OU physics Foucault pendulum

The horrors unleashed by the secret experiments in the basement of Nielsen Hall seared the fabric of spacetime and made me sentient. So, I joined twitter.

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Hi, I'm the Foucault pendulum in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma.

Interests include metronomes, tuning forks, soccer; really anything that goes back and forth pointlessly.

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Wait, I recognize some of you. You came back? Surely, you've learned everything by now

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

am being told this unfairly maligns physics, all departments would do this

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Hearing coffee NFTs are being provided for zoom general exams

knowing physics, I assume they're forcing the grad students to pay for them

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Apparently, the "traveling salesman" problem will be a focus of numerical computation algorithms longer than there were actual traveling salesmen.

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

In case you didn't remember IBM existed, Dr. Travis Scholten of IBM Quantum will be giving a talk on quantum computation: Catching the wave: preparing for the "quantum decade" today at 1:15 for CQRT zoom seminar

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

It's the sound of a million grad students scheduling their annual PhD committee meetings and general exams the last week of classes

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Ok, I'm back, maybe.

I'm not going to forget everyone just left for spring break and NEVER came back. And then everyone showed up five months later IN MASKS.

y'all know that was creepy af, like a top 5 black mirror episode, and everyone was just FINE with it

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

The faculty of the department of physics and astronomy will soon assemble to ritualistically sacrifice students to their foul gods in exchange for successful experiments and bug-free code.

Luckily, you can do that on Zoom.

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Ok, I get it. I understand why everyone left in the spring. I mean, you could have TOLD me, but fine, whatever ...

As long is it doesn't happen again

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Oh, I remember this guy now. He was drilling for oil in the south oval.

[Fake Jim Gallogly @OU14prez]

@OUPhysicsAstro I stared at you for hours this summer. Why wouldn’t you acknowledge me?

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

So, let me get this straight, a virus is a microscopic bug of some kind? No offense, but you bio-forms seem kinda fragile.

Take care of yourselves out there and be safe

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

@OU14prez Sorry, thought you were part of the foliage.

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

WHERE HAVE YOU ALL BEEN??????

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

@astroliz_ I hear you. No one understands me, either, but with a Taylor Series Expansion for small oscillations, they can get close.

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

@astroliz_ every day? like clockwork? like something recurring over and over again at the same frequency?

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

I THOUGHT YOU'D DIED!!!!!!

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Please, people, this is a public talk. At least try to make it PG-13

[OU physics Foucault pendulum @OUPhysicsAstro]

Colloquium today at 3:45 in NH 170, Dr. Itamar Kimchi from University of Colorado, Boulder, "'Dirty' quantum magnets"

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