Ask an (drunk) experimental physicist anything

Eh, I answered it to a point that i'm satisfied. After you set up the problem the physics is done and then it's just math.
Depends on the structural integrity of the ants carapace. If you find the young's modulus of the ant you could just assume some average pressure distribution from your back and figure out if they would be crushed. If they're not crushed, and the force the ants produce could overcome the static friction then sure it would work
because I like nerdy things I guess. Same reason some people aren't nerds.

>Ask an (drunk) experimental physicist anything

Have you ever stuck a magnet in your ass?

ok u fucking nerd lmao

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Nah. I've heard stories of people who have done that or eaten magnets and it'll clamp down on the intestines

is magnets magic?

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>and it'll clamp down on the intestines
Fuck. Why would they eat two+?

You're asking a supposed "experimental physicist," something a freshmen in college could answer with simple kinematic equations found within the first few chapters of serway and jewett's physics for scientists and engineers textbook...? Why not ask energy physics questions or electrostatic subject questions? Hell, if you're good enough ask something from the quantum physics text book by Griffiths.

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Nah, magnetism just comes from the inherit property of electrons. They're not super easy to explain but magnetism is well understood
People are dumbasses, no surprise there

kill self

Griffiths is ok but I really liked Shankar and Sakurai for QM (Shankar for rigor and Sakurai for intuition). I actually used McIntyre for my QM courses in undergrad and the other 2 during grad school. After that was (to no surprise) peskin and schroeder
Nah, tried before and decided not to again

Because your claim is bullshit, and if you can't answer a question that a supposed college freshmen could answer, it exposes your bullshit.

Answer in units of m/s.

have you build yourself a rocket?

KILL SELF

you physicists need to stop fucking slacking off and figure out warp drive already.

I'll gladly discuss my thesis or something more "exciting" but I literally laid out the fundamentals for how to solve the problem for you. No one gives a shit about the math, and if you've taken Physics I at your college you know that the setup is literally like 80% of the solution.
Nah, my field is in electrodynamics , not really aerospace.

Any new materials you want to make?
What experiments are you doing currently?

now you're just making up names, that's not even funny.

I am not OP
Honestly, i am just taking university physics 2, and some experimental data class at this point. I've only looked ahead for my classes and textbook costs. Apparently griffiths is what we're using in our GM class. I don't know what to ask you to "prove it."

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Plenty of people are working on it. Physics is a very wide field.

why the railguns are not yet viable?

If I gave you a drink that was only 80% water, 20% something I don't tell you, would you drink it?

What is an experimental physicists? As far as i’m concerned, every man of science experiments to a high degree before coming to a conclusion/finding
What is it that you’re trying to say?

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Feynman or Gell-Mann?

>>Ask an (drunk) experimental physicist anything
>Have you ever stuck a magnet in your ass?

OK, well have you ever done any scientific experiment that involved your ass?

Not OP, but railguns erode the "rails" faster than economically viable. Plus the power banks required to operate them is YUGE.

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I still really want to develop a proper Aluminum Oxide CNT composite. I was working on that project for a while but my lab didn't have the hardware to get the required deposition setup.
I'm currently working on characterization of near field coupling for radio frequency systems around 50GHz
Griffiths is a fine book and if you do the problems and (please for the love of god actually write them down and solve them) follow the examples you'll get a good foundation for QM. I dislike how Griffiths focuses on the linear algebra approach moreso than the Dirac notation, since Dirac notation is just more common in upper level stuff
What do you mean? Plenty of Navy ships use railguns. They're great for large scale systems
Noap
Physics is kind of weird. If you ask my theory friends they honestly won't call themselves "scientists" since scientists follow the scientific method. Experimental physics isn't necessarily applied either, so lots of what we do doesn't have a directly expected outcome. We don't do the whole "form a hypothesis, come to a conclusion stuff". A lot of it is "fuck, this is a weird system and maybe something cool with happen in this case"
Ugh, the snob in me says Gell-Mann but I just don't have time to do all that shit by hand and Feynmann rules are so damn comfy to use,
Nah

nobody is 'working on it'

you all haven't even figured out a unified theory so you can then figure out if it's even possible to construct one.

get moving.

we have einsteins dna we should just clone a bunch of him

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I have a LA class next semester, so you are saying I should concentrate deeply on this class?? My advisor recommended it as an elective, which made me believe it's something taken for fun, and not as something primary to my studies...

