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Calligraphette_Coe

I still get dreamy and awed by Euler's Identity. It's like my version of the Carl Sagan experience.

I also sometimes think of we asexuals in terms of the noble gases in the periodic chart. Like we're the argon of the P-10 gas used in some Geiger-Mueller tubes- we form ion pairs when pinged by radiation, but the rest of the time we are inert. The ionized gas thingie was part of the inspiration for the new avatar :)

BTW, my favorite Heart song/lyrics? Dreamboat Annie.....

Going down the city sidewalk alone in the crowd
No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds

Sad faces painted over with those magazine smiles
Heading out to somewhere won't be back for a while
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Heterosexuality then would be ionic bond, and homosexuality - covalent.

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Hey glad to see this thread is still going. :)

Anyone here like math puzzles? I was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a problem solving team. We could send in our solutions to the American Math Monthly problem solving section as "Asexual Visibility and Education Network Problem Solving group", thereby doing a bit of ace vis-ed at the same time.

For a selection of some of the problems see here:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.7.722?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Personally I tend to have difficulty with their geometry questions as geometry (at least classical geometry) has never really been my thing. So someone who is good at geometry (if you know the alternate segment theorem, Ceva's theorem, Ptolemy's theorem and the definition of inradius and circumradius, you know more than I do!) would be great to have on the team. But really just anyone who likes solving math problems.

Any takers? :P

PS. hmm would we be in danger of giving the impression that all aces are mathematicians? :p

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Dodec: if I had to choose between e and pi... I'd choose e as my favourite. Calli is right; I just can't stop marvelling at Euler's identity. It's so.... amazing. Relating circles, triangles, and continuous growth rates, to oscillations. I mean, is there anything in this world that e doesn't touch?!?

Alas, my memory is not good. If only I'd known as many digits of e as you do, I'd be Heart272 instead of Heart314 ;)

We need an analogy in that atom bonding thing for romantic bonds instead of sexual ones... what if I don't want to touch or share anyone's orbitals, but I'm down for the netflix bit of netflix and chill? :P

Mic, you have no idea how much I'd love to be involved in that! I'm not the best at theoretical mathematics, but I can do wonders for the physical applications, is there room for that? Also, I'm super busy always and forever, and I would be kidding myself if I tried to say that it was only for now... But I'd still like to be involved, even if my contributions are small. Let me know if this goes ahead!

For everyone's reference, what level of math should one be able to do in order to be able to participate and enjoy this?

Edit: ooo, I saw a binary question! I'm excited already ^_^

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Richard Feynman was always enthralled by that identity too, from young age.

To demystify it a bit: as Heart said, the exponential function is about rate of growth. More precisely, t|->e^{kt} is the unique function whose rate of growth is proportional to its current value, with constant proportionality k, and such that 0 is mapped to 1 (an initial condition).

Now let's set k=i (=sqrt(-1)) working in the complex plane. In the complex plane, multiplication by i means rotating your position by 90 degrees anti-clockwise (as measured from the origin).

So what the t|->e^{it} function means is... you are walking in the Argand diagram, starting at 1 at time 0. At any time, you are walking in a direction that is perpendicular to your current position from 0. What happens if you walk (or run? :P) in this way? It means you go in a circle! (Maybe it's a maypole dance!)

So we're walking around the unit circle starting at 1. As our velocity is always i times our current position, our speed is 1. Then e^{pi*i} gives us our position at time pi, which is when we've walked halfway round the circle! (Because the circumference is 2pi and we're walking at unit speed.) We started at 1, so halfway round the circle is -1. So our position is -1 at time pi. Hence e^{pi*i}=-1! :P

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AMM: glad you'd like to take part Heart! The problems are mostly pure mathematical but occasionally there's a mechanics type question in there I think. The level... hmm all I can suggest really is looking at some of the previous problems. I wouldn't say the problems are trivial but I haven't encountered one yet that's furiously difficult. Some can be solved with school maths. Some need advanced undergrad knowledge and some need knowledge considerably beyond that. (And the latter are not necessarily the most difficult questions - it's possible to ask exceptionally difficult questions that only require high school knowledge...)

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I always wonder what the 21st century version of Fermat's Last Theorem or Poincare's Conjecture will be, and if they will take decades to prove.

I'm also really heartened by the fact that it seems like most of the people who finally do these proofs are humble enough to forego the prize money, stating that "I stood on the shoulder's of giants and don't feel proper in being the single recipient." I just find that as awesome as Euler's Identity itself.

