After four years of thinking about electric-magnetic and gravitational duality around black holes, I've finally put some of those thoughts on the arXiv!
When I say “everything is just frequencies and vibrations, dude,” people call me unscientific, but when Coleman says “the career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction” he’s some kind of genius. 🤷♂️
If the new result is correct (i.e. not an experimental error) it means either
1)The Standard Model is incomplete (i.e. there is a new particle or force required)
2)The theoretical prediction for the W mass is wrong (bug in some code, someone forgot a minus sign)
@JonahDispatch
I just read the article. What part of it is even supposed to be damning? The loving texts to his son? The photo of a happy family dinner?
Non-physicist: so what do you do for a living?
Me: I do physics
Non-physicist: that’s hard!
Me: yes it is!
they rarely seem to be expecting that response…
Gabriele Veneziano, who gave birth to string theory over 50 years ago, is currently delivering a brilliant talk about deeply relevant research. At 79. The only troubling sign is that his slides are in Comic Sans.
@BungaHead
@CurtisHouck
@ComfortablySmug
A more sensible version of this idea is, there are lots of people out there who are well-suited to coding but have never been been exposed to it
@robbysoave
I’m Jewish and I can’t see why someone who’s not Jewish and not particularly well-informed should be expected to recognize this as referencing Jews
@OneEyeBlackJack
@FrankLuntz
FYI: He’s not talking about polls here. He’s talking about actual votes. Of which that washed-up game show host received rather fewer than President-Elect Biden.
💃🥳 arXiv day! 🥳💃
This paper is about the very rich symmetry structure that black hole perturbations enjoy in the low-frequency limit. (This is of particular relevance in the inspiral phase of a binary merger.)
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The CC problem even played a role in my courtship of
@stcohen112
. On our first date I told her that I was working on a solution to the problem, and if it was right I’d take her on a date to Stockholm. Obviously I buried the lede, but we’re getting married in two weeks so…
If Weinberg had done nothing but tell us that there was something wrong with the CC, it would have been enough for the entire cosmology and high-energy physics communities to thank him forever. Will we ever see a paper with the title "The cosmological constant problem is solved"?
I'm going to tweet about my new paper, but being celebratory about it feels really uncomfortable. It's the result of a few years of work, and I'm really proud of it. I submitted it to the arXiv on Friday, in a different world. It seems a lot less important now.
In career milestone news, I’ve been invited to give my first department colloquium! It feels like I’ve been watching my peers do this for years, but it is really nice to have finally gotten there.
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@SenSasse
just quoted the Burkean picket: “What do we want? Gradual change! When do we want it? In the fullness of time!” and I’m swooning
@thedispatch
Ahhhh yes.
Sabine Hossenfelder.
The self-proclaimed oracle of all knowledge and understanding of our Universe.
The theoretical physicist with absolutely zero medical training, zero social community training, zero training in complex gender psychology or LGBTIQA+ issues.
Imagine if America’s best economics minds were working on - well, I don’t know what, I’m not an economist - instead of reading three popular books on physics and complaining about it constantly on Twitter.
We have a new paper, that is Tobias Mistele,
@DudeDarkmatter
& me. It's about superfluid dark matter but highlights what I believe is a general problem of hybrid approaches.
If you write, teach or otherwise work on anything "decolonial", but don't appreciate the significance of this picture, then your work isn't really decolonial
Friendly suggestion to anyone writing rejection form letters: make sure the beginning bit that shows up in the email preview does not, at any point, in any context, contain the word “delighted.”
Tonight President Biden has instructed Secretary of State Blinken to release up to $350 million in immediate support to Ukraine's defense, according to a new memo released by the White House.