User talk:CYD
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Hi CYD. Good work defending the Lee Kuan Yew article and keeping it objective. A few of the 'contributors' were really prejudiced. -- Yik Lin
Hi CYD. I'll write this at your talk page since your main page is reserved for your personal data. I am joining with all who had sent you messages that it is very fine thing to have some good physicists around. But a question is also what a good physicist is. We all agree that physicists as Newton, Einsten, Feynman, Dyson, Sakharov, Pauli, Bethe and still 'some' more really are. But who 'in fact' understand physics or even worse the physical reality itself? Are there only physicists able to understand it as it was a case in Einstein's, Arthur Stanley Eddington's or Hilbert's time in the first 20 years of the 20th century. I do belive not. But don't ask me why :) Let me just say - keep on your good work on telling the silent Tao story of physics as Fritjof Capra once had dreamed. You can check and correct my contributions to the three main fields of natural sciences at my users page. It is worth seeing also the articles of two famous Slovene phisicists Joz<caron>ef Stefan and Janez Strnad. Very soon I'll translate into English an article about John Stewart Bell from the Slovene wikipedia. There's also a pretty extended article of Eistein's life, conceived somehow as his 'personal' diary all the way to his afterlife and 'beyond'. Of course there's still a lot say about the physis, but let us just stop for now. Best regards. -- XJamRastafire 19:57 Aug 23, 2002 (PDT)
Hi CYD, and welcome! Thanks for you contributions in the physics area. There's a lot to do there :-) --AxelBoldt
Hi CYD - I've checked out your work and it's of a very high standard - congrats :) So an extra big welcome to the 'pedia. Regards - ManningBartlett
Hello, CYD and welcome - we need good physicists!
I removed the text at Standard text editor as it is a copy of a (admittedly amusing) Usenet post and the original author still holds the copyright. -- The Anome
Would you have an interest in the math behind Dyson Sphere comparisons against Earth? I'll stab at it eventually, but as much as tickles your fancy I can fill in more. --Romaq
Where do
- search for the Higgs boson
- search for Supersymmetry
fit in?
They're not what anyone would seriously call theories.
Let's discuss this in talk:Physics --CYD
Hi CYD. I liked the article you started on Shor's algorithm (at least I think it was you). Any chance you might be able to finish it?
- I'll try. It turned out to be a bigger job than I thought, so I stopped. I'll probably have another go at it soon, since summer holidays are coming up; but I'll be just happy if someone finishes it for me :-)
Great work on The Ring of the Nibelung! AstroNomer
Plz try to integrate copyrighted info rather than simply deleting it. Lir 16:57 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)
Thanks for the rename of degeneracy to degenerate matter. On thinking it over, I agree that it is the preferable title. So many articles from both the astrophysics and the quantum mechanics sides agreed that the concept of degeneracy merited an article by making it a link, but were not that careful about agreeing a title for the main page. I earlier added a couple of sentences to the liquid drop model about the relevance of the concept to the asymmetry term which now should have a link too. I plan to do some more work on degenerate matter to at least include the details of the derivation of the fermi vector from the particle in a box model (kay-eff-cubed-equals-six-pi-squared-en-over-twice-spin-plus-one). Alan Peakall 09:45 Nov 6, 2002 (UTC)
Hi CYD - quick question about Richard Wagner - I was just wondering what sort of stuff you were planning to add to the article? Will it be mainly biographical, or stylistic analysis, or something else? I just ask because I was planning on adding some stuff on his musical style and development to balance out the article a bit more, but don't want to do it if you're planning on do it (especially as I don't really like Wagner's music that much!). All the best --Camembert
Thanks for the response. Hopefully we'll end up with a nice article at the end of all this. Cheers --Camembert
- CYD, thank you for your insight and suggestions on Richard Wagner. --Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
CYD's comment on User Talk:Tim Starling:
- A suggestion: I find the various articles on electrical conduction (such as conduction band, band gap, and valence band) quite fragmented, even though they are individually well-written. IMO, the fact that the material is split into little articles makes it difficult to understand the actual phenomenon of conduction. Maybe it would be better to consolidate them into a big article on electrical conduction (to which electric current can redirect.)
