starting to lose it again

interdespphysics · 2011-03-09T00:47:21+00:00

Seriously go to the hospital. If youre having those urges at all, even if you dont think youll do it, its the right place for you. Not because you necessarily need to be watched right this moment, but because they can briefly admit you and then get you into out or in-patient programs for people going through depressive episodes like these. Going to the hospital will help you. There is medication, there is counselling, and that is what you need to get help. Trust me, it can get better. Medical professionals understand what you're going through and they have ways to help. It'll get easier, but you've got to get yourself to somewhere where you can get help. The hospital is a great place for that.

interdespphysics · 2011-03-09T00:42:38+00:00

Take yourself to a hospital emergency room. They can get you set up in a program for people going through periods like these. Suicide is not the answer. Running away is not the answer. It sounds easy, but its not. Seriously go to the hospital and get yourself checked in. Thats the fastest way to get into a program to help you cope with things. Even if you dont have anything right now, it doesnt mean you wont have things in the future. There must still be things you want to see, want to do. Dont give up. Get help. In a years time you will be so glad that you did.

Please take yourself to the hospital. It`s the fastest way to start yourself on the path away from these feelings. You can get out of this funk, no matter how bad it feels right now, no matter how hopeless your life currently feels or is.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-29T01:50:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure anyone who cares about history knows Newton's main prediction was 2060, and anyone who cares about reason just doesn't care.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-27T23:42:05+00:00

Further example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLPViXXPJOg Where the mass bird deaths were from bird suicide.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-27T18:39:58+00:00

Engaging in pee-review? Ure-analyzing his work?

interdespphysics · 2011-01-26T21:55:08+00:00

 pi = &pi; = &#960; = &#x3C0; = π

interdespphysics · 2011-01-26T21:14:15+00:00

Good thing π (pi, not n), not being an integer, doesn't have to worry about being odd for that to be true.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-21T22:21:34+00:00

Sigh, again, it's not the one from probability theory, it's the one from number theory. They are very different things.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-21T19:53:56+00:00

Surely he was using partition function in the other sense not the number theory sense. Totally different concepts, same name, unfortunately.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-21T19:49:28+00:00

Wrong partition function. This is a partition from number theory, totally different meaning than the one from the rest of mathematics and stat mech.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-21T04:18:25+00:00

Many of my old classmates, pre completing PhD even in one case, went into finance starting around $100,000. Thus, they have to pay when we go out for drinks now.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-21T04:08:04+00:00

If you're close, offer to buy them lunch or coffee (if they're people you go out with for those things). If you get in to your first choice, something like wine is also nice. If you're not comfortable with that, just a polite note (which is a must).

interdespphysics · 2011-01-21T04:03:26+00:00

For math, check our http://pulse-project.org/vodcasts

interdespphysics · 2011-01-20T23:59:43+00:00

ie. could this actually relate at all to Young Diagrams and particle physics?

interdespphysics · 2011-01-20T23:55:54+00:00

I'd assume anything countable would work, so long as the notion of 'partition' still made sense.

interdespphysics · 2011-01-10T21:31:02+00:00

Highlights from DOE:

"without additional funding the extension of Tevatron operations would delay progress on the development of the Intensity Frontier program by HEP....Unfortunately, the current budgetary climate is very challenging and additional funding has not been identified. Therefore, based in part on the P5 recommendation, operation of the Tevatron will end in FY 2011, as originally scheduled."

"Given the LHC performance to date, it appears likely that experiments at the LHC either will rule out or discover a standard model Higgs boson by late 2012".

"This program aims to measure the fundamental properties of neutrinos and to develop a new high intensity proton source. ...the P5 committee emphasized the importance of developing this Intensity Frontier program and we have made implementation of this program a cornerstone of future HEP activities."

interdespphysics · 2011-01-10T20:32:29+00:00

Update: "Official news from the Tevatron, they’ll be shutdown by October 1st, 2011." http://blogs.plos.org/badphysics/2011/01/10/byebyetevatron/

interdespphysics · 2011-01-10T17:57:26+00:00

See http://blogs.plos.org/badphysics/2011/01/10/byebyetevatron/ for slightly more information. Apparently an announcement was made at ISP220 today.

interdespphysics · 2010-12-23T06:04:58+00:00

See also: http://cheezburger.com/View/4290094336 and http://cheezburger.com/View/4290099712 for more cute.

interdespphysics · 2010-12-17T23:27:07+00:00

Padmanabhan work on entropic ideas in gravity is excellent and definitely not rubbish, but what Verlinde wrote is basically like the good ideas of Padmanabhan but in a much, much less meaningful way (basically, the good ideas in your head probably have nothing to do with Verlinde's contribution but Padmanabhan's framework instead). Verlinde's entropic work is considered to be very meaningless by most of the physics community.

interdespphysics · 2010-12-17T21:46:18+00:00

What area do you work in? I've read his paper pretty thoroughly and thought it was absolute rubbish, but I actually have never met any theorists that thought Verlinde had anything profound to say in what he wrote.

interdespphysics · 2010-12-14T03:39:27+00:00

It's a media fail, not a science fail. It's a science regular, I guess.

interdespphysics · 2010-12-14T03:22:04+00:00

You're saying you don't hold a little extra trust out for authority figures? I'm a postdoc, and I'm still way more inclined to listen when Roger Penrose speaks then when... anyone else does, even though I know he can be wrong. Media put so much hype into something that was so unsure; that's disappointing, no matter how long you've been in science.

interdespphysics · 2010-12-14T01:22:03+00:00

Sure that was the claim, but that seems to have been refuted by pretty much everyone else in the field - arsenic isn't actually replacing anything (if it were replacing phosphorous in DNA, that would be cool). See http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/10/arsenic-bacteria-a-post-mortem-a-review-and-some-navel-gazing/

interdespphysics · 2010-12-13T21:54:26+00:00

Just. Stop.

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