Recent content by AndreasC

The people whose finger is on the power switch either explicitly hate humanity or say things such as "what about China", so I'm not very optimistic.

Yeah and also some other people won the lottery. Not sure what it has to do with broader trends.

Yes, unfortunately. A lot of them are very locked in.

Interesting, I watched a talk a few months ago by Efthimios Kaxiras on twistronics, specifically something about magic angles in graphene Moire patterns or something like that. A lot of it sounds surprisingly simple, it's really just putting two layers of graphene on top of each other and...

Taylor is good and friendly. Landau+Lifshitz is very good and unfriendly, if you're into that sort of thing.

I kinda forgot about this thread for a while, but here is one error that I just noticed. In page 337, while working out the partition function for a (Euclidean) CFT on a torus, they write the translation operator that translates by a full period in the direction of ## \omega_2 ## as: $$ \exp...

Wait wait wait. Who said Q-day will happen by 2035? I have some serious doubts about that.

I'm reading now that the caldera has risen by about 4cm and moved eastward by about 6cm since August, according to Greek scientists. https://www.naftemporiki.gr/society/1912127/th-gkanas-anypsothike-kai-metakinithike-i-kalntera-ti-simainei-ayto/

About no uplift being recorded, I saw Costas Synolakis (professor in University of Southern California, from his scholar profile I see he mainly has research on tsunamis) say they have noticed some uplift. I couldn't find a page in English, but you can translate this from Greek...

There's another thing some of them are worried about. People are cancelling their vacations. It's a multi-million euro industry. Personally, I believe that's the only good thing that might come out of this. These islands have been wayyy overexploited these last years for tourism, to the...

These last days, there is a seemingly endless cluster of rather powerful earthquakes close to the islands of Santorini, Amorgos, Anafi, and Ios. Remember, this is a highly volcanically active region, Santorini especially being famous for the supervolcanic eruption which is conjectured to have...

The answer is tablets with a stylus. It saves you from wasting tons of paper, carrying around notebooks and forgetting where you wrote things. Plus you can easily copy/paste and erase things.

I tried and failed to find errata to this very commonly used book. However, I did succeed to find errors, including some in exercises, which is really annoying. Does anybody have any idea of where I could find errata, or possibly where I could post the errors I find so that others don't spend...

Well the thing with that is, there isn't that much to memorize, it's understanding that's hard.

I should probably add the qualification "as long as it's at least conceivable" to my question...