Hi Nika, hope you had a good Easter. Sorry I've still not provided copy for the physics book project, I've had a few health issues and optimistically underestimated the amount of work needed to get draft material ready to submit to you by a huge amount. The rainy weather and looking after mum have not made mathematical physics work any easier, either. Nige
Happy Easter, Nige. Keep going :) Feel free to send it over in bits, a chapter or two so I can have a read and think. You don't have to have finished it all. I'm doing a weekly Accountability Thread on Fridays @ 9 am if you want to check in and share progress and goals for the next week. And a monthly Newsletter Writing Hour on Zoom if you want to join cowork. I'll send you the links and dates.
Weekly Accountability Thread (Fridays, 9 am) - drop in and share your no #1 objective for the week (I'll send an email)
Newsletter Writing Hour (Every first Friday, 2 pm) - link for Apr 12 and May 3 on my About page here: https://www.nikatalbot.io/about - just testing this out to see how the time works, might change it.
Hi Jacc, happy Easter. I've updated the About page as going to do this weekly on Fridays now :) Just want it to be a regular drop-in thing and not have to keep track of dates. I'm starting it next week as it's Easter break and I'm travelling today.
I'll post a Thread later with all deets. What time zone are you in? It's at 11:30 GMT for an hour as not sure Friday afternoons will work, people just want to start the weekend. Look forward to chatting soon. N x
Thanks Nika. I don't want to bog down this comments section with my problems, but - briefly - the two key papers, namely "Quantum Gravity is a Result of U(1) Repulsive Dark Energy" https://vixra.org/abs/1305.0012 and "Massless Electroweak Field Propagator Predicts Mass Gap" https://vixra.org/abs/1408.0151 are both driving me nuts, in trying to think of any way to present the ideas that will widely understood and not simply ignored.
Physics is severely affected by elitist hubris, censorship, a flood of "alternative ideas" that must be suppressed to keep the stage "clean", and so on. It's depressing to keep trying to communicate to people whose whole interest in physics is driven - probably subsconsciousy - by herd fashion, cult elitism, and not by what science adverts say on the tin!
"... in the field of fundamental theoretical physics, she is quite right that most academic research is now bullshit. This is ... about the continuing disaster of overwhelming bullshit that has afflicted a field ..." - Dr Peter Woit, April 5, 2024 at 1:45 pm at "not even wrong", https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13907#comment-245508
Maybe I should just try to forget the existence of these "peer reviewers" and get on with writing as if they don't exist.
Hi Nika, hope you had a good Easter. Sorry I've still not provided copy for the physics book project, I've had a few health issues and optimistically underestimated the amount of work needed to get draft material ready to submit to you by a huge amount. The rainy weather and looking after mum have not made mathematical physics work any easier, either. Nige
Happy Easter, Nige. Keep going :) Feel free to send it over in bits, a chapter or two so I can have a read and think. You don't have to have finished it all. I'm doing a weekly Accountability Thread on Fridays @ 9 am if you want to check in and share progress and goals for the next week. And a monthly Newsletter Writing Hour on Zoom if you want to join cowork. I'll send you the links and dates.
Weekly Accountability Thread (Fridays, 9 am) - drop in and share your no #1 objective for the week (I'll send an email)
Newsletter Writing Hour (Every first Friday, 2 pm) - link for Apr 12 and May 3 on my About page here: https://www.nikatalbot.io/about - just testing this out to see how the time works, might change it.
Hi Nika! The About page says the writing hour is at 11:30 and here it says 2p. Which time zone please?
Will the links be posted on the About page the day of?
Have been snowed under at work (tech) but want to get back to my plans for SS. 🙃
Hi Jacc, happy Easter. I've updated the About page as going to do this weekly on Fridays now :) Just want it to be a regular drop-in thing and not have to keep track of dates. I'm starting it next week as it's Easter break and I'm travelling today.
I'll post a Thread later with all deets. What time zone are you in? It's at 11:30 GMT for an hour as not sure Friday afternoons will work, people just want to start the weekend. Look forward to chatting soon. N x
Save this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85453373722?pwd=mrC59t4LWLejyez48Kil06leJrHcrW.1
About page updated here: https://www.nikatalbot.io/about
Thanks Nika. I don't want to bog down this comments section with my problems, but - briefly - the two key papers, namely "Quantum Gravity is a Result of U(1) Repulsive Dark Energy" https://vixra.org/abs/1305.0012 and "Massless Electroweak Field Propagator Predicts Mass Gap" https://vixra.org/abs/1408.0151 are both driving me nuts, in trying to think of any way to present the ideas that will widely understood and not simply ignored.
Physics is severely affected by elitist hubris, censorship, a flood of "alternative ideas" that must be suppressed to keep the stage "clean", and so on. It's depressing to keep trying to communicate to people whose whole interest in physics is driven - probably subsconsciousy - by herd fashion, cult elitism, and not by what science adverts say on the tin!
"... in the field of fundamental theoretical physics, she is quite right that most academic research is now bullshit. This is ... about the continuing disaster of overwhelming bullshit that has afflicted a field ..." - Dr Peter Woit, April 5, 2024 at 1:45 pm at "not even wrong", https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13907#comment-245508
Maybe I should just try to forget the existence of these "peer reviewers" and get on with writing as if they don't exist.