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bhobba reacted to Matterwave's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with
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"The counting" that I was referring to was the one in Art Hobson's quote mentioned in post #241 which I assumed was meant for fields in... -
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Yes, it is not trivial. :wink: As in, yes, we have no bananas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
Yes, it is. Hobson did say "at least" 25 fields.
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
Up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom. Yes, that counting leaves out the quarks' color charge. But note that, for example, when we say...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
6 leptons, 6 quarks, 12 gauge bosons, and the Higgs in the Standard Model. Of course this counting leaves out a lot of things. Hobson...
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bhobba reacted to martinbn's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
The fields could be the fundamental entities. They wouldn't be made of anything else. Why is it a problem to have many fields in the...
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bhobba reacted to iste's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
Thomas Kuhn lecture about early days of quantum physics.
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bhobba reacted to Rx7man's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with Like.
Some really interesting reads in this thread.. I think that a Big 5 personality test together with an IQ test would show a more...
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bhobba reacted to symbolipoint's post in the thread Studying Correlating IQ and STEM performance with Like.
Posts 52, 53, 54 Along with all that is, high quality and motivated worker or overseer and guide has plenty, more than plenty of work to...
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bhobba replied to the thread How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator?.I don't know if it's cultural, but here in Australia I know of nobody who complains about paying taxes (we are a very high tax-paying...
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bhobba replied to the thread How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator?.As a famous pop-sci celebrity, he is par for the course. He does raise public awareness about science, which is a plus. This may be...
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bhobba reacted to WWGD's post in the thread How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator? with Like.
I think Mathematician Ian Stewart, from Warwick, last I checked , is one of the few who does a good job toing the line between actual...
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bhobba reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator? with Like.
Some colleagues are looking at job cuts and funding reductions at UK NNL...
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bhobba reacted to weirdoguy's post in the thread How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator? with Like.
He has, so what? His pop-science is terrible. Most pop-science is terrible.
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bhobba reacted to AlexB23's post in the thread How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator? with Like.
Is he worse than Michio Kaku' popular physics? When I was young, both of those guys were on different science channels on TV back in the...