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I updated my Standard Model "snowflake plot" tonight while waiting for a headache to go away. I also added the graviton to this version because I'm biased. :P A long time ago I decided: if I have to include an SM slide in many talks from now on, it’ll at least be on my own terms!

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Snapshots :: When perturbing a flat metric, flat spacetime coordinates can be conveniently mapped onto the newly curved spacetime. But beware: this is only straightforward so long as the spacetime doesn't become too curved!

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⭐ a script for starting a presentation ⭐

“First, I’d like to thank [university / conference / host] for having me, and thank you all for attending my talk. Today I’m presenting work I performed on [general topic] with my collaborators at [university/universities]. To begin, let's talk about [slide 1 topic].”

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I’m trying to draft slides for next week and my brain is NOT having it.

So instead of ‘working on my presentation’, I’m ‘working on plots.’ Sure, those plots will be in my presentation too, but that’s just a coincidence.  And the informational blurbs before each plot? Those are there just to add context. I’m not actually writing slides. Nope. Nooo wayyyy.

Sometimes progress is slow but steady, my friends!

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So I’m reading Rosenfeld’s 1963 paper “On Quantization of Fields" (a 3-page paper that is otherwise without metaphor or analogy) at 1 AM (as I do) when its closing sentence sucker punches me through the screen, collapsing my wavefunction instantly.

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⚛ What questions do you have about particle physics, QFT, or gravity? ⚛

I'm in the mood to do some writing & illustrating, and would love some inspiration! (Signal boosts welcome!)

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⭐The Schrödinger Equation⭐ from Schrödinger’s 1926 paper “An Undulatory Theory of the Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules”

(I’m writing a summary of this paper; some tweets of mine here.)

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Earlier today, after writing ~25 pages summarizing my research in order to help my group prep for a conference next week, I realized:

This is thesis material. I'm writing my thesis right now.

aka I tricked myself into working on my thesis by making promises to other people. Well played, self!!