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Adam Solomon

@adamsolo.bsky.social

Ineffective field theorist, dachshund dad, long-suffering Mets fan, recovering flamencoholic, displaced American. I'm a mostly positive person (-+++). Jew, liberal democrat 🇮🇱🇺🇦

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"who pitched the 8th inning of game 161 in 2024" is the baseball version of "who was president in 2020"

10.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Every time a Mets target has signed somewhere else this week we get more Patreon signups for the pod.

10.12.2025 20:40 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

"At this rate" meaning assuming we lose one aging long-time fan favorite every day until opening day.

10.12.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'd like them to be a higher than 89 win true talent team.

12.09.2025 01:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Higher-derivative operators and effective field theory for general scalar-tensor theories We discuss the extent to which it is necessary to include higher-derivative operators in the effective field theory of general scalar-tensor theories. We explore the circumstances under which it is co...

Six months late but I do! arxiv.org/abs/1709.09695

14.07.2025 18:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But what about large gauge transformations! Or surface charges!

21.11.2024 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reminder for new users here:

The spacetime metric is a Lorentzian signature tensor with precisely one negative eigenvalue

17.11.2024 11:04 — 👍 70    🔁 9    💬 8    📌 8

Cheers buddy!

21.11.2024 21:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Welcome aboard!

21.11.2024 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

gaetz not ready for the major league, returns to minors

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Fascinating: People who describe themselves as conservative now have a lower opinion of Dick Cheney -- really, that Dick Cheney -- than do liberals.

Per a new YouGov poll:

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18.09.2024 14:45 — 👍 214    🔁 26    💬 21    📌 11
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,415,745!

18.09.2024 22:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pros of Bluesky:
- Replies are not dominated by neo-Nazis who paid $8.

Cons:
- I'm not on the official physicist list yet.

29.10.2023 20:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

For every time the invitation e-mail refers to me as Ms and the male panelist as Dr, my speaking fee doubles

21.10.2023 01:08 — 👍 3737    🔁 485    💬 57    📌 25

It's arXiv day! Ever since I started studying black hole perturbation theory, I've been mystified and fascinated by its duality invariance between even and odd polarizations. I put together some of my thoughts here: arxiv.org/abs/2310.04502

10.10.2023 19:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did try to find a picture of me *with* Wilbur for this app. I might even take one!

09.10.2023 20:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry too late, here I am

09.10.2023 03:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It's incredible that this website has headline-displaying technology.

08.10.2023 22:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello world!

08.10.2023 21:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0