DT-Side Chat Thread v. The Blu-Ray is out so I changed the friggin' title

[?]

Okay, I'm going to army today so goodbye DTF for a year. I could post here or there sometimes but not so actively.

Bye and good luck!

[GentlemanofDread]

See ya dude and good luck!

(also what the fuck college has rearranged my learning days)

[Prog Snob]

Good luck!

Morning forumers!

[hefdaddy42]

Morning.

Wow, I just picked up the new James LaBrie, the new Rudess-Minneman-Levin project, the Winery Dogs, and the new Haken album, so I have a lot to digest.

[Prog Snob]

I still need to check all of those out.  There's so much good stuff out there now. I just checked out the new Subsignal and that's awesome to say the least.

[JayOctavarium]

Honestly I can say I enjoy the new JLB more than DT12... It's that good

[BlobVanDam]

Honestly I can say I enjoy the new JLB more than DT12... It's that good

Yeah, me too. It's my "go to" album at the moment, and I listen to it just about every day.

[hefdaddy42]

Honestly I can say I enjoy the new JLB more than DT12... It's that good

I've listened to it all the way through one time, and while I certainly like it a lot, in no way do I find it to be better than the new DT album.

[Bolsters]

Honestly I can say I enjoy the new JLB more than DT12... It's that good

[Prog Snob]

I've listened to the first few songs on the JLB CD and I definitely don't think it's better than the new DT.  The screaming vocals are hard to get past but it's still worth listening to.

[?]

I think Impermanent Resonance beats DT12 easily.

[MoraWintersoul]

I still need to check all of those out.  There's so much good stuff out there now. I just checked out the new Subsignal and that's awesome to say the least.

Yes, absolutely!

[Shadow2222]

I really, really want the US tour dates to be announced so that I can give DT all my money.

[Onno]

I think LMR is WAY better than DT12, and IR may be a bit better. IR and DT12 won't be in my top albums for this year though.

[aprilethereal]

DT12 is my aoty right now.

[aprilethereal]

JLB just posted this on twitter:

"Just saw Korn and Asking Alexandria... Great show guys, thanks. @Korn @AfuckingA #toronto"

That guy keeps surprising me. I personally dislike both bands though

[MoraWintersoul]

It's been scientifically proven JLB listens to EVERYTHING. Like, really, double the number of all the genres you've listened to and that's about what he listened/listens too.

[Prog Snob]

It's been scientifically proven JLB listens to EVERYTHING. Like, really, double the number of all the genres you've listened to and that's about what he listened/listens too.

This is true.  Even in the YouTube interview he mentioned being a fan of Deftones. That shocked me, but it's awesome to see his diversity.  I'm sure the other guys have similar versatility when it comes to musical interests.

[Onno]

I would argue that quite a few people on this forum have a more diverse taste than JLB 

[Prog Snob]

I would argue that quite a few people on this forum have a more diverse taste than JLB 

I know I do.       

[JayOctavarium]

I think LMR is WAY better than DT12, and IR may be a bit better. IR and DT12 won't be in my top albums for this year though.

I still need to hear this.

I really, really want the US tour dates to be announced so that I can give DT all my money.

They aren't coming over here till spring, right? Convenient seeing as my birthday is in April

[Prog Snob]

I think LMR is WAY better than DT12, and IR may be a bit better. IR and DT12 won't be in my top albums for this year though.

I still need to hear this.

I really, really want the US tour dates to be announced so that I can give DT all my money.

They aren't coming over here till spring, right? Convenient seeing as my birthday is in April

I'm pretty sure they said March 2014.   

[wasteland]

Oh, I've been rather absend these past few days. Major changes and all... stuff. So, what happened here?

[Onno]

Yay, I'll be doing my bachelor thesis for 15 ECTS (for non-Europeans, that means I get the equivalent of 1 full quarter in points. I need 180 in total for my bachelor, which is 3 years) in geological/geophysical numerical modelling and programming! Woohoo, I'm really excited that I'm able to do this! Most people do it only for 7.5 ECTS, which means that you have to follow an additional course during that quarter, but this is a subject I really love and I don't mind at all to spend about 10-11 weeks only on this!

[wasteland]

I hope you found a professor who can follow you closely. It's really bad when their don't have/ don't dedicate enough time to you.

[Onno]

I think I did. This professor actually told us that he had 3 places for bachelor thesis students, and that last year he did 4 but that was too much. A friend of mine also did her thesis with him last year and she was really content with it.

[wasteland]

Most teachers in my old Uni wouldn't dare have more than one graduating student at time. My friend and I did etherozygote-twin-thesises with the same professor and it was one big mess that eventually turned out rather well, but still a big mess it was!

[Onno]

Up here I think most professors have multiple graduating students at once. I think mostly it turns out fine.

[wasteland]

What's the subject of yours, precisely? Mine was about calculating the way a Neutrino Magnetic Moment would affect the number of interacting neutrinos in a scattering experiment on polarized Gadolinium Orthosilicate crystals, should a number of proposed extension to the Standard Model hold true (which they probably won't).

[Onno]

I don't know precisely what subject mine will be, I still have until about April to determine it. But it will involve a program that the professor has written and I and the other 2 graduate students will be adding some features to it probably. I don't fully understand what yours was about, I haven't studied physics enough for that 

[wasteland]

I don't know precisely what subject mine will be, I still have until about April to determine it. But it will involve a program that the professor has written and I and the other 2 graduate students will be adding some features to it probably. I don't fully understand what yours was about, I haven't studied physics enough for that 

I am very much looking forward to listening to that as your work progresses! We should have a bachelor thesis thread in GD for us Uni people

Anyway, put it like that: when I repeatedly fire a neutrino onto one electron, the latter will be affected (that is recoil with a kinetic energy T) roughly once every 10^45 times (one billionth billionth billionth billionth billionth chance of interaction, it's rather unlikely, as you see!), which is the order of magnitude of its cross section at a fixed reasonable energy. If I suppose that the neutrino has a magnetic moment as an intrinsecal feature, then there will be another term to add to the cross section, making it slightly bigger than 10^-45. This means that the electron will be affected slightly more often.

Fortunately, neutrinos are everywhere and in big numbers, and a detector with a huge number of electrons can be easily built (everything has a huge number of electrons!). So, if you camp near a nuclear reactor with a big detector made of those crystals I mentioned earlier on, you should be able to record every interactions and see that the actual number is higher than the number statistically expected when ignoring the magnetic moment.

According to the calculations I made with a code simulation, you would expect about 217 interactions per day in a detector made of 2 tons of those crystals, assuming the magnetic moment has a definite value I choose for various reasons. If there were no magnetic moment, we should only expect 215 interactions per day.

\nerd
\itsbeenapleasure
\getbacktostudy

[BlobVanDam]

Random question - what is the girl on the IaW cover actually holding? Is it related to a lyric or just part of the photo for some random reason?

[Prog Snob]

Random question - what is the girl on the IaW cover actually holding? Is it related to a lyric or just part of the photo for some random reason?

a cold, metal frame?   

[Zydar]

Random question - what is the girl on the IaW cover actually holding? Is it related to a lyric or just part of the photo for some random reason?

My best guess is the "cold metal frame" from Wait For Sleep.

Ninja'd by the Proggy Snob.

[Prog Snob]

Random question - what is the girl on the IaW cover actually holding? Is it related to a lyric or just part of the photo for some random reason?

a cold, metal frame?   

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