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Adam Solomon ➖➕➕➕

@adamsolo

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General/moral relativist, dachshund dad, long-suffering Mets fan, recovering flamencoholic, mostly positive (metric signature only), Jew.

Hamilton, Ontario

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Joined January 2009

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Adam Solomon ➖➕➕➕

11 months

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!

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Off-shell duality invariance of Schwarzschild perturbation theory

We explore the duality invariance of the Maxwell and linearized Einstein-Hilbert actions on a non-rotating black hole background. On shell these symmetries are electric-magnetic duality and...

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@NumbersMuncher I’ve had a soft spot for Neil ever since I worked in his department as a high school student, but on the other hand, “misteaks”

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Physics, briefly

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@CawthornforNC Act like a grownup, you’re about to be a Congressman.

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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. 🤷‍♂️

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Oh, you’re a physicist? What's your favorite Lagrangian?

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“Either physics as we know it is wrong or someone missed a minus sign somewhere” is perfect

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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)

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Wrong answers only.

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@DavidAFrench Nothing says conservatism like using the power of the state to punish your critics

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@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?

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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…

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Physics is hard.

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Classic opening line.

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@JimSwiftDC “Hire the people who think like you,” says the guy who goes on about cancel culture.

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@DavidAFrench I cannot believe someone on the internet would misrepresent a David French piece that they had either not read or not understood.

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2 years

This but not ironically.

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My prediction for the Nobel Prize in Physics tomorrow: me. The real question is which of my accomplishments they’ll emphasize in the citation.

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Adam Solomon ➖➕➕➕

3 years

Me on the phone just now, reading off the final digits of a serial number to the agent: “C as in Charlie, M as in… um…… microwave, B as in background”

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@NateSilver538 i just need you to find me 384 votes

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“because that’s my secret. I don’t take money to tweet. I do this shit for free.”

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How do you draw squiggly? I’m 1.

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3 years

Arrived in Canada, starting to get used to local conventkons like km/h, driving on the other side of the road, and (+ - - -) metric signature

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2 years

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.

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@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

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@bernybelvedere holy fuck he took the worst tweet on this site and expanded it into a *column*?

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Adam Solomon ➖➕➕➕

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@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

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@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.

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ngl I’m a little miffed my wife made this alt account

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@RiverTamYDN I really like this Hanania parody account

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What should I write on my board next? I’m out of ideas.

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@CalmYourMitts @MedInPanicCity I saw “his arm fell off; the blood, oh god, the blood!!” Hopefully we’ll know more soon

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Posting footnotes 14 and 15 here for posterity so I feel less tempted to keep them in the final draft.

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@ShayKhatiri Why does he *brag* about liking dictators?

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……all of them?

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@netflix Fix that transliteration, @netflix !

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@RpsAgainstTrump A couple of losers!

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It’s arXiv day! We’re really happy with how this one turned out, and I think I’m the only author on Twitter, so here’s a thread.

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@WKCosmo “Trivial to show” = I can’t be bothered/don’t remember how to redo this derivation

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Adam Solomon ➖➕➕➕

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My last ~6 hours of bachelorhood, any recommendations?

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@Claire_Lee Step aside Claire, you're dealing with a *real* expert here

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@DavidAFrench Look, I don’t love Trump’s positions on democracy and the rule of law, but have you *seen* Biden’s climate policy? (</s>)

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@WKCosmo “It is well known that" I don’t want to dig up the citations, and also this is probably controversial

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@RadioFreeTom He’s smart enough to know what he’s doing. Take comfort in the fact that his soul is withering at having to do this.

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Q: is it still impostor *syndrome* if you’re actually an impostor?

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@NateSilver538 I guess we weren't pleased about that superspreader rally last week.

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💃🥳 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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“What’s your contribution to your papers?” “Mostly adding Oxford commas.”

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no not as usual

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@martinmbauer I’d work in units where G = hbar = c = -1

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For the unaware, this is a @seanmcarroll classic:

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This is how you can tell an article wasn't written by a theoretical physicist.

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@naomigend I see you’ve never had a postdoc respond to this question by breaking out sobbing

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@FinitePhysicist “But son,” she said, “I *am* the postdoc”

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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…

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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"?

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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.

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Since SOH CAH TOA is trending, I figure it’s time to come clean: I still use SOH CAH TOA.

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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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@flying_asset5 @havivrettiggur Cool do my family next, we came from Cairo. No more Jews there. Are we welcome back?

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@TimAlberta , e) are a partisan hack

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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

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We have the best broadcasters in the game.

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keith hernandez asking “what’s a meme” in the year 2022 lmao

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@chriswilsondc @ABCPolitics @ABC @washingtonpost @GMA Did a double take and had to double-check the date

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@VladDavidzon Not sure why she’s more worried about American tanks than Wagner tanks…

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Your daily reminder that expertise in one field doesn’t transfer to others.

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Rami Mandow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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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.

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The BICEP2 announcement was seven years ago today - here’s a photo I took of all the excited cosmologists. (Little did we know!)

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@Timodc @JimSwiftDC This makes it worse.

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Like if you’ve ever accidentally written “redshit” or “shit symmetry"

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You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you their preferred metric signature. You immediately leave. They use mostly minus.

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“Will someone just tell me what the fuck a Straussian is?” - @Timodc (Don’t get them started!)

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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.

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The last few dozen participants are nowhere to be found

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Beyond the standard model theorist

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Name a job where you can consistently be wrong and still not lose your job?

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Time for faculty applications, or as I like to call it, screaming into the void

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Guess who’s on the honorary postdoc market

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Juan Maldacena will be awarded an honorary doctorate at the KU Leuven!

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The hell kind of field theory is an NFT?

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@KylePomykala

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You see, *these* new particles are okay because

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Sabine Hossenfelder

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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.

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Maybe universities should spend less money on “anything ‘decolonial’” and more on physicists.

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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

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@Noahpinion General life advice: don’t follow “antisemitism is always wrong” with “but”

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I’m proud to announce that I have finally reached 1k following

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@Quasilocal

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Who are these people using mostly-minus IN GR LECTURE NOTES I can literally trust none of these equations

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@RadioFreeTom @jaynordlinger You could probably fit us all in a room at this point.

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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.”

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@marklevinshow It doesn’t look very suspended…

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@OliviaTroye @baseballcrank It’s also a dig at Biden’s son. And all because Biden committed the sin of being a Democrat. I hope @baseballcrank does a modicum of self-reflection

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But where do they put the actual grad students?

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@natsechobbyist @SykesCharlie I really hope “grow a pair” is a Nicki Minaj reference

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@jaketapper Orban too. When you lose your fellow authoritarians...

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No it isn’t. Dark matter: Our review suggests it's time to ditch it in favor of a new theory of gravity

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Just spending the day integrating by parts, just integrating by parts all day, every day, until the Lagrangian looks pretty

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My talk went better than I’d expected; apparently thinking about a topic for two years is helpful when it comes to talking about it?

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As is traditional, this is conditioned on Zelensky announcing an investigation into Eric Trump.

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Kaitlan Collins

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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.

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@AntisemitismCow @rooshv He had “Yoel” and chose to use “Roth?”

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@jaketapper @cspiesdc I remember when conservatives argued that the letter of the law should restrain public officials

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I can put this in the achievements section of my CV, right?

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SQUEEEEEEEEEE

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@maggieNYT On behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, phewwwwwwwwwwwwww

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@AsteadWesley Glad Twitter offered to translate this tweet from the original French

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@Timodc Is Craig his less ruggedly handsome cousin?

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