It took the longest time to figure out what I found a little oogy about 'Good Will Hunting'... and that was it. That they got it all wrong with the arrogance and contempt, lowering it to who won the mathematical fistfight of egos.

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AMM: glad you'd like to take part Heart! The problems are mostly pure mathematical but occasionally there's a mechanics type question in there I think. The level... hmm all I can suggest really is looking at some of the previous problems. I wouldn't say the problems are trivial but I haven't encountered one yet that's furiously difficult. Some can be solved with school maths. Some need advanced undergrad knowledge and some need knowledge considerably beyond that. (And the latter are not necessarily the most difficult questions - it's possible to ask exceptionally difficult questions that only require high school knowledge...)

Oh man, don't I know it. For fun at my old university we used to collect problems from math competitions meant for high school students, and there were definitely more than a few I couldn't do in the allotted time!

Well, count me in (ish - subject to availability and all that jazz). Even if I never have time to actually solve anything, I'd love to be part of the process and think about it.

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I always wonder what the 21st century version of Fermat's Last Theorem or Poincare's Conjecture will be, and if they will take decades to prove.

The Riemann Hypothesis.

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Calligraphette_Coe

I always wonder what the 21st century version of Fermat's Last Theorem or Poincare's Conjecture will be, and if they will take decades to prove.

The Riemann Hypothesis.

Wasn't that one on Hlibert's Problem's list? Sort of like the mathematical version of The Twelve Labors of Hercules?

I guess what I also want to know is what possesses mathematicians to formulate these problems? Is it like a 'splinter in the mind' sort of thing? Feeling a sort of dysphoria with what is possible with Newtonian mathematics-- the real intense passion to cobble together observed pieces of the universe and/or existence and then to put them though the smithy of pure intellect to divine their formulae? To be a Master Toolmaker who gives others mathematical might to use in their own work?

And, will it ever be possible for computers to become semi-sentient and do this on their own? Or maybe even fully truly sentient?

I just think there are soo many maths out there that have yet to be worked out.

And will human beings be wise enough to use the power to harness them for good?

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What possesses mathematicians to formulate these problems? I imagine it's similar to what possesses me to get a PhD in physics, despite that I could be making at least twice as much for half the work at some other job: curiosity. It's a strong force. I simply cannot resist.

Sometimes I joke that I have a superpower: I am immune to sexual seduction. However, that power comes with my own personal kryptonite. I simply cannot resist the allure of Nature's secrets...

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What possesses mathematicians to formulate these problems? I imagine it's similar to what possesses me to get a PhD in physics, despite that I could be making at least twice as much for half the work at some other job: curiosity. It's a strong force. I simply cannot resist.

Sometimes I joke that I have a superpower: I am immune to sexual seduction. However, that power comes with my own personal kryptonite. I simply cannot resist the allure of Nature's secrets...

Heh, strong force...physics...I see what you did there ;)

In all seriousness, though, I can very much relate to this. I've been obsessed with physics ever since I was about 10 and I watched a miniseries by Michio Kaku on the Science Channel about the nature of time. There was one episode in particular talking about the possibilities of string theory and parallel universes and D-branes and such, and it blew my little tiny fourth-grade mind so much that I had to understand it. (And then I read the entire physics section of the town library over that summer. To be fair, the library was pretty tiny...so I eventually wound up reading the entire physics section of the library in the next town over as well. To be fair, that library was also pretty tiny.) Unfortunately, after I left grade school and started the whole soul-crushing part of academia in high school and now college, I've sort of lost that sense of insatiable, innate needing to know, and that's really saddening because it's always been one of the best parts of my life. I'm fighting very hard to try and regain it, but I don't know to what extent that's possible, for multiple reasons of mental health and the physics department at my university (as well as my own physics skills...) being a completely different animal than what I had originally been told it was.

I don't know what I'll do if I can't get that feeling back. Every so often, when I'm on the roof of the old physical sciences building with the telescope I'm technically in charge of, I can just for a moment almost remember what it felt like. The closest thing I can think of to explaining it is (spoilers for the end of season 1 of Doctor Who (the rebooted version))

when, in "A Parting of Ways", Rose has to stare into the "heart" of the TARDIS in order to get back to the former Satellite Nine/Bad Wolf Corp. station and save the Doctor/humanity and thereby basically become this transcendent pan-dimensional being, and after she delivers the magnificent coup de graces of literally disintegrating every Dalek in existence on the atomic level (which I have to say is in my opinion one of the most epic things I've ever seen in all of fiction, but maybe that's just me), she talks about how she can see through all of time and space and how beautiful the transcendent connections are between everything--so beautiful it's almost painful, and so transcendent that her mind and body physically can't handle it.

