Mubtasim Fuad

Seeking PhD Positions | Theoretical Physics (hep-th · gr-qc · math-ph)

[Mubtasim Fuad @rafisics]

@vrundasays_ thank you!

[Mubtasim Fuad @rafisics]

@vrundasays_ congratulations!

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

If this doesn’t give you goosebumps you’re not a physicist

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

Anything beyond 20 papers per year is almost certainly a red flag in theoretical high energy physics.....unless you are Ed Witten in 1985.

[Ayushphy Cosmological @ayushphy]

Professor Shiraz Minwalla on what string theory actually is and why physicists didn't just wait for better experiments:

"You give up. You say, let's wait 1,000 years, then we'll have more experiment. And that may be a rational thing to do. But that's not how humans are."

So instead toy models. Find any consistent quantum theory of gravity you can construct. And consistency turns out to be a brutal filter:

"We take all the spectrum of particles in string theory, keep all the other masses fixed, change the mass of one. Just doing that would make the theory become nonsense."

"String theory is an attempt to find any consistent quantum mechanical theory that reduces to gravity at long distance."

And along the way AdS/CFT, black hole entropy, and something nobody expected:

"Who would have thought that the best way to do a calculation in hydrodynamics would actually be to do a calculation in gravity? But it's true."

[Mubtasim Fuad @rafisics]

@Kaju_Nut @ThomasVanRiet2 That would be great! I recall the string theory subreddit already has something along those lines. And for learning guidelines, there is a nicely organized string theory wiki put together by the Queen Mary group.

[Mubtasim Fuad @rafisics]

@vrundasays_ :)

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@vrundasays_ hard relate! wish electronics was optional for me in undergrad. :(

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@LimYenKheng @vrundasays_ Me too! I read Romeo and Juliet long ago, only Westworld ref remained in my head!

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@vrundasays_ This is the type of landscape I prefer keeping on wallpaper and cover photos! :)

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@BahramShakerin @GregTrayling Jose & Saletan's Classical Dynamics?

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@fynmaaandu having the same questions in mind!

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@LimYenKheng eagerly waiting to see the book names

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@Hassaan_PHY IDK why it feels weirdly satisfying when we see great minds facing the same problems!

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@vrundasays_ they are lucky to have a friend like u! :)

[Mubtasim Fuad @rafisics]

@goodreads Little Prince

[Mubtasim Fuad @rafisics]

So, Inside-Out emotions are non-commutative! Can't we build a non-abelian group of them with a proper Cayley table? We need to add some more like "meh" as the unity, and define their inverses, associativity, closure...

[liminal @Liminal1988]

What do you get when your emotions combine?