Robert Cordery

⚛️ 🧪I probably posted this in the wrong place. I’m still learning.

I’m just showing how unicodeit.net works here for LaTeX to unicode. It won’t do arbitrary LaTeX, but can make math look nicer:

iℏ∂Ψ∂t=−(ℏ²/(2m))∂²Ψ/∂ x²+ VΨ

I said physics and math can explain how the universe works but not why it is here. He answered “Oh, get your own dirt!”
In that old tale a biologist told God that she could create life. She picked up some dirt and God said “Get your own dirt!”

⚛️Thanks for this. I never saw how you can try to understand the universe and not feel awe.
I was at a mathematical security conference and having dinner with a Hasidic Jewish mathematician. He asked sarcastically how I could be a physicist and religious.

Time to forget theory and cut a small practice piece (or more than one). 😳

As a retired physicist thinking about the strange spaces implied by quantum + gravity, I would really appreciate a good thesaurus between the physics and mathematics terminology.

YouTube video by Physics Girl World’s Largest Camera Lens

Diana Cowern (Physics Girl) has a nice video showing and explaining the lens. youtu.be/33UMkPe93Ko?...

YouTube video by Physics Girl World’s Largest Camera Lens

Diana Cowern (Physics Girl) has a video showing and explaining the objective lens. youtu.be/33UMkPe93Ko?...

⚛️ One of my favorite moments was after a talk by Richard Feynman at Northeastern U about a toy model for confinement and strong coupling. I told him that his model was equivalent to the high T Ising expansion on a lattice wth coordination number 3. He looked surprised and agreed!😁

This equilibrium polymerization model, with a choice for the energy of crossing loops, is the high temperature expansion of the Ising model. The experimental specific heat of liquid sulfur fits the Ising critical exponents and ratios of the amplitude above and below Tc. doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

A simple lattice stat. mech. model that exhibits an equilibrium polymerization transition has unbroken loops of sulfur chains placed on the nearest neighbor edges of a lattice. Edges have either 0 or 1 chains. There is an energy cost of putting a chain on an edge and for chains crossing.

⚛️ Liquid sulfur has an equilibrium polymerization phase transition around Tc = 160 C. Well below Tc it is a yellow liquid of mostly cyclooctasulfane (S₈) rings.
Longer rings form, becoming very long near Tc. The liquid is viscous and turns brown. The specific heat has a sharp lambda transition.

Sushi burrito sounds like another Toronto entangled quantum state. When I was at UofT we liked a similar mixture: Ginsberg & Wong restaurant - Jewish deli and Chinese.

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