tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post8108481390053697869..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: A Plottl a DaySabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91569706467845703742007-12-28T03:35:00.000-05:002007-12-28T03:35:00.000-05:00CiP, they're a slow lot today. But surely you were...CiP, they're a slow lot today. But surely you were joking, Mr Baez?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-61415741470523313442007-12-27T19:43:00.000-05:002007-12-27T19:43:00.000-05:00I think you got that last one wrong. We actually a...I think you got that last one wrong. We actually all look like Sharon Stone. Just that the senior profs, traumatized because they all once were small pimply boys, find that too intimidating, so most of try to hide it. Actually, I'd know several physics departments that would do better if they'd pay more attention to the atmosphere. Best, B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68951165307054732962007-12-27T19:27:00.000-05:002007-12-27T19:27:00.000-05:00Three last clues -Theorists look like Dustin Hoffm...Three last clues -<BR/><BR/>Theorists look like Dustin Hoffman. Experimentalists look like Grizzly Adams. Females of either species resemble Angelina Jolie.CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83388855211401693122007-12-27T19:22:00.000-05:002007-12-27T19:22:00.000-05:00PS -Just so you can tell the Atmospheric Scientist...PS -<BR/><BR/>Just so you can tell the Atmospheric Scientists from the regular drunks.<BR/><BR/>x is East. y is North. Oh, and dx/dt = u, dy/dt = v, and dz/dt = wCapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-7945191786853123632007-12-27T19:12:00.000-05:002007-12-27T19:12:00.000-05:00John,You mean some of the Atmospheric Scientists i...John,<BR/><BR/>You mean some of the Atmospheric Scientists in bars are getting paid? Are their drinks comped too?<BR/><BR/>I do know an atmospheric science post doc who worked as a bouncer - also a couple of chemists - mathematical physicists - not so many.CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-36326264238240756632007-12-26T23:53:00.000-05:002007-12-26T23:53:00.000-05:00It doesn't have to be milk, Bee - a Shirley Temple...It doesn't have to be milk, Bee - a <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple_cocktail" REL="nofollow">Shirley Temple</A> or some other nonalcoholic drink will do. But, I don't recommend trying to become an atmospheric scientist. The pay is bad, and establishments rarely hire women to give the place a scientific atmosphere, precisely for the reason you mention. They mainly want John Baezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11573268162105600948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-35319085301177670462007-12-26T13:48:00.000-05:002007-12-26T13:48:00.000-05:00*lol* I'd consider changing the field, but I can't...*lol* I'd consider changing the field, but I can't stand milk. Also, I unfortunately have the impression women doing calculations appear somewhat intimidating outside their habitat. Or maybe it's just me. Best,<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-67457153509600695142007-12-26T13:21:00.000-05:002007-12-26T13:21:00.000-05:00El Guapo wrote:what is an atmospheric scientist?At...El Guapo wrote:<BR/><BR/><I><BR/>what is an atmospheric scientist?<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Atmospheric scientists are hired by rowdy bars in tough neighborhoods in the US to give these establishments a less threatening atmosphere. They will often sit at the bar doing calculations in a large notebook, sipping a glass of milk. You might wonder why a bar would pay for this, but it turns out that an John Baezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11573268162105600948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-10585288693384483382007-12-15T11:36:00.000-05:002007-12-15T11:36:00.000-05:00Hi William,thanks that you like the idea - like al...Hi William,<BR/><BR/>thanks that you like the idea - like all the other cheering words, it's a motivation to keep on going, since while we have enough plots to fill up the days until christmas easily, some texts still want to be written ;-)<BR/><BR/><I>I'd like to see a plot of our path through space, with respect to "the distant stars" ... </I><BR/><BR/>That's a very interesting idea! The "stefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-48418752071089300822007-12-15T04:07:00.000-05:002007-12-15T04:07:00.000-05:00Cool Advent Calendar idea. Have you seen the Germa...Cool Advent Calendar idea. <BR/><BR/>Have you seen the German Embassy ones? http://www.german-embassy.org.uk/kalender.html <BR/><BR/>[The 2006 version is at ... http://www.german-embassy.org.uk/advent_calendar_2006.html]<BR/><BR/>So now each day I can click there to listen to a new German Xmas song, and then click here to check out your Advent plots. :>)<BR/><BR/>William /wam<BR/><BR/>ps I'd likeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-50649868854480568332007-12-07T08:33:00.000-05:002007-12-07T08:33:00.000-05:00Hi