(February 8, 2016 at 9:42 am)Alex K Wrote:Maybe if I sleep on this for a couple of days it will dawn on me.(February 7, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Consider the following:
Wow! Give me that old time religionphysics. I'm trying to figure out what it is this guy is doing there. It looks like he's calculating a particle scattering amplitude or similar quantity in quantum electrodynamics in a rather old-fashioned and terrifying looking perturbation theory formalism. On the left in the middle I can make out a sketch of the complex plane with poles and the dashed line as an integration contour, which probably specify the analytic structure of a particle propagator or similar thing. The imaginary parts of the poles are denoted by an upper case Gamma, which seems to indicate that we are dealing with an unstable particle, but that seems strange in this context and is probably just old formalism. Since the matrix element he's calculating is of two fermions , and the operator in the middle is called H_gamma, it's probably something like the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron or just generally the emission and absorption of a photon, or a similar quantity.
Meanwhile, don't ask me anything about English literature because I will tell you that the deconstructive epistemology of post-modern discourse is evident within the alterity of obfuscated textualities.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.