How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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string theoryIt is a theory. It's a lot of maths, which is nicely provable in the maths world.
That it actually relates to the real world is a hypothesis.
I'm also fairly convinced that it doesn't describe the real world at all. Unfortunately its makeup is such that it can't be disproved. Even when they made a prediction which turned out to be wrong by something like 100 orders of magnitude (ie a *LOT*), they fiddled about so it matched again. That's not physics!!!! Gah!
(if anyone's wondering, no my branch of physics is completely unrelated. But my boyfriend is doing his PhD in spin foam models for quantum gravity. This is a major competitor for string theory)
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catness, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:23,
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