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jezemine
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Posted - 2009-07-15 : 18:23:41
I saw these in college, they are great.

thanks to billg for buying the rights to them and making them available to everyone. no thanks for making me install silverlight to do so though! :)

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html


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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-15 : 18:35:43
Does he explain the universe in terms of string theory so that common people can understand?





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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-15 : 18:45:14
yes, except for that bit about string theory. :)


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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 02:13:55
In Soviet times his Lectures on Physics were a thing of rarity
Personally me have some volumes, 9-10
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 02:20:05
Now I'm looking at equations Klebsch-Gordon or Pauli' matrix
and understand nothing..... :( All is behind
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:22:43
quote:
Originally posted by Stoad again

In Soviet times his Lectures on Physics were a thing of rarity
Personally me have some volumes, 9-10



so you read the americans and we read the russians. :)

I remember many nights struggling with the Landau and Lifshitz series. eventually I got smart, gave all that up to write code!


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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:25:40
ohhhhhhh
Landau & Lifshitz its a MONSTER :)
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waterduck
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982 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:28:51
dunno what you all talking at all...but i think 'big bang theory' suits you all to watch xD


Hope can help...but advise to wait pros with confirmation...
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

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Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:41:22
one tidbit I just read about Landau - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau

quote:
Landau developed a comprehensive exam called the "Theoretical Minimum" which students were expected to pass before admission to the school. The exam covered all aspects of theoretical physics, and between 1943 and 1961 only 43 candidates passed.


now I don't feel so bad. :)


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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 04:16:33
Yes but most of them turned out to be soap bubbles
Now read story of Nevill Mott and how Landau lost this discovery
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 04:19:18
The only man in his enviroment was Andrei Sahkarov
He was only genius
Landau himself was very unnasserary cheeky man
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

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Posted - 2009-07-16 : 04:37:37
you americans hardly are able to imagine this
but Sakhorov in his last years lived in a tiny flat
That man .... who made H-bomb for us
Once Tamm said to him: phuuu, your mind is too humanitarian
and in a year they were making the bobm.
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 05:06:00
Now its remembered soooooooo disgusting
KGB forced him to eat, literally put a pipe into his nose
For his thoughts and honesty
For his ideas of freedom
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blindman
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Posted - 2009-07-16 : 09:49:25
Feynman has long been my personal hero. I read many of his books, but then was delightfully surprised after many years to hear a recording of his lectures and find out that this Nobel Prize winning physicist sounds like some two-bit New York thug. "Dees pahticles he-ah interact wit dose udder pahticles...."

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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 10:44:59
hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 11:00:55
a month ago I saw a russian topic of local it-public
about two american homelesses (in San Francisco?) quarreled and fighting over Quantum Mechanics
It was an event here!..
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 12:50:02
Just thought to myself... about Sakharov
The only man I trust to 100%,
He never seeked for personal profit, fuck money,
And I'm proud for him.
I remember how so called deputies laughed at him.
He, at tribune, was so pitiful, like a kid
He could not speak.
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-16 : 14:30:48
and Alamogordo desert, 16-th July 1945
For me there is only two countries : the USA and the USSR
We only made the history of our planet.
China? India? Iran? its not seriously.
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-17 : 00:38:32
On Sakharov's H-bobm.
Months ago I read an article by a pilot, a Hero of Soviet Union from belarusian Brest
about air testing it. How he depicted the explosion...
It was really terrible, ocean of fire, they (pilots) were scorched in the cockpit
No hollywood can filmed it
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-17 : 01:02:18
He was instructed to direct the plane (bomber) to the place of explosion
After returning to airbase he said to his comandeer:
sorry I could not carry out your order...

It was such a terrible many-miles wall of fire
The plane was melting, faces of pilots were fryed
Never before never after the Earth have seen such a explosion.

And I want to say: I'm proud for my country
Here lived such wonderful people (I don't mean politicians)
Now Russia is simply looted and corrupted with no chance to recover.
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master

240 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-17 : 02:25:46
Pity I can't translate into English the article
Relly interesting reading
They after freed it , the H-bomb, were waiting about 57 sec till its explosion
Then started true hell... as if the Universe exploded
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