That's probably the purest expression of it in someone else's work that I've ever come across--seeing the magnificent underlying structure behind everything, the only truly (literally and figuratively) universal thing there is--I remember what it was like to see even just the tiniest fraction of that, or at least think I saw it. But now I'm over a year into the physics major, and it's all professors who are either incomprehensible or just flat-out shouldn't be allowed to teach undergrads, staying up far too late in order to just barely throw together a pset on which I have no idea whether any of the answers are right, and not having time or even really the mental wherewithal to step back and marvel at the big picture of what I'm learning because I'm scrambling just to stay upright on the academic treadmill. I know it has to be around here somewhere...but I don't know what or how I'm going to have to change in order to find it again.

(...wow, I realized that got really long and kind of turned into a personal rant, sorry about that. :unsure:)

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Someone once told me that obstacles weren't there to stop you; they are there to let you prove that you really want it.

I consider the whole ivory tower of academia to be an obstacle in and of itself. It feels like they do everything they can sometimes to kill your soul, to kill your curiosity, to kill your motivation and passion. But when you get through it... there is a paradise on the other end, one that very few people are ever allowed to experience. Because there is nothing in this world that I have ever experienced that is anywhere near as awe-inspiring as pure, novel research.

I have been the first person in this world to see a new thing. I work with a team of some of the smartest people on this planet. There are few things in this world more cool than that.

Unfortunately, there is a world full of gatekeepers called professors and admissions committees that are standing between you and this... So hold in there. I personally think it's worth it. And if they kill your curiosity a few times in the meantime, know that they did to mine as well. It grew back. Sometimes I needed a few days off, or a week or two to recover. Netflix is my friend in those times, as are my human and animal friends. But I always did make it. And I'm fully willing to help anyone else make it too! Let me know if there's anything I can do :cake:

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What possesses mathematicians to formulate these problems? I imagine it's similar to what possesses me to get a PhD in physics, despite that I could be making at least twice as much for half the work at some other job: curiosity. It's a strong force. I simply cannot resist.

Sometimes I joke that I have a superpower: I am immune to sexual seduction. However, that power comes with my own personal kryptonite. I simply cannot resist the allure of Nature's secrets...

Heh, strong force...physics...I see what you did there ;)

In all seriousness, though, I can very much relate to this. I've been obsessed with physics ever since I was about 10 and I watched a miniseries by Michio Kaku on the Science Channel about the nature of time. There was one episode in particular talking about the possibilities of string theory and parallel universes and D-branes and such, and it blew my little tiny fourth-grade mind so much that I had to understand it. (And then I read the entire physics section of the town library over that summer. To be fair, the library was pretty tiny...so I eventually wound up reading the entire physics section of the library in the next town over as well. To be fair, that library was also pretty tiny.) Unfortunately, after I left grade school and started the whole soul-crushing part of academia in high school and now college, I've sort of lost that sense of insatiable, innate needing to know, and that's really saddening because it's always been one of the best parts of my life. I'm fighting very hard to try and regain it, but I don't know to what extent that's possible, for multiple reasons of mental health and the physics department at my university (as well as my own physics skills...) being a completely different animal than what I had originally been told it was.

I don't know what I'll do if I can't get that feeling back. Every so often, when I'm on the roof of the old physical sciences building with the telescope I'm technically in charge of, I can just for a moment almost remember what it felt like. The closest thing I can think of to explaining it is (spoilers for the end of season 1 of Doctor Who (the rebooted version))

when, in "A Parting of Ways", Rose has to stare into the "heart" of the TARDIS in order to get back to the former Satellite Nine/Bad Wolf Corp. station and save the Doctor/humanity and thereby basically become this transcendent pan-dimensional being, and after she delivers the magnificent coup de graces of literally disintegrating every Dalek in existence on the atomic level (which I have to say is in my opinion one of the most epic things I've ever seen in all of fiction, but maybe that's just me), she talks about how she can see through all of time and space and how beautiful the transcendent connections are between everything--so beautiful it's almost painful, and so transcendent that her mind and body physically can't handle it.

