Ask an experimental physicist anything
>>767595366
When did you first get into experimenting with physics and have you considered rehab?
>>767595366
Why not math?
>>767595471
It all started when I was an impressionable highschool student. I thought all the cool kids would be experimenting with physics. Sadly my addiction got worse and worse and rehab didn't seem possible.
>>767595366
When are you going to stop experimenting being a physicist and become a real one?
>>767595366
do you like Phish?
>>767595519
Probably because i'm kind of short sighted. I really do like math but I can't get into stuff with 0 application. I could have done applied math but that just seems no fun to me.
>>767595563
Good question, I have to experiment more to find the answer.
The band? Not much. I'm like a super hipster black metal kind of guy
>>767595366
If measuring something can change it from a wave to a particle, does that mean our very awareness of it is affecting it? is our consciousness affecting that change?
>>767595366
How can i figure out the volume of a shape described by three vectors?
>>767595366
Do u no da wei?
>>767595366
where the fuck did you get a job.. how were the interviews?
>kk mr anon, here at HAL laboratories we need an extra scientist to research carbon nano tubes, what are your qualifications?
>well you see mister faggot-san, i learned allo i know from NOVA and vsauce videos,
>holy shit come right in...
>>767595366
How can you compete with BBCNT?
I keep getting this rash on my bum, what is it?
>>767595366
Do you like Tool?
>>767595762
youre a tool you massive fucking cuck faggot.
>>767595366
> this shit show again from a retard that isn't an experimental physicist but thinks he can impress people with a title
> so desperate for accolades over his made up title even needs to seek anonymous praise
kys faggot
>>767595825
Ur mom ghey
>>767595366
What are you working on right now?
>>767595366
Why do you feel the need to lie?
>>767595758
Herpes
>>767595688
Kind of, but it's nothing special. In QM we consider literally any interaction to be an "obvservation". It's not some mystical "human consciousness changes the particle man" but more of a "literally anything we do will send some other particle to interact with the system, so we change its properties"
>>767595726
I think you can just use the vector triple product: a\dot(b x c)
>>767595731
I did my masters degree, and was taken on as a contractor for a university because of my research experience
>>767595756
I am the bbcnt
>>767595758
No idea fam
>>767595762
Yea I kinda do. I'm a bass player so I really respect Justin
>>767595831
Tell me how I can prove it, or show me how you're better then me on this anonymous israeli wicker basket forum
>>767595889
My main project is on building an all inclusive broadband cavity perturbation setup for determining unknown dielectrics.
>>767595909
To stroke my ego, but i'm not lying about this
>>767596005
>Kind of,
What about the double slits before and after measuring? One result says "wave" the other says "particle". What gives?
>>767596005
do you like Phish.
Is it possible to manipulate a singularities magnetic field?
How do I cancel the electromagnetic fields holding my atoms together. I want to off myself Infinity War style.
>>767596181
If you mean the band not really
>>767596132
The measuring is the key part. To measure something is to perturb it and changes its state.
>>767596203
What do you mean? What singularity?
>>767596282
You need to find a way to cancel the strong and weak force, not the electromagnetic force. The best suggestion would be to stand in front of a particle accelerator for a while
Was math invented or discovered?
>>767595366
>He is the author...
>>767596346
then youre an idiot.
>>767596390
A bit of both in my opinion. We had to pick axioms to start everything off, but we "discover" what the implication of those axioms are.
>>767596412
True, but why?
>>767595366
Who is best girl!
>>767596473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5U2K_iN_lU
>>767596513
Yuri and Felix, if the answers could be any other then the gravitational force wouldn't be strong enough to keep anyhing heavier than helium together.
What do you think of the Fibbonaci sequence
And have you encountered it in your field
>>767596346
Is it possible to shoot particles at a singularity to expand it
>>>767595726
Cross product bro
>>767596513
In which universe? My waifu is Reki from HnA, but man that series is an awful shitshow. There are plenty of very good girls tho.
>>767596548
Phis isn't bad by any standard it's just not my go to music. For jam heavy stuff I listen to a lot of post rock. I just like stuff that's a bit more aggressive, or on the other end of the spectrum like japanese lounge jazz.
>>767596608
It's just a neat math thing, and I haven't seen it in what I work with
>>767596627
define singularity. That's a really vague term
Is there many dimensions of me doing all sorts of things?
>>767596671
>confirmed to be an idiot.
>>767595366
How boring is your life that you just keep posting this thread over and over?
>>767596669
The cross product just produces a vector perpendicular to the others, not a volume. That's why I think the answer is the triple vector product.
