@qmbphysics.bsky.social
PhD physicist, mainly interested in the quantum many body problem & some AI/ML. I will occasionally post physics stuff. Aka quietphysicist and susurrus1 on other sites. Maintainer of: @arxiv-nucl-th.bsky.social and @arxiv-nucl-ex.bsky.social
Glad to hear the encouraging news. I hope this all gets resolved on its own very soon!
The names of 72 female scientists will be added to the Eiffel Tower, to accompany those of 72 male scientists that are already engraved there tinyurl.com/e2satnyp
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
Holy Potatoes.
I am SO FUCKING TIRED of having to ask this question constantly every single time a see an image.
SO FUCKING TIRED
Just a hint of pink on the skycam tonight in the northern direction.
"Quantum Theory of Angular Momentum" by D. A. Varshalovich et al.
This book is chock-full of useful identities, some that I haven't seen anywhere else. Recommended.
This evening's skycam view.
The skycam captured a helicopter flying overhead as the streak of light on the right.
Just found out python supports operator overloading for user-defined objects. Well then *rubs hands*
I want this thing so badly!
source: x.com/EagleAlpha19...
Run!
... Turns out breaking unitarity introduces noise into calculations, who woulda thunk it.
Today's small victory after days of struggling with Racah algebra and incompatible definitions from different sources.
New paper: "Back and Forth with Akito Arima", link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00093
That's not the convergence behavior I was hoping for from my code. Needs more work...
New books have arrived!
Work in progress.
Now the instructions say I have to insert that little pin at the bottom into a hole in the railing, but in order to do that I have to pull the whole thing apart and undo all the work I just did to make enough room to insert the pin. 🙄
Someone built a giant Lego version of the Agamemnon from Babylon 5 😮
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJm...
Sorry to hear that, I hope you feel better soon.
I remember playing pong when it was still a novelty.
I was going to use an old NUC pc I had lying around to do some light computations that don't need to be constantly supervised.
Unfortunately, it looks like it just died on me. Time to look at other options, maybe an RPi5...
3D printed for my hobby area, came out pretty nicely. Now working on another one to organize the million cables I have lying around.
Happy birthday to German-American theoretical #physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), the 2nd woman to win the Nobel Prize for #physics. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 #histsci As the series of increasingly large atomic nuclei grows with additional nucleons (protons p & neutrons n) from hydrogen to transuranic elements 🧵
New paper: "Summary Report of the Physics Beyond Colliders Study at CERN", link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00947
I get my fair share of these on a regular basis, so watch out!
And here are the star trails for it:
Last night's skies.
It was still pretty cloudy last night, but I did capture some star trails.