Recent content by nicky nichols

Looking through Notalle's papers, I feel that this a combination of mathematical handwaving and lion hunting. Far too many of the arguments depend upon a contrived combination of syncretic analysis of algebraic structure plus a derived statistical fit. This leads me to believe that this is a...

First of all, I felt nothing where I live in Central London. Secondly however, there has been a lot of discussion in the workplace here about who felt what and where, and my preliminary understanding is that some of the results are very worrying for the housing market.

I was over at the Max Plank Institute website reading about this and their Calculated Luminosity Function. Elsewhere, quite a few people have made the same coincidental speculation about the neural network-like structure form. From a computation simulation point of view, neural networks...

...and not all frenchmen are as bad as that one on the bus.

I'm back! I suppose the universe will end in the same way...

I think that the right experimental approach is to probe the higher spacetime dimensions with extremely high energy particle accelerators, say orders of magnitude greater than LHC 2008, so when black holes can be created without resort to the Planck condition, then it is possible to determine...

I have been reading the recent work by Xiao-Gang Wen on string nets. I find his ideas very interesting and hope that he will continue to develop his theories with the additional underpinning of algebraic topology.

Does anyone know if politicians read Physics Forums, and if so, what do they think of us here, and if so, what can we do to help them think better of physics?

"Boltzmann Brains" are not a validated principle of physics. However, the hypothetical statistical arguments of an encounter between thermodynamic and quantum mechanic life are fully covered by Oxford philosopher scientist Nick Bostrom in his landmark PhD thesis.

Well, I don't think that Dr Lisi would put up with the British weather. But that aside, can I suggest Liverpool University. The high energy physics department comprises some brilliant experimentalists. To search for the monopole, one has to consider something amazing. By all accounts...

My infinite abstract sheet turns out to be triangular. There is some sort of structure is the far distance background vertex. I thought it might be a sierpinski fractal, but it is too fine to make out. Looking harder, I could see convex curvature downhill away from my viewpoint...

Regge.

My findings are When I think about the infinite sheet, it is not made of paper, it is something definitely abstract. Thinking that it has a finite size, does not immediately put the edges into view. Thinking that the finitely sized sheet is made of paper, puts the edges into view as a...

A long time ago I was given a sample of a very strange alloy (ultra-low hysteresis electromagnetic torque sensor). It had to be machined at very high speed and it could not take any form of heat treatment. I can't remember what it was, but in any case, it is best forgotten!

There is no peer-reviewed evidence that we have ever been visited by advanced aliens.