>>767596674
In some interpretations of the universe sure, I don't buy that though
>>767596712
How boring is yours that you're seeing it over and over? It's not that often and I do it when i'm too drunk to play videogames very well and don't want to think much
>>767596731
Well what the fuck do you buy then
Did you make a sheathe for your crowbar, or do you just tuck it in an inner pocket of your lab coat?
>>767596796
I buy into whatever we can experimentally validate. I'm very much in the field of "shut up and calculate". If we prove alternate universes or extra dimensions sweet, but until then I'll just not think about that crap
>>767596866
I appendix carry mine
>>767596731
Would make sense since a triple vector product = 0 means they're perpendicular, but that might as well be addressing the angle between them.
>>767596913
Whatever fgt you know you think something and i wanna hear it fuckin spill the beans what the fuck are we and why did we into the universe
>>767595366
I was kinda good at physics but I just cant do moments. Any advice?
>>767596671
Singularity meaning a point in time and space with 0 values and infinite mass
>>767596991
I don't do high energy so I don't really know. I do condensed matter. I don't think about that shit very much. I have friends doing high energy theory and it seems fun but I couldn't take it seriously.
>>767597065
Those don't exist, but if one did and the universe wasn't fucked sure you should be able to shoot shit into it I guess.
>>767596992
What kind of moment do you mean? That term can be either simple or pretty darn complex if you're doing theoretical mechanics
>>767597251
Fucking tell me what you think you faggot
We both know you have something to say so,say it, and not more of this "i just donr think about it lol :D" crap
>>767595366
whats it like to ba a fagit?
>>767597368
In my uneducated opinion, I think string theory is on to something but needs to find some way to get discovered at reasonable energy scales to even start to matter. I really like supersymmetric theories for simplicity and "beauty" but most of those keep getting pushed further and further back. I think that there is no clear consensus as to how or why we exist.
>>767597404
It pays the bills.
What's on the opposite side of a black hole
>>767597251
What do you think of the many worlds theory?
>>767597251
Give me advice you would give a hs kid and a second year on moments. Just basic advice on how to understand it better or at least study physics better please
>>767597494
No idea, never took GR or cosmology
>>767597509
I think it has no experimental validation
>>767597533
Can you give me an example of what moment you're talking about here? A lot of it would just be read whatever mechanics/statistic book you are using and get used to the formalism of it. The secret to getting good at physics is just doing more and more problems until you see patterns
>>767597639
No experimental validation
It's unfalsifiable
Are you an ontic or an epistemic physicist?
>>767597533
Watch Rick and morty
>>767595366
what the next groundbreaking meme? "graphine" and "nanotubes" seem to be going no where, at least in terms of use outside of a lab.
>>767596731
Cross product gives a vector with magnitude equal to the area of the parallelogram formed by those two vectors. Then you need the magnitude of the component of the third vector that is perpendicular to your other two vectors (dot product). Luckily, you already have one vector that's perpendicular to them, because you just found the cross product. So take a dot product of the cross product and the third vector, multiply the magnitude of the cross product by the dot product, and you have your prism's volume.
>>767595366
What's the speed of light through mayonnaise?
>>767597715
I wouldn't really classify myself as either, but I never think about metaphysics or the philosophy of science too much
>>767597865
I'd say it's quantum computing. That shit is going nowhere but god people love throwing money at it
>>767597878
Yea that's what I said earlier. My first response was to use the triple vector product, which is the dot of one vector and the cross of the other two
>>767597878
Or, uh, just take the scalar triple product. a dot (b cross c).
can physics explain why i do not have a gf
>>767597997
if you could find the index of refraction of mayo you could figure it out, i'm not sure
>>767598094
probably not, could be due to a lot of social things though. You're not looking hard enough, need to take better care of yourself, need to find better people, etc
>>767597639
>A lot of it would just be read whatever mechanics/statistic book you are using and get used to the formalism of it. The secret to getting good at physics is just doing more and more problems until you see patterns
Will just do this.
My problem is I have to translate everything from English and then try and understand it or use my shitty languages very incomplete books to try and comprehend it. When I calculate moments it always kicks my ass so its clear I am missing something but will follow the practice makes perfect thing.
>>767598193
That's the best advice, and I wish I could go back in time and tell myself that. The only way to get good at physics is to just keep doing it.
>>767598300
Thanks man best of luck on your future endeavors.
>>767595366
what are some things about physics or your job that people commonly misunderstand/you which they knew better?
Did Oj Simpson kill nicole
>>767595366
Are you white?
