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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Impersonation News.This doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem. Large content creators and celebrities' should just take a note from the cryptographic... -
QuarkyMeson posted the thread Buy Want to buy second edition hardcovers of L&L to complete set in Buy, Sell, Trade, Giveaway Book Marketplace.Looking for second edition Landau and Lifshitz hardcovers to complete set. Would like to pay 30-50 dollars per volume depending on... -
QuarkyMeson reacted to nsaspook's post in the thread Countermeasures for hypersonic weapons with
Wow.
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Engineering Disasters.Chinese factories scamming their customers? A tale as old as time. Lawn darts are also back, not they're just made of plastic and have... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?".The two most annoying things in trying to maintain other peoples C++ code was people not realizing how short circuiting worked so you... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad Antilinear Operators.If you keep reading through the link you've posted you'll see that you're defining ##A^{\dagger}## wrong. ##A^{\dagger} = KL^{\dagger}##... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad Antilinear Operators.Yes, it's going to seem rather silly I think when you see it: Write the general form of ##(<\phi|\hat{A})|\psi> = a\psi_1 + b\psi_2##... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Insights What Exactly is Dirac’s Delta Function? - Insight.It's a distribution, or continuous linear functional. You're quoting the insight but didn't actually read it. The insight itself would... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Admissions Statement of purpose critique request (high-energy theory PhD).Sure: https://www.niu.edu/clas/physics/academics/graduate/phd.shtml If you enter with a masters degree or a pgre score > 50% here... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Admissions Statement of purpose critique request (high-energy theory PhD).Having a masters exempts you from quals in the US. You're assumed to have passed already. Unless the department has some PhD specific... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad Antilinear Operators.I'm not seeing the minus sign, basically in your example you need to apply the given definition: $$\hat{A} = \hat{L} \hat{K}$$ $$\hat{L}... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Physics Experimental undergrad research in SOP for theoretical grad research?.This is common advice and it's basically what you should do (minus the second part of lie like crazy). Your contributions, no matter how... -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Admissions Statement of purpose critique request (high-energy theory PhD).Graduate school applications in the US are a bit iffy at the moment. High energy theory is going to be very rough. You already have a...