[quote]rehanb_bl wrote:
drove by the perimeter institute last week[/quote]
Awesome!
I miss Dr. Matt
I have a B.S. in Physics and I’m only 8 years removed but pretty much everything in this thread is just buzz words to me and stuff I couldn’t possibly comprehend unless I really delved back into it. I’d hope it’s like riding a bicycle but I seriously doubt it hahaha
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I miss Dr. Matt[/quote]
Yeah, I believed he shipped off to Finland.
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
I have a B.S. in Physics and I’m only 8 years removed but pretty much everything in this thread is just buzz words to me and stuff I couldn’t possibly comprehend unless I really delved back into it. I’d hope it’s like riding a bicycle but I seriously doubt it hahaha[/quote]
The acronym for Bachelors of Science has potentially chaotic ramifications if you get on someone’s bad side. “I have a BS in Physics.” “You sure do!” Fuckin’ ay.
What are you doing right now by chance?
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
@ Dr. Matt knowing you like futurama I think the episodes with the brain spawn had “Boltzmann brains” as inspiration for those episodes.[/quote]
I always thought that too, but it was never confirmed and I never seem to be able to make it to big sci-fi conventions to ask. Futurama is by far my favorite TV show.
[/quote]
Working my way through this thread now, up to this response. I just saw the thread today.
Doc, your comment on the time travel question immediately made me want to find a gif of “the late Philip j. fry” episode where they accidentally hit the throttle on the time machine and skip to the end of the universe. One of my favorites of that series, and probably one of my top 3 favorite tv shows.
Also, please do not ever stop posting here on the Nation. I never fail to learn something and I might take it upon myself to visit a watchtower with a high powered implement of destruction if you give up chatting here lol. Many thanks!
Also, might have a PM headed your way in a bit.
Need to revive this thread
Been a fields and waves peer leader for a few semesters but not any more due to a lack of funding, anyways that channel had a nice video related to what I was doing at the time which is nice.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
I have a B.S. in Physics and I’m only 8 years removed but pretty much everything in this thread is just buzz words to me and stuff I couldn’t possibly comprehend unless I really delved back into it. I’d hope it’s like riding a bicycle but I seriously doubt it hahaha[/quote]
The acronym for Bachelors of Science has potentially chaotic ramifications if you get on someone’s bad side. “I have a BS in Physics.” “You sure do!” Fuckin’ ay.
What are you doing right now by chance?[/quote]
I am a project lead for cellphone testing. What I do has literally nothing to do with physics other than the force used to press on the keyboard.
I’m actually trying to make the transition over to healthcare so at the very least my degree knocked out a lot of the pre-reqs for the schooling I need. Now I just have to get in!
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
I have a B.S. in Physics and I’m only 8 years removed but pretty much everything in this thread is just buzz words to me and stuff I couldn’t possibly comprehend unless I really delved back into it. I’d hope it’s like riding a bicycle but I seriously doubt it hahaha[/quote]
The acronym for Bachelors of Science has potentially chaotic ramifications if you get on someone’s bad side. “I have a BS in Physics.” “You sure do!” Fuckin’ ay.
What are you doing right now by chance?[/quote]
I am a project lead for cellphone testing. What I do has literally nothing to do with physics other than the force used to press on the keyboard.
I’m actually trying to make the transition over to healthcare so at the very least my degree knocked out a lot of the pre-reqs for the schooling I need. Now I just have to get in![/quote]
Get deep inside, mayne
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I miss Dr. Matt[/quote]
I am still round. I just moved to Norway and am still getting settled in which limits my time that I have to post. Once I am settled in I will be able to post more regularly.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
@ Dr. Matt knowing you like futurama I think the episodes with the brain spawn had “Boltzmann brains” as inspiration for those episodes.[/quote]
I always thought that too, but it was never confirmed and I never seem to be able to make it to big sci-fi conventions to ask. Futurama is by far my favorite TV show.
[/quote]
Working my way through this thread now, up to this response. I just saw the thread today.
Doc, your comment on the time travel question immediately made me want to find a gif of “the late Philip j. fry” episode where they accidentally hit the throttle on the time machine and skip to the end of the universe. One of my favorites of that series, and probably one of my top 3 favorite tv shows.
Also, please do not ever stop posting here on the Nation. I never fail to learn something and I might take it upon myself to visit a watchtower with a high powered implement of destruction if you give up chatting here lol. Many thanks!
Also, might have a PM headed your way in a bit. [/quote]
My PMs do not work for some reason that was never explained to me. If you are in touch with any of the people from here on G+ you can get my e-mail off of them.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
@ Dr. Matt knowing you like futurama I think the episodes with the brain spawn had “Boltzmann brains” as inspiration for those episodes.[/quote]
I always thought that too, but it was never confirmed and I never seem to be able to make it to big sci-fi conventions to ask. Futurama is by far my favorite TV show.
[/quote]
Working my way through this thread now, up to this response. I just saw the thread today.
