#qftblr

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!

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!

“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].”

Sometimes progress is slow but steady, my friends!

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.

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

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

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