User:Aeia

Please do not hesitate to correct mistakes of mine. That's one of the main purposes of a wiki, isn't it?

Foamy soap.

Free software. MATLAB is not free software. Neither is Ubuntu (at least not fully), but it's much better than Windows, and I'm not swimming in huge lakes of money.

The United Nations and various other international organizations use English with Oxford spelling.

A4 is better. Would you like to buy me some A4-size paper?

Existence and Identity

I probably exist, which is possibly more than can be said for solutions in general to the Navier–Stokes equations, and you can probably figure out who I am by reading the rest of this page (if you know me well enough) or you are in a position in which you can look at relevant computer data. (My name is sufficiently simple that there really is no need for a pronunciation guide. If you REALLY wish to be correct, you can pronounce my last name as if it had an O in place of the A. Even then that doesn't encompass Chinese tones, so don't worry about it too much.)

General Message

Ignore the fact that complex numbers are not comparable.

Failed to parse (: Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "http://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {{1} \over {3}}{e^{-{{3i\pi} \over {2}}}} < \int\limits_{0}^{u} dx }

No Understanding Here

Here is something about the coupling of an open string to a D-brane or a Kalb–Ramond field or some such craziness:

Failed to parse (: Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "http://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S=-\int d\tau d\sigma\frac{\partial X^{\mu}}{\partial\tau}\frac{\partial X^{\nu}}{\partial\sigma}B_{\mu\nu}\left(X\left(\tau,\sigma\right)\right)+\int d\tau A_{m}\left(X\right)\left.\frac{dX^{m}}{d\tau}\right|_{\sigma=\pi}-\int d\tau A_{m}\left(X\right)\left.\frac{dX^{m}}{d\tau}\right|_{\sigma=0} }

Certain... friends would call that "pretty." With LaTeX, maybe. But still, there is no understanding here.

Clearly Somebody is Awesome

Look where "User:root" at Wikipedia redirects to! I would have taken that user name here, except it seemed a bit megalomaniacal, and (more importantly) "root" looks bad with an uppercase R.

Something About the Engineering Grand Challenge

No, I will not provide a link to the Grand Challenges for Engineering page for your convenience.

Anyway, particle accelerators consist one class of the tools specified in the NAE-specified goal of "Engineer[ing] the tools of scientific discovery." As fundamental physics theories progress to smaller and smaller distance scales (and therefore higher and higher energy scales), particle accelerators need to produce collisions with higher and higher energy in order to provide experimental data useful for further development and verification/falsification of these theories. The highest-energy accelerator currently in existence is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. For experiments most relevant to high-energy particle physics, the LHC collides protons, which is useful for achieving high energy, as protons have reasonably high mass. However, it's somewhat difficult to extract data from proton-proton collisions because protons have an internal structure of gluons and quarks. What we also need in addition to the LHC (at least according to proponents) is a linear accelerator that collides electrons and positrons: linear because it is difficult to control electrons in a circular path and keep it at high energy, electrons and positrons because they do not (as far as we know now) have any internal structure. So this proposed International Linear Collider and the LHC will work together: the LHC gives a general idea of what goes on, and the ILC allow high-precision experiments once we know from the LHC where to look.

(I pulled all of this information out of my as-

cough*

hat. There will be no need to complain about references. However, you can take a look on the Internet yourself if you want.)

See the four-part ILC Reference Design Report for more information about the ILC than you probably want to know right now, and probably forever if you don't intend to do high-energy physics. The list of contributors and institutions is more than twenty letter-size pages long, so it's better off for all of us if you take a look yourself. International Linear Collider, published August 2007, accessed 23 September 2010 (Engineer the tools of scientific discovery)

MATLAB Demonstrations

T3h Game of Life is fairly crunchy and delectable because of all the possibilities that can result from a few simple rules. Actual working implementations of it are all over the Interwebz, so expecting MATLAB to have an implementation is an (almost?) reasonable expectation. It would be a disappointment otherwise, maybe.