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Lecture 2 | String Theory and M-Theory

(September 27, 2010) Professor Leonard Susskind discusses how the forces that act upon strings can affect the quantum mechanics. He also reviews ma...

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commodoreherring said:

@zcapwb1 Secondly, P_z appears again in the denominator of the other two terms, which represents time dilation (the bigger P_z is, the more slowly the rest of the interesting dynamics seem to happen). Now he says it's huge but non-infinite: The contention is that we can consider the limit where P...

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  Lecture 2 | String Theory and M-Theory

  (September 27, 2010) Professor Leonard Susskind discusses how the forces that act upon strings can affect the quantum mechanics. He also reviews ma...

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  commodoreherring said:

  @zcapwb1 there are two steps. Firstly, there is a P_z squared term out front. the physical explanation for that one is easy, it's just the huge z-momentum which you generated by doing the boost. In doing mechanics you drop that term because it plays no dynamical role - that's because it remains c...

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commodoreherring commented 6 months ago

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Jerry Moffat crushed my Twix

I'd like to point out that I've never met Mr Moffat and I don't even like Twix bars.

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commodoreherring said:

i feel cheated. sherpa tenzing norgay just shat on my lion bar.

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  Lee & Herring's TMWRNJ Reunion Gig (Lyric) Pt. 4

  The final part of Lee & Herring TMWRNJ reunion gig at the Lyric Hammersmith, November 2008. With the Curious Orange!

  (N.B. Not the full set, apolo...

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  commodoreherring said:

  ahhh! no, not ahhh.

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  Two cops suspended for assaulting a six-year-old girl

  In yet another shocking case of brutality, two cops were caught on camera in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, assaulting a six-year-old girl.

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  commodoreherring said:

  after all, she's only a street kid, these officers are doing a good job getting her out of the way. i have seen the good indian police beating people many times, always the have-nothing, defenceless people who are dirtying up the streets. of course it is fine: this is the india gandhiji would hav...

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  Two cops suspended for assaulting a six-year-old girl

  In yet another shocking case of brutality, two cops were caught on camera in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, assaulting a six-year-old girl.

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  commodoreherring said:

  a lot of people seem to think that if this was violence then there would be blood and people flying throug the air. my answer is you watch too many movies. real violence is just like this: close, awkward, twisting and wrenching (not karate chops), intimate and sadistic. you are out of touch with ...

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  Two cops suspended for assaulting a six-year-old girl

  In yet another shocking case of brutality, two cops were caught on camera in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, assaulting a six-year-old girl.

  5,909,066 views

  commodoreherring said:

  @2442TheGuy what an inane comment. in the same way, a man who is being hanged isn't hurt by the rope, it is only that he obstinately insists on pulling down against it, using the force of gravity. take a deep breath and watch this with your eyes open: not only is he hurting the child, this man is...

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  did this cop drink to much coffee or what!

  typical moron cop whos seen colors a few to many times. my 16 yr old cousin videoed this. by the way, skate boarding is totally legal in this town...

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  commodoreherring said:

  he's on a normal power-craze trip. in that limited arena he can totally dominate another person: if you are thinking 'was he right or wrong' you aren't getting it psychologically; it's more of an erotic, libido thing for him. it's reinforced by the fact he gets to live it (in a kind of puny way) ...

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commodoreherring commented 6 months ago

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Unraveling String Theory

A slightly modified version of a short talk I gave at Skepticamp Ottawa 2010. For some reason PowerPoint refuses to export a higher quality video.....

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commodoreherring said:

@gespilk I think that's quite a fair assessment - what I said above is also very important though in this connection: we're just not free to put in too many arbitrary hypotheses. But you're right that just because it fits incredibly beautifully together doesn't prove it must be true.

To explain...

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  Unraveling String Theory

  A slightly modified version of a short talk I gave at Skepticamp Ottawa 2010. For some reason PowerPoint refuses to export a higher quality video.....

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  commodoreherring said:

  @gespilk we believe now that even strings are only "brushing up against" the fundamental description - what string theory REALLY is a theory of is still a murky question - this is what M theory seeks to address. the strings are like excitations or ripples of a tapestry which is woven of something...

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  Unraveling String Theory

  A slightly modified version of a short talk I gave at Skepticamp Ottawa 2010. For some reason PowerPoint refuses to export a higher quality video.....

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  commodoreherring said:

  @gespilk another thing to bear in mind is that the vibrating strings are quantum, not classical entities (exactly as are the traditional point particles of particle physics). so we also have "loops" where, eg. two strings can spontaneously emerge from the vacuum provided those two then rejoin wit...

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  Eiger North Face 'Shodan'

  New route climbing/opening on the north face of the Eiger.

  A túra leírása itt található: http://bcspk.blog.hu/2008/0...

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  commodoreherring said:

  doesn't show much respect for the mountain and its place in the history of alpinism that you are drilling holes in the north face of the eiger.

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  BBC Horizon 2011: 5/6 What Is Reality ?

  Original Broadcast Jan 17 2011

  There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to expl...

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  commodoreherring said:

  how did he ever notice that he can see what's behind the woman's head? i keep playing this back to check if i can see it, but i think i'm too easily distracted... is that why he's the genius?

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  BBC Horizon 2011: 4/6 What Is Reality ?

  Original Broadcast Jan 17 2011

  There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to expl...

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  commodoreherring said:

  the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum theory which this man is discussing is actually the most inane, least 'philosophical' interpretation you could put on it, and moreover it doesn't resolve the problems they are discussing. what is 'splitting the universe in two' and isn't it just meaning...

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  The World as a Hologram

  UC Berkeley's Raphael Bousso presents a friendly introduction to the ideas behind the holographic principle, which may be very important in the hu...

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  commodoreherring said:

  the last thought-experiment he mentioned, the maximum amount of information which can be sampled by light rays during gravitational collapse, just before a singularity is reached, is blindingly wonderful. there's no a priori reason all these different lines of reasoning should end up all pointing...

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commodoreherring commented 7 months ago

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Very Cool Beginner Card Trick Revealed

Amazing simple and easy beginner card trick revealed in this tutorial. Click My Website http://www.thecardtrickteac...

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commodoreherring said:

that has a really dramatic pay-off for a cardtrick that is so easy to do. will be a lot of fun! thanks for posting, i really like your videos

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