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@freddiedeboer @curaffairs Summary of thread: Any form of capitalism in the global North is incommensurate with non-exploitative relations betn global North and South.
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@postdocforever
Physicist (noneq stat phys), interested in writing, socialism, history, other stuff to distract me from work. he/him. Math isn't real. Planaria dad.
Island of France Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Of course. It's about studying the fields that generate these particles, as directly as possible.
In a bit over 50 years, we went from the Photoelectric Effect to the Standard Model.
Part of the attraction is how so little (a single equation that fits on a single page) can explain so much.
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Condensed matter physics is apparently "more applied than the Higgs Mechanism" someone ought to have told that to Anderson who came up with the Higgs mechanism before Higgs, in the context of superconductivity
Håkon Fløystad@hakflo
@postdocforever It's about as applied as theoretical chemestry, and more applied than the Higgs Mechanism or Quantum Electrodynamics.
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Also it was in studying the spontaneous symmetry breaking in superconductivity that Nambu came up with the very idea of a (Nambu-) Goldstone boson
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@hakflo Firstly, the analogy doesn't work because it's the same mechanism, unlike Lorentz and Einstein. Secondly, you seem to believe elementary particles are not quasiparticles. We're in a post-renormalization world, buddy. There's no such thing as a "bare" electron.
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@postdocforever There is a reason why Higgs is better known than Anderson and Einstein more than Lorentz.
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@hakflo The Higgs mechanism? Proposed by Anderson in the context of superconductivity before Higgs? QED understood only in the light of renormalization first introduced by Kadanoff in statistical physics?
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@postdocforever It's less applied than Engineering, though. But it's one or two steps in that direction, if you start from QM.
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How you can distinguish between the crank critics of string theory and the sensible ones (me) is that the cranks don't actually care about experiments. A good second-order sign is if they say physics has "stagnated" - they're trying to sell you AI or their favourite crank theory.
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String theorists, and AI zealots who claim AI will take over physics which has "stagnated", are two dialectical sides of the same coin - neither believe contact with the real world is essential to what makes physics a science
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@hakflo There's no reason to consider theoretical solid state physics as applied. Applied what, exactly? If anything both HEP and solid state use theories developed in the other.
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@postdocforever And this is not about experiments vs theory. There is theoretical solid state Physics and experimental Particle Physics.
The former is applied but theoretical, the latter is experimental but fundamental.
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@JeffreyASachs @yehyabrown No, the question was, why is a school in a synagogue in the US being treated differently from a school in Lebanon
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@yehyabrown No, that's not an honest question. Here's what you actually want to ask: Given the huge number of people being killed right now in Lebanon and Iran by Israel, isn't it inappropriate to tweet about the attempted murder of Jews in Michigan?
That's what you really want to know.
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There they go again, trying to make the incineration of this pre-school about Jewish feelings.
Asaf Elia-Shalev@AsafShaloo
Temple Israel is releasing photos of the devastation in order "to take back control of our narrative," the congregation said in a statement. I am posting these photos, which were taken by Emily Elconin, with permission.
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@Sturgeons_Law @nikicaga The victimisation is also an excuse to insult muslims and insult women, as the new comments on the post show
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@nikicaga It's not. Hindu right-wingers just have an obsessive desire to be victims all the time and so actively look to interpret things in ways that allow them to feel victimized.
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@vrundasays_ Human intuition isn't good enough to work without experimental validation, but thats far away for quantum gravity and "fundamental" theories (but which are sold as the "real" physics). I think exploring QG is quite okay, but low energy physics needs smart students just as much.
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@postdocforever Wasnt a question, it was a statement of FACT, DUMBFUQ
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@stringking42069 Yes, next question
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@postdocforever Oh just fuq off ffs. You dont even know that most string theorists are ofc pro experiment and would love to have direct tests. It’s just damn hard to get to the required energies. Its a generic feature of quantum gravity btw so i guess u also hate anything to do with that too.
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@stringking42069 Lol it's funny because it's true
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@postdocforever Right back at you, anti string bigot dumbfuq.
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It's a fool's game for me to criticise strings though. String theorists have consistently shown good politics, while other physicists are apathetic, and string critics have all moved to the alt-right. String theorists are doing good mathematical work, and the world is burning.
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@skdh I thought your criticism of string theory was all about how it doesn't care about experiment, now what you want to do away with observation and experiment? What stupidity.
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he's entirely right of course. even if you think he is wrong, at the very least physicists should think about why everyone else agrees they've lost the plot.
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This is what happens when you don’t tell these people to fuck off
Jon Levine@LevineJonathan
NEW from me Rama Duwaji — the wife of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani— shared several posts glorifying Palestinian terrorism on old social media accounts that remain active. Duwaji also used the N-word. freebeacon.com/democrats/zohr…
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@postdocforever i can see it but i will not be triggered into debating it
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String theorists, and AI zealots who claim AI will take over physics which has "stagnated", are two dialectical sides of the same coin - neither believe contact with the real world is essential to what makes physics a science
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@bcubeddd *cough* dialectical sides of the same coin *cough*
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@postdocforever why look through a telescope when you can derive a priori true knowledge in between spells of tweeting
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