Jacopo Bertolotti
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Jacopo Bertolotti
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Associated Professor of Physics at the University of Exeter.
Scientific visualizations (grouped under the hastag #PhysicsFactlet).
He/lui/on. All opinions are my own fault.
Specific to LaTeX? I never heard of one (hence why Overleaf is so widely used)
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
How is any of this relevant to my post?
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Talking with the school staff, it is not obvious at all they know.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
One day we should also have a discussion about the unhealthy obsession on attendance UK school have.
Children should (obviously) attend school, but missing a few days here and there is not the tragedy it is depicted to be (and sometimes children have very good reasons to skip a few days).
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A way to make the text bigger (yes, I am old).
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The only solution here seems to be to stick googly eyes on the local council.
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
That is what I was also wondering. If this is not damaging to their public image, I don't know what is.
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
You can ask for outreach money, but if you ask for more than just peanuts, they will start looking at you suspiciously.
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And your computer is a vector too (in some high-dimensional Hilbert space)!

Am *I* a vector? 😱
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It should be obvious that they are up to no good.
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Want to join the merry brigade? 😜
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I always loved the name "flux capacitor", as it is clearly technobabble, but also sounds like something that might be real.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You have an email 😉

(I am currently home with the flu, so I will likely not be very fast at anything)
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I was (half) joking 🤣
But I guess now I owe you an email and a paper.
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Should we write an American Journal of Physics paper where we demystify optical coherence? 🙃
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
van Citter-Zerinke theorem:
"the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution function of a distant, incoherent source is equal to its complex visibility"

i.e.
From far away all incoherent sources look like point sources
🤷🏻‍♂️
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Coherence is my go-to example of a topic that it is not that difficult, but is made almost impossible to digest due to historical baggages.
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM