physonaught

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by physonaught 6y ago
An economist and his friend were walking down the street, when they spied a 100$ bill lying on the pavement. The economist strode past without a second look. His friend tugged on his sleeve, "Why didn't you pick it up! That was 10
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by physonaught 6y ago
A good mental model for graduate school is that it is a feudal system. There is essentially no oversight of professors by a larger executive branch. I mean, they can't literally murder you, but they can drive you to suicide. (Jason Alt
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by physonaught 12y ago
The physicists definition of time is "What clocks measure". It sounds like he was just saying the party line.
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by physonaught 12y ago
I though the article was cute, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it was crappy. The essence of the article was on point. You can't just report the time anymore, once special and general relativity become important, you have to r
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by physonaught 12y ago
That is true, but, (if you haven't already), I would recommend looking into the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment. I think it is probably more true to the essences of what the article was trying to communicate. I don't thin
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by physonaught 12y ago
I would be interested in looking at applications with applied electric/optical fields. Could you shape the plasma after it was created, shaping the waveguide?
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by physonaught 12y ago
Some very cool physics involved-- a lot of basic quantum mechanics (electrons hopping on a lattice), but it has a lot of really broad implications about symmetries. There is a lot of recent interest in the butterfly [1,2]. It turns out that
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by physonaught 15y ago
Here is a high level summary of the work, written by technology review[1]. Looks pretty neat! [1] http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27394/
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Using Statistical Mechanics to predict consumer response to advertising(arxiv.org)
2 points by physonaught 15y ago|1 comments
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Searching for scientific visualization/modelling tools for use on a website
3 points by physonaught 15y ago|1 comments