What, you don't like 80% solutions? Me neither.

> (You)
>Nah
Would you ever do a scientific experiment that involved your ass, if I could watch.

Einstein was by no means the smartest physicist there was, Dirac and Boltzmann were way more revolutionary imo. SR and GR and the photoelectric effect are fantastic things don't get me wrong, but I don't think Einstein was the tippy top.
and please man a GUT is a fucking nightmare to figure out. Not all of us do HE
Sorry can you clarify what LA means?

>What do you mean? Plenty of Navy ships use railguns. They're great for large scale systems
so the energy?
i kinda thought handheld, sry

I'll do it if you can provide funding, around 50K usd

Linear algebra...

Some people say that we are in a simulation and that we should be figuring out how to hack said simulation. My question is: Isn't forcefully causing interactions between forms of matter a hack of sorts?

Oh wait. you said something different. mb, I'md runk too lol But still, is linear algebra important as an elective or nah?

Oh yea handheld railguns aren't really worth it, because you need a god damn nuclear reactor to provide the power they need to launch big things at large scales. At infantry scales a normal bullet does just as good a job and is way cheaper
Ahh, honestly linear algebra is like 90% of physics and I don't know what you're advisor is saying if he thinks its for fun. If you've taken classical mechanics that touched on Lie Algebras you should know that a multitude of fundamental principles all come from linear algebra relations. If it's being taught by the math department and has decent rigor, and if you want to do theory, yes it's very important.
Frankly I think simulation theory in that sense is a load of bunk and we don't have any valid evidence for it (note: simulation theory is not the same as holographic theory). So I don't know what they would consider as a "hack"

Particle or wave?

>Dirac and Boltzmann were way more revolutionary imo
do we have their dna preserved?

Both, the math says both and I'm very much a "shut up and calculate" brand of physicist.
We probably have their teeth lying around somewhere, but I dunno

Hey, greetings to you from a (drunk) theoretical physics-bro!

>Physics is kind of weird. If you ask my theory friends they honestly won't call themselves "scientists" since scientists follow the scientific method.
So you aren’t a “mainstream” scientist, i like it
>Experimental physics isn't necessarily applied either, so lots of what we do doesn't have a directly expected outcome.
What are (You) working on? What are some gnarly/awesome shit you ever done or figured out?
Any nugget of wisdom to share about reality that you figured out thru your experiments? Be it of philosophical, metaphysical or whatever nature idgaf i’m intredasted
>We don't do the whole "form a hypothesis, come to a conclusion stuff". A lot of it is "fuck, this is a weird system and maybe something cool with happen in this case"
Awesome, i like you but unfortunately i feel like you’re never going to be taken seriously by “real” scientists unless you come up with something that’s replicable and unfalsifiable

Anyways, share some deep shit or anything really interesting you learned/realized thru the years
I’m not a scientific nor do i practice but i love knowledge and it’s always cool to venture out of known territories and entertain new ideas in my head

What's the fun part of your job? Like the 10% you really love, not like reading emails or going to meetings.

why no one is trying to use '99 quantum eraser experiment to code and send data back in time and see what happens ?

Yeah, classical mechanics is a senior course, I technically freshmen/sophomore in my major. I've taken all my gen ed classes, so all my classes are physics based now. 80 credits, and basically a freshmen. Kinda salty it took me this long to decide what to do.

