Matrices And Manifolds
definitely real science and not jargon
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Real science is jargon
So she writes it up and is immortalized via The Appleboom Conjecture, spawnining the entire field of Cruel and Unusual Cosmogenesis.
We couple it to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground. Extracting 10-to-the-21st protons per cubic centimetre will give one kilojoule per cubic centimetre, or one megajoule per litre.
close. you left out "state" after "ground", and need to specify that it's 1 kJ/cc at 600 nm. 🤣 probably my favorite movie of all time. it's about a school just like my alma mater ...
I would sign up for a subscription to the journal of offensive cosmology that sounds like a good read :)
I mean, but, that would be publishable, right? Not earth shattering, but publishing negative results is important
*Anything* is publishable.
Nice way of advertising what I can only conclude are some good friends? :-)
Yesterday I yelled at my advisor for instructing our students to apply Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate correction to the p-values of a Tukey's HSD test when that's not even supposed to be done. The post-hoc test is already constructed to avoid Type I inflation! What was he thinking?
Can confirm that those things do come up in google searches. In English no less!
As a former particle physicist, let me say that that is some A-grade pseudoscience.
Also, her idea is worth at least a short note on arXiv.org.
"The existence of humanity, or in fact, matter, as a whole, is incompatible with our conclusion. The only logical result here is that nothing exists."
Solid paper to be written there. "Cosmological constraints on applicability of the MM transform to the SW matrix: if you could do that then the universe wouldn't exist, dipshits." Journal of Offensive Cosmology.
I would totally trade existence for a good idea.
Try redirecting auxiliary power to the main deflector dish, that usually helps.
Don’t forget to bounce a graviton particle beam off of that sucker
but Liz, what if the strings were sheets? ~<3
Imagining the world in which membrane theory was named sheet theory instead.
Even if Liz's theory didn't work, she probably *can* write and publish a paper taking issue with the science outlined in the other one, and that would get her authoring stuff again. Plus, she gets to call people idiots in very scientific language.
Aw, Moray looks so excited for her.
Fun fact about five dimensions is that they’ve calculated that a five dimensional ball (aka a sphere) would have the largest volume and any extra dimension after that would have less volume even though the radius of that multidimensional ball continues to expand. Also special relativity that Einstein formulated needs 5 dimensions geometry known as “Minkowski space” to calculate space-time distances and is even required for “Kaluza–Klein theory (KK theory)” to combine gravity and electromagnetism into a unified field theory. Okay I’m done with my autistic brain for tonight.
That was magnificent. I don't understand it, but I believe it.
It *might* work if they applied non-standard p-adic symplectic Lie manifold distributions, but who wants to be non-archimedean, a total drag.
Cthulhu? No, wait, that's non-Euclidean..
But will she describe the algebraic topology of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifolds? Bozhe moi.
Already been done. Ingrid Bergman played the hypotenuse in the movie adaptation
Quick, reverse the polarity!
Bounce the particle graviton beam off the main deflector dish / That's the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
Id settle for an original thought
You’d be amazed at how so much of scientific research is about clarifying a past point or verifying what a previous journal article had claimed. It’s not so much about original thought but answering the question not addressed in that journal article.
She just found her next paper: a refutation of the one she's reading! At the very least it's worth a letter to the editor. The scientific process isn't all about novel discoveries, it's also about fixing previous mistakes.
And scientists slamming other scientists as utter clowns and nincompoops who couldn't find their ass with a map and a flashlight (But, y'know, using nice big words.)
So I am sure every science has weirdly named science terms for their field that would sound weird or named after weird science contributors. Two I found for meteorology are “burraxka silch” which is what the country of Malta calls hailstorms and “Canadian hardness gauge” which is a specially designed instrument “for measuring snow hardness in terms of snow to the pressure extered by a disk attached to a spring-loaded rod; a gauge calibrated in pounds per square inch registered the amount of resistance” which in Canada is “especially useful in the relatively soft snow.” This kind of thing is important for avalanche forecasts.
And of course in medical science you've got Jacques-Willis Posterior Syndrome, although it does have another more common name.
That is absolutely still a good paper to write. If nothing else, you can save someone else from running down the same rabbit hole. Maybe you can map out the boundaries of the instability, although it sounds like it is not parameter dependent. Just write it, goober!
She finally puts out her first paper in years, entitled "That's not how Mack-Munroe transforms on Shpachuk-Woodford matrices works, IDIOT!" https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5324
…but if they were to modulate the shield harmonics…
Don't forget to realign the deflector array to match the phase resonance of the tachyon flow.
