Random Fail: First World Problems

[BerenTebogo]

Becoming increasingly annoyed at the only other person in my research group who works way, way, way harder than me. Guy has his masters already in astronomy, has been working in relativity group with me for a year. I have 3 years of prior work in the field, but at an undergraduate level. Guy knows NOTHING about ANYTHING despite working on research for a minimum of like 4 hours every single day. Can't bounce basic ideas or concepts about the project off of him because I have to explain, in detail, every single fucking point of the question I'm asking. Wastes my fucking time to hell and back.

Spent like 30 minutes today watching his eyes glaze over as I explained horrendously basic fundamentals of the problem we both are working on (different aspects of it) that he should've learned within his first week of working on the project. No exceptions. He gave a student talk today in the department on research that is pretty close to what I work on and it was so horrible that both I and my adviser were cringing and shaking our heads almost constantly. A lot of shit he was saying was just flat-out incorrect. Thankfully, most people at the talk didn't know enough about GR to realize how wrong it was. Motherfucker didn't know even the basics of what separates our approach to the problem from what other groups do, and why it needs to be handled differently.

Sucks because he really does work very, very hard. Much harder than I'm willing to work for what they pay me. I do ~10-15 hours of research a week. He does like around 30. I always felt bad until recently because I've been funded by research grant since day 1 at LSU, whereas he is still on a TA in the third semester, despite him having more experience and a masters from MIT. I also just got a brand new $1800 laptop through my research grant this week and I'm not even sure I'm staying in the program past this year. This week has killed all my sympathy. I hadn't talked to him in a while so I was under the impression that surely with all his hard work I was now the one who looked bad and was slacking. Nah. I get done in a weekend what equates to a month or two of work from him.

So fucking frustrated. While his performance doesn't directly affect me, it does mean that instead of being able to work problems out with other grad students before pestering my adviser, something I don't like to do, I basically have to work 110% fucking solo. Dude also bugs my adviser for at least 2 hours a day M-F in a combo of in-person, phone calls, and emails. I feel bad asking more than like 1 email question a week.

Annoyed. Very annoyed.

[Churchill]

You should tell him you're working on a side project of 3-dimensional time. Show him a Minkowski diagram with T=T3 and D=T1 and the Z axis being T2.

Then you have 2 lines which have the same slope at T1/T2 and T2/T1, but whose derivatives secant line forms two identical right triangles in 2 dimensions.

In 3 dimensions it basically forms a conical expansion of space. See if he runs with it and publishes, it'll be great.

[BerenTebogo]

Lol. He doesn't write down two words on paper without bugging our adviser first. Part of what makes him so annoying.

I'll be honestly surprised if he publishes as first author on more than one paper in the next 10 years.


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[Churchill]

All the work is done, all you gotta do is see if he bites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHcLJIfqlA

I actually like the concept but even I can see his math takes some leaps.

[BerenTebogo]

All the work is done, all you gotta do is see if he bites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHcLJIfqlA

I actually like the concept but even I can see his math takes some leaps.

I'll watch it a bit later. Even if I did float this at him he wouldn't get it. Doesn't understand differences, subtle or huge, between choices of gauge when solving the field equations, doesn't understand the notion of evolving the metric or the metric perturbation, doesn't understand basic baby GR shit.

He wouldn't last 15 seconds into a discussion about coordinate transformation involving 3 axes of time. He doesn't even understand the difference between basic GR coordinate systems or how to construct a metric for them.

You probably would be better to have in this group right now as is than he is.


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[BerenTebogo]

Also lmao, I just skimmed through that video quickly. Unless I missed it dude proposes to frame physical systems in new coordinate systems that are more suited to them, doesn't provide hamiltonian or lagrangian for any system in said coordinates.

Unless I skipped past it that's all I need to see lol. Video would be like a minute long if it was right. "Hey I found a system of coordinates that treats GR better than we currently do. Here is the lagrangian in said coordinates and these are the conserved quantities, gauge choices, and representations of position and momentum in the new coordinates."

Hilarious that someone put that much effort into it though.


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[BaneTheBrawler]

can you help him fix that?

[Ratatapa]

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[Churchill]

One of the videos regarding the Higgs on his site is (I think, it's been awhile since I watched these) a bit more interesting because he takes a shit on the Higgs found! lecture which is more or less deserving and then talks about his predictions lol.

