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by evanb 8y ago
There is a concept of chiral symmetry [0] in QCD---the symmetry whereby left and right handed quarks can be phase rotated independently. It is explicitly broken by quark masses, but the dominant effect is actually the dynamical breaking by
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by evanb 8y ago
Feynman, Leighton, and Sands - The Feynman Lectures: I always look here for a good intuitive explanation. A. Zee - Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell: this is so approachable and in the path integral formulation of QFT. Anyone who points
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by evanb 8y ago
If you give the validator help understanding it's HTML it works but shows lots of errors.
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by evanb 8y ago
You can even formulate the standard model on a curved background metric that arises from GR. Just don't try to make the metric itself dynamical.
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by evanb 8y ago
There's also the totally inspired spoof, Hardcore Game of Thrones: http://howl.fm/audio/playlists/4156/hardcore-game-of-thrones
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by evanb 8y ago
Hi Scott, What do you think of radical Mathematical Platonism (eg. a la Tegmark)? As a computational physicist I tend to tell people that in my hands a computer is like a telescope, but it lets me see into mathematics---but that seems to t
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by evanb 8y ago
There's a great numberphile with Persi Diaconis all about shuffling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJubaijQbI The extra footage is fantastic, too.
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by evanb 8y ago
At about $3 / ride and commuting both ways, aren't you better off buying your own scooter at about 2 or 3 months? These things aren't so big that you have to keep them outside or in a garage, like a bike. You can take them
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The Nucleon Axial Coupling(evanberkowitz.com)
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by evanb 8y ago
Is there a way to associate and store large data sets, as well? I don't necessarily want them in git (hundreds of GB, for example), but I do want my notebooks to see them...
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by evanb 8y ago
That Quasar beer at Jupiter... Honestly, all the beer at Jupiter. Mmmmm.
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by evanb 8y ago
It was from memory. I thought his website had gone...
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by evanb 8y ago
"I have cubed the earth, with 4 simultaneous _corner_ days in 1 rotation of Earth!" -- Dr. Gene Ray, Cubic and Wisest Human.
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by evanb 9y ago
There's also one with the fixed stars held... fixed. https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988807933243863040
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The Days They Changed the Gauge(southern.railfan.net)
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by evanb 9y ago
If you concatenate to get S you may introduce substrings that have never been themselves transmitted, though of course I agree that every sequence that has been transmitted is a substring of S.
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by evanb 9y ago
Does "Import your music and playlists" means it will use my synced iTunes library? I would love this. But I tried to click to find out more, only to find that almost nothing on that landing page is a link.
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by evanb 9y ago
People are trying this for mining: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/qarnot-unveils-a-cryptocur...
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by evanb 9y ago
dhouston, what ever happened to the option of "an additional passphrase (or private key) when installing in order to encrypt your data before it leaves your computer." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889
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Fourier's Transformational Thinking(nature.com)
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The Puzzle of Quantum Reality(npr.org)
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by evanb 9y ago
People often write "Comments" in the same journal that address a work's shortcomings. This can be the referees who are ultimately over-ruled by an editor, or any other interested reader.
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by evanb 9y ago
...if you measure in a particular set of units. It's not so close to g = 21 mph/s, for example.
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by evanb 9y ago
I think you mean steganography.
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by evanb 9y ago
I think the author meant "promise" in the sense of possibility. "He [or she] shows promise", rather than "I promise to pay."
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by evanb 9y ago
It is a good reason, but it's a reason that's difficult to sell to people who make decisions about where to spend a few billion dollars.
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by evanb 9y ago
There's also How To Solve It by Polya. Small, accessible, casually written.
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Qarnot unveils a cryptocurrency heater for your home(beta.techcrunch.com)
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Overlooked(nytimes.com)
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by evanb 9y ago
It didn't recognize hbar as 1?

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