Recent content by n1person

Very heartwarming! :) Also, very coincidentally (particularly since this is my first time on PF for over a year), next semester I am going to start working on CFT applications to 3D Ising Models! Is your thesis published/available somewhere?

I am curious if anyone knows of interesting/less well known sources of funding for an American student to study at Cambridge for a Part III. I am currently a math and physics junior who fell in love with the place on a recent visit and, from what i can tell, the main difficulty people have with...

Nah, I don't have my physics B.S. yet. I still need to take a semester of physics lab, stat mech, and a senior project. My university is nice in that they are very lax about allowing people to take graduate courses. I've done lots of astrophysics stuff the past year (both courses and research)...

Summer: Standard funfilled research Fall: (Junior Physics Major) Group Theory (Graduate, Essentially Lie Algebra and Representation Theory with an eye towards HEP) Quantum Mechanics I (Graduate) Theory of Galaxy Formation (Graduate) Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Complex Analysis or Algebraic...

Try talking to the DUS (Director of Undergraduate Studies) or the Department Chair, they might know more about which professors want/need undergraduates.

I am like 99% sure that Griffith's Particle Physics book is overkill for the PGRE.

Essentially, although I suppose a particle physicist could talk about the differences in what we detect in particle collisions verses what we would detect in a black hole vaporization scenario. I remember hearing a statistic that high energy cosmic rays should produce hundreds of micro black...

At the energy levels used at the LHC, any microblack hole created would effectively instantly be turned into energy via Hawking radiation.

Keep in mind there are many ways to get astronomical data for use, most notably Sloan which has lots of star coverage, and also I believe spectrum available. http://casjobs.sdss.org/casjobs/

Even if a "theory of everything" was created (meaning some equation that governs all fundamental interactions), there are still lots of issues with how that relates to larger scale phenomena. For example, General Relativity describes gravity very accurately, but you still have entire journals...

I am sure this view has been said before (somewhere in the 11 pages i didn't read), but the fact of the matter is calculus is extremely useful just as a plug and chug type of tool in most of science (biology, basic chemistry, basic physics, lots of engineering), and it is very important students...

Note, you can find Kleppner and Kolenkow fairly cheap online: (~25 dollars) http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Klepner+and+Kolenkow&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=8490344054382702004&sa=X&ei=q-RLToHkJJDE0AHr-rGTBw&ved=0CF4Q8wIwAQ#scoring=p

Both of these statements aren't really true. 2. The universe, at a large scale is isotropic and homogenous, meaning there is no "preferred direction in space" and each point in space looks roughly like any other point. Therefore it is roughly "consistent." 3. Your assuming the universe has...

Try taking a look at Sean Carrolls Notes on General Relativity (http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/). They do a pretty good job of explaining the necessary math.

Well, what if you have a black hole moving at relativistic speeds? (so E =/= mc^2) :P I don't know quite enough about QM to comment about anything else...