whats up with quantum computers?
i want to play some cool shit

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Cool, what's your field of research? I got some theory friends working on soft-superssymmetric techni-color theories, and another one working on the kondo problem
Dont' get me wrong, the work we do is replicable and funalsifiable, but a physicist isn't like a biologist or a chemist which are the more common thought of "scientist" Physics seeks to model the universe at a fundamental level. My work focuses on radio frequency systems, which is kind of a lame field. But my heart is in topological quantum field theory with a focus on non-abelian anyon brading statistics because I find that topological quantum computing is just a cool field in terms of the physics, even if it's not applicable to most things irl.
The problem solving. It's a lot of fun to get an unexpected result or something you didn't plan for, and trying to figure out if it's something new and exciting, or like a lame measurement error.
IIRC quantum information theory has a shitton of "no-go" theorems and ftl (practically the same as back in time as far as most things are concerned) is one of them
Physics is a blast and I don't regret doing it, but it's honestly a hard road, and a lot of the luster and mystery will be gone by the end. Try not to become jaded and cynical about the whole thing. When I learned that the "spooky" uncertainty principle was literally just a damn fourier transform I was a little salty
You can!. Look into QISKIT and things like that

This is not a question but I want to bitch at you by proxy. The physics department at my university somehow convinced the administration that they needed to borrow one of our lasers, despite having a similar one of their own, and that it was so urgent that my group would have to put off some crystallography experiments that we've spent a ridiculous amount of time prepping for. We're going to have to pull multiple all-nighters to accommodate those faggots and still stay on schedule.

>When I learned that the "spooky" uncertainty principle was literally just a damn fourier transform I was a little salty
so "god doesnt play dice" after all?

I'm honestly surprised you crystallography guys aren't in the same department. What laser are yall working with, and what are the differences between the physics departments? Honestly i'd probably be more salty at the university as a whole since i doubt the physics guys wanted to steal it, and more likely had to make a grant proposal in some deadline that snuck up

God absolutely does and a lot of QM is statistically driven by nature, but you'll learn about how (in operator form) position and momentum don't commute (IE A times B is NOT B times A) and that the fourier space of position just winds up being momentum. This means if I have a narrow band in position space (aka a dirac-delta function) the momentum space HAS to be an infinite planewave

> You are at the park
> Just chilling with the girl you like
> This guy appears out of nowhere and slaps her in the ass at 300000 km/s
> What do you do?

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Probably evaporate as the shockwave from the slap rends the flesh from my bones
If you're interested in more, look up the "canonical commutation relation" for more about position and momentum

damn...

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Actually, after a lot of tiny changes, I find myself working in a medical research lab, mostly doing wet-lab stuff.
I haven't done any real physics in 5 years except to teach my MD students or toying with blood-sugar models/in silico sims.
Take care.

>Dont' get me wrong, the work we do is replicable and funalsifiable
Yeah but how many physicists, archeologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, etc’s findings were shunned and rejected from the mainstream scientific community just because it didn’t align with the bigwigs’ agenda and popular knowledge about said matter? Get where i’m going with this?
>but a physicist isn't like a biologist or a chemist which are the more common thought of "scientist"
True but you guys work in a mostly scientific area, nobody claims physics to be pseudoscience and you guys mostly operate at a scientific level
>Physics seeks to model the universe at a fundamental level.
>My work focuses on radio frequency systems, which is kind of a lame field.
How? Sounds interesting
But my heart is in topological quantum field theory with a focus on non-abelian anyon brading statistics because I find that topological quantum computing is just a cool field in terms of the physics, even if it's not applicable to most things irl.
I’m familiar with quantum physics/mechanics but i have absolutely no fucking idea about what you just mentioned

But you still haven’t answered my initial question: ever realized deep shit about reality thru your works? Or just generally from your knowledge? Some kind of epiphany that made you go “fucking hell man this is insane”

Why be a drunk

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Sorry i skipped the initial question. In my work not really. Radio frequency physics is kind of a "dead field" in that, while applicable, it's not really novel anymore. We have the foundations of QED and E&M figured out so there won't really be any big "oh damn" moments coming from it. I've had small epiphanies that are related to my work, like when I understood the relationship between the shift in the Q factor of a cavity resonator to the imaginary component of the dielectric function of a material inside the resonantor.
Because it's friday and I wanted a few Whisky Gingers to start the weekend

Is man made global warming real?

Yes. Is it "OMG WE'RE GONNA DIE IN 5 YEARS IF WE DON'T STOP USING PLASTIC"? No.

You probably get this a lot, but how do you find The Big Bang Theory and some of the more scientific content that is presented, particularly the "experimental physics" stuff?

