Happy Birthday to your creation, and hope you and Stefan have as much fun continuing to write this blog as we readers have in reading it!
Even the occasional weird characters that appear in the comments section remind us that human sanity is very fragile and precious; enjoy it while you have it!
Stefan turned on comment moderation yesterday since I was offline and he was at work, not having time to sort out the insults from from previous posts. It turned out to be unnecessary though, except for our friend in Pilsen who had a comment deleted, and the goatboy who had his last comment unpublished (it contained further insults of my person together with the obligatory complain about censorship) everybody stayed polite and reasonable. I believe that's to some amount due to having disabled anonymous comments. In any case, I've turned comment moderation off now, so your comments will be published without delay. Best,
Happy Birthday Backreaction!!!!! I wish I could boast I’ve looked on since it’s beginnings yet I can’t with only then wishing that I had. However since my first discovering it I’ve enjoyed taking in and learning plenty about what’s going on at the cutting edge of physics from the point of view of those that participate and contribute. More importantly though I’ve come to know something about the hearts and minds of a truly wonderful couple for which I wish all the best in the coming years.
Congrats Bee and Stefan (and others who must help make it possible) on four years of Backreaction. I see the other regular crew have rightly chimed in (BTW that phrase should be OK in cases of approval like here) as well as others, and of note. I note again that the interdisciplinary posts are very cogent and interesting, and perhaps more "important" in a sense since there's so much regular science all over the place. But good socio-cultural science blend is hard to find. Also if readers have Facebook you will find lots of clever slice of life comments at Bee's page.
BTW, I found some interesting and relevant anniversaries in history of science, but the below might interest Bee and Stefan in particular because of subject, nationality, married collaborators, and inferred slighting of women scientists in the past (and still?) From http://www.todayinsci.com/2/2_25.htm :
Ida Noddack Born 25 Feb 1896; died 1979. German chemist who co-discovered (1925) element 75, rhenium, which they named after the Rhine River. ... She was working with Walter Noddack, her future husband (1926). ... She commented on the possibility of fission upon hearing the reports of Fermi's 1934 observations of the neutron bombardment of uranium. Her idea remained dormant. However, when Frisch, five years afterwards, presented the same idea, it became accepted. ...
I suppose that means: since I don't hear much about her now, that she got neither much attention for the proposal, or credit later.
PS: considering the blog name, maybe a post on "backreaction" in physics would be nice. I note that Wikipedia's article on "back-reaction" is very small, maybe someone could fill that in more. Also, I suppose Google Translator is getting better at phrases, but we still need to be careful with it.
"Backreaction" embedded in a German phrase ("Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, liebe Backreaction") is really funny, as it makes you read it as something related to "backen", i.e baking ;-)
Hi Neil,
thanks for pointing out Ida Noddack's birthday, I wasn't aware of that.
I came across her name when I looked a bit into the history of technetium a while ago for a post (which should be continued...)
It seems she and her husband thought to have discovered this element (known then as a remaining gap in the periodic table), but that discovery turned out to be spurious. I don't know while she is more or less unknown today...
Hello Bee, congratulations to 4th anniversary of Your creation. Georg PS Stefan: one of the questions from that old thread on Tc (why there is no stable isotop) is answered in Finkelnburg, Einführung in die Atomphysik, 11te + 12te Auflage Springer 1967 S. 270 f.
thanks for the hint, I'll try to find a copy of the book... I remember it from my undergrad days. I'm still looking for some explanation why the odd-even parabolas for binding energy and the Mattauch rules "conspire" to just make element 43 unstable...
"Happy Birthday"
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Happy Birthday to youuuuu
Happy Birthsay to youuuu
Happy Birthday, Dear Backreaction,
Happy Birthday to you.
And, thanks to Google Translator:
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag zu youuuuu
Birthsay glücklich zu youuuu
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, liebe Backreaction,
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag für Sie.
6:21 PM, February 24, 2010
These flowers look VERY familiar :-)
7:29 PM, February 24, 2010
There is actually a German version of "Happy Birthday," it's "Zum Geburtstag viel Glueck."
7:30 PM, February 24, 2010
Dear Bee,
Happy Birthday to your creation, and hope you and Stefan have as much fun continuing to write this blog as we readers have in reading it!
Even the occasional weird characters that appear in the comments section remind us that human sanity is very fragile and precious; enjoy it while you have it!
-Arun
9:40 PM, February 24, 2010
After 4 Years, moderation?
Regardless, happy birthday.
Best,
1:22 AM, February 25, 2010
Hi Plato,
Stefan turned on comment moderation yesterday since I was offline and he was at work, not having time to sort out the insults from from previous posts. It turned out to be unnecessary though, except for our friend in Pilsen who had a comment deleted, and the goatboy who had his last comment unpublished (it contained further insults of my person together with the obligatory complain about censorship) everybody stayed polite and reasonable. I believe that's to some amount due to having disabled anonymous comments. In any case, I've turned comment moderation off now, so your comments will be published without delay. Best,
B.
