tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post2742342168598397519..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Merry Christmas!Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17747616415266086802009-03-09T08:13:00.000-04:002009-03-09T08:13:00.000-04:00Hi Arjen,Thanks for the photo! Always nice to see ...Hi Arjen,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the photo! Always nice to see one of our readers :-) Best,<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18121463827112473432009-03-09T05:32:00.000-04:002009-03-09T05:32:00.000-04:00Hello Bee,Mug arrived well. Nochmals danke! http:/...Hello Bee,<BR/><BR/>Mug arrived well. Nochmals danke! http://twitpic.com/1ybfj<BR/><BR/>Greetings,<BR/>ArjenArjen Dijksmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09450431291713605237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44614620668871104102008-12-28T13:24:00.000-05:002008-12-28T13:24:00.000-05:00It seems it not such "an intelligent question" for...It seems it not such "<A HREF="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/12/27/gravity-emergesfrom-neutrinos/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="Gravity Emerges…From Neutrinos?-December 27th, 2008 by John">an intelligent question</A>" for us lay people to ponder? Yet seeing this moved back to a beginning...where is that?<BR/><BR/>I guess, such a question has been assigned only for those that havePlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16724494483405561712008-12-28T12:59:00.000-05:002008-12-28T12:59:00.000-05:00Hi Phil,Yet also I have often wondered what it was...Hi Phil,<BR/><BR/><I>Yet also I have often wondered what it was like for Mendeleev, Meyers and Newlands to have such a eureka moment.</I><BR/><BR/>This is more "to the spirit" I am referring, as there is something more to be said about being the receptacle, as well as the crucible. <BR/><BR/>The elemental table in my mind was a good test bed for further elemental discoveries no doubt, and PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-45579123825149982722008-12-28T06:58:00.000-05:002008-12-28T06:58:00.000-05:00Hi Stefan,Yes, Meyers did precede Mendeleev with p...Hi Stefan,<BR/><BR/>Yes, Meyers did precede Mendeleev with proposing a pattern and yet like Newlands didn’t conceive at first there were missing elements in between and the possibility of more beyond. He did independently after Mendeleev arrive at this conclusion and as the article you pointed to indicates it’s largely due to this confirmation that Mendeleev’s idea was then more widely accepted.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-29133675562425766512008-12-28T06:35:00.000-05:002008-12-28T06:35:00.000-05:00Hi Neil,When I was living in Germany (near Kaisers...Hi Neil,<BR/><BR/><I>When I was living in Germany (near Kaiserslautern, military brat) around 1970...</I><BR/><BR/>what a nice coincidence - at that time, a was a little kid living not that far way from Kaiserslautern!<BR/><BR/><I>There was a special strong beer called Bellheimer that we loved, it is hard to get now that I'm in Virginia.</I><BR/><BR/>Funny that you mention <A HREF="http://stefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16847500229598574782008-12-28T06:03:00.000-05:002008-12-28T06:03:00.000-05:00Hi Arjen,thanks for your comment. So you also have...Hi Arjen,<BR/><BR/><BR/>thanks for your comment. So you also have to do with the periodic table in your job - I guess that speeds up finding the solution. I myself had been sorting through long lists of section headings involving elements over the last weeks, and it took me a very short time only to "test-solve" the riddle. But I thought this was not typical ;-). <BR/><BR/><BR/>Hi Phil, <BR/><BRstefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-85005973076056682602008-12-28T00:16:00.000-05:002008-12-28T00:16:00.000-05:00Hi Phil,Distillation, by improving the spirits and...Hi Phil,<BR/><BR/>Distillation, by improving the spirits and purification, is okay too:)You have to have "the heart" for it.:) Practise detachment, to get a "clearer taste" for it.<BR/><BR/><BR/>One of the contributors to this blog had written this below(?) and I am having troubling tracking it to the source.