Not a bad idea -- I'll think about it. Probably the closest thing we've got to that now is semiconductor -- the "electronic structure" section could theoretically be expanded to talk more about conduction. But it's quite possible that people looking for information on electrical conduction won't think to look there. It's a big job though: to do it right, we'd probably want to talk about metals, drift and Ohm's law as well as the other stuff. I don't think we would want to replace current with a redirect - that's quite a useful article, with about 120 pages linking to it. -- Tim Starling
Done. -- Tim Starling
Heh, and I never even knew Al-Raschid existed, uncultured peon that I am :). Thanks! Any idea why he's called "Haroun" in the article title and "Harun" throughout the article, though? --AW
CYD, your diagram Image:Epr.png didn't work on my browser (IE6). It just came up as a black box. Apparently the problem was the alpha channel – I replaced the transparent background with white and it started working. I've uploaded the corrected image. I thought I'd better warn you here – I'm not sure if you have images on your watchlist. -- Tim Starling 12:15 Feb 15, 2003 (UTC)
- IE does not correctly handle PNG images with alpha channels. This is a known bug that MS doesn't seem interested in fixing. -- Zwilson
CYD, It occurs to me that your work on Richard Wagner has been rather a thankless task, so: Thank you. Not just for expanding the original stub into an actual encyclopedia article, but for managing to "defend" it against determined view-point advocacy. Sometimes I don't know how people manage to remain calm. --- Someone else 22:20 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC) (BTW, I have a slightly less sanguine view of whether RW's antisemitism made it into his libretti than you, but I still think you've done a great job on his life and works)
Thank you for the awesome work you did on the new Hanna Reitsch page! Her life is fascinating to me. Jaimenote
Why did you cut a para in Tintin ? Ericd 09:34 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
By the way, you might be interested in knowing that someone nominated you to become an admin about a week ago, see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, and reply there if you are interested. If you reply there quickly, you could be number 100! כסיף Cyp 20:49 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Whoa, you have a lower user ID than even I do. You are also now our 100th administrator -- congratulations! As a bonus, I won't paste you my boilerplate text. :-) You probably already know that you find the relevant guidelines on Wikipedia:Administrators anyway. Please do take a look, and have fun with your newfound privileges. --Eloquence 00:29 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Heh. Think I had the joy of being Sysop 69. :-) Evercat 00:31 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Regarding the Feynman quote on the Schrodinger equation:
- The Schrodinger equation does not include gravity
I heard him say it myself, so why do you think it is misleading?
By the way, it was said casually as part of a stream of information, but it was so clear, I wrote it down. 169.207.85.28 00:45, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- It doesn't include electromagnetism either. -- Tim Starling 01:02, Nov 10, 2003 (UTC)
- See Talk:Quantum mechanics. -- CYD
In Dirac equation is that correct: "where B = ×A is the magnetic field acting on the particle. This is precisely the Pauli equation for a non-relativistic spin-1/2 particle" ?Plàcid
I made some pictures for quarks, baryons and mesons. I have no time to insert English Wikipedia. If you have, two of them are at http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvark and the GIMP source at my webpage http://www.szgti.bmf.hu/harp/gnu/particle-physics/barion.xcf and http://www.szgti.bmf.hu/harp/gnu/particle-physics/meson.xcf Harp 16:19, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi CYD I do see your point, but do you happen to be an expert in the Bell tests? If you want to know about the actual experiments and the various "loopholes", I'm afraid I just happen to be effectively the world authority! Ask Abner Shimony (his address is given with his encyclopaedia article that I reference), or various others, including Franck Laloe, Philippe Grangier, even Anton Zeilinger. They may not always agree with me but I think you will find that they respect my work. There is no other paper out there to rival my Chaotic Ball one. OK, so perhaps it's bad form to reference others that are only the the quantum physics archive, but surely where they have been published in refereed journals it is reasonable to cite them? This is what I was told when I first started in wikipedia, and I have almost kept to it. I said then that my aim was to replace links to my own site by wiki pages, and this I still mean to do, but for the time being I'm reverting all your edits. Caroline Thompson 08:37, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- CYD has a point, although "self-promotion" is not the right word. The problem is that your point of view and your suggestions with "problems" with quantum mechanics is under, any reasonable interpretation, a minority view. I'm not an expert on Bell inequalities and don't want to become one, but I do think we should in the main articles --- particularly the EPR article, keep to the more conventional view.
- You already have an article "loopholes" which I think gives ample opportunity to discuss alternatives and refer to your papers. CSTAR 13:28, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)