the use of stuff like Shannon entropy, mutual information, and like error-correction methods are parts of what is called the information theory.

We, as in the gravitational wave community, use a lot of data analysis, ML, and even low-latency handling of huge amounts of data, but I guess it would be a stretch to call these the use of information theory. So my question is what are you calling information theory? My understanding is that -->

What I personally do, as a simple and plain grad student, is creating computer models of the detector, so that we can test all these different ideas in simulations.

What we do in our group is mostly working on methods and technologies to lower some fundamental noises in the next upgrades of the detectors. We are also involved in the design process of Cosmic Explorer, a 40km-long successor to the LIGO here in the US.

Thank you so much!
Yup! Gravitational waves are so cool! 😋

From your lips to the Cloud gods' ears!

Remember these two? They were from the company "Astronomer". You're welcome! :)

Correct. I don't know of any in-universe explanation for that. But with all the transporter accidents that we see on screen, it doesn't seem to be impossible. For example see Tom Riker's case.

Isn't the transporter just that?
It scans you, vaporizes the current version of you, and then reproduces you in another place.

And of course, in case you need help, seek advice from the experts of the field.

And this seems to be the rest of their conversation regarding your correspondence. :)

A tangential question: I stopped using Google as a search engine a few years ago, but still use it as a verb in conversations; e.g., "I googled the problem" or "Let's google it before making a decision". What is everyone doing as an alternative? "Searched it on the internet" is a bit mouthful.

And of course, it's the name of Nazi invasion of Chicago.

I'm not familiar with Affinity to suggest alternatives for it, but I've been using Inkscape for vector graphics editing, and a combination of darktable and GIMP for editing photograps.