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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
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Posted - 2009-07-15 : 18:35:43
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Does he explain the universe in terms of string theory so that common people can understand?CODO ERGO SUM |
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2886 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-15 : 18:45:14
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yes, except for that bit about string theory. :) elsasoft.org |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 02:13:55
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In Soviet times his Lectures on Physics were a thing of rarityPersonally me have some volumes, 9-10 |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 02:20:05
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Now I'm looking at equations Klebsch-Gordon or Pauli' matrixand understand nothing..... :( All is behind |
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2886 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:22:43
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quote: Originally posted by Stoad again In Soviet times his Lectures on Physics were a thing of rarityPersonally 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! elsasoft.org |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:25:40
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ohhhhhhh Landau & Lifshitz its a MONSTER :) |
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waterduck
Aged Yak Warrior
982 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:28:51
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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
2886 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 03:41:22
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one tidbit I just read about Landau - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landauquote: 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. :) elsasoft.org |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 04:16:33
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Yes but most of them turned out to be soap bubblesNow 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
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The only man in his enviroment was Andrei SahkarovHe was only geniusLandau himself was very unnasserary cheeky man |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 04:37:37
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you americans hardly are able to imagine thisbut Sakhorov in his last years lived in a tiny flatThat man .... who made H-bomb for usOnce Tamm said to him: phuuu, your mind is too humanitarianand 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
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Now its remembered soooooooo disgustingKGB forced him to eat, literally put a pipe into his noseFor his thoughts and honestyFor his ideas of freedom |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2365 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 09:49:25
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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...."________________________________________________If it is not practically useful, then it is practically useless.________________________________________________ |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 10:44:59
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hahahahahahaha!!!!!!! |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 11:00:55
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a month ago I saw a russian topic of local it-publicabout two american homelesses (in San Francisco?) quarreled and fighting over Quantum MechanicsIt was an event here!.. |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 12:50:02
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Just thought to myself... about SakharovThe 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 kidHe could not speak. |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-16 : 14:30:48
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and Alamogordo desert, 16-th July 1945For me there is only two countries : the USA and the USSRWe 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
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On Sakharov's H-bobm.Months ago I read an article by a pilot, a Hero of Soviet Union from belarusian Brestabout air testing it. How he depicted the explosion...It was really terrible, ocean of fire, they (pilots) were scorched in the cockpitNo hollywood can filmed it |
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Stoad again
Posting Yak Master
240 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-17 : 01:02:18
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He was instructed to direct the plane (bomber) to the place of explosionAfter 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 fireThe plane was melting, faces of pilots were fryedNever before never after the Earth have seen such a explosion.And I want to say: I'm proud for my countryHere 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
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Pity I can't translate into English the articleRelly interesting readingThey after freed it , the H-bomb, were waiting about 57 sec till its explosionThen started true hell... as if the Universe exploded |
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