raptop changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer. | We can haz pdf
<bofh>
UmbralRaptor: miaou
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<UmbralRaptor>
bofh: sorry, was lying face down and hallucinating vividly for most of the evening
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<bofh>
(Like the thing that isn't coming to mind is why γ should be cubed, first off).
<bofh>
okay yeah that is the same thing I was going to attempt, but indeed just via product rule you'll get two terms in your final answer and they don't appear to simplify.
<UmbralRaptor>
yeah, γ = 1/√(1-v²) is where the γ³ can come from, but…
<bofh>
Hm.
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* UmbralRaptor
🔪 things
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<UmbralRaptor>
… I'll ask the teacher during office hours Friday
<UmbralRaptor>
Textbooks seem to do proof by assertion
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* UmbralRaptor
pokes the GZK paradox with an ultrarelativistic proton.
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* UmbralRaptor
is amused at how the enormous kinetic energy requirement is only from conservation of momentum. Ignoring that would allow the proton to have a Lorentz factor of like 1.15.
<kmath>
<Astro_Wright> I opened up these two links in my Twitter feed consecutively and coincidentally: a paper I can't read because the B… https://t.co/Xq94ua5VeU