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Λεόφιλος

@leophilius

Wanna-be cosmologist; philosopher. Metaphysics, philosophy of science and physics. Atheist. Marxist. Corn fed and Hawkeye bred. I drink and I know things.

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Deivon Drago (@deivondrago) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some (misleading) terms I don’t like in modern physics: Running of the coupling constant: could have been something like “scale-dependent coupling” Renormalization “group”: could have been something like “Renormalization flow” On shell/off shell: could have been something

William O’Brien (@no5mallf3at) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Personally I have to say I’m not a fan of metaphysics about God. Arguments for God are very intellectually stimulating, but religious metaphysics almost always lead to fanaticism grounded in dogmatism or pure speculation. 1/2

Vivian (@suchnerve) 's Twitter Profile Photo

i want YOU 🫵🏻 to say full, actual, uncensored words like “kill” and “rape” and “suicide” and “genocide” rather than using insipid euphemisms and puns like “graped” or “unalived”

Laura Elliott (@tinywriterlaura) 's Twitter Profile Photo

all i’m saying is this is a really weird time in history to be a person who’s never been impressed by wealth or found rich people aspirational. watching people bootlicking bad men just because they’re rich gives me so much second hand embarrassment istg it makes no sense to me

Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy a home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how -he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant born in 19th century Iran 1/4

Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy a home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. 

I asked him how -he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant born in 19th century Iran

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Λεόφιλος (@leophilius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you use the term “democratic socialism” I immediately stop taking you very seriously. Democracy is built into the concept of socialism. Saying “democratic socialism” is like saying “animal dog” or “cyclonic tornado”.

Λεόφιλος (@leophilius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An idea directly motivated by multiple models in cosmology is “one of the dumbest ideas” but an all-powerful, immortal wizard creating the Universe is totally reasonable. 🙄🙄

Martin Bauer (@martinmbauer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is very misleading! The time it takes for correlations to become relevant depends on the energy gap (i.e. the interaction strength) For atoms you can estimate this as t ~ hbar/ΔE and using ΔE ~ few eV, you get t ~ 10^2 attoseconds It's not really deeper than that