On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:33 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Blah wrote quite an excellent post. In fact, I've met few physics PhDs which would have been able to respond so well. So needless to say, my curiosity is peaked concerning who Blah is in "the real
Or even piqued.
Weirder still that one of several people who present themselves as the fictional "Tyler Durden" would claim to be interested in who the real identity of "Blah" is.world".
(Tim May, I believe, is trained in physicsist, but there's no way someone out of school for so long is going to voluntarily remember what's in the last chapter of Schiff. Also, they didn't know a lot of this stuff back in the horse-and-buggy days when May was in school...)Showing a failure on your part. The standard model was pretty well standardized when I was still in school.
Not that what I learned in school is what I know now. One must keep up, mustn't one?
What I know of modern quantum computation comes from books I've only had for the past few years, such as Nielsen and Chuang. Even the earliest glimmers, from Bennett, Deutsch, and others, came only in the late 1980s. By the time I attended a Crypto conference in 1988, quantum ideas were only beginning to appear.
As for Schiff, I skipped it, favoring Dicke and Wittke and the peculiarities of Dirac. With a smidgin of Messiah and others, and even a tiny bit of Bjorken and Drell (ugh). And De Witt and Graham after 1973. As for charm, I have none, as many can attest. As for confinement, not yet.
This sounds typically Hettingaesque. If you start nattering about milk squirting out your nose (ObBob: "grin grin"), I'll know for sure that Tyler Durden is actually the equally cartoonish Bob Hettinga.
Anyway, I DID want to ask ole' Blah what he thought about the following.
(Now Choate, Shaddup and pay attention: "Slap Slap Slap!")
(Bustin' chops, takin' names)
More evidence.
Oh, and please don't top-post (complete text of Blah replying to Choate elided).
--Tim May
