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October 2013's Entries

Halloween 2013
- Oct 31, 2013
- Wendy Davis Pumpkin

Random Past Entries

Uncertainty
- Sep 16, 2012
- Some meandering notes on measurement in Quantum Mechanics
It’s all Just Followup Now
- Feb 9, 2003
- Thanks to Adam Kalsey’s SimpleComments plugin, “Comment” and “Trackback” listings have been merged into “Followups”. Why click twice, when you…
I Can’t help Myself …
- Jun 2, 2006
- itex2MML 1.1.3.
I’m a Thief
- Aug 11, 2003
- We’re renting a condo in Solana Beach, California for the week. After settling in, I flipped open my laptop and…
Multiloop Amplitudes
- Feb 4, 2005
- Yet more D’Hoker and Phong. And I attempt to penetrate the mist surrounding a paper of Nathan Berkovits.

MT How-To

Validating Comments
- May 3, 2003
- Run comments through the W3C Validator before posting. The first in a series of “How-To” articles on MovableType.
Bullet-Proofing II
- May 11, 2003
- More bullet-proofing tips to ensure your blog is valid XHTML
Text Filters for Comments
- May 19, 2003
- Allow a choice of Text Filters in your Comment-entry form.
Serve it Up!
- May 26, 2003
- Serving your blog as XHTML 1.1 with a MIME-type of application/xhtml+xml.
<abbr>, <acronym>, Accessibility & ...
- Sep 10, 2003
- A tutorial on marking up abbreviations and an MT plugin which makes the job easy.
Forcing Comment Previews
- Jun 16, 2004
- Introducing the MTHash plugin, and a reliable way to force Comment Previews.
Internationalization and Trackbacks
- Feb 17, 2005
- In which our hero gets fed up with gibberish Trackbacks and takes matters in his own hands.

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Asymptotic Safety and the Gribov Ambiguity (10)
- Mitchell Porter
  - Feb 20, 2025 08:02
  - Hello Jacques! I noticed that a paper appeared (2502.12290) proposing to study asymptotic safety from a swampland perspective, and you’re ...
- M-theory
  - Nov 23, 2015 10:18
  - Hello, please have a look at this. Finally, a prediction for M-theory: http://www.science20.com/a_quantum_diaries_survivor/supersymmetry_is_about_to_be_discovered_kane_says-160367 So I guess if no such gluino ...
- thyme
  - Oct 2, 2015 14:30
  - What do you think of this paper? http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02036
- Detective Holder
  - Aug 20, 2015 22:54
  - What happens if the LHC doesn’t find SUSY? What would it mean?
- Jesse
  - Aug 19, 2015 13:38
  - What are the latest interesting developments in string theory? Any promising avenues you’d like to talk about?

Golem VI (4)
- Jacques Distler
  - Sep 30, 2024 17:32
  - There are many reasons why that would have been advantageous. A Linux virtual machine on one of the UDC servers ...
- Jimmy
  - Sep 30, 2024 17:27
  - Any plans to migrate to Linux on non-Apple hardware?
- Jacques Distler
  - Sep 30, 2024 11:14
  - Well, the M2 sports 10 GPU cores and 16 Neural Engine cores. So Apple clearly had some AI features in ...
- Mitchell Porter
  - Sep 30, 2024 10:17
  - Welcome to Golem VI! I wonder to what extent AI will become part of the OS, in this or the ...

Motivation (32)
- Jacques Distler
  - Sep 16, 2024 12:00
  - So silly to have Distler (and Witten) still talking this way ~ 2 decades later… You did read the date ...
- Mark Paris
  - Sep 16, 2024 10:56
  - “String Theory is the only plausible vehicle” (still) seems short-sighted and myopic. Such commentary, if it’s at all necessary (it’s ...
- James Redford
  - Jan 6, 2008 21:19
  - For the correct quantum gravity theory, see the below paper: F. J. Tipler, “The structure of the world from pure ...
- boreds
  - Sep 2, 2005 11:42
  - Right, that’s pretty much what I meant above. Thanks Jacques
- Jacques Distler
  - Sep 2, 2005 11:33
  - So is there a heuristic way to see how string theory sorts out this mess? String Theory treats the metric ...

The Zinn-Justin Equation (1)
- Rich
  - Aug 2, 2024 16:49
  - Hello, Prof. Distler. I just read this post: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/002943.html#more What would you say is a good undergrad particle physics book ...

Entanglement for Laymen (17)
- Blakely Moore
  - Jun 21, 2024 11:50
  - Obviously I am very late to this post, but I just wanted to say that as a layperson (with absolutely ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Feb 12, 2024 12:46
  - Just to be clear, there’s nothing special about 45 ∘45^\circ. You can write down the projection matrices P A(θ),P B(θ)P_A(\theta),P_B(\theta) ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Feb 11, 2024 11:46
  - Sorry, but no. The state of the photon pair (in an obvious basis) is ρ c=12(0 0 0 0 0 ...
- Stefan G Freundt
  - Feb 11, 2024 01:19
  - Sorry, but your explanation is wrong. If you rotate the polarization filters by 45 degrees, they are either aligned the ...
- Peter
  - Jan 19, 2024 11:10
  - https://vixra.org/abs/1609.0129 A Classical System for Producing “Quantum Correlations” by Robert H. McEachern includes Shannon classical noise to model quantum correlations.

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Halloween 2013

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