That's some fine technobabble. Aside from proper names, those are real physics concepts and words: renormalization, mapping things onto surfaces, matrices, the use of more than three spatial dimensions, cosmological epochs ....
I've read enough Martin Gardner to understand some of that stuff. (mmm, 5D manifolds)
We haven't had scientific terminology this totally real and not made up since "Quantum spin states in foamed nanocrystal lattices". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3376
Those were the good old days!
Definitely.
Fortunately, Liz quickly poked her own theory full of holes, so Moray did not have to help out by providing some.
Hadn't expected these two to vibe so well. Interesting. (If they do end up hooking up, I hope they get faye & bubble's advice on how to manage such a thing)
i dont know why but i imagined them getting found out by liz falling asleep curled up inside moray (i imagine shes like lcl from evangelion)
Why do I feel bad for her?
I know. Especially when you realize she'd never feel bad for you if you made such a mistake.
Yeah, especially once you realize you've been working in ADS instead of ΛCDM with positive curvature. Geometry matters! Who *cares* that ADS makes the math easier?
I feel there's a PBS Space Time cross-over happening here in the comments!
Science!!
Greg Egan's "Distress" intensifies
I literally don't understand anything she said except though part about coming up with idea and then realizing it doesn't work out. However, this might be something that she needs to do more often. Cross reference seeing other people's work and then trying to see where the flaws are.
It's okay, I can help with some of the other things she said. For example, "paper" is bits of a tree that have been mashed up and flattened, and a "pen" is a special stick we use to make squiggly marks on it. I'll let someone else explain the rest, I wouldn't want to bore you with the easy stuff.
Yum, technobabble. She's now qualified to serve on a starship.
Sneaking in all the luthiers two at a time?
OhhhhhHHH Liz! Even if the idea doesn’t pan out, getting neat ideas in the first place is an excellent sign of healing!
That's A Moray! Makes her topsy-turvy When flipped causality
More hyperscientific technobabble with famous webcomic artists' surnames! "The Breeden-Willis n-Manifold classification system" "The Foglio-Terracciano Non-integer Slice-Ribbon Conjecture" "The Cooper-Bayne String-Kink Surgery Theory"
I clearly don't know enough web cartoonists. I want to say I'd have gotten the hint from Breeden-Willis, but then I didn't from Mack-Munroe.
Renormalization is the point in the conversation with my physicist friends where my brain just hangs up an "out to lunch" sign.
"Shpachuck!" is the noise that universe makes when collapsing into a singularity.
Only when it's had too big a lunch.
I want to feel both topsy and turvy
They are cousins to Violence & Regret, but make sure you get consent.
She needs to start working on a new retroencabulator.
Just not in 5 dimensions, please.
I see you like to watch guitar repair videos, with Spachuk and Woodford!
Katie Mack - astrophysicist Randall Munroe - author of xkcd and What If? Tanya Shpachuk - guitar repair Ted Woodford - also guitar repair
you have to have a bunch of bad ideas before you have a good idea!!!
That's why you should never elect someone president who has never been a politician before.
But have we considered reversing the polarity? Just for old times sake?
"It's not working." "We're both reversing the polarity." "I know." "No, I mean I'm reversing it, you're reversing it back. We're confusing the polarity."
Can I commision you to create a techno babel table for my Star Trek ttrpg game lol.
So, are you trying to get Jeph to take a... Journey To Babel? *rimshot*
He's blinding us with Science.
SCIENCE!
I was just wondering who retroactively destroyed the universe.
You literally invented sentient robots who fuck. Technobabble is the least of your abilities.
Author's note: Jeph is just being clever. Us real hockey fans know Mack Munroe and Shpachuk Woodford were the number one defensive line for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs back in the day.
Dr Elizabeth Appleboom - Inventor of the Statiophonicoxygeneticamplifiagraphiphonideliverberator. Kind of hard to imagine the world without them, isn't it?
Disney and Julie Andrews would like an admittedly shorter word.
dare we hope that the paralysis is starting to relax?
...like a balloon and something bad happens!
And here I am watching Star Trek when this comic drops. 🤣
Dammit, Jim.
Definitely
Reading this strip and having no idea if these are real science terms or made up nonsense is exactly what reading the early comics about indie bands felt like
It was years later that I learned that Neutral Milk Hotel was a real band.
Somewhere, Katie Mack is sighing at this moment.
I’m pretty sure the number 5 is real and not made up.
It is real, rational, integer, whole, and natural.
Gremlin, Gremlin... Measuring the manifolds... You and your matrices will probably go far... 🎶
I guess hardly anyone remembers that song anymore.
...what?
What's on second.