like a fat kid loves caek
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
lj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
― caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
sombrero galaxy would be a good band name
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
;_;
plan to use that as awesome stealth zing though so all good
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong
Something that is wronger than wrong is therefore more wrong than something that is not even wrong.
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
wrong
not as stealthy as it used to be thanks to peter woit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099488647/
(a+ book)
― caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
RONG
∞RONG∞
― caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the rong ranger rides again
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
~wtw~
― shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:54 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark
STEALING THIS
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
also caek u rule and also again i solved the universe btw the other night on w33d and it has to do with magnets, do u want my theory y/n
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
magnets sound more plausible than god tbh and you can have sombrero galaxy btw
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
dude
god is magnets
why do you think one magnet moves when you put another one near it
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought I was moving it with my mind
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it is like when the T-1000 was frozen and shot to bits but managed to recoagulate - god's design is beautiful and mysterious
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
popular 3-D cinema is also god's design fwiw
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
no gbx U rule, when we're both doctors let's start a blog called hipster doctors
― caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl already think i'm the hipster med student cause i ride a bike and played in a band once. so cool let's do it
btw i am working on my explanation of magnets for u
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
popularpoppage 3-D cinema is also god's design fwiw
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
― noted schloar (dyao), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
click here to see fresh young teens losing their anal virginity...in 3D
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf that is the point at which we put human culture into a little box and fire it into a comet at ~high speed~
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
3D Porno wd be kind of self-defeating in its unsatisfyingness
― STFU Alumni (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hey! Just look at these awesome 3D boobies all up in your face" is more distracting than arousing really
― STFU Alumni (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean being caught wanking is one thing but wearing those goggles too i mean seriously now
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
btw LJ, is there an official definition of poppage that is more than just 'sex'
― noted schloar (dyao), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
zits exploding in 3D is much, much grosser than 3D porn
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
'solving' the universe by making it destroy itself in sheer embarrassment.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2750/27501101.jpg
well that's as clear as mud then
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
need more physicists to cheerfully admit 'we can't know that right now, but thanks for asking', then carry on with studying actual data.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
onion infographics like that aren't entirely physicists's fault, to be fair. there is codependent relationship between a certain kind of science and new scientist type publications.
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
basically www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2773
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
~god is a hologram~
― max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i have that tattooed on my back
only in *this* universe
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
btw caek i bet you feel the same way about this kind of science as many humanities profs feel abt buzzy crit theory papers
― max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, i hope so.
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
although i don't see many scientists defending the bullshit, and i know where to look, whereas finding people working in the humanities willing to defend the airless heights is a lot easier : ( is that fair or is this confirmation bias?
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
popularising science kind of depends on pushing out a lot of fuzzy/dumbed down stuff, though?
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
if science was easy we'd all do it, imo. i was strongly advised by prof of theoretical physics in trinity to back off on an open day, as my expectations in the LC weren't A1 in both physics/maths. broek hart ;_;
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
popularising science kind of depends on pushing out a lot of fuzzy/dumbed down stuff, though?― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
when done properly, it certainly involves making stuff more accessible, which is fine.
but a lot of popular writers have no interest in this. they choose stuff that is particularly difficult to explain in human language (field theory, quantum mechanics) because it sells and they don't have to work hard at making it comprehensible because no one can tell the difference.
or far worse, they are willfully obfuscatory about stuff like quantum mechanics of field theory or whatever because "gee whizz awesome" or "lol what will those crazy scientists think of next"
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
or they do things like that NS article, and write about stuff that is miles outside the mainstream of even theoretical physics, and simply be mentioning it they give the impression that it is credible or they are teaching the debate or something.
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw field theory and quantum mechanics have been touched upon at not a single point by my scijourn class - we're largely concentrating on stuff that can be explained lucidly while still telling the whole story
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
good. totally down with abraham cowley when it comes to science writing: abjure "the painted scenes and pageants of the brain".
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
which is not to say people should not try to explain QM or string theory or whatever. they should just not do a deliberately bad job of it in order to sell more copies. hawking started this.
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
abjure "the painted scenes and pageants of the brain".
this sounds like the kind of thing i'd totally fail to abjure, but i've been pretty good about hardtruthing it iirc - psychedelia is best saved for art, not news
― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
― caek, Thursday, March 4, 2010 9:46 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
confirmation bias + a "only im allowed to make fun of my brother" mindset
― max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i am fine with people making fun of the embarrassing bit of physics (although if the goal is to get rid of it i think the best policy is to ignore it). or are you talking about that mindset in the humanities?
― caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
in the humanities. cant speak for everyone but im really defensive when 'outsiders' or non-enthusiasts bag on stuff that i disagree with but hews close to stuff i dig.
― max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link