Chatroom History
March 23, 2018 10:00pm - 10:30pm

Gerald Fnord: Serbian vampire lore's pretty good. (10:09pm)
Gerald Fnord: I think they're the ones with dhampirs%u2014and you can get rid of them with a bullet fired into the coffin. (10:10pm)
Gerald Fnord: I think, generally, they're a form of corrupted upir, which is to say a psychopomp. (10:11pm)
Gerald Fnord: Stoker introduced the idea of their being strong, to make his Count Wampyr (as he was first called) more of a threat. Before then, they were generally pretty frail, except that if they latched onto you%u2026. (10:16pm)
Gerald Fnord: (sorry)...if they latched onto you.... (10:17pm)
Gerald Fnord: Chat lost my speculation that the psychopomp escorts the soul into the afterlife, then can't resist jumping into the vacated body to have the kind of fun it can't as an incorporeal spirit. (10:20pm)
DrPantz: What's new my fellow subGenii (10:24pm)
DrPantz: =] (10:24pm)
DrPantz: Welcome to Friday. (10:24pm)
Gerald Fnord: Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga all came-up with quantum electrodynamics around the same time, expressed in wildly different formulations. Schwinger's was more rigourous, Tomonaga's similar (I believe) but little-known, Feynman's best for doing calculations. Freeman Dyson proved them equivalent. (10:25pm)
DrPantz: digital physics? (10:25pm)
DrPantz: reality as probabilities (10:26pm)
Gerald Fnord: ...ent. Witten's version of string theory is, I gather, roughly the Feynman of the three major string theory variants. (10:26pm)
DrPantz: and then knowing this information does what? (10:27pm)
Gerald Fnord: Well, sure, probabilities---because lots of things are possible, but not equally so. (10:28pm)
DrPantz: probabilities aren't deterministic (10:28pm)
415-962-7979: CALL US! And listen to the ensuing hilarity as the DJ tries to figure out the phone system... (10:29pm)
DrPantz: har (10:29pm)
Gerald Fnord: Sorry, Peppe[sp?] was talking about there being three string theories as if that were unique. (10:29pm)