Another headline example of why to not trust any media/journalists.
LOS ANGELES, California — Roughly 100 pro-Israel vigilantes stormed the “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, sparking battles with activists.
Happy Wednesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!
You’ve got “battles” at UCLA, meanwhile, at UCI, the campus police handed one person a written notice to vacate. Of course UCI has a long history of catering to the Muslim Student Association.
I watched Oppenheimer last night. I like Cillian Murphy and the cast was incredible. I downloaded it a while ago but had not gotten around to it. I ran across a clip and it hooked me so I watched it last night. Good movie but it sent me down several rabbit holes looking up scientists and quantum mechanics issues. It has been a while. Too bad I had no education. My interest in chemistry took me into subatomic science and a science teacher set me on some studies that took me well beyond anything we studied in school. I ended up hitting a wall when my math was inadequate to go farther.We never touched on quantum stuff in any class I took, but it is quite interesting to me , in the little I have found.
I was always behind in math. Even as a machinist, when I started in shops, I quickly found I needed to learn trigonometry, fast. I used it almost daily in some shops. I faked it through that first night and hit my books that night. I bought a Texas Instrument scientific pocket calculator, a Ti-35, the next morning and used it for years.
In subatomic physics, my lack of math was a hard stop, as you say.
My guess is that basic math, algebra, trig were are all something you could see and grasp because of the practical uses that they describe. Subatomic particles? Never seen one.
I found subatomic particles much easier to work with when I got away from the planetary visual model of little electrons orbiting around the nucleus. When looking at the fusion process in a star’s core and the stages in a star’s collapse it was much easier without that visual model. Mass/energy conversion always fascinated me.
The Schroedinger equation is a second-order differential equation that can be solved to provide the eigenvalues for the time-dependent portion of the Hamiltonian operator. Then there are the eigenvectors for the velocity-dependent portion of the Hamiltonian. If you take the sum of the time and velocity-dependent values, you get the wave equation of the system. BTW, actually solving the wave equation for something more complex than the hydrogen molecule is not currently possible, without using a set of assumptions, such as the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
No, I don’t really understand the math behind all of the above.
Don’t have Earthquakes out here, though when a slight shaker does happen, people are upset. We do have lightning that is quite different from what I knew. Just two mornings ago there was a long string of rolling thunder that literally shook the house.
I remember riding my motorcycle home from San Jose to Salinas with a lightning storm on the mountains (hills) and finding it exciting as the lightning flashed around me. Here the lightning seems much more ominous and personal. My wife was going to go outside to bring in a patio umbrella and I said “NO!” in a voice she had never heard (command voice from ROTC came in handy.) It did stop her and I still hear about that over 15 years later. We laugh about it.
Yesterday, there was a small squirrel on the back porch. Tiny, maybe 4.5 inches long but open eyes and fur. I tossed him some nuts, even tho I really hate squirrels, and he clumsily scampered into the bushes. This afternoon I found him in the same place lying flat and not moving. I scooped him up and we’ve been trying to nurse him and keep him warm. He’s taken some baby water via an eyedropper, but isn’t much into the formula that the intertubes recommended. We put him down for now in a heated box and will try feeding him again in a couple of hours.
Jack Tatum has been out all day, but being a cat, I bet he’ll be thrilled with his new roommate.
Thanks, gentlemen -- I’m trying. We got some fluid and formula into him, but that wore him out. He’s in a heated box and we’ll sleep downstairs and try again in 2-3 hours. Still no Tatum, but he usually shows up around midnight demanding food.
At work today, we had a meeting with some vendors and they recorded it on something called Read AI which beyond just recording the event, takes notes, grades the conversation, does a transcript, and other stuff. I looked at the transcript and the first thing it wrote, 6 seconds in, was one of the women saying “Good morning and I love you all.”
What an amazing world with its variety of creatures.
Another headline example of why to not trust any media/journalists.
Vigilantes on one side; activists on the other.
Happy Wednesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!
You’ve got “battles” at UCLA, meanwhile, at UCI, the campus police handed one person a written notice to vacate. Of course UCI has a long history of catering to the Muslim Student Association.
That’s understandable, considering how big a problem islamaphobia is.
Emoji responses to text messages are bugging the snot out of me today.
Can you respond with the poo emoji and claim you thought it was chocolate pudding?
I could, but I refuse to use the damn things.
I turned 65 last month and I noticed that my tolerance levels have dropped dramatically.
Do you need a rake o’doom?
Probably more likely a walker of woe.
Or Backhoe’s BAR?
I wish my hair was that color.
😉
That’s a fuc*in’ emoji, isn’t it?
