so many bores complaining about comic sans in the higgs slides
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
i am in munich for the next couple of years i think xp
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
that's a nice city, i have some cousins there. one is a foxy tv presenter, i'll send you her facebook.
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:00 (eleven years ago) link
i like foxy people
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
ugh i hate this shit
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/523589_444526022235081_226372658_n.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
there was an article on cnn headlined "what you need to know about the higgs boson" and i was hoping it would just "what everyone already thought was true is true, move along"
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
xp
you would hope that people who pride themselves on knowing about science might have some understanding of the way popular journalism works but hey ho
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
dear christians
it is called the god particle because it is the final piece of matter required to build the altar upon which we summon mighty cthulhu
aka "the where-is-your-god-now particle"
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like it's kid of a a mixture of solipsism and total fucking ignorance about everything
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
kid = kind
also ungratefulness re: the $10bn particle physics got from european taxpayers (although tbf most of the people posting stuff like that are dawkins-type dilletantes seeking to align themselves with "science")
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's why i said "knowing about science" rather than being actually in the field or anything.
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
yep. that kind of person is not a minority in science, but scientists are a minority of that kind of person.
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
Hi dere caek, refereeing question for u -- when determining stoppage time, what factors would make a referee initially call for 5 minutes and then increase that time to over 8 minutes?
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 30 July 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
stoppages within stoppage time
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Otm. If not that then was this a game with a 4th official?
― caek, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
does the 4th official set a suggested minimum that the ref can over-rule? i cdn't remember
― Shrimpface Killah (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
basically shakes out like this
5 min stoppage time announced~3 minutes in, player commits second yellow card foul, is sent off, but does not leave field of play immediatelyplayer's coach protests, is also ejected & leaves slowlyonce play resumes, play continues up into 8th minute of stoppage when 10-man team scores goal, game immediately ends
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
(and yes this means the team I support was denied a win but I am trying to understand this from an objective point of view)
time can and is added during extra time
e.g. i think there's an explicit directive to add at least 30s for ever substitution during extra time
so sounds like the ref added some time for the nonsense
i'm not actually sure if the ref can overrule the 4th off. he can certainly overrule the linesmen.
― caek, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
that's what I figured, thx!
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 30 July 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
'ello caek. The bbc reckons (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20249753) that 42 light-years away is "not too far away". it bloody is, isn't it?
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 8 November 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
probably wdn't get mobile reception but in galactic terms 42 light years is knack all iirc
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 November 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
we are not galactic we are humantic.
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Thursday, 8 November 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
speak for yourself i am made of star stuff iirc
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 November 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
we should invade now while they're still in the early 1970's. hippies'll never know what hit'em.
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 8 November 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
the second nearest star to us (i.e. after the sun) is 4 ly away. Our galaxy is about 50,000 ly across. so 42 ly is "the solar neighborhood".
i guess it's like saying, compared to the entire plant earth, woking is not too far away from london. obviously if you can't move then woking is effectively very far away. in this metaphor, we are shut-ins in woking.
― caek, Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
so where is Hull then? is there a part of the galaxy that looks forlornly outwards idly waiting to be slowly engulfed?
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
how has the world of physics reacted to
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-denise-milani-conspiracy-honey-trap-professor-gets-five-years-in-argentina-jail-8340525.html
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
One observation: A physicist I know posted it on his Facebook not one hour ago.
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Monday, 26 November 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Professor Frampton, described by his 71-year-old ex-wife as a “naive fool”, said he had been lured into travelling to South America by criminals posing as the amply-proportioned fitness trainer...
― Aimless, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
ex-wife otm
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, yeah. It's kind of ridiculous, right. He's a particle physicist so I never met him, but I know ppl who have. Tbh it kind of surprises me that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. Many male physicists (especially toward the maths/high energy theory end) are a little, ahem, wet behind the ears. I mean even the person who told me this story struck me as the kind if person to whom it could happen.
― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
He sounds like he is safer in prison than in the real world.
I like that he has published papers with the prison as his affiliation: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/nov/22/paul-frampton-hit-by-56-month-drugs-sentence
― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
hay caek is "exotic matter" in this any more than subtle handwaving? What are my chances of actually getting to alpha centauri in my lifetime? And does FTL always and irrevocably imply time travel (which is problematic obviously) or is there any kind of loophole there?
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive?post=54599539
― ledge, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
"exotic" is a term of art in particle physics, so it's a weird choice, but they don't give any indication they are actually talking about exotic matter. i think here they just mean regular mass that is converted into energy by nuclear fission or whatever, yielding e=mc2.
the point with this thing, afaict, is that it does not involve faster than light travel. imagine spacetime is a living room rug. you can't walk across the rug at FTL, but given preposterously contrived circumstances, someone else can stretch the rug in such a way just that your location changes in a way that is equivalent to moving (and perhaps a very long way very quickly).
― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
key quote: "Mathematically, the field equations predict that this is possible, but it remains to be seen if we could ever reduce this to practice."
also i have no idea if the field equations even predict this is possible. i skipped gen rel (via not being clever enough).
― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
the point with this thing, afaict, is that it does not involve faster than light travel.
but it still effectively means a signal could propagate faster than light. no?
― ledge, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i guess. god i never understood this stuff.
― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
is anything faster than aaron lennon over five yards tho
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
where is layman's maths-free guide to GR. anyway i guess this is mostly bullshit, no trips to stars near or far in my or maybe anyone's lifetime, sadface. what a senseless waste.
― ledge, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
cheer up, maybe the onset of catastrophic climate change will focus minds on ways to get out of this solar system pronto
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
dreaming of a railgun that can shoot us at alpha centauri
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
c'mon get real, even ignoring acceleration the stars are out of reach without ftl. intra solar system railgun might be a winner, first we need space elevators to circumvent enormous expense of getting into orbit only by riding giant exploding tanks of propellant.
― ledge, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
i'd settle for a railway that got me to galway tbph
― bill paxman (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
now let's be realistic
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
*joke about galway being behind the times like light from distant stars*
― ledge, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link