Pariah Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Peer review ain't cheap, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Peerless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Pearless. It makes for a very boring stilleben. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 A head of red cabbage, though, is more interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Or a White Wonder lettuce, that represents materialism and will surely destroy us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Edward Witten Ponders the Nature of Reality A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality Edward Witten reflects on the meaning of dualities in physics and math, emergent space-time, and the pursuit of a complete description of nature. https://www.quantamagazine.org/edward-witten-ponders-the-nature-of-reality-20171128 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Ah, he's the M-theory guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Next step in cosmology is probably someone suggesting that our universe has a fractal number of dimensions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 It does. Someone just has had to work out the math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 And give ways to test the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Testing? What will they think of next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Rubrics to help score the tests, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 ... Tests as in cricket? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Testing that involves big wooden bats? Tell me more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 The wooden bats are carved from the finest mahogany, in the likeness of the flying foxes of Southeast Asia ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Foxy mahogany bats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Die, fledermaus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 As the Joker said in the German dub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 On 19/12/2017 at 11:19 PM, Pariah said: Testing that involves big wooden bats? Tell me more.... Test match cricket last for 5 days, unless the match finishes sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 22, 2017 Report Share Posted December 22, 2017 It's like a best-of-five series, on consecutive days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2017 Not quite. The best-of-five series is equivalent to a 5 test match series. So a series goes on for a long time (including rest periods after each test match). However most series are best-of-three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 I think the last time there was anything like a three-day test match in the US, it was at Gettysburg in 1863. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Baseball games are more than long enough, by themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 Baseball on television is one of the more uninteresting things about American life. Baseball in person is actually a pretty great way to spend an afternoon or evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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