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did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand

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“ok is this math really useful though what’s the point of it existing does it matter or is there no practical application” alright. if you write a poem does it matter? Is there an application? What if I killed you

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sorry we applied an operator to your boyfriend. he's an eigenfunction of that operator so the operator returned his function but he's multiplied by a constant. yeah he has an eigenvalue now

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Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

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What Greek letters mean in equations (source : xkcd.com)

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anyone here know what a fractal is?

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Math tweet

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Physicist Proposes To Boyfriend Using Hexagonal Mirror

Ben Bartlett, a physics PhD student, proposed to his boyfriend of eight years by using a hexagonal mirror array to reflect the light from the setting sun onto the ground to spell MARRY ME?

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the solution to the Mathematician's Lament is to teach calculus in early grade school if not kindergarten & i am being 100% unironic

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I think everyone’s mathematical journey would have been so much easier if they showed you the sine, cosine, and tangent unit circle (R=1) animation in precalc

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Hi - do you have any good resources on the EPR paradox, Copenhagen interpretation and the Einstein-Bohr debate?

Nothing specific comes to mind that I wouldn’t just be googling- sorry! Good luck :)

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Can you explain the muon thing in very simple people terms? Thank you

I can give the general idea!

As background, muons can be thought of as heavy electrons- they have the same charge and spin as an electron but more mass.

Right now Fermilab is running an experiment where they place muons in a magnetic field to see how they behave (specifically looking at the spin magnetic dipole moment). This is a follow up to another experiment previously run in Brookhaven that came up with similar results.

There is an equation that relates the spin and the magnetic dipole moment that contains a constant ‘g’. Based on everything we know in physics so far, there is a theoretical g-factor for the muon that is a bit larger than 2.

Experimentally, the value for g is higher than this theoretical value and none of our current standard model of physics can explain this difference. Which implies that there may be some additional type of force or some other influencing factor that we are becoming aware of for the very first time!

The current difference between theoretical and experimental values is 4.2 standard deviations and the standard difference for an official scientific discovery is 5 standard deviations but as I understand they are working on reducing the error such that the difference in values is higher than this threshold!

Exciting stuff!!

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