quantum_mcts

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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
I'd suggest you read on scientific outputs of collider experiments. They do perform precision experiments and detailed measurements of particle properties and fundamental parameters of the settled fundamental models. The picture you ar
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
I think you are confusing Big Bang Cosmology with theory of cosmic inflation.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
How would you disprove Big Bang cosmology by an experiment?
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> S-Matrix theory I don't get it. You have something against S-Matrix theory? Why do you call it an "industry"? > funding agencies are largely to blame for the current situation in HEP and how/where research effort
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> for the past ~50 years, theoretical physics has been engaged in a process that is rewarding people creating theories that cannot ever be proven true or false. This is not true on several levels. First of all, there is a place for study
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> She did publish her criticisms Yes. And, by her own admission, nobody cared. Scientific community decided that her publications don't actually contribute much to fundamental physics. As everyone with overinflated ego - she decided
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> how is slamming the lady in an HN comment any different I'm not complaining about it being personal and unconstructive.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> it led me to realize that I had no idea what a differential equation is I remember how I realized that I had no idea what a differential equation is when reading W.L.Burke book "Applied differential geometry" (highly recommen
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
Would O(ln n) be "sublinear", though?
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
By the way, the symmetry breaking is U(1)*SU(2) -> U(1). Originally, U(1) is hypercharge generated. And electromagnetic U(1) appears after the electroweak symmetry breaking. So that one is wrong too. Also, how in Earth did he count 18 pa
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> Srinivasa Ramanujan So, about a century ago. That'd be my estimate as well. And only if are on the "otherworldly genius" level as Ramanujan was. > Dismissing this author for a lack of affiliation is probably accurate
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
How about the first sentence in the body of the paper? > In nature, all motion can be described by the principle of least action: motion minimizes action. It is wrong. The actual principle is that the trajectories are stationary points
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
The article is about a guy who was a university professor for decades.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
I'd bet that the author did try to publish that in a peer-reviewed journal. He just doesn't want to show the review he got.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
I wonder what was the last fundamental scientific breakthrough made not by a member of academia...
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
Am physicist. First of all - this paper was never peer-reviewed. (And I suspect will never be.) The "summary table" looks weird and all over the place: both in levels of abstraction and in cause-effect relationships. The rest of t
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> quality What do you mean by that? Good writing? Good rigor? Good research work? Have a fundamental discovery? There are not as correlated as one expects.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
I generally disagree with the premise that scientists are becoming less productive. (To me, the complaints that there are no more grand fundamental discoveries is alike to complaining that we are not discovering any new continents on Earth.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
Stopped reading when saw "Windows" to check the comments. Here it is.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
Curious how this work relies a lot on the mathematical language of Quantum Field Theory. Wick theorem. Criticality. RG flows. As someone with background in Physics I had a permanent deja-vu reading this.
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by quantum_mcts 4y ago
> when I reread it 20 years later it sounded like a description of contemporary employment Here is my problem with it: It is not something that "appeared in the last 20 years". It was always like that. You just from a group tha
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
Yes, it is a metaphor. I know that because I speak Russian and read the original. Indeed, that's a weird metaphor even for a Russian ear.
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
No, literally "meteorite" in original text. It is used as an example of a completely implausible event.
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
1. The original text in Russian is much more chaotic - translator imposed his own structure on it and tweaked clumsy phrasing all over the place. 2. They say that the latest Putin's video is green screened
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
Farm household. Just Ukrainian official name for a "farm".
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
Seconding that as someone who was both employed and self-employed in France. Companies cannot do such frivolous stuff with their employees here.
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
I made this experiment I d3 quite some time ago. http://bl.ocks.org/KKostya/6075142 http://bl.ocks.org/KKostya/6066548 Draw rectangle/circle on the right pane
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
I wonder how hard would it be to add zero knowledge proofs to this.
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
> I agree that there's a little confusion No - that's not a "little confusion". It is almost total lack of knowledge of the subject at hand. So many concrete examples by the author are not valid. Changes and forks in
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by quantum_mcts 5y ago
So the argument starts with a (rather bizarre) claim that blockchains are centralized because one have to use the protocol that the rest of the network is using. The argument goes on with an attempt to contrast blockchains with the "we

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