Recent content by Diffeomorphic

Well, maybe I'm a hypocrite because I played tons of video games during Junior High and High School. There's a difference between mindlessly playing some shooter game and learning how to program a video game...

Only in three dimensions is the geometrically defined curl of a vector field again a vector field. Since there is trouble with defining cross-product in some dimensions, it is hard to generalize. There may be some hope with the seven-dimensional cross product...

Make sure you do well in your High School courses and get a solid foundation in High School Math and Physics! Take AP Calculus if it is offered at your school, and try to do some self-studying in physics and mathematics over the course of High School since it is so easy and you have tons of free...

No an extra year does not look bad! In fact, it probably looks even better that you have a more solid foundation and that you can sustain a high GPA over the course of multiple years showing that you will likely be able to endure the length of graduate school. You have a great GPA and with...

I would love to have a discussion about the Philosophy of Mathematics and the correspondence between reality and Mathematical descriptions, but could we discuss on a purely technical level the actual content of the paper, temporarily glossing over the philosophical issues for now?

Well, I sure hope Shape Dynamics turns out as it seems to have a bright future. I had the privilege to talk with Sean Gryb for a few days when he was at PI and he was really excited about what him and the other people like Tim Koslowski had planned for it. He was really was astounded that within...

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1111/1111.0301v1.pdf Hi everyone! I'd like to get a little discussion started on what you guys think about this paper if you have the time to read it. I find it really fascinating that they came to the conclusion that up-tunneling is impossible for...

I would suggest checking out the new paper by Sean Gryb and a philosopher Karim Thebault discussing the problem of time, and how Shape Dynamics is free of the local problem of time! http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2429

I'm not sure about that. I was not a successful student in Math ever until Grade 12 when I began to try and got 100% in all my Math and Physics classes and now I currently have a 4.0GPA in my undergraduate. In my Grade 10 and 11 Math classes I did poorly (60%, 70%) and even had to get tutored...

I think this guy must be a troll...

I've actually read Stenger's book and I'm not a big fan of the way he just makes philosophical assertions about the nature of knowledge and the philosophy of science without any real good argumentation. Ad hominems aside, first off "Imagine a closed chamber far out in space accelerating at...

Sorry about that, I didn't see it down there.

Glad to see Shape Dynamics on here! I thought no one noticed the block they had to present at Loops 11', really fascinating stuff with a future! I recommend reading Sean Gryb and Julian Barbour's papers.

Your thesis is a very important time, make sure you do it in something that you legitimately find interesting. If you are really interested in T' you'll likely want to switch into it after you finish your thesis (if you stay with T), so it would be better to start researching T' right now...

I nominate that Shape Dynamics paper! Make sure you keep it in.