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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Schools How good and well-known is the physics program at RPI?.MIT is on a 5.0 scale, so a 4.0 would be a straight B student! That's not really the point you're trying to make, but you can... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Schools How good and well-known is the physics program at RPI?.Go to the school where you pay the least amount of money for your degree, within reason. At my university which is a "lower ranked"...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad How can you model charge?.Spin is a quantum mechanical property. It's intrinsic angular momentum which isn't literally a classical rotation at all. Take an...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Will anyone alive today see a permanent colony on the Moon or Mars?.Doubtful, there is just no economic reason to. All other exploration and colonization was generally tied to a solid economic thesis. If...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Admissions Graduating a year early anxieties + grad school.Also I just wanted to add, if it's possible for you to graduate you can still apply for graduate school this fall. If you get accepted...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.But brain neurons change, form new connections, die, etc in response to outside stimuli. The artificial neurons don't really change even...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.I mean they sample from PDF's to generate their output. Even the models weights are fuzzed for models like Chatgpt depending on user...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Admissions Graduating a year early anxieties + grad school.I don't think anyone will care? How long you spent in a program wasn't part of the applications. The only thing a shorter undergrad...
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QuarkyMeson reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread Studying Interested in Astronomy as a Freshman with
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Thats awesome. I can relate to working as an undergrad. I worked at a dept store as a sweeper/maint in the evenings to a small... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Is the 2-qubit singlet state invariant under bilateral projections?.I mean, just so you know I agree with you. I don't think span preservation for quantum states is a good definition of invariance. The 0...
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QuarkyMeson reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Wavefunction in the context of quantum physics with Like.
Yes. Yes. Both of these functions will be square integrable functions of one variable, so they are both elements of Hilbert spaces...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.Yeah, see Scotts post here for more information: Given a finite volume and finite amount of energy there are only a finite number of...
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QuarkyMeson reacted to .Scott's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Like.
A couple of comments: First, you presume an infinite universe but you call out "observable universe" - which may not be infinite...
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QuarkyMeson reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with Like.
That's true in the mathematical model of an infinite universe. The question is how relevant that is. We may never be certain that the...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.Yes, a big caveat to all this is that the universe is truly infinite and that energy is also randomly and uniformly distributed. It...