Comments on: Top-Ten List http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tommaso dorigo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38552 tommaso dorigo Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:26:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38552 Hmmm I meant stupefy... I do not really know whether your blog supefies or not, whatever that means. T. Hmmm I meant stupefy… I do not really know whether your blog supefies or not, whatever that means.
T.

]]> By: William.W http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38553 William.W Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:23:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38553 What a funny result! I don't suppose the number of inbound links increasing could be the fact that dailykos.com linked to cosmivariance.com? There was a main page story on 3/26 that linked here, and a couple of recommended diaries whose authors had cosmicvariance.com on their blogroll. Hell, that's how I found the site originally, back when the site was younger. Been lurking ever since~ What a funny result!

I don’t suppose the number of inbound links increasing could be the fact that dailykos.com linked to cosmivariance.com? There was a main page story on 3/26 that linked here, and a couple of recommended diaries whose authors had cosmicvariance.com on their blogroll.

Hell, that’s how I found the site originally, back when the site was younger. Been lurking ever since~

]]> By: Keeping the Variance down « A Quantum Diaries Survivor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38551 Keeping the Variance down « A Quantum Diaries Survivor Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:05:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38551 [...] posts on those shortly), I will just paste here a comment I left at cosmic variance, where Sean boasts about his (really, really good) blog ranking fourth in a certain wishful ranking: Okay, there seems [...] [...] posts on those shortly), I will just paste here a comment I left at cosmic variance, where Sean boasts about his (really, really good) blog ranking fourth in a certain wishful ranking: Okay, there seems [...]

]]> By: tommaso dorigo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38549 tommaso dorigo Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:41:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38549 Hi Sean, at the risk of sounding jealous, envious, and green with livor, I have to say I do not rate your blog as awesome. It does not supefy, it does not startle, it does not cause shots of adrenaline. It has many pluses, of course - otherwise it would not be where it is, in the list above or in other ranking systems around. And you should be happy about that. A physics blog cannot, _cannot_, be a top ranking one. Beware. If you get there, you have mutated to something you might not have liked in the past. What are you, a guy with an opinion on everything ? A star writer ? Certainly both, but you first and foremost are a scientist, and if you forget your roots it gets dangerous. Just my two pence... and congratulations. Cheers, T. Hi Sean,

at the risk of sounding jealous, envious, and green with livor, I have to say I do not rate your blog as awesome. It does not supefy, it does not startle, it does not cause shots of adrenaline. It has many pluses, of course – otherwise it would not be where it is, in the list above or in other ranking systems around.

And you should be happy about that. A physics blog cannot, _cannot_, be a top ranking one. Beware. If you get there, you have mutated to something you might not have liked in the past. What are you, a guy with an opinion on everything ? A star writer ? Certainly both, but you first and foremost are a scientist, and if you forget your roots it gets dangerous.

Just my two pence… and congratulations.
Cheers,
T.

]]> By: Albatross http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38550 Albatross Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:39:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38550 I find these results disturbing, I had no idea the economy was so bad. But there must be a lot of unemployed pudgy white guys living in their parents' basements. That's the only explanation I can come up with for lines 2, 3, 6, and 9. I find these results disturbing, I had no idea the economy was so bad. But there must be a lot of unemployed pudgy white guys living in their parents’ basements. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for lines 2, 3, 6, and 9.

]]> By: Badger3k http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38548 Badger3k Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:03:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38548 Well, I see it was a bug, but it could happen. Racists and mental patients need to sleep sometime. Well, I see it was a bug, but it could happen. Racists and mental patients need to sleep sometime.

]]> By: victor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38547 victor Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:18:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38547 Maybe the fourth place is related to the fact that, according to their statistics, your number of inbound links raised from 613 on 03/25 to 4863 on 03/26. A 790% increase (!?). Maybe the fourth place is related to the fact that, according to their statistics, your number of inbound links raised from 613 on 03/25 to 4863 on 03/26. A 790% increase (!?).

]]> By: MathandPhysics1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38546 MathandPhysics1 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:49:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38546 Perhaps a better word would have been "difficult", I wouldn't want to mislead anyone about the nature of the article. It really is about math. Perhaps a better word would have been “difficult”, I wouldn’t want to mislead anyone about the nature of the article. It really is about math.

]]> By: MathandPhysics1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38545 MathandPhysics1 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:47:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38545 Math is really hard http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/new-math.html Math is really hard

http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/new-math.html

]]> By: Justin K. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38544 Justin K. Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:14:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38544 You'll notice "Cosmic Variance" is on the sidebar of: http://malcolmpollack.com/ However things turn out, keep in mind President Bush's remark, "Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets."—Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007......http://www.slate.com/id/76886/pagenum/7 If I were a physicist and able to talk like one, I'd be very careful of what I wished for. JK You’ll notice “Cosmic Variance” is on the sidebar of:

http://malcolmpollack.com/

However things turn out, keep in mind President Bush’s remark,

“Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it’s also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.”—Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007……http://www.slate.com/id/76886/pagenum/7

If I were a physicist and able to talk like one, I’d be very careful of what I wished for.

