Recent content by JBroll

I got into Grim Dawn too, but I put it away when Fallout came out. I think I'll pick it up again soon and then get immediately distracted by XCOM 2 (10?) when that comes out. Jef

Fallout 4 - 8/10: loading screens occasionally interrupted by a future where nobody minds that they still live in a skeleton-carpeted shambles that has seen fewer structural improvements in the last two centuries than [anything political at all, really]. Come for the gameplay mechanic...

Did that class go into QED or any other gauge theories? I'm in space plasma physics, so I don't get to do that stuff more than recreationally... JB

Anyone studying physics has at least a year's worth of ED under their belt, but I only took one semester of particle physics. Why? JB

If he thought that he'd be wrong. Full stop. He was wrong about 'in every respect similar', because cosmic rays of even higher energies are observed (thousands per m^2 per s for GeV cosmic rays, if I recall correctly and about) reach Earth's surface, and that's a problem in the first third of...

You know that the one I posted was written *after* that, right? More studying is done, more is known, and so on. Those things *are* discussed by scientists, but the process is a bit different than you'd imagine. If you read more from scientists, you'd see how (1) is misleading, (2) is not as...

I'm getting a 403, strangest thing. JB

You can just unsubscribe... It's a pretty well-studied thing. There's a quick summary of the physics at https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1249755/files/p533.pdf and an example of a paper in Nature detailing (EDIT: evidence for) how supernova shocks produce them can be found at...

Can't see your image there... JB

There's something I'm curious about, on the non-music side... perhaps someone has a better idea. I don't do much in Windows, so this is out of my ballpark, but family members who do the Steam thing have an issue with Windows Defender (Defenestrator? Whatever it's called, the thing that kills...

'Cosmic rays' as in 'energetic charged particles in space'? They're pretty well-established... Jef

Don't know about the other one, but Antichamber is pretty fantastic - different sort of mind-screwy than Braid, but still a great puzzle game. Someone snatch that up or I'll lose all faith in... well, generally things, or at least whatever's left. Jef

Models are used, and they are useful, but they're still secondary to observation - any belief otherwise is misled and mistaken. And I say that as a modeler. EU people don't explain *anything*. Their foundations are totally wonky. The difference is that they're 100% PR - all they do is aim at...

As painful as peer review is, it's totally worth it to keep dreck like the above from being considered insightful. Jef

Good to know that, no matter how many more verifications of the current way of doing things we seem to run into on a daily basis, we'll always have some dolt quoting some quack who can only insult current scientists while producing no meaningful work on his own. Throw in a few things that'll...