Steven R. Cranmer

Title bar of "Polarization Diagnostics Applied to Coronal Mass Ejeections and the Background Solar Wind", a newly published paper in the journal Solar Physics

<thud>! Another PUNCH paper dropped today! Congratulations to Sarah Gibson on this omnibus theoretical treatment of polarization in solar wind structures. Given the simplicity of the Thomson scattering mechanism, it's pretty amazing how deep the rabbit hole can go. 🧪☀️⚛️🔭🛰️
bit.ly/4qT9Kvs

Aurora borealis from Colorado?

Aurora from Colorado? Camera caught this, but our eyes saw nothing!

I can still see Torgo coming down those steps...

In David Zindell's sci-fi "Neverness" series, there's a whole field of "eschatologists" who devote their careers to just this kind of thing...

Yup! Thanks! There's also a 2023 Jupyter notebook on Zenodo that's probably easier to use than the 2021 stuff...

Silly joke. The person he's singing about in "Stick Season" probably isn't a fan... 😁

Well, there's that one woman in Vermont, right?

No worries. We've been pretty happy with Kaiser.

No... it must depend on which insurance you use? I don't think I've set foot in one in 10 years...

There's usually an official notification sent to the PI (not FI) with links to debrief/feedback docs, but I don't know how thumbs-up's are timed with respect to thumbs-down's...

I thought this means Elmer has taken over Lockheed's advanced aircraft division... 🦨

I think that's from Galaxy Quest (Another Tim Allen movie!) 😁👍

Someday, humanity can take a Foray to those planets...

I hit "like" because there's no button for "sigh..."

Lee Majors may have some comments about the remake status of #25...

Crow from Hawk the Slayer

One movie that really went for that connection was 'Hawk the Slayer!' Crow the elf was very Spockesque...

Bluto Blutarsky's GPA...

Chart of Thai colors of each day of the week, from wikipedia

I hadn't heard of this either, and it got me curious. For example, why is Wednesday split into two colors for morning and evening, but not the other days?

Congratulations to Kris Klein (@uarizona.bsky.social) who has won the AAS Solar Physics Division's Karen Harvey Prize for awesome work on the solar wind, turbulence, and fundamental plasma physics!

If it could fit into my office, I'd claim it! :-)

"And if I had a dollar [of support funding], I might give you $0.99..."

(This reply thread can't *all* just be Two Princes quotes...)

Intuitive but Non-Rigorous Explanations of Infinite Numbers The mathematical study of infinity seems to have the ability to transport the mind to lofty and unusual realms. Decades ago, I was transported in this way by Rudy Rucker's book Infinity and the...

In honor of the blue skies now extending in all directions, I'll plug my new paper "Intuitive but Non-Rigorous Explanations of Infinite Numbers." This journey to the land of large cardinals was very much inspired by @rudytheelder.bsky.social ... see: arxiv.org/abs/2401.07346

wait, Phil's official home is called what?

I think it means they're small enough to fit into a triple-stacked set of 3U cubesats...

There's so much mind-blowing stuff there. Later this year, I hope to finish writing my ~50 page "Intuitive Explanations of Infinite Numbers for Non-Specialists" & upload it to arXiv. I *think* I understand the inaccessible cardinals, but the Mahlo cardinals are still whooshing over my head...

5 for me (thanks, George Field!)

"As a small child, I was fascinated by the movie Interstellar..." (Sorry, when I was a small child, Matthew McConaughey wasn't born yet...) 😵

Yesterday's #DoctorWho inspired me to share the cover of one of my favorite physics textbooks...

Mork from Ork

jaz-what? All the GenXers know the command is actually !shazbot

I had some fun writing up a new page for "miscellaneous" research for my web site. It's a start, but it will expand... stevencranmer.bitbucket.io/cranmer_res_...