Fun fact about that tweet is that it was written in a state of semi-delirium while I was writing my dissertation. Finished my full first draft <48 hours later!

My most liked tweet!

@vvelan.bsky.social once tweeted:
The Large Hadron Collider is operating at 13.6 TeV, which is a funny amount of energy for humans to comprehend, because it is simultaneously:
1. The energy of a mosquito flying at 1 m/s
2. 27 trillion times hotter than the Sun

and I did the maths (now on bluesky)

I'm amazed you remember this!

That sounds pretty similar to STAR voting but more chaotic lol

Even I get this, to a lesser extent! Despite being and looking ethnically Indian, when I go to India, the locals easily clock me as an American, and I get treated very well.

I'm an academic so 9am is fine lmao (but on the flip side there's never "no work to do ")

Like it definitely makes sense but still, I'm dead

Lmaooo I've never seen this before on any fellowship/summer program thing

Also, has anyone had experience running the Greenbank student Telescope? Lemme know! :3

I guess caveat is I was in grad school for 7 years, but that's not particularly abnormal for particle physics.

I didn't have a first author paper until Year 5 of grad school and landed a competitive postdoc fellowship, you're fine!

Yeah...sadly, that doesn't surprise me at all

I wonder if most people realize that when their coffee cools down, it mostly loses heat to the table it's sitting on, not to the air.

Berkeley, CA!

scientists have recently discovered a fourth eye blind

I swear we'll have Half Life 3 before California finishes counting

Tons of people edit dating app photos much more aggressively, I've realized. A lighting fix is perfectly fine imo.

i'm going to invent an "american style" full english breakfast that's so good it heals the wound first opened at lexington and concord

Man, being a physicist has its pros, but it's in times like this I wish I had been a social scientist

Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral

Pro-tip: do not do this

Nice. I've been watching Monk and had a Richard Schiff cameo a few days ago. And then Bradley Whitford today!

Are you watching Monk?

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Oh cool!

I was following you on Twitter and now here, but I never figured out why you post so much AI art. Is there a backstory or just for fun?

I guess actually the closest question is the 3 body problem

In physics, the closest I can think of is "what is the charge of the electron?" Sounds easy, we teach it to high schoolers but then