<BR/><BR/><I>However, don't be fooled! The charm of the golden number tends to attract PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49417665807750470952008-12-27T19:44:00.000-05:002008-12-27T19:44:00.000-05:00Hi Plato,“The idea of "such a scale in terms of th...Hi Plato,<BR/><BR/>“The idea of "such a scale in terms of the octave" is that it can be injected and raised at just the right place.”<BR/><BR/>Well won’t get into a wrestling match about it, it’s just that neither Newlands or Meyer who also proposed a model predicted any new elements or where in terms of atomic weight they would occur as Mendeleev did with his table. Actually, I’m more Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38104735818253299182008-12-27T14:17:00.000-05:002008-12-27T14:17:00.000-05:00Hi Phil,thereby deciding difference is Newlands’ p...Hi Phil,<BR/><BR/><I>thereby deciding difference is Newlands’ proposal didn’t reveal the gaps that Mendeleev’s did</I><BR/><BR/>I beg to differ on that.<BR/><BR/>The idea of "such a scale in terms of the octave" is that it can be injected and raised at just the right place.<BR/><BR/> Of course, this has a philosophical connotations and any of it may not be of interest to the "real hard core PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-20269528433402419412008-12-27T10:46:00.000-05:002008-12-27T10:46:00.000-05:00Hi Plato, John Newlands' “Law of Octaves” was a co...Hi Plato,<BR/><BR/> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_Reina_Newlands" REL="nofollow">John Newlands'</A> “Law of Octaves” was a competing proposal put forth a few years before Mendeleev’s “<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev#Periodic_table" REL="nofollow">Periodic Table</A>”. The definitive and thereby deciding difference is Newlands’ proposal didn’t reveal Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62503271756094541182008-12-27T07:41:00.000-05:002008-12-27T07:41:00.000-05:00Hi Dr. Who,"Answer: we get a few days off having t...Hi Dr. Who,<BR/><BR/>"Answer: we get a few days off having to read arxiv."<BR/><BR/>Which affords you barely enough time for you to think up something that you publish to it :-)<BR/><BR/>My Question is: What would be the consequences if all scientists where not permitted to publish for the coming year?<BR/><BR/>Best.<BR/><BR/>PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14479106007831654812008-12-27T01:29:00.000-05:002008-12-27T01:29:00.000-05:00Question: what's the best thing about christmas an...Question: what's the best thing about christmas and new year?<BR/><BR/>Answer: we get a few days off having to read arxiv.<BR/><BR/>Admit it -- it's true!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15156387317633807262008-12-26T15:20:00.000-05:002008-12-26T15:20:00.000-05:00A "Merry Christmas" to Bee and Stefan and those th...A "Merry Christmas" to Bee and Stefan and those that visit Backreaction.<BR/><BR/>While I must admit I came late to the post, not that it would have made any difference, seeing the answer already supplied, I am still amazed it was done so fast.:)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/EA/NEWLANDSann.HTML#newlands4" REL="nofollow" TITLE="An Unsystematic Foreshadowing- J. A. R. Newlands">PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9345978198091458132008-12-26T08:30:00.000-05:002008-12-26T08:30:00.000-05:00Hi Bee,I thought you might be interested to learn ...Hi Bee,<BR/><BR/>I thought you might be interested to learn that during Christmas dinner yesterday I announced to family and friends that I had won a PI mug, with one of my daughters responding “isn’t that usually served on a plate” :-)<BR/><BR/>Thanks again,<BR/><BR/>Phil<BR/><BR/>P.S. I anticipate your response as being to recommend that I don't quit my day job :-)Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47332483435730062662008-12-26T07:54:00.000-05:002008-12-26T07:54:00.000-05:00Hi Arjen,So your solution came from more having gr...Hi Arjen,<BR/><BR/>So your solution came from more having greater familiarity with languages, combined with your formal training. I must say I envy a little many here for being so fluent. In Canada if English is your language in school one is taught some French, yet mainly it is the written with little experience given or afforded for the conversational aspect.