• @_bcron_
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    992 months ago

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    • veroxii
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      372 months ago

      If you email this to mr Cage there’s a 50/50 chance he’ll go for it. 100% chance if it ends up in his spam folder but he somehow still comes across it.

      • TheLowestStone
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        92 months ago

        Cage will 100% do it if the money is right.

    • @[email protected]
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      252 months ago

      I would legitimately love to see this. Sounds like a bit of a Forest Gump vibe, and your choice of Nicolas Cage feels perfect for this role.

      • @_bcron_
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  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    262 months ago

    Back when I was working on my (never completed) dissertation, I would sometimes call up televangelists’ hotlines and talk about my research. It was pretty amusing how they would initially try to steer the conversation to the God stuff but then give up as I kept relentlessly returning to my subject. Eventually they were reduced to “uh huh … uh huh” but they couldn’t just hang up on me because they weren’t allowed to. I actually worked through some problems this way.

    • @ysjet
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      162 months ago

      In programming, this is called ‘Rubber Duck Debugging.’

      The televangelists, in this case, were the rubber duck.

  • @[email protected]
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    I work on quantum systems coupled to noisy environments (noisy as in causing random fluctuations). Atoms coupled to a light field are my specialty. Anyway, I just got invited by a predatory journal in the field of acoustics, vibrations and noise?!

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      I left science a long time ago and recently got such an invitation from a Q3 engineering journal on aerodynamics (I worked on quantum systems as well, hi).

      I took 3 books on aerodynamics and wrote a paper citing and compiling the texts; adding some chatgpt noise. Really nothing new, just some intermediate equations. The reference section contains these 3 books and 4 recent papers for the introductory part. I sent it several days ago and am awaiting the review.

    • @trolololol
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      62 months ago

      Hey, noise is noise. What color is yours, white, pink or blue?

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        I describe the atoms using a so called Lindblad master equation. The atoms are kept in this description, but the light field is eliminated using two assumptions:

        1. The coupling between the two is very weak.
        2. Correlations between the two decay so fast that this can be considered instantaneous.

        The later produces white noise.

        • @trolololol
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          42 months ago

          That’s cool

          In most fields " so fast that’s instantaneous" is pretty fast, but in nuclear and quantum physics that’s a whole new level.

          What is the order of magnitude of your " too fast ”? I will invert that to state the bandwidth in Hertz.

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            Typical transition frequencies between two levels of an atom are 10^15Hz. The coupling between atoms and light is on the order of the decay rate at which photons are transmitted, which sits at around 10^6Hz.

  • Troy
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    162 months ago

    I run a small business. People in my spam folder have really high opinions of my business. They all want to invest or something… Mostly harvesting my LinkedIn profile for keywords.