>>767598538
In general the big on is just quantum mechanics. There is really nothing magical or mystical or crazy about it. It's just a math thing.
>>767598566
Prolly
>>767598575
yup
>>767595519
Because he's bad at physics. I have yet to meet an experimentalist who even understands greens function solutions--they're undergrads mentally
Why are bumblebees able to fly? It's impossible. Is it magic?
>>767598740
What ethnicity?
>>767596346
Confirmed that you are not a physicist. Balance the strong and weak forces to eliminate EM forces? The scales and binding energies are so completely different that that comment is beyond autistic and irrelevant.
>>767595366
youre using vmd for 2 days now. nice carbon nanotubes, why dont you fill them with alpha helix polyanaine synthetic polymers, and post that faggot?
>>767596282
>>767596346
Follow up question: Would it be painful?
>>767595366
Dad?
>>767598743
Just because I do experiment to pay the bills doesn't mean I can't do theory. If I could get an easy job working with 2D+1 Chern-Simmons topological theories with focus on non-abelian anyon braids I would. I just like playing with expensive toys.
>>767598760
It's because it's wings don't do a standard "up down" motion, they move in a figure 8 pattern
>>767598841
generic mixed white. I think it's irish and french
>>767598896
You said you wanted to break apart atoms. EM isn't what holds the gluons together.
>>767598925
Probably
>>767598919
Because i'm not a material scientist. My CNT work was on surface functionalization for antennae and biomedical applications.
>>767598760
That's a common misconception. Physics explains how they fly just fine.
>>767598760
>, and so
I guess you don't believe in proper syntax either.
>>767595366
are stem girls family oriented? the few Ive met seem to want to wait until theyre older and the others basically quit their career to be a mother, i dont see any part time physicists.
>>767595366
Why are niggers inferior?
>>767599140
The people I see at the university I work at seem to be a mixed bag. I know a few fresh grad students who already have kids and are married, but normally it's to someone else in the department or another physicist somewhere.
>>767599192
Could be a lot of reasons, probably do to socioeconomic factors and self-fulfilling prophecies
>>767597065
Singularity in actual physics refers to a breakdown of the equations, which can lead to infinite predictions (no necessarily mass, which is never infinite in formal calculations). For instance, curvature or density of energy can blow up in general relativity. But sure you can shoot particles at a singularity to expand it. That's what happens with black holes--the particles reach a singularity and the black hole radius expands proportional to the square root of the total mass. However, this is what's called a "removable" or coordinate-dependend singularity (the "event horizon"). The "infinite curvature" singularity is singular in GR, where extra energy doesn't expand it but instead de-stabilizes the singularity (this is what probably happens in actual BHs, so there is no infinite density point when adding matter effects). There's antigravity ways to stop the singularity, in that antigravity balances gravity so the equations no longer blow up at a point, and I think this is more or less what you're getting at (wormholes, etc)
>>767595366
Gauss, Euler, Newton or Cauchy?
>>767595366
Why are you pretending you can answer questions about physics when you're an experimental physicist (who sounds like a fresh graduate student)? Your knowledge of physics is rudimentary and almost worthless for anything outside of your nuances research topic (which is why experimentalists usually aren't even asked to teach something as basic as intro grad courses). Waste of time board.
>>767599267
>The people I see at the university I work at seem to be a mixed bag. I know a few fresh grad students who already have kids and are married, but normally it's to someone else in the department or another physicist somewhere.
ah yeah that makes. follow up. at your level do cliques/politics come into play in terms of who gets recognized for work/ opportunities to take on something cool?
>>767599315
That's a tough one. I want to say Newton since he started a lot of shit (yea yea leibniz was doing his thing but w/e) but Cauchy managed to stick is name in like every important theorem ever. Gauss also did some fantastic general stuff, and Euler was crucial in any sort of modern wave analysis, so I can't pick one. I might just say fourier because of how fucking powerful the fourier transform is though.
>>767599408
What do you want me to explain? And trust me that's not specific to experimentalists. The amount of theory professors I had that refused to teach anything outside of what they do was frustrating as fuck. Tell me what i've said incorrectly and what you want me to prove better
>>767599447
As far as I can tell not really no. If you're capable and can prove your shit you can do the cool stuff.
how do you explain the physics behind telekinesis?
can the human body project certain frequencies with their bodies to reproduce something like zero point energy?
>>767599620
No. There has never been a confirmed telepath or any crap like that as far as I know. Also zero point energy is a meme
Dose the Pope shit in the woods?
