#inner nerd

[pinkwoolybee]

[victusinveritas]

Am I paying the ridiculous price Lego asks for this ($167ish)? No. Am I still looking at it with that 'oooh shiny' portion of my brain? Yes.

[road2nf]

what you do with those characteristics

I feel like the Nerdfighter community as well as John and Hank have helped me to allow the nerd inside to shine through, and bar away any negative connotations some may see in that.

I am a freshman in college and coming into school, I obviously knew no one, but the first day I made friends with a girl wearing a Pokemon shirt and bonded with her.

Eventually I became best friends with the group of girls who were preppier, destined to be sorority sisters, you get the picture. They then admitted to me that they thought I was “weird” the first few weeks of class because of my strange friendship with the original girl and outward love of Pokemon.co

Here came my chance to decrease world-suck - and I took it. I explained to them that one’s interests do not define who they are, and being nice to everyone and bonding with them over similar, possibly remote, interests, was not “weird.”

I am the type of girl who can befriend anyone and find similarities between us and bond through that, and I taught these girls that it is not strange, but rather a necessary life skill.

The Nerdfighter community, as well as John and Hank, have allowed me to realize that I can wear dresses every day and go home and game and fit in with sorority sisters while being an active member of a competitive group of Magic players.

The Nerdfighter community has shown me that you aren’t defined by just one of your characteristics or interests; you are defined by the type of person you are and what you do with those characteristics.

Thank you all so much for that valuable lesson.

Nerd on.

-Jade

[nazgul097]

Watchmen (2009) 

[my-archerboy]

Something’s gotta get me through the work day

[mikeo56]

Is the universe really infinite? Or could it close back on itself like a sphere? If it’s infinite, how can it expand? And is it true that there might be copies of you in it? These are all questions which were discussed in a recent video from Kurzgesagt, and some random string of letters on X-twitter asked me if I could fill in the academic background. And how could I not oblige if someone asks me to release my inner nerd. So here we go. The first question “Is the universe really infinite” is easy to answer: we don’t know. We can’t know because since the big bang there has only been so much time for light to travel. So we only see part of the universe. And beyond that part which we see, the universe might go on forever or not. In our mathematics, we use a universe that’s infinite in size. But we just do this because it’s simple and it might not be physically correct. To see why, I need to tell you a little about how we use Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

This theory says that space and time form a common entity called space-time and that this space-time can curve. You often see this illustrated with you know a rubber sheet with a ball in it and marbles and stuff. This suggests that curvature is something that you infer from looking at space-tie from the outside. You see that the sheet is bent. But this isn’t what we mean by a curved space or curved space-time in general relativity.

The curvature of space-time is something that is measured internally in the space, and it’s also the reason why I am sitting on this desk because the simplest possible example is a flat sheet of paper. Exciting, I know, but bear with me.   How do we know the paper is flat? Easy enough, you draw a triangle on it, and then you measure all the interior angles and add them up. If they add to 180 degrees, no matter which triangle you draw and no matter which size, the space is flat. Homework assignment: draw all possible triangles on a sheet of paper and prove that it’s flat. The thing is though, that the angles of triangles don’t always add up that way. Take for example a sphere. In an extreme case you can draw a triangle by following the equator, turn 90 degrees, go to to the north pole, turn 90 degrees, go back to the equator, and turn 90 degrees back onto the equator. Now you have a triangle with three 90 degree angles, that 270 degrees in total! This tells you that a sphere isn’t flat.

I washed this moon because there were already drawings on it, and now it’s got water inside and I’m afraid it will rust. Yes, you already knew that a sphere isn’t flat, but the point is that you don’t need to be able to look at the sphere from the outside. You can infer its curvature entirely from measurements on the sphere. When it comes to the curvature of space and time it’s the same thing. We say they are curved because of properties that we measure entirely on the inside. The things we measure are observables such as the redshift or light, or the travel time, or the paths on which bodies move and so on. You could ask now, well, if those are all things we measure on the inside, what sense does it even make to call this curvature. Couldn’t we just say that spacetime is flat, just that these observables have difficult relations that are mediated by some sort of field. Indeed, this is a valid interpretation of the maths, that you refuse to give this a geometric interpretation and instead just say gravity is determined by some sort of complicated field. This is why Steven Weinberg in his book on general relativity famously refused to use a geometric interpretation. You don’t need it. And if you don’t need the geometric interpretation, why subscribe to it. Unlike this channel, where subscribing is scientifically proven to make maths 10 percent less intimidating. That’s exactly those 10% you’ll forget while I make silly jokes.

[coffeecupsandfinerwines]

LISTEN TUMBLR!! Don’t go changing the format on me now! First you make a live button and put it where the search engine used to be and now my profile?!?!?! I’m at not interested in buying things or people seeing my face here. That’s why i came here in the first place. So i can release my inner nerd without the world knowing who I am.

Rant over…

Maybe…

Stop changing!!!

[imdoingwhateverisnext]

My Inner Nerd

No matter how hard I try, she breaks through.

There is no cool part of me left.

I don't know if I ever even had a cool part

To begin with.