Theoretical Physics
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
arymandias@feddit.de 6 months ago
I once had a lecture from him and he is a great orator. Sadly turned out he did some #metoo shit with female students.
maggio@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Ah him as well?!? It’s just impossible to judge someone’s character. His lectures on yt are incredible
Mbourgon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What the heck is actually going on in that first photo? I assume he’s not about to be concussed.
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
He’s coming in like a wrecking ball.
unreachable@lemmy.world 6 months ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think I recognize him as a professor that takes teaching… I’d say seriously… but like, im not quite sure that’s entirely accurate.
Let’s say “passionate” and “memorable”, and perhaps even “vigorous”
lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 months ago
daily core exercise routine
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
In my experience, it’s actually the other way around: physicists can think in terms of equations, without having to visualize them. I generally can’t do that myself - I would get frustrated at talks where the presenter just had slide after slide of equations but some people could read those slides the way I read ordinary English text.
oce@jlai.lu 6 months ago
I think a lot of them still rely on intuition and human level thoughts experiment. See The Feynman Lectures on Physics for a physicist using intuition. For example, when he explains the Fermat Principe with the lifeguard problem: the path of least time running on the beach and swimming to the victim is not the least distance. If you consider that you run faster than you swim, then you should run a bit further so you swim a bit less. This is analogous to the bending of a light ray (refraction, “broken” stick) when it enters water. Image
geogle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I always use the example of driving around town. The fastest route is usually not the surface roads linking A to B along the shortest line, but a route that includes a highway with a faster route. Longer drive length, but shorter overall duration.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Visualizing for me breaks down as soon as we get smaller than grains of sand. And even grains of sand have some really weird and freaky effects that my brain just won’t process well.
bananabenana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s why you get a theoretical degree in physics
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
my man is over where blurring the line between engineering and physics experiments.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mmm I am feeling neutrinos piercing my ball
Hupf@feddit.de 6 months ago
Do not get in the way of neutrino stream with remaining ball
TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Tbh as far as I know, the universe being a mystery IS one of the bigger problems for physics lads
Toes@ani.social 6 months ago
Studying quantum loop theory lets you ride rollercoasters. If anyone asks if it’s helpful, call them silly and tell them maybe.
unreachable@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Just tell them “weeeeeeeee”