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 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:55 pm
I apologise profusely. I wonder which other golden oldie has not made an appearance for a while. neutral
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:52 pm
meh.....
If everyone beat Roma at french, does that mean I beat Roma at French, despite the fact I don't take French?
Maybe i take language too literaly....
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:56 pm
A Lost Iguana I apologise profusely. I wonder which other golden oldie has not made an appearance for a while. neutral Time travel/teleportation are always good bets.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:25 pm
Essential singularities are scary.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:53 pm
grey wanderer A Lost Iguana I apologise profusely. I wonder which other golden oldie has not made an appearance for a while. neutral Time travel/teleportation are always good bets. I just time traveled one minute into the future, It was 9:51 just a second a go, but now its 9:52. Wow my invention does work! Now for longer distances of time.... I think I'll try five minutes. And than I'll try going backwards!
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:48 am
In my pre-college days I used to pronounce ''Minkowski'' in a way that rhymes with "Lebowski". Embarrassment all 'round.
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:00 pm
...I don't know how either of those words is supposed to be pronounced. I'll just assume that I'm pronouncing both wrong, and save myself the time.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:39 am
I never know how to pronounce words: I always stress the wrong diphthong or syllable.
How do you pronounce Minkowksi correctly? MIN-kow-SKI and not Min-KOW-ski? I dunno.
It bothers me that I'll start calling the "Zed" boson the "Zee" soon enough. >_>
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:03 am
A Lost Iguana I never know how to pronounce words: I always stress the wrong diphthong or syllable. How do you pronounce Minkowksi correctly? MIN-kow-SKI and not Min-KOW-ski? I dunno. It bothers me that I'll start calling the "Zed" boson the "Zee" soon enough. >_> Well before I ever heard a figure of authority speak it, I always pronounced it Min- COW (moo)-ski. But apparently it's Min- KOV-ski. With assonance between the middle syllable and ''cob'' (as in corn on the cob). Quote: It bothers me that I'll start calling the "Zed" boson the "Zee" soon enough. >_> heh, when I first moved to Ireland from New-England (where 'zed' was unheard of at least by my school) that last letter caused great confusion for this 'silly American'.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:58 pm
Morberticus A Lost Iguana I never know how to pronounce words: I always stress the wrong diphthong or syllable. How do you pronounce Minkowksi correctly? MIN-kow-SKI and not Min-KOW-ski? I dunno. It bothers me that I'll start calling the "Zed" boson the "Zee" soon enough. >_> Well before I ever heard a figure of authority speak it, I always pronounced it Min- COW (moo)-ski. But apparently it's Min- KOV-ski. With assonance between the middle syllable and ''cob'' (as in corn on the cob). Quote: It bothers me that I'll start calling the "Zed" boson the "Zee" soon enough. >_> heh, when I first moved to Ireland from New-England (where 'zed' was unheard of at least by my school) that last letter caused great confusion for this 'silly American'. Minkowski's German or something like that I think? So I go for the german pronunciation. The first time I saw the name I pronounced it min-cow-ski though.
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:02 pm
Do you think mathematicians are lazy?
My maths lecturer always says "Because us mathematicians are lazy..."
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:45 pm
Dewdew Do you think mathematicians are lazy? My maths lecturer always says "Because us mathematicians are lazy..." Yep. We're lazy. I'd explain more, but...
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:26 am
Layra-chan Dewdew Do you think mathematicians are lazy? My maths lecturer always says "Because us mathematicians are lazy..." Yep. We're lazy. I'd explain more, but... Who isn't lazy this day and age...
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:46 pm
This is the most random thing I've seen in quite a while:  Such a bizarre jumble of constants. It almost makes intuitive sense, and then...it doesn't.
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:35 pm
I think talking about PDF sets is quite a tongue-twister. The next-to-next-to-leading order [NNLO] versus next-to-leading order [NLO]. Or how about next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm [NNLL], to make you completely blurt out nonsense. So when discussing how the MSTW paper about the MRST2006-NNLO set compares with the MRST2004-NNLO set, but the coming MSTW2007 set will only NLO. Either way, we need to worry about NNLO QED/electoweak corrections to Drell-Yan because no one has really done NNLO QED and NNLO QCD: we've done NNLO QED with LO QCD and NLO/NNLL QED with NNLO QCD. But people prefer CTEQ65 because it is more conservative than MRST.
*eyes glaze over*
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