Is There A Physicist In The Phamily?

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1314131123' post='2293850']
But most days it is like this:

[img]http://bcarmi.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/Stickman-Dancing-DToth-r9z0bb.gif[/img]
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Nice save.

[missionseeker]

that guy must have recently lost a lot of weight. His pantaloons are way too big.

[brianthephysicist]

[quote name='MissyP89' timestamp='1314059363' post='2293475']

Fair point. (p.s. What are you still doing here? Shouldn't you be, like, meeting some random new person right now? )
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Well last night I was home because I was studying for placement exams so I couldn't go out to play. Tonight I'm missing out on movie night at Christine's because the Official Truck isn't being friendly at the moment. It's like it knows you are on the road and is afraid.
[quote name='TheresaThoma' timestamp='1314062506' post='2293539']
So Brian does this mean I can ask you for help with my HW? (I'm an Aerospace Physics major) BTW Welcome!
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Possibly, but probably not. It depends on1) how far along you are and 2) whether I have time (which if you are decently far along you should recognize time as an extremely valuable commodity). I've got my BS so I've covered all the usual things, but the only extra course I took that would be in the direction to help you would be general relativity and I don't even know how much your program would focus on the pure mathematics of theory like my course did.
[quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1314064602' post='2293567']
He's in Sector 7 which is part of the Time Resolved Research Group, part of the X-Ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source. I have absolutely no idea what that means. All I know is that he is scary smart. They offered him something in France with the collider, but their kids are all in school in Chicago. He's married to my husband's sister, and she got her PhD at 19, so she is probably one of the smartest stay at home moms in Chicago.
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Yea he's working on some hardcore physics. Wow. 19. That's amazing. I don't even know what to say to that.
[quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1314079609' post='2293647']

My ex-girlfriend was a particle physicist who worked at Fermilab, I believe. She also worked on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project at CERN (the one that people thought would cause a black hole that would swallow up the world once it was turned on) in Switzerland, so my joke to her was "I have to be nice to you, otherwise you might blow up the world!".
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haha, yea that was one of the funniest misconceptions I ever saw, but they probably do have enough energy in there to considerably harm the world if they specifically ran it with bad intent, but they would have to seriously try and it wouldn't even make a black hole lol.
[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1314130347' post='2293843']
Welcome Brian.

Sometimes being here is like this:

[img]http://www.geocities.ws/glennuy143/stickman/stickman03.gif[/img]
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[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1314131123' post='2293850']
But most days it is like this:

[img]http://bcarmi.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/Stickman-Dancing-DToth-r9z0bb.gif[/img]
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Epic welcome media, thank you. So far all I've seen is the latter but thanks for the heads up lol.
[quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1314146201' post='2293956']
that guy must have recently lost a lot of weight. His pantaloons are way too big.
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It's from all the dancing, he was as big as Santa when Papist posted him on here

[BG45]

Brian, as a physics guy, I have to ask you. Do you love XKCD?

[MissyP89]

[quote name='brianthephysicist' timestamp='1314151183' post='2294009']
Well last night I was home because I was studying for placement exams so I couldn't go out to play. Tonight I'm missing out on movie night at Christine's because the Official Truck isn't being friendly at the moment. It's like it knows you are on the road and is afraid.[/quote]

Oh no! Poor truck. I don't feel sorry for you, though, because you're such a hater. Keep hatin'. I can take it.

[quote]Epic welcome media, thank you. So far all I've seen is the latter but thanks for the heads up lol.[/quote]

If you stay away from Debate Table, you should be fine.

[Laudate_Dominum]

Finally, someone to go to with ludicrous physics questions. haha.

[Lil'Monster]

I thought I was the weirdest person of phatmass???

[Amppax]

[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1314154097' post='2294040']
Brian, as a physics guy, I have to ask you. Do you love XKCD?
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If he does, he immediately gets props from me. remember, rule one of getting props, use or reference XKCD.

[BG45]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1314158080' post='2294122']
If he does, he immediately gets props from me. remember, rule one of getting props, use or reference XKCD.
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You did indeed say that!! I've not read it this week...

[brianthephysicist]

[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1314154097' post='2294040']
Brian, as a physics guy, I have to ask you. Do you love XKCD?
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[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1314158080' post='2294122']
If he does, he immediately gets props from me. remember, rule one of getting props, use or reference XKCD.
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I feel like that was a rhetorical question, but in case it wasn't, I certainly do. Sweet, I get props. Are either of you fans of PHD Comics?

[quote name='MissyP89' timestamp='1314154967' post='2294060']
Oh no! Poor truck. I don't feel sorry for you, though, because you're such a hater. Keep hatin'. I can take it.

If you stay away from Debate Table, you should be fine.
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Well I keep telling people that I'm a jerk, but you seem to be the only one that agrees with me lol.

Now I have to investigate the debate table...

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1314155436' post='2294073']
Finally, someone to go to with ludicrous physics questions. haha.
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Yay! Hopefully I will be able to answer them, if not it will still be fun to think about

[quote name='Lil'Monster' timestamp='1314156172' post='2294087']
I thought I was the weirdest person of phatmass???
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I don't think anyone is saying you're not...

[BG45]

It wasn't rhetorical! And yes PHD Comics is hilarious but honest truth about grad school!