The content is fine and accurate (enough), the show as a whole is insufferable

what is the nature of gravity?

That's a damn good question. The current consensus is split between "It's just like every other gauge field and must have a carrier" and "it's intrinsic to the nature of spacetime". If you merge the two you'll get a nobel prize.

imma fucking lawyer, so no luck there

Don't feel bad. I'm a physicist and I have no luck either. That stuff is way out of my field.

How the FUCK does electromagnetism work ??

Fundamentally you need to study quantum electrodynamics to get the full picture. The photon is the gauge boson for the electromagnetic field, and how it interacts with different particles governs electrodynamics. If you get into relativistic electrodynamics that's how you get the really "pretty" form for maxwells equations, and it all simplifes into 1 tensor relation.

whos your favourite music artist?

Good question. It's hard to nail down a favorite, but I've been listening to a lot of "An autumn for crippled children". I like post-black metal and their blend of electronics with the vocals pushed back into the mix is pretty comfy

what you think agout 5g technology? Should we be afraid, of antenas every 50m?

The best answer I can give is a solid "maybe". Like any new technology it's going to take a while before we know for sure how it influences humans. Non-ionizing radiation isn't going to mutate you like the hulk, but it's not danger-free

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Did they teach you grammar in school?

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Yup.

whats your estimate on space travel
i mean effective methods
i wanna explore some cool shit

What is the best resource of knowledge? What books did you read related to physics?

how fat are you

For long distance space travel, i'm honestly not sure if we'll get there any time soon. I think solar system travel could be within 100 years or so.
The best resources are Arxiv for new papers and prepubs, and if you want the bible of physics you need to read the series by landau and lifshitz. It'll teach you everything about physics up to like 60 years ago, but it's a monster to get through and they don't hold your hand at all.
I'm actually not. I'm 6'5" and around 205lbs

go sell your sperm you magnificent intelligent human bean

why are they called Maxwells equations when it was obviously Faraday doing all the work?

nice waveguides faggot

It wasn't Farady doing all the work. He as well with everyone else at the time came to individual results while it was maxwell that formulated the deeper theory and merged everything into 4 nicely coupled (or 1) equations. Anyone worth their salt recognizes the group effort that went into them, but it's a lot easier to say maxwells equations instead of "the coupled Gauss-Faraday-Ampere-Lorentz system of equations"

Y u no dark matter? Is it the same reason we only see 1/10 of the EM readings from Saturn as Cassini would indicate we should?
Dust and ashses, more than y'all know...

Have you ever fucked up and come close to anything Really Really Dangerous in an experiment?

you forgot Lenz

I didn't fuck up, but I came close to getting a nice dose of mustard gas to the face because our ventilation system wasn't great and some Teflon tape near a gasket came loose since another guy in the lab wrapped it the wrong way around a bolt.

Lenz's law is just Faraday's law with a negative sign

so it really is just Faraday then

For that one case in particular sure, but you can't derive Gauss' law from Farady.

Gauss was a jerk

Sure, but so was Feynmann, Einstein, and Gell-mann. They're good at what they do

Hope u still here, I've talked to a lot of theoretical physicists and they all say experimental physiscsts are just at the right place at the right time. Can you confirm people having a "bad" opinion about you?

The banter goes both ways. There is a lot of experimental physics that does involve just stumbling into something big, but most of us chip away at bigger pictures and don't get so lucky. A lot of experimentlists just say that the theory guys are doing the best they can to make our lives difficult, by saying that new physics is always juuuuuuuuust around the corner and we have to build bigger and more complex systems to find it. That's been the joke with super symmetry for a long time. the theory guys always manage to push the mass of super symmetric particles right outside of our reach every time we get a better accelerator.

Why?

Why was there mustard gas in your lab?

I did work with the ARL on CNT based gas sensors.
Why not?

52.5 m/s?
I don't have paper so it's probably wrong

I want to design and build a very flat but large diameter induction motor, with as much torque for its weight as possible without gearing. What would be a good source for the fundamentals of how to do so?

when would you use hbar v.s. hbar/2 for uncertainties?

What are you drinking?