the half-crazed ramblings of a committed physicist

Archive for March, 2007

Recent non-posting

I want to apologize to all six readers I have for not updating more frequently. You see, I got really busy last week, and this week I was totally going to add a bunch of new content, but I got food poisoning on Tuesday, an hospital visit on Wednesday, and now I’m just recovering. I’ll hopefully bring you some new material in the near future.

Not Even Wrong

I’ve recently been probing around the science blagoplex hunting for other physics blogs to read. One of them, Not Even Wrong, is maintained by Columbia University mathematician, and former high energy theorist, Peter Woit, who wrote a book by the same name. Read more »

The Prospect of Writing a Dissertation

    I knew that, at some point during my graduate career, I would be called on to write my dissertation. In fact, I’m reasonably sure that this will happen near the end of it. So I’ve read a few guides on how to get it done, and they all say the same things. I feel confident that I can churn out a 120 page document discussing research that I’ve done. I should hope that in four years of graduate school, I’ll have done enough to fill that in. But I can’t help but feel a little nervous about the process. Read more »