Rochelle
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Rochelle
@uberwensch.bsky.social
· May 7
What is entanglement? Itamar Pittowsky claimed that these results brought us right to the precipice of logical contradiction--but not over. Abner Shimoney described it as a piece of "experimental metaphysics." I'm a nobody, but I think entanglement is the most interesting thing ever discovered.
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good latex package for feynman diagrams?
January 8, 2026 at 9:22 PM
good latex package for feynman diagrams?
very blessed that i have so many intelligent friends who are so patient with me
January 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
very blessed that i have so many intelligent friends who are so patient with me
it's incredible how different mathematician QFT is from physicist QFT
January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM
it's incredible how different mathematician QFT is from physicist QFT
Does anyone have a nice reference for how quasi-particle states are defined in condensed matter physics? I think it would be helpful to me. It's easy to imagine the normal modes of lattice vibration, but I know that these are not the particle states.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Does anyone have a nice reference for how quasi-particle states are defined in condensed matter physics? I think it would be helpful to me. It's easy to imagine the normal modes of lattice vibration, but I know that these are not the particle states.
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okay i do actually know why and the answer is basically just depression
why does someone who's almost 30 not know what the Higgs mechanism is yet
can't help but feel bad about the stuff I should (and could) know by now but don't
January 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
okay i do actually know why and the answer is basically just depression
Only now understood that determinism is in tension with a desirable sort of "anti-last-tuesdayism."
Pick an inextensible spacelike 3-surface; its maximal cauchy development falls short of the whole diagram. If that was all, we'd wonder (with Lucretius) where our spear goes when thrown off the map.
Pick an inextensible spacelike 3-surface; its maximal cauchy development falls short of the whole diagram. If that was all, we'd wonder (with Lucretius) where our spear goes when thrown off the map.
January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Only now understood that determinism is in tension with a desirable sort of "anti-last-tuesdayism."
Pick an inextensible spacelike 3-surface; its maximal cauchy development falls short of the whole diagram. If that was all, we'd wonder (with Lucretius) where our spear goes when thrown off the map.
Pick an inextensible spacelike 3-surface; its maximal cauchy development falls short of the whole diagram. If that was all, we'd wonder (with Lucretius) where our spear goes when thrown off the map.
why does someone who's almost 30 not know what the Higgs mechanism is yet
can't help but feel bad about the stuff I should (and could) know by now but don't
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
why does someone who's almost 30 not know what the Higgs mechanism is yet
did people also talk in this way about the classical EM fields? its bizarre.
In Quantum Mechanics, nothing is the potential to be anything [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🥼⬛⚛️🔋
Interesting, but ultimately unfulfilling
"zero-point #energy of the #vacuum is the combined effect of every possible form of #matter"
www.quantamagazine.org/in-quantum-m...
#quantum #ZeroPoint
Interesting, but ultimately unfulfilling
"zero-point #energy of the #vacuum is the combined effect of every possible form of #matter"
www.quantamagazine.org/in-quantum-m...
#quantum #ZeroPoint
In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine
Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
did people also talk in this way about the classical EM fields? its bizarre.
by the end of this year i will have written the first good introduction to quantum field theory
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
by the end of this year i will have written the first good introduction to quantum field theory
can't help but feel bad about the stuff I should (and could) know by now but don't
January 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
can't help but feel bad about the stuff I should (and could) know by now but don't
lets rally for another #MathCoffeeSelfie thread!
January 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
lets rally for another #MathCoffeeSelfie thread!
alt + 0151 makes an m-dash.
This is exactly what corruption looks like: power used as a commodity, war treated as a profit center, and human lives reduced to line items. This isn't leadership or strategy-it' pay-to-play imperialism, and it's indefensible.
January 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
alt + 0151 makes an m-dash.
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all of this violence and evil is a distraction from the real problem: nothing
February 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
all of this violence and evil is a distraction from the real problem: nothing
recently had to argue with a programmer about math where i was both correct and a woman. send me strength.
January 2, 2026 at 12:22 AM
recently had to argue with a programmer about math where i was both correct and a woman. send me strength.
rent day. don't forget.
January 1, 2026 at 6:26 AM
rent day. don't forget.
Everything happens for a sufficient reason ✨️🪐🌠🌒
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Everything happens for a sufficient reason ✨️🪐🌠🌒
Alright guys hope you had a nice holiday season but you gotta lock in now its #MathCoffeeSelfie day.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Alright guys hope you had a nice holiday season but you gotta lock in now its #MathCoffeeSelfie day.
Tenet includes this great shot of a building exploding in both temporal directions, but Nolan should have extrapolated the logic a bit more. At the end of the movie the Protagonist should have shrunk back into a baby and gone up into another woman's womb.
Tenet reverse explosion scene
YouTube video by Daten
youtu.be
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Tenet includes this great shot of a building exploding in both temporal directions, but Nolan should have extrapolated the logic a bit more. At the end of the movie the Protagonist should have shrunk back into a baby and gone up into another woman's womb.
anyone else noticed that Letterboxd sounds like Litterboxd. and that all your movie reviews are like excretions. anyone noticed this.
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
anyone else noticed that Letterboxd sounds like Litterboxd. and that all your movie reviews are like excretions. anyone noticed this.
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"what radicalized you?" and its literally taking the vanishing ideal of their common zero locus
April 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"what radicalized you?" and its literally taking the vanishing ideal of their common zero locus
This is what Lovecraft was on about in the Dreams in the Witch House
PS2: I also have a video of a geodesic observer, essentially the middle vertical line in the diagram, who remains perpetually between the inner and outer horizons, and sees the Kerr geometry as a pulsating phenomenon, alternating between BH and WH regions. Sadly, many computation artifacts here:
Between the horizons of a Kerr black hole (the "lazy geodesic")
YouTube video by David Madore
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is what Lovecraft was on about in the Dreams in the Witch House