another horrible night of screening my quasiparticles. i have learned my router is IP banned by one DOE cluster and my two other ones are taking turns crashing due to vibe maintenance. at least i get to claudeslop cosmic horrors of code documentation to feel warm inside
They/them gave me a scoop of ice cream so ungenerous that the cashier asked them if it was a single or a kids scoop twice
I feel like materials science will eventually run out of ideas and be eaten by chemistry. The only useful properties of bulk materials are:
1. being some combo of strong and flexible
2. conducting electrons, ions, or heat
3. transmitting light or turning it into electronic excitations
4. having some kind of electronic ordering with which you can do computation (eg magnetism)
5. superconductivity
most “exotic” stuff is 4. and none of that is useful like how superconductivity is
I grin at thee, thou grinning whale! Look ye sun, moon, and stars! I would yet ring glasses with ye assassins, would ye but hand the cup! Oh, oh! thou grinning whale, but there’ll be plenty of gulping soon!
Let not Starbuck die, if die he must!
Huge fan of the poem Claire de lune by Paul Verlaine, after which Debussy named the famous movement of his Suite bergamasque
Well a frankly even more awesome image is this one from this year, showing interference patterns in a single superconducting vortex.
This happens because the vortex locally decreases the superconducting gap, this attracts an SC quasiparticle which is essentially a standing wave
