rebop // ryan

@star_stufff The Manim Community Edition website has good documentation and an example gallery: docs.manim.community/en/stable/ 3Blue1Brown also recorded a video where he created a 3D animation for the Lorenz attractor: youtu.be/rbu7Zu5X1zI

Any good resources to learn MANIM?

@star_stufff I've been getting a lot of Japanese physics/math posts too, they're hidden gems

I love being on Japanese twitter

@LimYenKheng Me encountering the Heisenberg group: "Jesse I have become a non-abelian nilpotent group"

Despite being a physicist, recently my brain is so dominated by Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad that the word "Heisenberg" actually conjures the image of Bryan Cranston in my head instead of quantum mechanics

how it feels to study the magic system

Congratulations to Clay Córdova, Shu-Heng Shao, Thomas Dumitrescu and Yifan Wang on winning the 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize for generalizing the notion of symmetry in various ways, and for exploring the consequences of these generalized symmetries, in quantum field theory, particle physics, condensed matter physics, string theory, and quantum information theory. breakthroughprize.org/News/98

K&K has a good flow of ideas between chapters. I particularly liked how they framed elliptical orbits and classical scattering processes as two sides of the same coin (both are examples of central force motion). It's a pity that some of their problems have wrong solutions.

@stringlandscape joelvelasco.net/teaching/3330/…

Tbh this post was meant for less-experienced physics students like me 😅 I think if more students understood structural realism, they would get the modern physics obsession with symmetry groups. You could check out Worrall's 1989 paper, it frames the philosophical position very well.

Every physicist should be familiar with the philosophy of science (more specifically, scientific realism, anti-realism and structural realism). Most of us would probably find some contradictions in our own beliefs.

@OpsoFacto @lindaxie It's very comprehensive, and the perturbation theory section is analogous to what you'll learn in quantum mechanics.

@reboplim @lindaxie What is the best thing about Goldstein, to you?

I have now gotten the first person who is dunking on me for my physics self studying (surprised it took this long). Little do they know I'm immune to dunks after 12 years of working in crypto 😂

@michaelchchoi Thanks Prof. Choi! This was for the SP3172 Integrated Science Project, our congress was held 3 floors below your office 😅

@reboplim Congrats. Is this FYP or UROPS type presentation?

Hey everyone, I'm back! Been presenting some work on crystal optics, it's a tiny contribution but still kinda proud of it ☺️

@eulerianham Thank you!

@reboplim congrats, ryan!

@star_stufff Thanks Akshat!

@reboplim So very proud of you 👏🏻

@tomieinlove Just realized it's called a gothic font, I've always referred to it as the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 letters

On the level of math where they use 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤

@star_stufff Gm Akshat!

good morning folks, rise and shine!

@fishPointer It's a really bad attempt at showing that dynamics (under a time-independent Hamiltonian) is precession on the Bloch sphere.

can anyone actually explain what’s supposed to be going on here

@knjysnn Thanks sel!

@reboplim wow so awesome!!! congrats!!!

@scheminglunatic Are they very different from his publicly-available lecture notes?

@reboplim i wish his books were on aa smh...

Fun fact: My outfit was based on this photo of David Tong!

@AntyMobile Thank you!

@reboplim congratulations