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Dirac proves 0=1 | High Energy Mayhem
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What’s been exciting me lately in physics and math. September 8, 2008 – 8:38 pm. George Jones put up a neat little puzzle. On physicsforums. Following up on this taught me quite a bit about some of the mathematical subtleties of QM that physicists tend to gloss over. 8220;Suppose A is an observable, i.e., a self-adjoint operator, with real eigenvalue a and normalized eigenket. In other words,. Suppose further that A and B are canonically conjugate observables, so. And on the arxiv. Laquo; First beam!
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Solitons: the tireless lumps | High Energy Mayhem
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What’s been exciting me lately in physics and math. Solitons: the tireless lumps. April 25, 2009 – 11:26 pm. In contrast, when you kick a soccer ball, the energy you give it doesn’t spread out. It stays with the ball as it rolls away. The difference between soccer balls and water waves is that in the former case the energy density is localized, and in the latter it dissipates. So the question arises: are there any wave type phenomena with a localized, non-dissipative energy density? The discovery of the ...
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Donate for basic science education | High Energy Mayhem
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What’s been exciting me lately in physics and math. Donate for basic science education. October 3, 2008 – 6:41 am. It’s not that SOHCAHTOA shit. It’s about as old as christianity. Where were your schools when they should have been teaching you about it? Prior to coming to college, these students were literally living in the scientific dark ages – in a world that’s not just before Newton and Descartes, it’s before Galileo and Euclid! Is a website based on a marvelous idea – teachers pitch their case...
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LHC delay | High Energy Mayhem
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What’s been exciting me lately in physics and math. September 20, 2008 – 7:26 pm. Looks like the LHC will miss its run this year. This is known as. However, in this case it seems that the quench was caused due to a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that likely melted at high current, resulting in mechanical failure and a leakage of liquid helium into the tunnel. The sector ( number 23. This news comes as a bit of a disappointment, as the experimentalists were hoping to use this years run w...
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Summer Physics Reading List | High Energy Mayhem
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What’s been exciting me lately in physics and math. Summer Physics Reading List. May 18, 2009 – 6:35 am. 69 Nonabelian gauge theory (24, 58). 71 and 72. Path integral and Feynman rules for Nonabelian gauge theory. (53, 69). 32 Spontaneous breaking of continuous symmetries. 84 Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries. 87 The Standard Model: gauge and Higgs sector. 75 Chiral gauge theories and anomalies (70, 72). 76 Anomalies in global symmetries (75). 88 The Standard Model: lepton sector.
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The chubby pyramid | High Energy Mayhem
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What’s been exciting me lately in physics and math. October 29, 2008 – 2:41 am. Q) Why is it that manhole covers are round? The question achieved notoriety. When it started being used by microsoft. As an interview question. The answer that I’ve always liked is that a circular manhole cover can never fall into a circular hole. If you were to use a square, for example, it could easily fall through the diagonal. Is that all such curves have the same perimeter. Such heptagonal shapes are used in the British ...
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Quantum Crops: Quantum Crops is dead! Long live Quantum Crops!
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Stories from a quantum field farmer. Quantum Crops is dead! Long live Quantum Crops! After fiddling with Blogger and Wordpress for a while I have decided to stop using Blogger and import this blog to Wordpress. I believe that Wordpress is sexier since it has LaTeX support. So this blog will remain like this forever. The new home of QC is here: http:/ melvineloy.wordpress.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Quantum Crops is dead! Long live Quantum Crops! End of the first part of the summer.
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Quantum Crops: May 2007
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Stories from a quantum field farmer. Equation of the week. Instead of concentrating hard on my summer readings, I have been thinking instead about my other blog. Mainly I have been re-evaluating my original purposes for starting The problemsheet. It has been fun so far. All the problems I have typed have been nice and typing has helped me understand them more. But honeslty it is very time consuming. And I can see this not being as fun all the time. Stay tuned for EOW. Oh, the mysteries of number theory!
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Quantum Crops: March 2007
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Stories from a quantum field farmer. Things are finally settling down around here. Yesterday was my second statistical mechanics midterm: it was easy, but I am very disappointed at myself. I worked very slowly and only had time to work half of the first problem. What is the trajectory of the particle? It turns out that the professor had found an analytical solution for this problem, so I seem not to pay much attention to my results. My ego was just demolished :-(. Divergent Series (The Haunt of). Well Ma...