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I guess this is a bit late to mention too... but I mainly mention it now just for the general surrealness of it. Folk singer Tom Brosseau (http://www.tombrosseau.com/) flew in from Seattle today to give a concert at my house. I meant to mention this a week ago but forgot. Anyway, it's at 143 Hollywood Ave, starts at 7pm (an hour from now), $12 at the door if you're interested.
I really had nothing to do with this, other than donating the space for a friend... who's one of his biggest fans and convinced him over email to come down here and give a concert. They are currently setting up, tables, chairs, wine, decorations... nothing this classy has ever transpired here before! Feels weird.
[And for the physics geeks...]
Today I skimmed the entire book "Spacetime and Geometry" by Sean Carroll... even though I won't get a chance to take GR till the spring, I think I understand it well enough from today's skimming to compute the holonomy along the closest approach of the geodesics approaching the particular Big Crunch scenario I'm working on. Which is my next assignment now that we've proved that the bounce has too much instability for the current Cyclic Universe models put forth by Steinhardt & Turok. The goal is to show that black holes start forming once it gets close enough to the singularity and there is too much energy concentrated in one place... seems kind of obvious when I say it like that, but I need to actually verify it for sure. I'm sure I'll need to look at the book a lot more, but it doesn't seem too horribly complicated. Not nearly as bad as QFT. Looking forward to this as I've been thinking about the same things for too many weeks in a row now... glad to be moving on to something else!
I really had nothing to do with this, other than donating the space for a friend... who's one of his biggest fans and convinced him over email to come down here and give a concert. They are currently setting up, tables, chairs, wine, decorations... nothing this classy has ever transpired here before! Feels weird.
[And for the physics geeks...]
Today I skimmed the entire book "Spacetime and Geometry" by Sean Carroll... even though I won't get a chance to take GR till the spring, I think I understand it well enough from today's skimming to compute the holonomy along the closest approach of the geodesics approaching the particular Big Crunch scenario I'm working on. Which is my next assignment now that we've proved that the bounce has too much instability for the current Cyclic Universe models put forth by Steinhardt & Turok. The goal is to show that black holes start forming once it gets close enough to the singularity and there is too much energy concentrated in one place... seems kind of obvious when I say it like that, but I need to actually verify it for sure. I'm sure I'll need to look at the book a lot more, but it doesn't seem too horribly complicated. Not nearly as bad as QFT. Looking forward to this as I've been thinking about the same things for too many weeks in a row now... glad to be moving on to something else!