Edit: titled the Higgs Paradox

[BerenTebogo]

One of the videos regarding the Higgs on his site is (I think, it's been awhile since I watched these) a bit more interesting because he takes a shit on the Higgs found! lecture which is more or less deserving and then talks about his predictions lol.

Edit: titled the Higgs Paradox

I'll check it out after a few beers. This is the type of youtube science I need to be not sober for.

Something that happens with incredible frequency is that people with some degree of training in physics (usually more math) claim to have "cracked the theory of xyz!" In a brand new way and you get videos or papers on arxiv that read like that video.

Had a professor who did a lot of research in QFT and loop quantum gravity and I went to a conference with him where people would bug him and give him random papers all the time. "I solved the theory of everything with this blahblahblah" or whatever. He'd flip through the paper and if it wasn't listed he'd be like "so where do you write the lagrangian of your system?" If they couldn't show him or write it he'd just toss the paper in the trash. Cracked me the fuck up.

Didn't fully resonate with me til after my grad mechanics class. Then it was even funnier.


Edit: just looked into the guy a bit, Gavin Wince, dude is hilariously nuts.

[Churchill]

The only reason I even watched these videos was because I liked the ideas. They are more grounded in the physics we know than say, multiple universes and lolstringtheory. The SM isn't done, nor is it really even comprehensive, even GR is incomplete and could be off by as much as F=GMm/R2 is when looking at things like black holes or neutron stars. Edit: meaning F=GMm/R2 sucks for big shit niggas.

For the Higgs, he's basically trying to say that there is entanglement occurring and that we're basically looking at a standard problem of QM in which we are observing particles and getting interference patterns and inverse data sets because of it.

Neat concept, could even be right, but I don't see H+->126GeV = 125/125+1=N* getting us to that conclusion.

I personally get a lot of groupthink vibe whenever I watch a lecture or announcement from CERN, none more so than the Higgs announcement a few years ago. I think most of the challenge to it being the Higgs from outside CERN comes from people basically saying the data from the two detectors is not congruent. I haven't seen any more accurate data that brings the two masses closer in line since they've upgraded the detectors, so who knows.

Edit: Yeah he's a full-on autist.

[BerenTebogo]

I won't claim to be able to discuss the Higgs stuff at a worthwhile level, cuz I'm not a particle physicist. There may not be a lot of "pushback" or whatever about the Higgs, but that is not the same as everyone thinking they found the Higgs. If the detections are measurable, independently repeatable, and within error tolerances, it's probably the Higgs. Nothing else will prove or disprove it. I personally haven't heard anyone but news articles definitively claim "we have found the Higgs for sure."

Dude doesn't understand basic set theory and basically claims to have trivialized Cantor's proof about differing sizes of infinity and claims to have solved the continuum hypothesis. He isn't autist, he's full Deepak Chopra.

Kareface (poster here) has worked at CERN and is currently at grad school at either CalTech or MIT for particle physics. Should have him watch and review the Higgs one. That'd be amusing.

I watched the GR one a bit more. Not fully, but a bit less massively skipping around. No expressions for conservation laws. That right there is the physics version of claiming "1 = 2". He's not off by some algebraic factors. He's off by the fundamentals of physics.

By all means watch them for amusement, but please please please do not take anything he is saying as correct until it passes peer review.

You should look into his ideas on the continuum hypothesis. If you've passed Calculus 1 you should be able to see it for the hilarity that it is.


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[Churchill]

I did, it's all ridiculous. There's even some mathematicians wrecking his shit online and from what I can tell he's dropped off the face of the earth since he posted all this shit and got his dick slapped.

[BerenTebogo]

Hahaha one of the refutations of his Cantor thing that I read had him responding to almost every comment left on the post, defending himself.

That is that A+ shit.


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[Anoat]

Shut up, nerds

BAZINGA!

[Churchill]

If only smart people actually watched that show

[BaneTheBrawler]

[AlexRuzhyo]

Trying to find "DaVinci's Sugar Free Coffe Liquer Syrup" locally and the only place that carries it is Sam's Club. Need it for a "Homemade Low Carb Bailey's" recipe to fit my ketogenic diet. None of my friends have a membership, and I want the mock-Bailey's for my coffe, dammit.

[BaneTheBrawler]

you don't need a membership to shop there anymore, iirc. you just save some if you have one.

[Brill Weave]

Made the mistake of agreeing to take Noah along with his cousins Adam and Ethan to get pictures tonight. NEVER AGAIN.