Decoherent Rambling

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I’m not writing any more posts unless someone starts reading the posts I will never write for lack of audience.

Here’s another photo of an ibis:

The small details tell the whole story.

Uneventful 22 hours of travel, most exciting moment being TSA’s confiscating my miniature toothpaste (4.2 ounces exceeding the bureaucratic limit of 3.4 ounces). Thus inadvertently converting my breath into an instrument of chemical terrorism…

Too busy wasting time in real life to waste time in blog life… no post today.

Which I will proceed to rigorously prove by means of a counter-anecdote. I was having dinner with a friend at a fancy restaurant…

Hehe, rigorous anecdotes…
(from Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance)

I’ll tell you: it tastes like soap! F*@#&! broken dishwasher.

• Thanks to all the bloggers who welcomed me in the first post! If there are others of you, please don’t lurk - write a comment! After all, it’s national de-lurking week or something.
• The blogroll is vastly incomplete, and will remain so for a while as it is a lot of work going through and copying links to interesting blogs, and I happen to be chronically lazy.
• Do these blogs support LaTeX? I don’t see any code tags for it.
• The name of the blog is some sort of pun, I guess. I’m already regretting it.
• There will be no posts on Tuesday, as I am finishing a rather lengthy problem set and blogging is a bit of a time-sucking-vortex.

Hello all! Welcome to a new physics-oriented blog, written, directed by and starring myself (Thomas S.).

I admit I have no clear blueprint for the amazing new literary work I’m starting here. For that matter, I have no clear motive in reaching out to an audience at all, except perhaps for the egotism of it. I doubt the blogospheres are interested in seeing the world of theoretical physics… from the perspective of an undergraduate student! (Are they?) Perhaps I can bring new insight to the academic world on the struggles and confusions of the physics-student universe. Perhaps the research community will enjoy looking back on the high drama they once went through; or maybe a much wider audience will come to appreciate the strange and little-studied sociology of protoresearchers. Or maybe it’ll be a huge comic farce. Who knows?

So then - how should I introduce myself to the blog world? Let’s see; I’m an undergraduate, a third-year student at a large American public research school (Univ. of ***). I study physics and math, perhaps for going into research in quantum computation and quantum information theory. I love mathematical physics, late Beethoven sonatas, and broccoli. Continue reading ‘First Post’