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#paperoftheday from my open tabs : Nature News essay and references, 2017
"The Strange Topology that is Reshaping Physics"
https://www.nature.com/news/the-strange-topology-that-is-reshaping-physics-1.22316
#science #physics
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Mostly to remind myself, I just want to say that behind all the bullshit, immoral, power-grabbing nastiness of our corporate controlled governments, there are actually nice, normal caring humans in all countries.
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When you wear a mask, you’re saying “I value your life, not just mine.” #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV #WearAMask
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A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads https://www.wired.com/story/a-mathematicians-guide-to-how-contagion-spreads/
#paperoftheday - today let's read
"A Simple Introduction to Particle Physics"
https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3328
#science #physics #freelearning
alcohol, boring personal
I did not succeed at drinking 0 beer. but I sat out the first 2. commit to try again Sunday (next time I will be offered a beer).
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uk pol, lgbtq, official parliament petitions
Add gender identity to the characteristics protected under the Equality Act 2010 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301138/
Make LGBT conversion therapy illegal in the UK https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300976
Do not ban gender transition treatments for under 18s https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318025
Allow for a gender neutral option on a passport, such as an "X" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301083
Remove the criteria for men who have sex with men to wait before donating blood https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313693
rule of thumb: if there's an infinte scroll you're probably attention-trapped. go read something else.
boring basic relativity
because
ds^2 = dt^2 - dx^2
ds^2 /dt^2 = 1 - v^2
could really use some latex
boring basic relativity
Why is 4-velocity, the proper time derivative of position, automatically normalized to length 1 (or c, depending on unit convention)?
It is related to the vector (1, 3-velocity) by a factor of gamma, the Lorentz factor. Which also happens to be (?) the inverse of the length of the vector (1, 3-velocity). The Lorentz factor is both the conversion between time and proper time derivative and normalizes 4-velocity.
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Slash #CO2, Then Wait—and Wait—for Temperatures to Drop
#ClimateAction taken by the world today wouldn't be noticed for #decades to come, according to researchers who say warming on #Earth won't start to slow down for at least 20 years.
And that's probably an optimistic scenario.
Currently, worldwide #emissions are still #rising.
The situation is similar to a "very large ship, which is at high speed," said Marianne Lund, a #climate #scientist.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slash-co2-then-wait-and-wait-for-temperatures-to-drop/
qoto, do we have latex markdown? how do I do it?
we've got a batch of new researchers whose first conference experiences are virtual
Everyone read this classic essay
"More is Different" , Anderson, 1972
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/177/4047/393
#paperoftheday #science #physics
I don't even understand 4-velocity
want to take a bath & read
but
0 unread books in the house that aren't huge textbooks or borrowed
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if anyone would like to do the sort of cancelling me where I get to be wealthy and not have to talk to people, i'm willing to go for it
i don't even want to do anything horrid first, you can just give me the money and the privacy
i promise not to publish any essays about it
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Corona-Impfstoff: Fünf Irrtümer über die Covid-Impfung - Die Welt wartet auf einen Corona-Impfstoff – mit teils falschen Vorstellungen: Weder wird es nur eine Vakzine geben, noch wird sie wohl alle vor einer Infektion schützen. https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-07/corona-impfstoff-verfuegbarkeit-wirksamkeit-forschung-irrtuemer
will there be a philosophical countercurrent to the reliance on big data? an (over-)enthusiasm for simple human understanding?
- languages
- EN | DE
- pronouns
- he or they | er
- reading
- The Island of the Day Before | C & L
Joined Jun 2020
