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Einstein is a popular example of a genius. Yet, polymaths like Gauss, Euler, Hamilton, Van Neumann seem far more formidable. Is it just that relativity is remarkable, or am I just impressed by someone who makes major contributions to wildly different areas?

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u/michaeldain — 6 days ago
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Better than Goldstein and Taylor.

This should be the standard book for classical mechanics, imo.

u/Novel_Arugula6548 — 7 days ago
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A gauge-invariant measure for lattice chiral fermions

A prominent particle theorist has just released this preprint, claiming a “candidate nonperturbative lattice definition of the Standard Model”.

Edit: to editorialize a bit, this is potentially one of the most significant results in the field in the last five years.

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u/arceushero — 7 days ago
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Do you think this is superior to Peskin and Schroeder? If the author had wrote this today, or if this were updated to a second edition, what changes would the author include to reflect the technological advancements that occurred since the last time this was published?

u/PrettyPicturesNotTxt — 6 days ago
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Working on a 2D optics simulator using WebGL. Physics looks pretty beautiful

It's a 2D geometric optics simulator, so no diffraction or interference. Every ray carries a single wavelength, glass dispersion comes from a Cauchy fit (n_d and Abbe number), and reflection vs. refraction at each surface is picked randomly using the exact Fresnel equations. The picture builds up by Monte Carlo averaging of millions of rays, and colors come from the CIE 1931 curves.

Happy to answer questions!

u/boxsitter — 7 days ago