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chung van gog

@umbralcuboids.com

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bluesky is my private diary. on a journey to gain courage and align heart mind body and soul. he/him. 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🗝️🕊️ 🦢 🤍

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chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 5d

Updated version: I post about my life experience, nerdy math and physics things, amateur philosophy takes, books I'm reading, politics, good music, occasional blog posts, games & game variants, and whatever else catches my fancy

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · Jul 22

i post about my life experience, abstract or concrete, about poker variants & theoretical analysis, amateur philosophy takes, good music, and occasional blog posts <3

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 51m

ugh. i’m feeling anxious! not great!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 10h

i love carlo rovelli’s books. so, so good. They’re getting nearly all of my stars

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

i like it when language is simple and reflective about deeper truths.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

Here is one thing I consider important:

it's good if language points to the peaks of human understanding

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

New knowledge makes different parts of intellectual history salient.

For example, only now am I highly curious about Ernst Mach. I didn't know enough before to feel this curiosity.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

so, e.g., if a "relational" understanding of physics turns out way better than viewing space as a big ol' container, then it would be good if this would seep through to plain language and philosophy too. In a meaningful way, not a pseudoscience way.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

if we have better physical theories of our universe now than before, it would be good if our language restructures itself to make these new peaks as accessible as possible.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

Here is one thing I consider important:

it's good if language points to the peaks of human understanding

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

(Hint: when I say "i am dead serious." I mean the exact opposite.)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

Okay, jokes aside, I wonder why we measure radians as 2 pi. It kind of makes sense: we do rotate by a curve of length 2 pi when we circumfere in a circle. But why not define one rotation as "1 rot"?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

This is entirely consistent. We are just multiplying (rescaling) all numbers by 2pi!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

1_new = 2 pi_old

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 11h

Guys. I think we should have a redefinition.

2 pi = 1.

i am dead serious.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 12h

and, crucially, retrocausality

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 12h

sad that "florals" has a positive connotation. can't use "florals" for flexible morals (in a bad way)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 13h

flethics: flexible ethics (in a bad way)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 15h

For later: Whitehead, process philosophy, categorical quantum mechanics, quantum calculus. ☺️

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 15h

need to reflect on it more :)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 15h

∣Ψ⟩ ∈ H_{phys} ⊂Cyl^∗, with origin in H_{AL}?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 16h

woah!!! OAM entanglement is like the coolest fact about entanglement I learned in a long time!!!

two humble photons can be entangled in oh-so-many ways!!!!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 16h

okay mixed signals cerncourier.com/mixed-signal...

Mixed signals from X17 – CERN Courier

A decade after the initial report of the ATOMKI anomaly, MEG II and PADME present conflicting findings on the proposed X17 boson.

cerncourier.com

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

wait what??? i'm reading the wikipedia article now, and something really seems to be very weird here??? there might be an X17 particle??? why does no one bother to tell me such essential facts????

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

Something's up with beryllium-8 decay?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

I find it plausible that there really exist things even darker than dark matter. Dark forces, dark particles, dark radiation, dark fields.....

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

i love the periodic table!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

i'm (over)simplifying with the "people thought" part, but you get my gist.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

I find this plausible.

1. There are galaxies that are outside our observable horizon! We will never even be able to know they exist!

2. Neutrinos are highly nontrivial. For a long time, people thought they were just a mathematical fiction!

3. Dark matter is nontrivial

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

I find this plausible.

1. There are galaxies that are outside our observable horizon! We will never even be able to know they exist!

2. Neutrinos are highly nontrivial. For a long time, people thought they were just a mathematical fiction!

3. Dark matter is nontrivial