http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theory Damned if I don't think I'm going to delete my Wikipedia bookmark before one of us gets hurt. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 "Unreal! unreal!" ghost helmsmen scream And fall in through the sky. < Van der Graaf
mimus wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theory > > Damned if I don't think I'm going to delete my Wikipedia bookmark before > one of us gets hurt. > I used 'eigenfunction' and 'eigenstate' in a sentence this afternoon. -- nuts
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:32:22 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > mimus wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theory >> >> Damned if I don't think I'm going to delete my Wikipedia bookmark before >> one of us gets hurt. > > I used 'eigenfunction' and 'eigenstate' in a sentence this afternoon. Talking about a refrigerator? -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 "It's a Boo--!" < _The Hunting of the Snark_
mimus wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:32:22 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > >>mimus wrote: >> >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theory >>> >>>Damned if I don't think I'm going to delete my Wikipedia bookmark before >>>one of us gets hurt. >> >>I used 'eigenfunction' and 'eigenstate' in a sentence this afternoon. > > Talking about a refrigerator? > That wasn't germane to the particular discussion (which involved reentrant modes of an electromagnetic resonator into which spins would be put) but yes, if one has (eg.) a spin system at equilbrium at positive temperature in a magnetic field, and then one inverts the spin system, one, in fact, now has a spin system effectively at negative temperature. This spin system will now absorb energy at a characteristic rate (T1) from the lattice until it relaxes to its former state. See 'adiabatic demagnetization'. -- nuts
On Jan 4, 8:36 pm, mixed nuts <melopsiti...@undulatus.budgie> wrote: > mimus wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:32:22 -0500, mixed nuts wrote: > > >>mimus wrote: > > >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theory > > >>>Damned if I don't think I'm going to delete my Wikipedia bookmark before > >>>one of us gets hurt. > > >>I used 'eigenfunction' and 'eigenstate' in a sentence this afternoon. > > > Talking about a refrigerator? > > That wasn't germane to the particular discussion (which involved > reentrant modes of an electromagnetic resonator into which spins would > be put) but yes, if one has (eg.) a spin system at equilbrium at > positive temperature in a magnetic field, and then one inverts the spin > system, one, in fact, now has a spin system effectively at negative > temperature. This spin system will now absorb energy at a characteristic > rate (T1) from the lattice until it relaxes to its former state. > > See 'adiabatic demagnetization'. > I used pi and a coworker asked me why was I writing in chinese. -- Slipped Moebius mhm28x9
