I guess my last post was ages ago. I am happy to tell that after a couple of hours, my computer worked fine again. I have not used that stupid blanket again. It is evil!
Anyways, I have been really busy with lots of stuff. My midterm cycle is restarting again this coming Monday with Electrodynamics and next Monday with Classical Mechanics. At least I am done with my seminar talk on Orbital Angular Momentum of Light.
Just like the electron has an intrinsic angular momentum (Spin) and the extrinsic (Orbital), the photon also has polarization and phase gradients. These angular momenta give rise to all sort of nifty effects. It was pretty fun.
I got a book on Lie Algebras by H. Georgi. So far I have read the first part, but it is very interesting. I think it should be very useful for the first part of Warren's Field Theory class. That is basically all I have been doing on my path to String Theory, since I had to stop typing the lecture notes. So much work!
I found this graffiti on one of the blackboards in the D floor of the physics building. It is amusing since it reads "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right".
The Physics building is to the left of the hall. To the right is the Math tower.
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