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WCDT: 2593-2597 (09-13 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Case:
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--- Quote from: Squiddlywinx on 09 Dec 2013, 22:39 ---I'm more curious as to how nerdiness calculations would be more like quantum mechanics.
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The famous thought-experiment Schrödinger's Nerd suggests that everybody is both a nerd and not a nerd at the same time in quantum superposition. The wave form collapses when you ask if it was the right move to leave Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights out of the film based on Fellowship Of The Ring...
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--- Quote from: cesium133 on 10 Dec 2013, 11:13 ---So you're saying nerds are fermions, and that multiple nerds cannot be in the same state of nerdiness. Eh, sure, why not? Does put a damper on any plans to create a Bose-Einstein nerdensate, though.
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Hmmmmh, the quasi-particle exitations of the Dirac-Weyl Nerd-field theory are fermionic, obeying a Munroe-Zumino-Clifford algebra (MZC-CAR). The bulk "Having A Life" - field (HAV) opens a gap in the spectrum and the quasi-nerdon decays into a human, a verboseon (commonly dubbed "hipster-geek") and a nerdino.
However, it has recently been found that in theories with broken Tom-Bombadil-symmetry (see above) there is sign-change in the HAV field across an embedded hyper-plane and a corresponding sign change in the first nerd chern number (a topological invariant related to the Pontryagin winding number, defined as the integral of the Berry-curvature over the first Brillouin zone in Library space). Within this hyperplane, topological subgap states, dubbed protonerdons, can exist - the effect is related to the integer quantum hall effect found by von Klitzing in 1980 and the effective field theory is a modification of the Thouless-Kohmoto-Nightingale-den Nijs description of the latter. The protonerdon is topologically protected against impurities - it can even marry, or have kids, without being scattered - as long as it is kept in close proximity to a physics or math department.
The nerd conductance is quantised and it's conductance quantum has been named a Munroe. Half a Munroe equates to roughly a PhD in physics, four Munroes get you tenure, Edward Witten had to be his usual showy self clocking out at twenty Munroes (or six and a half Sagans) and Stephen Hawking is estimated at around 15 to 17 Munroes, but withdrew consent to the measurement upon hearing of Wittens 20, and chased the interviewer down the hallway instead.
draiden:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Dec 2013, 22:29 ---My favorite funny unit of measure is the "millihelen", an amount of beauty sufficient to launch one ship.
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A Janet is less than a millihelen. A janet is an account of beauty to launch a few canoes.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Delator on 09 Dec 2013, 23:55 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Dec 2013, 23:29 ---That was a rare moment where Faye actually annoyed me.
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Rare?
Confusing bitchiness for wit is one of her consistent character traits.
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My annoyed reaction was rare, not her behaviour. Normally it doesn't bother me.
Method of Madness:
Most adorable Marigold ever in panel 4...pre-realization, of course.
Shjade:
--- Quote from: Rghfrgl on 09 Dec 2013, 23:28 --- I'm thinking Marten's going to hook up with someone soon or he and Faye will both be single when Angus gets the job and moves to the big city.
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Not unless Faye breaks up with Angus before he leaves they won't. Not living in the same area isn't the same as becoming single.
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