SaberTail

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   by SaberTail 13y ago

   The New Yorker tends to hang on to hyphens far longer than the rest of the printed world. Those and diaereses. You'll still see things like "teen-ager" and "coördinate" among their pages. It's just part of th
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   by SaberTail 13y ago

   This is pretty obviously written by a non-physicist. For one thing, energy isn't conserved on a universal scale. Energy conservation is a consequence of time invariance[1]. We've measured that the universe is inflating, and so isn
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   by SaberTail 13y ago

   Celery uses `billiard`, which is a fork of multiprocessing. That doesn't help with communicating with a distributed worker pool, though.
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   by SaberTail 13y ago

   One of my professors was fond of saying, "the proton is a garbage dump," to emphasize the mess of gluons and virtual quarks that you see when you start to probe the proton. It's also worth noting that the in the LHC, which co
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   by SaberTail 13y ago

   In theory, a neutrino colliding with an antineutrino is similar to an electron colliding with a positron. If the neutrino/antineutrino pair has enough energy, you could produce new particles. Otherwise, they'll just scatter off of
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   by SaberTail 13y ago

   It's a stretch to call this an attempt to explain matter-antimatter asymmetry. First, let's start with how fermions (spin 1/2 particles like electrons and quarks) get mass. They get it through a coupling with the Higgs boson,