That's probably the purest expression of it in someone else's work that I've ever come across--seeing the magnificent underlying structure behind everything, the only truly (literally and figuratively) universal thing there is--I remember what it was like to see even just the tiniest fraction of that, or at least think I saw it. But now I'm over a year into the physics major, and it's all professors who are either incomprehensible or just flat-out shouldn't be allowed to teach undergrads, staying up far too late in order to just barely throw together a pset on which I have no idea whether any of the answers are right, and not having time or even really the mental wherewithal to step back and marvel at the big picture of what I'm learning because I'm scrambling just to stay upright on the academic treadmill. I know it has to be around here somewhere...but I don't know what or how I'm going to have to change in order to find it again.

(...wow, I realized that got really long and kind of turned into a personal rant, sorry about that. :unsure:)

I had this so bad as well. But it's getting better for me, and I'm realising that it will get better. The combination of doing an undergrad and having some mental health issues killed most of my curiosity. Even when I felt it, I couldn't act upon it, because I just didn't have the time or energy to actually look up and study something interesting.

Since then, I've changed universities (and countries), and moved into a MSc degree. If possible, the workload is even higher, so I still don't have a lot of time to satisfy my curiosity unrelated to learning. But, because I'm specialising more, I'm taking courses that do fall within my area-of-extreme-interest, and I'm trying to get an idea of what my MSc-project will be on. Which means I can read papers I find interesting, for the reason of being able to apply them. So I'm getting my curiosity and urge for learning back, and gradually having more time and energy to actually fulfil that urge :) It's not always there, and I can't always do something about it, but improvement gives me hope.

I'm not in physics, but I imagine getting farther in your degree will help you as well. I hope so, at least. *hugs*

Someone once told me that obstacles weren't there to stop you; they are there to let you prove that you really want it.

I consider the whole ivory tower of academia to be an obstacle in and of itself. It feels like they do everything they can sometimes to kill your soul, to kill your curiosity, to kill your motivation and passion. But when you get through it... there is a paradise on the other end, one that very few people are ever allowed to experience. Because there is nothing in this world that I have ever experienced that is anywhere near as awe-inspiring as pure, novel research.

I have been the first person in this world to see a new thing. I work with a team of some of the smartest people on this planet. There are few things in this world more cool than that.

Unfortunately, there is a world full of gatekeepers called professors and admissions committees that are standing between you and this... So hold in there. I personally think it's worth it. And if they kill your curiosity a few times in the meantime, know that they did to mine as well. It grew back. Sometimes I needed a few days off, or a week or two to recover. Netflix is my friend in those times, as are my human and animal friends. But I always did make it. And I'm fully willing to help anyone else make it too! Let me know if there's anything I can do :cake:

This really gives me hope as well :) The prospect that it will get better, if I can just manage to get past the gatekeepers.

I can't imagine how cool it was to see something like that. I really hope I can some day experience something like that.

Thanks for sharing this, it really helped me realise I was doing better, and that's a nice feeling to have :) :cake:

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Haven't been around because of all the stuff I just ranted about, and my solution so far has been...uh...dropping the physics major.

However! This was mostly because I've come to the realizations that 1: the physics department is...actually kind of garbage here, and 2: I'm sick and tired of just running on the pset treadmill and not having time to enjoy anything of either what I'm learning or anything I'm doing outside of class.

So, I'm going to try something different. My university is kind of odd in that math majors mostly get a pass on prerequisites for most physics courses, and so since I'm still a math major, I'm going to use that to my advantage and take the classes I want to take, not the extremely poorly designed ones that are just the same things over and over again but presented in increasingly confusing ways that I would be forced to take if I were to stick with the major. In addition, now I can take astronomy classes because I have more than literally four slots for classes outside my major, which is what I would have had otherwise, so I can...sort of build an astrophysicsy/cosmology-y type major on my own??? (That's the area of physics I was originally intending to focus on anyway.) But also take any nonzero amount of classes that somehow aren't math or science related, because I've come to realize that that's kind of a thing I need to do to keep myself sane? I don't know. I have no idea if this will work, but several consecutive nights of having existential crises while I was supposed to be working on my Modern Physics pset convinced me that it's better than the alternative. So, we'll see.