I watched Oppenheimer last night. I like Cillian Murphy and the cast was incredible. I downloaded it a while ago but had not gotten around to it. I ran across a clip and it hooked me so I watched it last night. Good movie but it sent me down several rabbit holes looking up scientists and quantum mechanics issues. It has been a while. Too bad I had no education. My interest in chemistry took me into subatomic science and a science teacher set me on some studies that took me well beyond anything we studied in school. I ended up hitting a wall when my math was inadequate to go farther.We never touched on quantum stuff in any class I took, but it is quite interesting to me , in the little I have found.
The math gets real nasty, real quick when you start dealing with subatomic particle wave equations.
I was always behind in math. Even as a machinist, when I started in shops, I quickly found I needed to learn trigonometry, fast. I used it almost daily in some shops. I faked it through that first night and hit my books that night. I bought a Texas Instrument scientific pocket calculator, a Ti-35, the next morning and used it for years.
In subatomic physics, my lack of math was a hard stop, as you say.
My guess is that basic math, algebra, trig were are all something you could see and grasp because of the practical uses that they describe. Subatomic particles? Never seen one.
I found subatomic particles much easier to work with when I got away from the planetary visual model of little electrons orbiting around the nucleus. When looking at the fusion process in a star’s core and the stages in a star’s collapse it was much easier without that visual model. Mass/energy conversion always fascinated me.
The Schroedinger equation is a second-order differential equation that can be solved to provide the eigenvalues for the time-dependent portion of the Hamiltonian operator. Then there are the eigenvectors for the velocity-dependent portion of the Hamiltonian. If you take the sum of the time and velocity-dependent values, you get the wave equation of the system. BTW, actually solving the wave equation for something more complex than the hydrogen molecule is not currently possible, without using a set of assumptions, such as the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
No, I don’t really understand the math behind all of the above.
You’re pulling my leg, right? I understood like one word in three.
Didn’t his guy have a cat, too? And didn’t the Atlanta Rhythm Section have a song called “Imaginary Numbers”?
Of those of us left, I know who is wearing the dunce cap.
Of the remaining Gerbils I think I am the only one who never set foot in college, other than when carrying a rifle.
Nope. Not in the least. I got a B- in Theoretical Chemistry in grad school, which is the same as an F, for all intents and purposes.
Ha! Your knowledge and wisdom are universally recognized and appreciated on Teh Wheel.
I’ll second that.
We just had a small earthquake in the Santa Ana mountains. 4.1 -- I thought someone had pushed my chair.
Glad it was not worse. Hoping you stay safe.
It was just a little weird, being the only one in the house and feeling like someone moved my chair.
Don’t have Earthquakes out here, though when a slight shaker does happen, people are upset. We do have lightning that is quite different from what I knew. Just two mornings ago there was a long string of rolling thunder that literally shook the house.
I remember riding my motorcycle home from San Jose to Salinas with a lightning storm on the mountains (hills) and finding it exciting as the lightning flashed around me. Here the lightning seems much more ominous and personal. My wife was going to go outside to bring in a patio umbrella and I said “NO!” in a voice she had never heard (command voice from ROTC came in handy.) It did stop her and I still hear about that over 15 years later. We laugh about it.
“NO!!!! Let the cat get it!!!”
🙁
Huh. Seems to be more of them lately -- those small-moderate shakes.
Yesterday, there was a small squirrel on the back porch. Tiny, maybe 4.5 inches long but open eyes and fur. I tossed him some nuts, even tho I really hate squirrels, and he clumsily scampered into the bushes. This afternoon I found him in the same place lying flat and not moving. I scooped him up and we’ve been trying to nurse him and keep him warm. He’s taken some baby water via an eyedropper, but isn’t much into the formula that the intertubes recommended. We put him down for now in a heated box and will try feeding him again in a couple of hours.
Jack Tatum has been out all day, but being a cat, I bet he’ll be thrilled with his new roommate.
Will he name him “Snack?”
We figure it will take him a couple of days to even notice the squirrel, if it lives that long.
You’re a good Gerbil, Sven.
Agreed!
Thanks, gentlemen -- I’m trying. We got some fluid and formula into him, but that wore him out. He’s in a heated box and we’ll sleep downstairs and try again in 2-3 hours. Still no Tatum, but he usually shows up around midnight demanding food.
At work today, we had a meeting with some vendors and they recorded it on something called Read AI which beyond just recording the event, takes notes, grades the conversation, does a transcript, and other stuff. I looked at the transcript and the first thing it wrote, 6 seconds in, was one of the women saying “Good morning and I love you all.”
I don’t think that’s what she actually said.
Apparently the second round of LAPD vs hamas is set to begin at UCLA any minute now.