drdind

@Drdind
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Twitter refugee, retired physics prof, startup hopeful. Born at 315 ppm.
#Resistance #ClimateCrisis #Covid19 #Vaccines #Democrats #Physics
Alt profile pic: selfie of me with a rare cigar. Alt banner : Golden Gate Bridge from Land's End in San Francisco.
drdind1d ago

Saw Project Hail Mary last night.

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! (IYKYK)

Dropped a lot of the real science from the book (physics) but captured the friendship, humor, and courage at the books core. It is kind of Castaway like (lots of Ryan Gosling) but he holds the stage.

Definitely a feel good escape from the current shitshow.

drdind1d ago

Trump has not posted on Truth Social threatening Greenland if NATO doesn't cooperate.

Look for yourself.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump

He is still ridiculous and horrible and agreed to lift sanctions on $14b of Iranian oil.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Truth Social
drdind6d ago
Show threadOfelia6d ago
@Drdind “Beautifully said. Anthony James Leggett truly seemed to embody both intellectual brilliance and genuine humility. His work on superfluid Helium-3 superfluidity changed how we understand quantum matter, and his character appears to have been just as remarkable as his science.”
Show threaddrdindMar 13

Leggett retired as the Macarthur Professor of Physics at University of Illinois.

Farewell to a great.

https://news.illinois.edu/tony-leggett-nobel-laureate-and-theoretical-physicist-dies/

Show threaddrdindMar 13

..Caldeira, Matthew Fisher, and Alan Dorsey) carried out hugely impactful work, important for quantum computing, about how macroscopic entities can flip or tunnel from one state to another coherently.

I love this quote: "Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated."

Show threaddrdindMar 13
..atoms, like electrons, are 'fermions,' of which only one atom can be placed into a quantum state -they are 'curmudgeons' of the particle world-but by pairing into magnetically aligned couplets they effectively become bosons, the Californians of the particle world (you can put as many as you want into a state ;) ). Leggett's analysis, while a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, helped confirm the exotic nature of the superfluid ground state. Later, Leggett and his students (including Amir..
drdindMar 13

Sir Anthony (Tony) Leggett, who died this past week, was truly a gentleman and a scholar. He was kind and humble, not always the attributes of a brilliant scientist. After first receiving a classics degree at Oxford, he went for a second degree in physics.

His Nobel winning work was for extraordinarily sophisticated analysis of NMR data proving that recently observed superfluidity in the isotope helium-3 represented novel pairing of the atoms into so called "spin triplets" - helium-3 ...

drdindMar 13

Treasury Secretary Bessent was called away from a live interview on CNBC this morning to meet with Trump and returned, visibly shaken.

What the fuck?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/watch-trump-summons-treasury-secretary-123853391.html

Watch: Trump Summons Bessent in Middle of Live Interview

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared flustered after he returned from his meeting.

Yahoo News
drdindMar 13
Show threadJames BrittMar 13

@Drdind

WTAF am I seeing in that picture? How can anyone look at that orange face and not burst out laughing?

Show threaddrdindMar 13
And it is not new or age related "shrinkage" - here he is with 6'4" George Foreman (left) and 6'2" Evander Holyfield (right) in 1991. He is 2" shorter than Holyfield