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Me every other week

We recently looked at families of Quantum Field Theories in 4 dimensions with a perturbatively reliable UV fixed point at 4 loops (in perturbation theory). Heres our paper on Physical Review D. journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/1…

This is (still) my favourite textbook and I mention it to my friends at least once a month.

@MadhilSaleem @MoosaShafiu @hsn_hameed I think thats the word for atom. My curiosity relates to what atoms are made of, so elementary particles like electrons and quarks etc.

@zaanriyaz @MoosaShafiu @hsn_hameed Zarreh e ee particle ba atom ba?

There aren't any Dhivehi words for subatomic particles (because we haven't had to talk about them in Dhivehi so much, I guess) -- but if you had to come up for a word for 'electron', perhaps - what would it be? Are there words for particles? (cc: @MoosaShafiu @hsn_hameed)

@MoosaShafiu @hsn_hameed I share that opinion as well! I was writing down some notes in Thaana the other day (just for fun) and thought about the distinction between 'phoaton' and 'photoanu' and got a little curious. I've seen a couple of people go for the latter, which I'm not a huge fan of.

@zaanriyaz @hsn_hameed Good question and well observed reason. My opinion is that we don't necessarily have to have a replacement local term for every foreign word. Even "electron" is closely borrowed from the Greek word for Amber? I would be very interested to see Dr Hassan Hameed's take on this.

In case anyone is wondering -- Dhivehi is the language spoken in the Maldives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian…

@GioxArmando Thank you Gio! ❤️

@zaanriyaz Well done Zaan! 🔥😍

I haven’t been on Twitter for a while, but its ArXiv day for me — so here you go; arxiv.org/abs/2307.08747 Perhaps I’ll write a thread about this at some point. Maybe later. Good night. (really happy about this paper though)

@CLeonidopoulos @PhysAstroEd Is this next to the seminar room?

Nobel prize scribbles - at @PhysAstroEd

My friend Tony Zee makes a good point in the preface to his latest quantum field theory book.

@malcfairbairn @QuantumWorkshop Happy birthday Malcolm!

At my institute the quantum and nano experimentalists like to make fun of us for trying to understand what dark matter is - hence my birthday present from @QuantumWorkshop today

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@Arya_Yae How do you get the viewer in dark mode?

I need to preach the wonders of using VSCode as a Latex editor with the LaTeX Workshop extension. It's a surprisingly lightweight program (opens faster than TexStudio), is highly customizable, has a built-in pdf viewer, BibTex and Git integration, and it's really pretty! 1/3

@malcfairbairn Sorry to hear this Malcolm. Sending you (and your dad) my best wishes.

Just spoke to my dad on the phone. He is now really very unwell. Bodies are wonderful but this makes their decay truly terrible.

I have something in my eye

I asked ChatGPT to write a poem for me, about what I do for research.

@DjunaCroon @AnshBhatnagar_ Congratulations @AnshBhatnagar_ !!

Congratulations to my brilliant PhD student @AnshBhatnagar_ on winning the Ella Bryant prize! Ansh successfully campaigned to increase UKRI PhD stipends in line with inflation. durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…