<BR/><BR/>One thing I can now Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13422806162252500802008-12-26T06:51:00.000-05:002008-12-26T06:51:00.000-05:00Hi Stefan,Well, the thing that made it easy was kn...Hi Stefan,<BR/><BR/>Well, the thing that made it easy was knowing that it was a German expression and finding the "8-2-blank" characters into it. That immediately associated it with "..ohe ........." as oxygen and helium happen to be so common in our research work. The rest was a matter of table-checking.<BR/><BR/>Kind regards,<BR/>ArjenArjen Dijksmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09450431291713605237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22923314641810634662008-12-26T04:33:00.000-05:002008-12-26T04:33:00.000-05:00Hi Stefan,Actually, I wouldn’t say it was exactly ...Hi Stefan,<BR/><BR/>Actually, I wouldn’t say it was exactly easy, it’s just for me it didn’t seem to follow any obvious pattern. Then in thinking pattern <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev" REL="nofollow">Dmitri Mendeleev</A> came to mind for his discovery of a <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#Standard_periodic_table" REL="nofollow">pattern for the Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34719385586608356692008-12-25T21:06:00.000-05:002008-12-25T21:06:00.000-05:00Yes, Merry Christmas to all. When I was living in ...Yes, Merry Christmas to all. When I was living in Germany (near Kaiserslautern, military brat) around 1970, New Year's was far cooler a thing to celebrate. They let us teens drink beer under 18 y.o., and my friends and I wandered the streets after midnight making fools of ourselves. There was a special strong beer called Bellheimer that we loved, it is hard to get now that I'm in VirginiaNeil Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564859009749481136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-87003344947777648712008-12-25T21:02:00.000-05:002008-12-25T21:02:00.000-05:00Happy holidays everyone!minutiae: it ended with Ge...Happy holidays everyone!<BR/><BR/>minutiae: it ended with Germanium too:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-70957185222022061362008-12-25T17:26:00.000-05:002008-12-25T17:26:00.000-05:00Hi Stu,Well, there isn't really a good answer to t...Hi Stu,<BR/><BR/>Well, there isn't really a good answer to this question. Visitors and residents can buy the mugs in the visitor's office, but it's not like we have a store or something. But since I'm at it, I think PI should work on his corporate identity and open a giftshop. For one, people would stop asking me where and how they can order pens, mugs or T-shirts. But more importantly, I think Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-42855753437982713222008-12-25T17:10:00.000-05:002008-12-25T17:10:00.000-05:00Dear all,Merry Christmas to all of you!Aeh, Phil, ...Dear all,<BR/><BR/>Merry Christmas to all of you!<BR/><BR/>Aeh, Phil, Arjen - can you say how you managed to solve the riddle so fast? Was it really that easy, or do you have some special relation to the elements? <BR/><BR/>Cheers, Stefanstefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-36144704370395568852008-12-25T16:55:00.000-05:002008-12-25T16:55:00.000-05:00This is a nice mug, can we buy one if we pass by P...This is a nice mug, can we buy one if we pass by PI ? Where ?<BR/><BR/>Cheers !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-77138158826348060872008-12-25T12:26:00.000-05:002008-12-25T12:26:00.000-05:00Hi Phil, Arjen,Aah, this was FAR too easy. It was ...Hi Phil, Arjen,<BR/><BR/>Aah, this was FAR too easy. It was probably harder to make the quiz up than to solve it. According to my inbox, Phil's comment was 4 minutes earlier than Arjen's email. But since it's Christmas, we'll just send a mug to both of you. Please send your mailing address to <BR/><BR/>sabine[at]perimeterinstitute.ca<BR/><BR/>(I assure you I won't use it for any other purpose.) Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64493414553603316932008-12-25T10:40:00.000-05:002008-12-25T10:40:00.000-05:00Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too St...Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too Stefan and Bee and to all the readers.<BR/><BR/>And as the Americans use to say: Take it Easy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com