@benjamingeer @coreyspowell Not really (if I did my math right). That corresponds to its clock running about 5.5s per year slower than an observer at rest. Still, they probably need to take it into account in the software.

@mcnees If the many-worlds interpretation is correct, then vacuum decay is another form of the quantum suicide experiment: it could already have happened for some fraction of the wave function.

@mcnees We don't know if the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct—and may never know—but if it is, the universe is immensely larger still.

@mcnees A selfie!

@gregeganSF @mcnees Would you mind giving me the FB number(s) if it's handy?

@mcnees @gregeganSF Would either of you mind filing a feedback report? To launch Feedback Assistant enter applefeedback:// in the Safari address bar and hit return. You can keep it in the dock once you’ve launched it the first time.

@mcnees If we're lucky, we'll have a small one before we have a big one. That might galvanize people into planning better for when the big one comes.

@mcnees I, for one, welcome our singular overlords.

@AstroKatie Yay! So glad to see you back here!

@mcnees @gregeganSF If you haven't already, would you mind filing feedback reports?
You can enter this URL in Safari: applefeedback:// and use the Feedback Assistant app (you can keep it in the Dock so you only have to use the Safari trick once).

@mcnees It’s a double-edged sword: it makes it easier to develop theories at lower energies but harder to figure out what’s going on at higher energies!

@mcnees @drskyskull I did graduate coursework in both but wound up a software engineer. 🤷🏻♀️

@AstroKatie One wrong turn and you wind up in the universe where the letter “w” doesn't exist.

@mcnees I wouldn't say that. He was really, really busy, which is why I changed to Prof. Georgi. Also, I was still just doing coursework when he was my advisor (it was my first year). If he'd still been my advisor and I'd gotten into my thesis research, then I would call myself his student. 😊

@mcnees I like this philosophy, which is why it's distressing to see some abandon it in favor of instrumentalism when it comes to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

@mcnees He was my adviser my first year of grad school (1978-79), but he received the Nobel that academic year (the department threw a party) and got too busy, so I switched to Howard Georgi for my second year. I took GR from Weinberg using his book as the text. I was very sad when he passed away (and Sidney Coleman too, whom I took QFT from).

After my second year I switched out of physics (with an MA) to computers, but I still miss physics.

@AstroKatie Did you see this? It was just a couple of days ago: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sapphire-schrodingers-cat-quantum

Great thread by @mcnees about #EmmyNoether, one of the most important figures in theoretical physics, on her birthday!

https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110072925812796303

From @ErinInTheMorn
#transphobia #fascism #ProtectTransKids

Mics Off, 6 Minutes Notice - Anti-Trans Kentucky Forced Detransition Bill Passes After Shameful Secret Meeting https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/mics-off-6-minutes-notice-anti-trans

@shuttersparks @ErinInTheMorn I would be shocked if they were. It's just cruelty and vindictiveness.