JK

]]> By: astromcnaught http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38543 astromcnaught Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:58:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38543 Right, thank you, here we go... I imagine time running backwards for billions of years. Space brings everything towards me to a point. The Big Bang I guess. Is it possible for other observers to see the Big Bang such that they are always disconnected from me? Or, is the big bang infinite in extent and infinitely dense at the same time? I mean does theory allow an infinite density that was infinite in extent and has expanded ever since? Another one. I kinda understand entanglement. I imagine an annihilation occuring as the observable universe cooled just enough to allow one of the photons to reach me, billions of years later. The photon interacts with me and makes the other do its thing. Does that mean that the effect of me observing a photon here in my living room has affected something else beyond the Hubble radius? Right, thank you, here we go…
I imagine time running backwards for billions of years. Space brings everything towards me to a point. The Big Bang I guess. Is it possible for other observers to see the Big Bang such that they are always disconnected from me? Or, is the big bang infinite in extent and infinitely dense at the same time? I mean does theory allow an infinite density that was infinite in extent and has expanded ever since?

Another one.
I kinda understand entanglement. I imagine an annihilation occuring as the observable universe cooled just enough to allow one of the photons to reach me, billions of years later. The photon interacts with me and makes the other do its thing. Does that mean that the effect of me observing a photon here in my living room has affected something else beyond the Hubble radius?

]]> By: Chris http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38542 Chris Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:30:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38542 Dear James, The blog ratings are very scientific. It's just that our idea of 'best blog' isn't. ;) Dear James,
The blog ratings are very scientific. It’s just that our idea of ‘best blog’ isn’t. ;)

]]> By: MathandPhysics1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38536 MathandPhysics1 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:14:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38536 Okay...If you want to propose a "Cosmology Hour", I could get behind that...but only for an hour ;-) Okay…If you want to propose a “Cosmology Hour”, I could get behind that…but only for an hour ;-)

]]> By: Melusine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38540 Melusine Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:22:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38540 <blockquote>MathandPhysics1 on Mar 29th, 2008 at 7:04 am Unrelated; but a good article about hypocrisy http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/googleganda.html</blockquote> Off-topic response: M&P1, there's at least one good of it, and it's something I seriously considered proposing when I lived in the overly-light polluted city of Houston and looked at stars from a parking garage: an hour of lights off for amateur astronomers to see better without going rural. <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/29/1206207494904.html" rel="nofollow">Look at Sydney, Australia</a>. I would have been yanking out my binoculars.

MathandPhysics1 on Mar 29th, 2008 at 7:04 am

Unrelated; but a good article about hypocrisy

http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/googleganda.html

Off-topic response: M&P1, there’s at least one good of it, and it’s something I seriously considered proposing when I lived in the overly-light polluted city of Houston and looked at stars from a parking garage: an hour of lights off for amateur astronomers to see better without going rural.

Look at Sydney, Australia.

I would have been yanking out my binoculars.

]]> By: joseph duemer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38541 joseph duemer Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:01:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38541 "I find it very surprising that such a bias and often, factually incorrect, blog like Daily Kos would be number one." Yeah, LGF is so much more reliable. “I find it very surprising that such a bias and often, factually incorrect, blog like Daily Kos would be number one.”

Yeah, LGF is so much more reliable.

]]> By: James Gallagher http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38537 James Gallagher Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:52:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38537 oops, got the wrong blog for Jacques Distler, in the interests of science and accuracy, lets correct that http://www.technorati.com/blogs/golem.ph.utexas.edu%2F%7Edistler%2Fblog 126,758th place oops, got the wrong blog for Jacques Distler, in the interests of science and accuracy, lets correct that

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/golem.ph.utexas.edu%2F%7Edistler%2Fblog

126,758th place

]]> By: James Gallagher http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38539 James Gallagher Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:39:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38539 Well it was only 3 digits out, 6, 7 and 8 ;) http://technorati.com/blogs/cosmicvariance.com I'm not sure how accurate technorati ratings are, but at least your 4678 ranking beats Distler's 2,124,856 place ! http://www.technorati.com/blogs/golem.ph.utexas.edu%2F%7Edistler%2Fplanet Are there even 2 million serious blogs on the net?? :) Well it was only 3 digits out, 6, 7 and 8 ;)

http://technorati.com/blogs/cosmicvariance.com

I’m not sure how accurate technorati ratings are, but at least your 4678 ranking beats Distler’s 2,124,856 place !

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/golem.ph.utexas.edu%2F%7Edistler%2Fplanet

Are there even 2 million serious blogs on the net?? :)

]]> By: Sean http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38538 Sean Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:00:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38538 It really was just a bug, people! We are not the fourth-biggest blog, or anywhere close. John, that's an easy one -- a black hole with a temperature lower than its surroundings certainly will absorb radiation and grow in mass. It would only start losing mass once the energy it was losing via Hawking radiation was larger than what it was taking in. It really was just a bug, people! We are not the fourth-biggest blog, or anywhere close.

John, that’s an easy one — a black hole with a temperature lower than its surroundings certainly will absorb radiation and grow in mass. It would only start losing mass once the energy it was losing via Hawking radiation was larger than what it was taking in.

]]> By: Reginald Selkirk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38535 Reginald Selkirk Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:59:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38535 I'm guessing they just couldn't figure out how to spell <i>Pharyngula</i>. I’m guessing they just couldn’t figure out how to spell Pharyngula.

]]> By: MathandPhysics1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38527 MathandPhysics1 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:04:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/03/28/top-ten-list/#comment-38527 Unrelated; but a good article about hypocrisy http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/googleganda.html Unrelated; but a good article about hypocrisy

http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/googleganda.html

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