Sidharth:Glad you like it. I think Tommaso does...Hi Sidharth:<BR/><BR/>Glad you like it. I think <A HREF="http://dorigo.wordpress.com/" REL="nofollow">Tommaso does an excellent job</A> with explaining things in an accessible way. If you haven't yet checked out his blog, you should have a look. Best,<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15973878860410569352007-12-07T06:01:00.000-05:002007-12-07T06:01:00.000-05:00Dear Backreaction,Really love your plottl a day se...Dear Backreaction,<BR/><BR/>Really love your plottl a day series - have not read all of them so far but found <BR/><BR/>1. Ising Model<BR/>2. Pierre Auger Observatory results<BR/>3. rotational speed of galaxy <BR/><BR/>blogs truly fantastic. Finally a blog that does not dumb down physics/science so much that it becomes useless to the reader!! I have subscribed to your blog after reading your Sidharth Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17218281913991058502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-42109593506574726002007-12-06T23:45:00.000-05:002007-12-06T23:45:00.000-05:00A few suggestions of well-known plots that could b...A few suggestions of well-known plots that could be fun for this project: <BR/><BR/>1) Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram<BR/>2) Blackbody curve(s)<BR/>3) Distributions (Gaussian, Poisson, Chi-Square, ...)<BR/><BR/>Greetings from Boulder, <BR/>Amaraamaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14978645570859566392007-12-04T08:27:00.000-05:002007-12-04T08:27:00.000-05:00Hi Moshe: Glad you like it :-) I am not sure thoug...Hi Moshe: Glad you like it :-) I am not sure though how carefully we will manage to elucidate given that we yet have only very a vague idea what to do the rest of the month. Yeah, actually I too would probably buy a book '25 plots of contemporary physics you must have seen'. We probably won't quite achieve that (this blog has a certain particle physics/cosmology bias), but we thought we'd give itSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-26704716823524185882007-12-03T11:28:00.000-05:002007-12-03T11:28:00.000-05:00What a wonderful idea! I am not sure how one goes ...What a wonderful idea! I am not sure how one goes about pursuing it, but this seems like a perfect idea for a book. I will definitely buy and read a book (in a field not my own) carefully elucidating 24 key concepts under one theme. Coupled with the holiday theme this also looks marketable to my very naive eyes. I really hope this gets picked up by someone, will provide a nice balance to the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-90451063557618355332007-12-02T14:35:00.000-05:002007-12-02T14:35:00.000-05:00Hi el,The above quotation is from a seminar speake...Hi el,<BR/><BR/>The above quotation is from a seminar speaker who was not a physicist. I think he was not being polite but just not sure what the question was. I find it funny because it illuminates so nicely the in-side speech we use, and we often assume everybody knows what we are talking about. The speaker btw did exactly the same from his side, and at least I only got a very vague impression Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18042825589162127122007-12-02T13:27:00.000-05:002007-12-02T13:27:00.000-05:00el guapo,Atmospheric scientists study the atmosphe...el guapo,<BR/><BR/>Atmospheric scientists study the atmospheres of Earth and other planets. My comment about z was not totally serious, but most things in the atmosphere have an interesting behavior with height, usually denoted by z. There is a certain logic to plotting the up-down coordinate on the up-down axis.CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-40320764477828492142007-12-02T12:42:00.000-05:002007-12-02T12:42:00.000-05:00dear cip what is an atmospheric scientist? i'm dea...dear cip what is an atmospheric scientist? i'm dead serious, well maybe not that dead, but certainly interested in the mesanings of what is being said hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22851735818370249092007-12-01T18:42:00.000-05:002007-12-01T18:42:00.000-05:00For atmospheric scientists, the vertical axis is t...For atmospheric scientists, the vertical axis is the z axis.<BR/><BR/>One of my favorite moments in grad school occurred when one of my fellow students had to give his first talk on quantum mechanics. It seems that he had never bothered to learn the names of the Greek letters and other math symbols, so that he referred to the "del" operator as "spade" and the "psi" function as "pitchfork."<BR/>CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55579859327542070872007-12-01T10:57:00.000-05:002007-12-01T10:57:00.000-05:00dear beewhy does it seem so strange and funny or t...dear bee<BR/>why does it seem so strange and funny or tragic or the three together that the speaker forgot the y verticality or it is just mesmerized by the question and having a moment of cognitive disonance ? what did the speaker had in the slide as y units?..or the speaker was being awfully polite..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com