Spoilered for "jeez Dodec, please stop derailing this thread by ranting about your problems already":

This is also kind of my attempt at Doing the Mental Health Thing, because the realization that last year was exactly what I didn't want it to be--i.e. a repeat of high school, in that I couldn't enjoy anything because I was too busy doing nothing but work--was a scary one, because high school was psychologically kind of a scary time. Part of the reason it took me this long to drop the major even after the intro sequence completely wrecked me last year was the difficulty I have in admitting that it's okay to not just do all the hard things all the time always, because there's a point at which that crosses the line from run-of-the-mill college student masochism to self-destructive tendencies. I freaked out when I realized that dropping this class and therefore the major would give me a much larger amount of free time than I'd ever had academically speaking, and that it would mean I was taking less than the maximum number of courses this quarter for the first time since I'd started college--and that was terrifying. I broke down when my friend who was going through this crisis at the same time as I was pointed out that I could use the free time to read for fun, or write for fun, or learn another instrument, or exercise, or do anything that wasn't work, because the way I got through high school was essentially by refusing to recognize that I was allowed to have fun. And they have similar anxiety/depression issues to mine, so they understood that the reason I freaked out at that was that when you've been stuck in that mindset for so long at all, let alone in an environment that's as high-pressure and collectively masochistic as the culture at the school we both go to, the very notion that you're allowed to care for yourself is downright terrifying.

This is probably kind of a cliche analogy, but as I was leaving the dining hall from the conversation where said freakout happened, I passed an overhead light in one of the archways on campus that had previously been flickering for the past week or so because there was a spark gap that had developed in the wiring. This time, it was out, and I realized the similarity--with the spark gap, there's a lot of tension and buildup required for just a brief flash of light. But after a certain point, the circuit can't handle it anymore, and the light just plain goes out...and it won't turn back on until you get rid of that spark gap. And then it stays on, because the circuit has been fixed. Those flashes of insight from physics had been getting rarer and rarer, and came from more and more tension...and then they just stopped.

So, I'm replacing the wiring, and hopefully sooner or later, that light will come back on, and stay on.

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That's awesome Dodec! I'm really glad you've found a way to be sane and happy. I never hold it against people who drop their physics majors; you don't need a piece of paper to do physics! Also, good call on taking some non-science/math courses. You're preaching to the choir on the fact that those keep you sane; remember tat I have a BA too. I wouldn't've made it through my physics degree if it weren't for my humanities degree; it kept me sane in a very major way. Some days, I really just needed a break from math and physics, but I couldn't afford a break from academia, so I'd be able to take a break by studying humanities. There's nothing quite like reading the Ramayana or Mahabharata to sooth the math-adled brain ^_^

Mental health should not be underestimated importance-wise. I mean that! It's a good call to pay attention to your own mental health and sanity. It's one thing to make it into the paradise of curiosity, but it'll do you no good if you're not capable of enjoying it once you get there. Your spirit and soul may grow back when it's crushed a few times, but it can't do so infinitely, and your mental health does suffer. Treat your brain with respect, you'll need it! Work on rebuilding those curiosity circuits, and meanwhile physics will only get more interesting I promise. It won't go away, you have a whole lifetime to explore it ;)

Oh, and this thread doesn't really have a thesis statement, so I don't think it's even possible to derail it :P

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And Wayfarer, I'm so happy to hear your masters is going well and that my mini speech was helpful ^_^ I swear I'll get to my PMs one day, I've been busy... but then again, I guess I always am. My only excuse is that a huge grant application was due last weekend, and my computer crashed in a major way the day before. So I've spent the past few weeks with the application... then fixing my computer.

On that note... I'm back! My computer is back in action, which means I'm back on AVEN! Sorry for mysteriously disappearing folks ;)

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Someone once told me that obstacles weren't there to stop you; they are there to let you prove that you really want it.

I consider the whole ivory tower of academia to be an obstacle in and of itself. It feels like they do everything they can sometimes to kill your soul, to kill your curiosity, to kill your motivation and passion. But when you get through it... there is a paradise on the other end, one that very few people are ever allowed to experience. Because there is nothing in this world that I have ever experienced that is anywhere near as awe-inspiring as pure, novel research.

I have been the first person in this world to see a new thing. I work with a team of some of the smartest people on this planet. There are few things in this world more cool than that.

