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WCDT strips 4190-4194 (3rd - 7th February 2020)
SeaWoodStage:
I'm not tall (about 5'7" - 5'8" depending on the measuring), although I've always felt slightly taller than average for a woman in my country, and it's always bugged me a little bit. I don't like being taller than other people in general, it makes me feel even more awkward than I usually do in social situations.
The last time I went shopping for a dress, I saw one and thought "oh this looks nice!" I picked my size, went to try it on, and thought "I'm sorry, is this a dress or a top?" It barely covered my bum. I suspect it is the curse of any woman to go shopping and find that nothing fits them properly. Clothes for women seem, in the last decade, to have been designed for some imaginary beings who bear no resemblance to any woman alive on this planet today.
cybersmurf:
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--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 05 Feb 2020, 00:43 ---Box full of opossums?
Box full of opossums minus one.
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Box full of possums minus o
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Schroedinger's box of opossums?
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Yes, when the radioactive atom decays, it determines whether the box contains an opossum or a possum. Of course if the atom starts screaming incoherently, the box turns out to have been holding a bandicoot instead.
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Nope, quantum superposition only works with kets, not possums ... :clairedoge:
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Until Faye’s bra teleports onto Marigold, that is. (Not going to try to find that one on my phone)
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The benefits of a solid scientific education: The ability to make puerile puns about felines and womens' undergarments while claiming to be educating the lay public about the concept of the dual space ... :angel:
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And all of this because I wanted to say "Oh, that's where Pintsize got the 'possum from!".
All of this is "When the fiction from science fiction makes real life science more fun!"
cesium133:
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--- Quote from: cesium133 on 06 Feb 2020, 05:56 ---Let's not even get into the name that the book for my classical mechanics class used for the canonically-transformed Hamiltonian...
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Wich one did you use - Goldstein? (My class used Kuypers, but methinks that one not so well-known in the Anglosphere)
Asking for a friend Science ... :angel:
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Goldstein. I double checked after posting that, and it’s listed in the index, though on the page the index points to it only calls it that in the footnote.
Bollthorn:
That last panel is so sweet and wholesome ^_^
Case:
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Nope, quantum superposition only works with kets, not possums ... :clairedoge:
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Until Faye’s bra teleports onto Marigold, that is. (Not going to try to find that one on my phone)
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The benefits of a solid scientific education: The ability to make puerile puns about felines and womens' undergarments while claiming to be educating the lay public about the concept of the dual space ... :angel:
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And all of this because I wanted to say "Oh, that's where Pintsize got the 'possum from!".
All of this is "When the fiction from science fiction makes real life science more fun!"
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'Kets' (spoken like 'cat') and 'bras' are actual 'things' in quantum theory (the state-vector and its so-called 'dual'). Got zip to do with felines or underwear - it's a reference to notation for certain concepts from the field of functional analysis (or rather: The notation convention physicists use. Mathematicians use a different one, which makes joint conferences all manners of unfun).
Kets looks like this: |a>, while bras are written as their mirror-image: <a|. In order to calculate (the absolute square of) the probability of the system going from one state called a to another state called b, you 'apply' the 'bra of b' to the 'ket of a'.
Which is written as a bracket, like this: <b|a>. Bra-(c)ket, see?
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 06 Feb 2020, 14:53 ---Goldstein. I double checked after posting that, and it’s listed in the index, though on the page the index points to it only calls it that in the footnote.
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Ohnoes - The footnote on p370? :facepalm: Yeah, that pun must not be made.
My thesis advisor was one those guys to prove the Sheldon Cooper stereotype: Incredibly fast on the uptake, really 'over-clocked', but the sense of humour of a pre-schooler. And he strangest thing was that he didn't realize. He considered himself high-larious. Made group meetings agonizing - you didn't want him to feel awkward, but the jokes that man cracked ... that shit wasn't funny. Not cruel or anything, simply not funny at all.
Anyhow, that one in Goldstein could have been one of his.
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