5:40 AM, February 25, 2010
Hi Bee & Stefan,
Happy Birthday Backreaction!!!!! I wish I could boast I’ve looked on since it’s beginnings yet I can’t with only then wishing that I had. However since my first discovering it I’ve enjoyed taking in and learning plenty about what’s going on at the cutting edge of physics from the point of view of those that participate and contribute. More importantly though I’ve come to know something about the hearts and minds of a truly wonderful couple for which I wish all the best in the coming years.
Happy Birthday!!!!!,
Phil
6:24 AM, February 25, 2010
Congratulations!
-cvj
8:35 AM, February 25, 2010
Gratz, and thanks for interesting articles.
9:35 AM, February 25, 2010
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc141/makkadawn/happy%20birthday/maxine_birthdays_are_good1122222222.jpg
11:37 AM, February 25, 2010
keep walking Backreaction!!!
12:14 PM, February 25, 2010
Thanks for the explanation Bee.
Uncle why are you procrastinating.:) You know how to make direct links?
For images, just use the "a href" as you would a link and it will take you to image. Use "properties" to be exact as to url link choice.
Took a bit, but the rest of the crew here "got it" by example now there all "youtubers.":)
I imagine if one was artistic enough one could come forth with their "own image" of this evolution? A onion vegetable( a pearl) with tubal?
As if, a slight deviation in the skull can make room for the way we now use the brain in correlation with the internet?:)
Best,
12:41 PM, February 25, 2010
Congrats Bee and Stefan (and others who must help make it possible) on four years of Backreaction. I see the other regular crew have rightly chimed in (BTW that phrase should be OK in cases of approval like here) as well as others, and of note. I note again that the interdisciplinary posts are very cogent and interesting, and perhaps more "important" in a sense since there's so much regular science all over the place. But good socio-cultural science blend is hard to find. Also if readers have Facebook you will find lots of clever slice of life comments at Bee's page.
BTW, I found some interesting and relevant anniversaries in history of science, but the below might interest Bee and Stefan in particular because of subject, nationality, married collaborators, and inferred slighting of women scientists in the past (and still?) From http://www.todayinsci.com/2/2_25.htm :
Ida Noddack
Born 25 Feb 1896; died 1979.
German chemist who co-discovered (1925) element 75, rhenium, which they named after the Rhine River. ... She was working with Walter Noddack, her future husband (1926). ... She commented on the possibility of fission upon hearing the reports of Fermi's 1934 observations of the neutron bombardment of uranium. Her idea remained dormant. However, when Frisch, five years afterwards, presented the same idea, it became accepted. ...
I suppose that means: since I don't hear much about her now, that she got neither much attention for the proposal, or credit later.
PS: considering the blog name, maybe a post on "backreaction" in physics would be nice. I note that Wikipedia's article on "back-reaction" is very small, maybe someone could fill that in more.
Also, I suppose Google Translator is getting better at phrases, but we still need to be careful with it.
12:54 PM, February 25, 2010
(Well, one day off but it was a relevant catch.)
12:56 PM, February 25, 2010
Gibt es einen schönen Geschenk, an den ich denken kann? Mmmm, lass mich mal bitte ein bisschen überlegen...
Doch ich weiss: Der Lumo im Geburtstagkuchen, der raus aus dem Geburtstagkuchen springt, und sagt: "Ja, andere Theorien können AUCH sein!"
Geil, nee?
1:31 PM, February 25, 2010
Dear all,
thanks for the good wishes!
Hi Steven,
"Backreaction" embedded in a German phrase ("Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, liebe Backreaction") is really funny, as it makes you read it as something related to "backen", i.e baking ;-)
Hi Neil,
thanks for pointing out Ida Noddack's birthday, I wasn't aware of that.
I came across her name when I looked a bit into the history of technetium a while ago for a post (which should be continued...)
It seems she and her husband thought to have discovered this element (known then as a remaining gap in the periodic table), but that discovery turned out to be spurious. I don't know while she is more or less unknown today...
Cheers, Stefan
4:44 PM, February 25, 2010
Hello Bee,
congratulations to 4th anniversary
of Your creation.
Georg
PS
Stefan: one of the questions from
that old thread on Tc (why there is no
stable isotop) is answered in
Finkelnburg, Einführung in die
Atomphysik, 11te + 12te Auflage
Springer 1967 S. 270 f.
6:32 PM, February 25, 2010
Hallo Georg,
thanks for the hint, I'll try to find a copy of the book... I remember it from my undergrad days. I'm still looking for some explanation why the odd-even parabolas for binding energy and the Mattauch rules "conspire" to just make element 43 unstable...
Best, Stefan
3:01 AM, February 26, 2010
Congratulations!
Bee,
in the previous comment thread you complain that you cannot comment on my utterly dumb blog. That is too bad, because I welcome every input.
2:57 AM, February 28, 2010
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8:04 AM, April 03, 2010