tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post7685553672816668403..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Guest Post: Anne GreenSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49601750278995592872007-02-27T17:23:00.000-05:002007-02-27T17:23:00.000-05:00Thanks for the comments. I just wanted to expand o...Thanks for the comments. I just wanted to expand on a couple of things (mainly in case there are any would-be physicists reading this).<BR/><BR/>Re. the class issue: I don't think universities, and the physics community, are "classist" in the sense of there being discrimination, or barriers which universities are directly responsible for. (Although some of the older institutions could probably Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49310344438768646052007-02-27T08:08:00.000-05:002007-02-27T08:08:00.000-05:00Thanks Anne for sharing your story! Sometimes peo...Thanks Anne for sharing your story! Sometimes people don't realize how difficult it can be to 'rise up' from a rural background. It certainly takes as much determination as talent, and I admire your determination to overcome obstacles. Good luck in your further studies!Rae Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239791074376508016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47170064238599474732007-02-27T00:28:00.000-05:002007-02-27T00:28:00.000-05:00How come there are so many Greens physicists?How come there are so many Greens physicists?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22091110836441884762007-02-26T18:49:00.000-05:002007-02-26T18:49:00.000-05:00Dear Anne,thank you for pointing out the issue of ...Dear Anne,<BR/><BR/><BR/>thank you for pointing out the issue of social background! I wasn't quite aware of it. But definitely, it is of growing importance in Germany...<BR/><BR/>Best regards, stefanstefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-35922810326137098142007-02-26T11:32:00.000-05:002007-02-26T11:32:00.000-05:00Sorry for the typos: my comment above should obvio...Sorry for the typos: my comment above should obviously say "even if your school do<B>es</B>n't offer it, you can take it independently". I will have to start reading comments slowly and carefully before submitting them.nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03402194253543690982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58039493382578286212007-02-26T11:26:00.000-05:002007-02-26T11:26:00.000-05:00Liked the bit about your efforts to study the furt...Liked the bit about your efforts to study the further pure maths A-level to get to Oxford to read physics.... at my school, although I wanted to become a physicist, the only maths course with a spare place was pure + statistical applications (the statistics was Students t test, Chi squared, Gaussian, Poisson, etc., no hint of anything like Fermi-Dirac or Maxwell-Boltzmann). So it wasn't even nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03402194253543690982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-6045499766398217362007-02-26T03:38:00.000-05:002007-02-26T03:38:00.000-05:00Hi Anne, I just wanted to second what you say abou...Hi Anne, <BR/><BR/>I just wanted to second what you say about class being a major issue. And reading your post makes me realize that I wish I had spent more time in my Cosmic Variance post talking about the socioeconomic component of my discussion about diversity. As a woman of colour from a working class background, I sometimes forget that while the links are obvious to me, they aren't obvious Chanda @ Disordered Cosmoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11462022695342468789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14349729654674825832007-02-25T16:56:00.000-05:002007-02-25T16:56:00.000-05:00Detecting massive non-thermalized particles whose ...Detecting massive non-thermalized particles whose only first order interaction is gravitational is a right proper pisser. Let's have a really silly idea! Can shot/zero point noise be reduced enough for Dark Matter to matter? Use a DLP chip as a massively parallel nulled interferometer.<BR/><BR/>How much collision is required to <A HREF="http://www.excom.ch/pix/projektionstechniken/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com