I had a look at the only Russian field theory textbook in my library (Landau&Lifshitz), and there's a calculation of the width of spectral lines which bears some resemblance to this.



This indeed explains the uppercase Gamma which I had interpreted as the inverse lifetime of unstable particles. They would indeed correspond to lifetimes in such a calculation, but of excited atomic states, not elementary particles. Very interesting.

(February 7, 2016 at 10:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Have we had someone like that here?

sinnerdaniel94?

(February 8, 2016 at 10:33 am)Alex K Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 10:09 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: http://yargb.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-ru...hotos.html  (Down at the bottom.)

Too bad it doesn't say what it shows. But if it's a Russian lecture from Soviet times, it explains the interesting formalism

Yeah, best explanation I could find. I could run it past some "ex"-Soviet friends if you're really interested.

Part of what bugged me about the books is how callously the Dursleys were treated later in the books.

Every summer it seemed the magical world would screw with them in a terribly traumatic way. They had to have their son get a pigtail removed, see a prize cake smashed/destroyed, suffer magic property damage to their window and living room from the WEaseleys and watch helplessly as Dudley's tongue extended to ten to twelve feet.

I wonder what ever became of them, or if they were at all aware of their cousin/nephew's extremely consequential role in things.

(February 8, 2016 at 10:59 am)TrueChristian Wrote: Part of what bugged me about the books is how callously the Dursleys were treated later in the books.

Every summer it seemed the magical world would screw with them in a terribly traumatic way. They had to have their son get a pigtail removed, see a prize cake smashed/destroyed, suffer magic property damage to their window and living room from the WEaseleys and watch helplessly as Dudley's tongue extended to ten to twelve feet.

I wonder what ever became of them, or if they were at all aware of their cousin/nephew's extremely consequential role in things.

That was karma.

^ True enough. Yet  you do wonder how they "coped" with the trauma of being shitted on with magic.

Id have loved to see how life at privet drive was the week after the Weasleys arrived to take Harry to the Quidditch World Cup..

Or even how they managed/fuctioned during the Hogwarts school year.

(February 8, 2016 at 11:05 am)TrueChristian Wrote: ^ True enough. Yet  you do wonder how they "coped" with the trauma of being shitted on with magic.

Id have loved to see how life at privet drive was the week after the Weasleys arrived to take Harry to the Quidditch World Cup..

Or even how they managed/fuctioned during the Hogwarts school year.

There's a whole ministry dedicated to fixing up all those mishaps... they can even change certain memories in muggles.
Like what must have happened to the cousin when they got attacked by a dementor.

(February 8, 2016 at 11:02 am)pocaracas Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 10:59 am)TrueChristian Wrote: Part of what bugged me about the books is how callously the Dursleys were treated later in the books.

Every summer it seemed the magical world would screw with them in a terribly traumatic way. They had to have their son get a pigtail removed, see a prize cake smashed/destroyed, suffer magic property damage to their window and living room from the WEaseleys and watch helplessly as Dudley's tongue extended to ten to twelve feet.

I wonder what ever became of them, or if they were at all aware of their cousin/nephew's extremely consequential role in things.

That was karma.  

No kidding - I don't think many people realize just how abused Harry was by the Dursleys because they're couched in so much humor and are the butts of so many gags. They were horrible people to him.

(February 8, 2016 at 12:08 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 11:02 am)pocaracas Wrote: That was karma.  

No kidding - I don't think many people realize just how abused Harry was by the Dursleys because they're couched in so much humor and are the butts of so many gags.  They were horrible people to him.

You'd think that living on the cupboard under the stairs would hint to that... huh?

(February 8, 2016 at 12:22 pm)pocaracas Wrote:

(February 8, 2016 at 12:08 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: No kidding - I don't think many people realize just how abused Harry was by the Dursleys because they're couched in so much humor and are the butts of so many gags.  They were horrible people to him.

You'd think that living on the cupboard under the stairs would hint to that... huh?

We have a space like that under the stairs to the basement. I hung a sign, "Potterville."