>>767599408
t. Philosophy cuck
>>767599585
Well it's pretty obvious you have no idea what a singularity is, failing to identify them in black holes, in quasiparticle solutions in condensed matter systems, in potential topologically stable states in the early universe (domain walls etc). This is the type of basic shit you have to know to answer questions at a phd level.
>>767599722
HEP Theorist cuck who has been on more working group publications (telling idiot experimentalists what to look for and where and how) than you've even read.
>>767599721
he might have, but probably not on a regular basis.
>>767599760
It's really hard to seperate the bullshit memes from actual competent questions. I don't expect most people here to know what they are in terms of trivial/removable singularties and in actual cases of things like GR or astroparticle. I assume most people are thinking things like "infinite energy monopoles man". Before I start talking about something I want to make sure i'm answering the right question.
>>767599692
Zero point energy, another name for physical vacuum energy manifestations like the Casimir Effect and its relativistically retarded brother, vanderwaals interactions. It's not just a meme but an important driver of interesting nanophysics such as frictionless gears (that take advantage of the geometrical dependence of the casimir effect in a situation where it leads to not dissipation)
If a deaf person is in the woods and a tree falls, will it make a sound?
>>767600004
Again, I know that zero point energy is a real thing , just look at any introduction to second quantization and you'll see that. I'm saying that if you're lumping together telepathy and the phrase zero point energy you probably have no idea what's being talked about.
>>767595366
Experimental means shit. If I throw a ball down a flight of stairs and record it's time traveled to hit the bottom I'm technically an experimental physicist.
Now if I theorize what might happen before hand using math and shit, then is need credentials.
Tldr op had a bullshit title, to justify a degree. It's like welding engineers.
>>767600131
Fuck you got me. Go publish your paper for throwing a ball down the stairs now and make millions.
If you do a backflip in the future, are you really doing a frontflip?
>>767600189
It could be seen as a front flip going back in time I guess
>>767599922
Singularities, monopoles, and zero point energy aren't very complicated things, and lots of people have heard of them. If you can't say anything interesting about any of those based on the questions asked, it really seems more like you don't know more than anything. But that's okay, 90% of the physicists don't know physics anyway so I guess it's fine.
>>767595366
whats an experimental physicist
>>767600328
but is there truly a spacetime continuum in which my cum expands exponentially and quickly engulfs the universe?
>>767600180
Being published isn't much of a feat.
>>767600370
Leonard Hofstadter
>>767600097
Did I ever say anything about telepathy? Nope. But I can speculate on anything I want because I know the underpinning theory. More importantly, I could dispel telepathy while pointing someone in the direction of actual interesting physics. That's what understanding should be requisite to start a post of the ama type.
Also, your mention of "dur intro to 2nd quantization" pretty much establishes to me that you're either a 2nd year grad student or someone who doesn't know the theory outside of your specific research. That's such an overly technical, non-informative, wiki-way to talk about it that I've never heard it outside of self proclaimed intellectuals. You have yet to communicate a depth of understanding for anything beyond the first 3 sentences of wikipedia. keep trying though, im out
>>767599824
You're probably correct since I didn't even finish grad school
>>767595366
what can i do with an associate in physics? getting one because i only have to take an extra class or two.
>>767600429
wait, are we not living in it?
>>767600429
If you could cum out something similar to monopoles, in theory, their local energy density could change the local topology of your region of space, changing the eventual fate of your surrounding spatial universe. There was a vague paper about this type of thing (they never said the word cum but I'm sure they meant it) in '92, but is ruled out for boring things like canonical monopoles (but not cum monopoles so keep trying op)
>>767600370
I explore physical properties using experimental techniques and develop new equipment to probe undetected or new physics.
>>767600328
I guess you got me
>>767600445
Yea that's true, but why take out anger on someone else over something so trivial? Why waste time on this forum if you think i'm full of shit. If I'm that useless and beneath you why even dignify me with a response?
>>767600614
I didn't say you did, but the person who first brought up zero point energy did in terms of asking how telepathy works. I never tried to say I was a genius or any of that shit. I mentioned my field is not in theory or HE or AP, and yea I don't know those very well. But seeing as how you do understand these things I think mentioning zero point energy in terms of introductory QFT is perfectly valid. I could bring it up the same ways you did but you would probably say that's intro drivel as well. Solving the QHE gives it to you, it shows up all over the place. I'm not trying to look like some badass, and I admit that theorists are smarter than me, in the sense that they spend more time doing the math and working on that part of it. But I don't understand how you can get past the PhD level and still have this petty "only X is the best everyone else is retarded" mentality. Experimental work isn't hard in the way theory is, but it's hard in ways theory isn't. Each branch is important if we every want to get shit done. Without experiment theory is just math, and without theory experiment is just engineering.
