Oddly specific -- is that still sitting on top of your toilet tank after all these years? did your grandfather use it before you?
String Theory Lectures:
WRNL got us started. What else can we add? (Make sure you click on the tweet to see more in the comments)
Now that's actually up my alley.
An aside: For anyone that cares, which is probably no one, a lot of hope was put into String Theory being able to solve some of the most fundamental mathematical problems with high energy physics. Up to this point, though, almost nothing groundbreaking has come from it besides some great conceptual ideas and some interesting new ways to do some extremely difficult calculations of Standard Model physics problems (otherwise known as the gauge-gravity dualities). Some of my friends who studied String Theory for their PhD are starting to move on.
My work has taken me there a few times and I can't dispute what you're saying. Once, in May or June, it felt like someone was walking next to me with a blow dryer on my face. A blow driver that blew grit. I've been in a number of places at TTU and the campus is not without its beauty.I've been to Lubbock twice before and I'm amazed that they are able to get recruits. There is literally nothing for miles outside the town, just dirt. Inside city limits is dirty and open. Weeds growing out of all the sidewalks and a mall that feels like a zombie film is going to shot soon. Flying into the airport you feel like you're on a different planet. I've been a lot of places in the US and Lubbock is top 3 worst places I've been.
So string theory is not at all like string cheese? Huh; I was totally off on my assumptions on that topic then.Now that's actually up my alley.
An aside: For anyone that cares, which is probably no one, a lot of hope was put into String Theory being able to solve some of the most fundamental mathematical problems with high energy physics. Up to this point, though, almost nothing groundbreaking has come from it besides some great conceptual ideas and some interesting new ways to do some extremely difficult calculations of Standard Model physics problems (otherwise known as the gauge-gravity dualities). Some of my friends who studied String Theory for their PhD are starting to move on.
I've been to Lubbock twice before and I'm amazed that they are able to get recruits. There is literally nothing for miles outside the town, just dirt. Inside city limits is dirty and open. Weeds growing out of all the sidewalks and a mall that feels like a zombie film is going to shot soon. Flying into the airport you feel like you're on a different planet. I've been a lot of places in the US and Lubbock is top 3 worst places I've been.
My work has taken me there a few times and I can't dispute what you're saying. Once, in May or June, it felt like someone was walking next to me with a blow dryer on my face. A blow driver that blew grit. I've been in a number of places at TTU and the campus is not without its beauty.
1. Driving from Dubuque to Sioux City.
2. Visiting your in-laws for the weekend
3. Manhattan, Kansas
4. Ben Carson's bachelor party
5. Hokeye basketball
Ok, you have me, what are the other two.
Wow. Lubbock looking a little better.
Ok, you have me, what are the other two.