Doc, your comment on the time travel question immediately made me want to find a gif of “the late Philip j. fry” episode where they accidentally hit the throttle on the time machine and skip to the end of the universe. One of my favorites of that series, and probably one of my top 3 favorite tv shows.
Also, please do not ever stop posting here on the Nation. I never fail to learn something and I might take it upon myself to visit a watchtower with a high powered implement of destruction if you give up chatting here lol. Many thanks!
Also, might have a PM headed your way in a bit. [/quote]
My PMs do not work for some reason that was never explained to me. If you are in touch with any of the people from here on G+ you can get my e-mail off of them.[/quote]
PMs are essentially a non-existent function for everyone at this thing point. Really no point in the string and hyperlink even being there anymore. Just makes people think they can. Hopefully that changes in due time.
Doc, what would you recommend for someone that wants to learn Russian?
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Doc, what would you recommend for someone that wants to learn Russian?[/quote]
It really depends on what you want to do with it. Any of the books and classes you will find in America only teach Central Russian, which is fine if you just want to learn it for academic purposes (i.e. so that you can tell people that you speak Russian). Very few Russians actually speak Central Russian, though, so if you actually want to be conversant you will need to spend time speaking with and learning the dialect of whatever area of Russia you are interested in talking to people from. Either way, it is a good idea to start with learning our alphabet and double checking the Central Russian alphabet with the one from whatever area you are interested in (some of them are different). Once you do that, any beginning Russian book will be able to help learn the basics of the language.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Doc, what would you recommend for someone that wants to learn Russian?[/quote]
For learning vocabulary (in any language), I highly suggest you check out memrise.com.
They have several Russian courses. Not having used the Russian ones, I can’t suggest a good starting point; I’m really only familiar with their Mandarin courses. Looking at their list, I’d say their “Learn Basic Russian” by bwhately, or “Beginners Russian” by zverka would be a good start.
The concept of the site is based on some of the latest research in memory. For each word you can select a mnemonic from a list of user-created options, or create your own. And then there’s a review algorithm that takes into account what you’ve really learned and what you haven’t. The idea is to drill you so you can refresh the memory right at the point where your brain is forgetting it. If you remember something correctly, the review frequency for that word is decreased; if you remember something incorrectly, the frequency is increased.
Basically, it adapts to you, and they use an empirical approach to continually improve their algorithms.
Doesn’t teach you grammar, doesn’t teach you useful phrases, doesn’t teach you sentence structure, but for vocab, it’s great.
My graduate work was in Structural Geology and Geophysics. I haven’t used any of it since I finished up 15 years ago. However, even though what I do now isn’t related to my college work, it was a great foundation and stepping point for my career.
I have just finished a masters in maths. Starting a PhD in Meteorology in October, but this year I took a module on relativity just for fun, previously in this thread you were talking about extra dimensions. As part of my module I had to give a presentation on Kaluza-Klein theory, so how to unite Maxwell’s equations with Einstein’s field equations using the concept of a 5th dimension. With the theory being that the 5th dimension would be rolled up inside the 3 spatial dimensions and would be of the order of the plancks constant.
During my research I read that the kind of energy required to “break open” the 5th dimension would be something of the order of the energy of the big bang. And so proving string theory with higher dimensions would basically be completely impossible.
What are your thoughts on this? Is there theoretically a way to prove the existence of these extra dimensions? Obviously not possible with today’s technology but in the future.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Doc, what would you recommend for someone that wants to learn Russian?[/quote]
It really depends on what you want to do with it. Any of the books and classes you will find in America only teach Central Russian, which is fine if you just want to learn it for academic purposes (i.e. so that you can tell people that you speak Russian). Very few Russians actually speak Central Russian, though, so if you actually want to be conversant you will need to spend time speaking with and learning the dialect of whatever area of Russia you are interested in talking to people from. Either way, it is a good idea to start with learning our alphabet and double checking the Central Russian alphabet with the one from whatever area you are interested in (some of them are different). Once you do that, any beginning Russian book will be able to help learn the basics of the language.[/quote]
That helps a lot. Thanks.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Doc, what would you recommend for someone that wants to learn Russian?[/quote]
For learning vocabulary (in any language), I highly suggest you check out memrise.com.
They have several Russian courses. Not having used the Russian ones, I can’t suggest a good starting point; I’m really only familiar with their Mandarin courses. Looking at their list, I’d say their “Learn Basic Russian” by bwhately, or “Beginners Russian” by zverka would be a good start.
The concept of the site is based on some of the latest research in memory. For each word you can select a mnemonic from a list of user-created options, or create your own. And then there’s a review algorithm that takes into account what you’ve really learned and what you haven’t. The idea is to drill you so you can refresh the memory right at the point where your brain is forgetting it. If you remember something correctly, the review frequency for that word is decreased; if you remember something incorrectly, the frequency is increased.
Basically, it adapts to you, and they use an empirical approach to continually improve their algorithms.
Doesn’t teach you grammar, doesn’t teach you useful phrases, doesn’t teach you sentence structure, but for vocab, it’s great.[/quote]
I’ll check it out.