>>767600655
Honestly I'm not sure. An associates doesn't seem like much to me
>>767600750
damn nice. imma try to do that
>anyone got any extra polonium?
>>767601316
yes
>>767596346
>The measuring is the key part. To measure something is to perturb it and changes its state.
This is not answering why observation has an effect. Why is measuring causing a change? The answer is we have no idea.
>>767595366
How does it feel knowing that people like Elon Musk will have their names associated with the discoveries and events you directly help usher forth long before anyone ever thinks of you?
>>767601517
That's fine. I'm not in this for the fame. I do it because I like it.
Hey, OP, I like you...you argue well, you're polite, even under trying circumstances, and you're smart...about your subject and yourself.
Good on you
>>767595366
Explain this.
>>767601637
Thanks
>>767601756
People do weird shit. If you're every in Tallahassee you can go see "god" which is a Buddha statue in a porta potty
>>767601756
GOD HIMSELF
How does electricity work?
It doesn't make any sense to me
Where do the electrons come from?
If you don't feel like answering or if the answer is too long for the amount of effort you want to put in, can you at least point to me a book to read?
>inb4 physics 1 text book
I've already read it and I'm really asking a much, much, MUCH more complex question than that text can provide. Where go now?
How does internal gravity waves affect our daily lives?
>>767602505
>Where do the electrons come from?
Outlets and batteries.
how many times have you wet the bed while you fucked your granddaughter?
>>767602505
This is a good and pretty damn complicated question. Where electrons come from in general requires something called quantum field theory, but understanding where they come from in terms of electricity is a bit easier to think about. For most electrical systems, there is something called a ground, that (as the name implies) grounds the system to the earth. The earth is fucking massive, and has a lot of electrons to spare should the need arise. The common analogy is to think of voltage as a slide, where the electrons want to slide down from a high potential to a low potential. If I apply a voltage across a wire, I can detect a current flow, and a resistance, because I am "pushing" the electrons from one side to the other.
>>767602577
I don't think they have much impact on our day to day lives
>>767602690
None luckily.
What happens if you excite a surface plasmon too much?
Can you disperse the electrons and have them break off from the particle?
>>767603277
At high enough energies wouldn't you just get the photoelectric effect?
>>767603487
That's normally with 1 photon exiting 1 electron at a time, though.
I'm talking about trying to break off all the electrons on the plasmon at once. Not sure if it'd have the same mechanism.
>>767595366
Experimental physicists are just people who're smart enough to make the rest of is look bad, but not smart enough to be wizards.
>>767603581
I don't remember much about my studies with SPP's much, but I think Ibach and Lueth had a decent section it. I assume if you over energize it since it's a collective oscillation it would just scatter and become decoherent, kind of like excition decoherence in FWM, but I don't remember much
Do you think the absence of extraterrestrial "intelligent" life is due to the nature of evolution favoring "greedy" lifeforms and thereby causing their extinction before creating deep space travel, or is it because of the vastness of the Universe, or something else?
>>767603968
Makes sense, I figured as much.
Well, not to that level of thinking, but yeah.
>>767604133
My bet would be on how big the universe is, but I don't have a hat in the ring in any sense.
>>767604295
I assume you could just write down the dispersion relation for a surface plasmon polarition, and play with some perturbation theory to find out what should happen to the state.
Is there a solution to the paradox:
The statement below is true.
The statement above is false.
>>767604503
Not that I can think of at the moment.
>>767604409
Gotcha.
Thanks anon
>>767604503
The statement above is false and the statement below is true. There.
>>767604503
Yes there is a solution.
Both sentences taken together is true.
>>767604817
Does that mean I should do the second statement ?
Why do physicists continue to claim time slows down when you approach the speed of light as seen from a viewers FoR when both people would be viewing the same thing, and the only reason it appears as though time slows down is because the time it take light to traverse the distance grows continually. And that if you returned to the viewer both would be the same age because the expanded time turns around to compressed time on the return trip.
Could the broadband cavity perturbation your working on be used in an early version of a medical tricorder ?
>>767605242
Probably not, since it doesn't have much use in directo biomedical application. It's primary goal is in determining the dielectric function of new semiconducting materials. If you want something like that, I would look into CNT based biomedical sensors.
>>767605199
Time dilation falls out nicely if you start with Galilean transformations and move towards lorentz transformations. It's also an experimentally validated thing. Look at any work done with atomic clocks or even how GPS works.