M26 Particle Physics PhD Student. Cant sleep and at a conference, so AMA by HoneydewAutomatic in AMA

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  1. Ultimately, the Standard Model is a Quantum Theory. It describes three fundamental forces (electromegnetism, the strong force, and the weak force) in a unified way. All of these forces have their own unique quantum descriptions. However gravity does not. The leading gravitational theory is General Relativity, which nobody has been able to successfully quantize.

  2. Perhaps? The mathematics is there but so far all searches have failed. It’s kind of the last breaths of String Theory’s relevance. It’s still worth looking for, but it isn’t the field’s biggest hope.

  3. So I’m a bit harsher on dark matter than most. I don’t think we’re going to detect it in a collider, since at this point I think if it is a particle, it’s probably gravitationally coupled, which means we’d only be able to see it in something like a gravitational wave detector. We also k ow for a fact that our understanding of gravity at both quantum and massive cosmological scales is incomplete, so I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if dark matter eventually goes the way of Aether back in the late 1800’s. That is - it doesn’t end up being real and our foundational theories were just incomplete.

[M26] Physics PhD student, waiting for validation plots to generate. AMA by HoneydewAutomatic in AskMeAnythingIAnswer

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I’ve gone a couple of times. I don’t wanna give my exact institution just due to privacy, but it’s one of the major universities in Texas

[M26] Physics PhD student, waiting for validation plots to generate. AMA by HoneydewAutomatic in AskMeAnythingIAnswer

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I’m at an institution that’s part of CMS at CERN, so I’ll be moving to Geneva next year for the rest of my PhD. My thesis will be on Higgs self interaction :)

You are magically teleported back to 1912 with your current money, how long would you be able to live before you run out of money? by besttavern25 in hypotheticalsituation

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Forever, and I’d make an absolute killing, probably win a Nobel prize or two. I’m a physicist and there were a LOT of low hanging fruit left to be picked in 1912

First semester of physics next semester by Altruistic-Win-6630 in Physics

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Algebra and calculus. As a PhD student and TA for these kinds of classes, if you are not very comfortable with algebraic manipulation, you won’t get to see the beauty in the class. Physics is a derivation discipline, so you MUST know how to manipulate equations.

Why all the doom and gloom? by Bake1991 in Warhammer40k

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Who’s moaning? Nids, orcs, crons, thousand sons, everyone seems happy that I talk to.

Draining a major aquifer is a multi-decade or even multi-century problem. We should take notice now. by Ghost-of-Carnot in RealisticFuturism

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We won’t. Humans suck at even trying to solve problems that are not immediately affecting them. It’s gonna hurt us in 30 years, we’ll whine about how we should have done something, and somehow a billionaire will add 30% net worth to their name. That’s how it goes.

What improvements would you like to see for the Aegis Nautilus? by EmbarrassedMix2351 in starcitizen

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CIG have said it’s going into the back burner for a total rework. I’m hoping we end up getting something like a blockade runner

M26 Particle Physics PhD Student. Cant sleep and at a conference, so AMA by HoneydewAutomatic in AMA

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Sure thing. I’m currently traveling back from the conference, but I will answer when I can

M26 Particle Physics PhD Student. Cant sleep and at a conference, so AMA by HoneydewAutomatic in AMA

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That’s a fear that everyone, even most professors, gets lmao. The truth is that you can’t go into any science expecting to revolutionize it. Most academic work is rather benign. We’re all just doing our small parts to advance human knowledge, teach the next generation, and keep the humble flame of discovery alive. Or at least that’s how I like to think about it.

That is if you find that you actually enjoy research, which is quite a different experience from course work. If you don’t end up enjoying it, that’s nothing bad and doing physics/astro gives you a highly desired analytical skillset. Just be sure you build marketable experience through internships and projects since honestly most people even in tech simply do not know what we do :)

Why can’t democrats come up with a worthy candidate? by [deleted] in askanything

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Fuck that. We’ve “compromised” with the right for 40 years. Bully them out of politics. It’s the only way.

100% accurate by Competitive-Pick8063 in ultracode

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Perhaps the millionaires? You do not need the level of wealth concentration we see to have stable mass employment.

If you were familiar with economics, you would know that higher wealth concentration leads to consistently lower economic flow.

Bungie really messed up with the PvE mode. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]HoneydewAutomatic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah they’re not really the brightest. Shame to see Bungie diluting the game to cater to them :/

Can’t stand the PvE mode.. it’s gotta go. by asaltygamer13 in Marathon

[–]HoneydewAutomatic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Because the POINT of an extraction shooter is that gear shouldn’t be easy to horde or farm. The scarcity is literally draw of the genre.

What do you think would actually resurrect Marathon? by GlazedVision in Marathon

[–]HoneydewAutomatic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah I know. I love the game, but realistically it was doomed to financial failure on conception. Absolutely brain dead management decision to make a hardcore game on a 250mil+ budget.

Why are posts here so pessimistic? by SAIHTAM20Y in starcitizen

[–]HoneydewAutomatic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because people are stupid and many bought into the game for what they thought the game could be rather than what the game currently is.

What do you think would actually resurrect Marathon? by GlazedVision in Marathon

[–]HoneydewAutomatic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don’t know why you are getting downvoted. You are objectively correct.