Unfortunately, there is a world full of gatekeepers called professors and admissions committees that are standing between you and this... So hold in there. I personally think it's worth it. And if they kill your curiosity a few times in the meantime, know that they did to mine as well. It grew back. Sometimes I needed a few days off, or a week or two to recover. Netflix is my friend in those times, as are my human and animal friends. But I always did make it. And I'm fully willing to help anyone else make it too! Let me know if there's anything I can do :cake:

The biggest human tragedy is that for every person of great vision there seems to be 20 Ayn Rand rentseekers waiting in the wings to vampire their work into venal oblivion. It's like something out of The Mahabharta. For every Tesla there seems to be 20 Edisons. For every Gandhi, 20 Trumps.

And on.

And on.

Small wonder that the people who do all the hardest work, often toil in obscurity. It's a greater wonder that they keep doing so for the love of taming the unknown instead of for fame and money. That Atlas doesn't shrug in disgust, he forbears, and the Meek finally do see a return on their investment.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

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Ooh, discussion about science and math? I'm all for that. I'm not much of a physicist and kind of didn't do a lot of science at college (I started out majoring in chemistry but dropped out of that and switched to linguistics later), but I'm still pretty interested in science in general, and I like math and puzzles. Actually, I even design my own puzzles, some of which you can find on my website if you're interested.

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I remember stumbling across fellow IB students in this thread ages ago. I'm taking the November 2016 session and I'm in the middle of my exams.

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Fluorine, you have my sympathies. Hang in there, you'll be done with it soon and you can get on with your life. It's better on the other side, I promise. :cake: :cake: :cake:

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Hang in there Fluorine!! Those exams were ... goodness... 7 years ago or so for me. But I STILL remember the physical pain of my cramped hands when walking out of the History HL exams! By golly, writing three essays in two hours was brutal. But I survived, and I know you will too! You're amazing Fluorine, best of luck :cake:

Also, TheMartianGeek, that is so cool! I shall remember to check out your website when I have some time. Thanks for the link :D

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AVEN PMs aren't working very well for me. I haven't been able to open them lately (the new server is on it's way...). So if you want to chat, please do reach out to me. Just, I can't guarantee I'll be able to open PMs on AVEN (even if they say they are "read", sometimes they just won't load). So... if you want to chat, quote this post and I'll pay attention in this thread, and everywhere I can. We'll find a way to chat privately, if you want, or we can find a place to chat collectively.

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No updates this month yet!

 

Heart and their Alpha Team at CERN have managed to create a lot of antimatter atoms and have been able to measure the energy levels of antihydrogen for the first time ever, and showed that antihydrogen acts the same as matter hydrogen.

 

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/breakthrough-scientists-trap-antimatter-atoms-and-blast-them-with-lasers

 

They deserves a Nobel Prize. :cake:

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*blushes that Kelly is proud of me*

 

It's been a blast being in Europe and on the forefront of that discovery. It was mostly the team, I only played a small role, but holy cow. The experience of being there when a major thing is being discovered... it's amazing.

 

:wub: to you all!

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On 2016-12-25 at 5:33 AM, Kelly said:

No updates this month yet!

 

Heart and their Alpha Team at CERN have managed to create a lot of antimatter atoms and have been able to measure the energy levels of antihydrogen for the first time ever, and showed that antihydrogen acts the same as matter hydrogen.

 

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/breakthrough-scientists-trap-antimatter-atoms-and-blast-them-with-lasers

 

They deserves a Nobel Prize. :cake:

So my university wrote an article about me and my supervisor :D

 

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2017/sfu-researchers-shine-light-on-antimatter.html

 

(I'm glad they chose flattering pictures of us... ;) )

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That is most awesome. :)

 

While the Higgs Boson verification made many at CERN famous, your continuing work on antimatter helped make this groundbreaking (and highly important) discovery a reality. :cake:

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HEART IS SO COOOOOL!!!

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Also, so much for the stereotype that all NB people are young naive undergrads at liberal arts schools taking gender studies and leeching off their parents :P In my case, y'all are gonna see a news headline in 10 years "Renowned geologist in critical condition after bungee jumping into Kilauea on a dare" :lol: 

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Bungee jumping into Kilauea sounds like a blast, but don't you dare put yourself into critical care! I'd be far too worried about you to continue physics-ing ;)

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Wow! That's awesome and it must be exciting to a part of it, @Heart! :cake:

 

(I think I spy a black ring in one of the pics) :)

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@Heart

 

(I think I spy a black ring in one of the pics) :)

My trusty ace ring never leaves my finger ;)

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