tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post6942382108655670996..comments2024-03-15T21:47:07.684-05:00Comments on nanoscale views: Timescales, averaging, and baseballDouglas Natelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-38697544792489122882023-08-15T03:15:16.192-05:002023-08-15T03:15:16.192-05:00“I recently enlisted one of personal chargeback re...“I recently enlisted one of personal chargeback recovery services and I must admit I was more than impressed. If you have been a victim of bitcoin or any cryptocurrency scam, I feel like it's my duty to connect you all with a legit hacker like him. I started having a lot of issues with an investment company that goes by the name drip coin when I placed a withdrawal order for 297,000 USD I had with them. 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More modern alternatives include Ibach and Luth, and Marder; interestingly, both of those had very poor editing and high densities of typos in their first printings, which have now been corrected. Chaikin and Lubensky does a great job summarizing statistical mechanics in Ch. 3, and convinced me that liquid crystal phases are real, honest-to-goodness thermodynamic phases (something about which I'd been skeptical when a student).<br />Douglas Natelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-19163061886904229332013-07-07T11:27:19.737-05:002013-07-07T11:27:19.737-05:00DanM, how about Niekro? Statistically the best kn...DanM, how about Niekro? Statistically the best knuckleballer in MLB history. Then we could have the N index.<br /><br />Douglas Natelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-35675576145599664962013-07-03T13:38:01.759-05:002013-07-03T13:38:01.759-05:00My comment runs along different lines: the Wakefi...My comment runs along different lines: the Wakefield!?! That's nearly heresy. If you're gonna pick a knuckler, pick a <i>good</i> one; and also one who did not pitch for Evil Incarnate. May I suggest Charlie Hough? Then baseball could have its own H index.DanMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-45356649213360101592013-07-01T15:55:38.982-05:002013-07-01T15:55:38.982-05:00Since Doug hasn't answered yet, let me propose...Since Doug hasn't answered yet, let me propose a provocative but (in my experience) widely accepted claim: Ashcroft & Mermin is abysmal dreck, but in a weird Goedelian twist there can exist *no* solid state book which is both good AND semi-complete.<br /><br />Certainly not all of the modern research in mature subfields (particles, CM, AMO, for example) can be captured in textbook format, but the intellectual foundation and framework of say, particle physics, lives in Peskin & Schroeder -- which is also a very good book. A unifying language for ALL of condensed matter (that is useful both to future experimenters and theorizers) just doesn't exist. Maybe it's silly to pretend it does.<br /><br />My semiconductor friends swear by Yu & Cardona. My budding young CM field theorists learn to recite chapter and verse of Chaiken & Lubensky and then Fazekas with bits of Auerbach. I'm sure they'll be fine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-87924891611351256122013-06-30T15:26:26.750-05:002013-06-30T15:26:26.750-05:00Sounds interesting. Emailed this idea to Alan Nath...Sounds interesting. Emailed this idea to Alan Nathan yet? Also, I bet Professor Tezduyar in Rice's MechE department would have some ideas about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-68130528697491919832013-06-27T05:25:46.807-05:002013-06-27T05:25:46.807-05:00Interesting professor! by the way, can you recomme...Interesting professor! by the way, can you recommend an updated replacement for Ashcoft and Merrmin? <br />I need a good solid state physics book written for this century. <br />-Parisparisnoreply@blogger.com