Is salty the brainiest boffin of 1ff?

[Camborne Gills]

Meanwhile, back in the real world...................................regardless of whether I am one half of the thickie twins, I believe that we are (still) top of the league

 

[SALTIRE]

Absolutely. What a stretch of imagination, a suspension of disbelief and Olympian mental athleticism to come up with that kind of reading of our Universe on a grand scale. There are some very satisfying aspects to it too. As for getting into the nitty gritty of it, I still remember the moment I finally worked out how Ricci tensors behaved and feeling like a god over it. Me and physics remain amicably split but revisiting that sort of thing will happen at some point.

Tensors can be a bastard to work with, but even taking something as simple as taking the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor showing it is equivalently zero and is hence a way of showing conservation of energy and momentum (throughout space) in the Einstein field equations, is an extremely powerful notion. And also the beauty of the theory is that what happens in one reference frame is valid in all reference frames, is mind blowing. I'm far from an expert on it, as my main area of study in the end was solar theory, but it is something I'm interested in studying further.

 

[slaphead]

Tensors can be a bastard to work with, but even taking something as simple as taking the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor showing it is equivalently zero and is hence a way of showing conservation of energy and momentum (throughout space) in the Einstein field equations, is an extremely powerful notion. And also the beauty of the theory is that what happens in one reference frame is valid in all reference frames, is mind blowing. I'm far from an expert on it, as my main area of study in the end was solar theory, but it is something I'm interested in studying further.

Eh? Thank fuck I only have a Modern History degree. Got halfway through my MA then I lost my sponsor and couldn't afford to carry on. May pick it up again in the future but I doubt it.

 

[claret50]

Tensors can be a bastard to work with, but even taking something as simple as taking the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor showing it is equivalently zero and is hence a way of showing conservation of energy and momentum (throughout space) in the Einstein field equations, is an extremely powerful notion. And also the beauty of the theory is that what happens in one reference frame is valid in all reference frames, is mind blowing. I'm far from an expert on it, as my main area of study in the end was solar theory, but it is something I'm interested in studying further.

I declare myself to be the dunce of this forum as I have no idea what any of the above means, I left school in 1955 when I was 14 without any academic qualifications but have somehow managed to get through life with relative ease, would be nice I suppose to know what posh words mean without looking them up.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Tensors can be a bastard to work with, but even taking something as simple as taking the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor showing it is equivalently zero and is hence a way of showing conservation of energy and momentum (throughout space) in the Einstein field equations, is an extremely powerful notion. And also the beauty of the theory is that what happens in one reference frame is valid in all reference frames, is mind blowing. I'm far from an expert on it, as my main area of study in the end was solar theory, but it is something I'm interested in studying further.

Umm.....................WTF?

 

[SALTIRE]

Oops sorry guys I was watching Seinfeld and had a quarter bottle of Talisker when typing that. You'll be glad to know I'm back to normal once more and hopefully to spout shite about fitba and other tosh hehe!

 

[Stevencc]

Tensors can be a bastard to work with, but even taking something as simple as taking the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor showing it is equivalently zero and is hence a way of showing conservation of energy and momentum (throughout space) in the Einstein field equations, is an extremely powerful notion. And also the beauty of the theory is that what happens in one reference frame is valid in all reference frames, is mind blowing. I'm far from an expert on it, as my main area of study in the end was solar theory, but it is something I'm interested in studying further.

Spot on there mate, absolutely spot on.

Bloody tensors and that.

 

[SALTIRE]

Spot on there mate, absolutely spot on.

Bloody tensors and that.

Blame the whisky for the rabbling there. I can only apologise!

 

[SALTIRE]

Blame the whisky for the rabbling there. I can only apologise!

I'm sobered up and dumbed down once again. Thank fuck for that!

 

[IanH]

I thought it was beautiful.

 

[Red]

Tensors can be a bastard to work with, but even taking something as simple as taking the covariant derivative of the Ricci tensor showing it is equivalently zero and is hence a way of showing conservation of energy and momentum (throughout space) in the Einstein field equations, is an extremely powerful notion. And also the beauty of the theory is that what happens in one reference frame is valid in all reference frames, is mind blowing. I'm far from an expert on it, as my main area of study in the end was solar theory, but it is something I'm interested in studying further.

Get out and take your esoteric drunken ramblings with you

 

[SALTIRE]

Get out and take your esoteric drunken ramblings with you

 

[Pliny Harris]

I declare myself to be the dunce of this forum as I have no idea what any of the above means, I left school in 1955 when I was 14 without any academic qualifications but have somehow managed to get through life with relative ease, would be nice I suppose to know what posh words mean without looking them up.

It's always swell to talk to someone outside your university circle about the topic you study, even if it s̮͔̳o̢̮͇ͅu̲͇̺̭̼n͚̠͔̪d̶̲̞̰̱s͇̙̣̹̝͉ l͡i̠̥̫͈̣k͡e̸͈̗̩̬̼ ̨̘͙̯͚͈͚̘t͖̰̯̤̱̘h̥͈̻̘̳̳͘í̦̪͈̺̠s͎͙͎͓͖̱ to anyone else paying attention. Not many people out there what did a physics.
As we all know, no-one's thick as pigshit just because they left school before 18, as my sister and grandparents did. But I've sure met some bozos who've managed to get a degree after three years. What matters is to find employment you're competent at but doesn't destroy you, in however much time it takes, and to not let the bastards grind you down.

 

[HertsWolf]

So half the people in this thread don't just watch Big Bang Theory, they understand it?

It's a bit simplistic, to be fair.

 

[Libertadores FC]

Degree's aside, he knows his football well outside of his Ospina opinion's. Sorry Ste

 

[Hurrikeen]

Firthy is an exceptional counter, it has to be said.

 

[Habbinalan]

Degree's aside, he knows his football well outside of his Ospina opinion's. Sorry Ste

Sound judgement but bin the " ' " Lib.

 

[Stevencc]

I would like to remind Libertadores that Saltire thinks Walcott is a "much better" player than Gareth Bale.

 

[ZianfrancoGoal]

brainiest boffin and probably the most respectable cineaste on the forum too

 

[SALTIRE]

I would like to remind Libertadores that Saltire thinks Walcott is a "much better" player than Gareth Bale.

Just because my opinion on it goes against the popular opinion doesn't make me wrong on it Steve

 

[Stevencc]

Just because my opinion on it goes against the popular opinion doesn't make me wrong on it Steve

You are right there mate - but in this case you are dead wrong.....

...I'm not sure that sentence works but you know what I mean.

 

[Aber gas]

Just because my opinion on it goes against the popular opinion doesn't make me wrong on it Steve

You are wrong about that though mate

 

[Pagnell]

My intelligence is well above average, but nothing amazing. However, I've always had a knack for the technical and pick up most things related to that field very quickly.*

* although I'm not a nerd.

 

[mnb089mnb]

My intelligence is well above average, but nothing amazing. However, I've always had a knack for the technical and pick up most things related to that field very quickly.*

* although I'm not a nerd.

Methinks the nerd does protest too much.

 

[Pagnell]

*

* Pagnell doesn't actually look like this.

 

[Stagat]

My intelligence is well above average, but nothing amazing.

Come on, man. Don't be so hard on yourself.

 

[Red]

Bollocks, it's a selfie you took this morning.