

Mr. Black Magic has disappeared for a while... Isn't it???

Gugg

1:17 PM

@ManishEarth On arXiv it is quite clear how one should cite a paper. However, on Wikipedia it is not made quite that easy for pictures. For example the picture in this question: physics.stackexchange.com/q/64436/17609. "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)." Where is "the manner specified" to be found? Or is it sufficient to simply hyperlink to the Wikipedia page?

Gugg

1:33 PM

I mean where to be found on Wikipedia, not in the question.

@007 When's the next Bond movie scheduled?

nonagon

1:45 PM

007 is getting all the bond girls too :)

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