tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post4091214145443138381..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: The Quantum Hall EffectSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43665603145401435332007-12-24T09:26:00.000-05:002007-12-24T09:26:00.000-05:00I always assumed that normal was just short for or...I always assumed that normal was just short for orthonormal, where orthogonal means perpendicular and normal has the more appropriate meaning of length 1....Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530630846648786816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23205700497526344882007-12-24T01:13:00.000-05:002007-12-24T01:13:00.000-05:00What gets me is the (mis)use of the word "signific...What gets me is the (mis)use of the word "significant." <BR/><BR/>If researchers are just barely able to detect some causal effect or difference in a statistical sense, they say that it is "significant result" or a "significant difference." Well that is a valid statistical usage.<BR/><BR/>And then the press reports it in mass media, and the vast majority of the public interprets the word "Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15991841830350137397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-70129013724111299992007-12-23T20:26:00.000-05:002007-12-23T20:26:00.000-05:00Bee, Stefan,Frohe Weihnachten, und danke für den t...Bee, Stefan,<BR/>Frohe Weihnachten, und danke für den tollen Adventskalender :)<BR/><BR/>Gruß<BR/>FrankFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530630846648786816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44545169186125314822007-12-23T20:00:00.000-05:002007-12-23T20:00:00.000-05:00Hello Bee, Stefan, your colleagues, and all the cl...Hello Bee, Stefan, your colleagues, and all the clever commenters here (even you, Al! ;-) )<BR/>Please take a peek at the following URL, it should be fun (assuming it works):<BR/><A HREF="http://www.cleanhomejournal.com/ecard/default.aspx?hs225=chj&hs227=holiday2007_staf&fromName=Neil'&msg=Happy+Holidays%2c+sez+Neil'&bgs=3&imgs=itm5%2c0%2c13.5%2c80%2c85_itm3%2c3%2c150%2c60%2c15_itm1%2c2%2c80%Neil Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564859009749481136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-11447476966542754952007-12-23T17:29:00.000-05:002007-12-23T17:29:00.000-05:00Ich glaub 'senkrecht' geht zurück auf 'lotrec...Ich glaub 'senkrecht' geht zurück auf 'lotrecht' und das 'Lot' zum bestimmen vertikaler Achsen, soll heissen 'lotrecht' is 90° zu horizontal. <BR/><BR/>Gleichfalls frohe Weihnachten und schöne Feiertage!<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-92050561600021147332007-12-23T16:52:00.000-05:002007-12-23T16:52:00.000-05:00Frohe Weihnachten Euch beide!I had my headaches wi...Frohe Weihnachten Euch beide!<BR/><BR/>I had my headaches with the German word "senkrecht" which would normally translate to vertical, but the Germans also use it for naming a perfect 90deg angle.<BR/><BR/>Am I right?<BR/><BR/>greetings<BR/><BR/>KlausAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-60946932465306262772007-12-23T14:48:00.000-05:002007-12-23T14:48:00.000-05:0025.8128075578K von Klitzing constant25.8238916125K...25.8128075578K von Klitzing constant<BR/>25.8238916125K 60(pi)(137)<BR/><BR/>Recipocal alpha is really 137.035999, giving less of a coincidence. One could use correct 1/alpha and replace 60 with<BR/><BR/>49/[ln(5)]^(7/8)[(gamma)^9/8]<BR/><BR/>thereby offering a brillant new insight into the least publishable bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-31505136609171913392007-12-23T14:08:00.000-05:002007-12-23T14:08:00.000-05:00From the OED:[--classical Latin norm{amac}lis righ...From the OED:<BR/><BR/>[--classical Latin norm{amac}lis right-angled, in post-classical Latin also conforming to or governed by a rule (4th-5th cent.) -- norma NORMA n. + -{amac}lis -AL suffix1. Cf. French normal (1450-65 in Middle French in an isolated attestation in verbe normal (cf. sense A. 1), then from mid 18th cent., earliest in ligne normale (1753; cf. sense A. 5), and subsequently in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24049188692796691282007-12-23T13:19:00.000-05:002007-12-23T13:19:00.000-05:00Hello Michael,http://www.germanstudies.org.uk/dasy...Hello Michael,<BR/>http://www.germanstudies.org.uk/dasypodius/das_dicsecb6_data.htm<BR/>Line 30 :<BR/>" Norma, Ein winckelmess. Gnomon. "<BR/>Ex oriente lux :=)<BR/>GeorgGeorghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538391164351204407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80911339932269251172007-12-23T11:57:00.000-05:002007-12-23T11:57:00.000-05:00maybe a cat ate the ortho? Don't know. I guess it'...maybe a cat ate the ortho? Don't know. I guess it's because the normal vector of a plane defines that plane, so it's kind of normal to use it? Or so. If you think that doesn't make sense, I learned recently that <A HREF="http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/019.html#CANNOT" REL="nofollow">'can' means sometimes actually the same as 'cannot'</A>. That's one of the things I've been wondering off and on Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74960921944452386262007-12-23T11:45:00.000-05:002007-12-23T11:45:00.000-05:00Sorry that should be "wondering off and on about ...Sorry that should be "wondering off and on about for a long time"...<BR/><BR/><BR/>one of cats started to play with computer screen;loved the cursorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-66531004516578597162007-12-23T11:42:00.000-05:002007-12-23T11:42:00.000-05:00Something I've been wondering about for a long tim...Something I've been wondering about for a long time of and on; when and how did 'normal' mean perpendicular?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com