New Blogger On Board

Accidental Blogger is happy to announce the addition of a new author to the current stable of six. Our roster now includes a seventh blogger who prefers for now to go by the name of "D."  Please see his profile here. I invited D to join us after reading his many incisive and interesting comments on another blog. D hasn't told me what he will be writing about. Like all the other authors here, it will be whatever suits his fancy. (I have requested him to spare us the minutiae of particle physics though) We are looking forward to his debut on our pages. Welcome D!  

Comments

[Dean C. Rowan]

Welcome, D! I was going to be a bigger jerk than usual and ask you your thoughts of the significance of the Dirac equation as an expression of the covariance of a spinor under Lorenz transformations, but thought better of it, at least for now. I'm looking forward to reading your remarks.

[D]

Hullo Dean, thanks. A kindred spirit eh? My favorite Dirac story is this: apparently the first time he met Feynman the two said nothing for an uncomfortable moment. Then Dirac says "I have an equation."

[Dean C. Rowan]

I do get the joke, this being a prelude to confessing, on the other hand, that I don't have the slightest grasp of what I wrote. I simply cribbed language from a particle physics text I have at hand, virtually speaking. So, no, I'm not a kindred spirit if by that you mean to suggest I share an aptitude for these sorts of puzzles. Heck, I figured Dirac was a trademark or something. (Great name for a metal band...) Please do provide more gossip, though.

[Andrew Rosenblum]

Wow, I don't have enough physics knowledge to join in the Dirac riff -- I must be a carrier of the weak force! Anyhow, welcome to the blog, D, I look forward to hearing what you have to say.

[Sujatha]

Welcome to A.B., D!
I'll admit that it took me a few extra seconds to figure out the similarity in sound between 'equation' and 'a question'. But then, I've always been a bit of a fluorescent tube when it comes to getting the punchline.

Dean, you deserve a bop on the head for subjecting us to 'covariance of spinor under Lorentz transformation'. Here it comes.....BOP.

[Dean C. Rowan]

Ow!

[Anna]

Welcome! I for one, look forward to your thoughts on non-scientific topics, which I hope give you as much pleasure to mull as I get from my very infrequent comments, almost none of which (by design) have to do with the law.

[Elatia Harris]

D, as an AB reader, and a reader of that other blog which occasioned your discovery and recruitment here, I'm delighted you'll be posting on this site -- a meeting of the minds rather that a rendezvous for WIMPs. I'm sure you'll make it an even more fun place to be.

[D]

Thanks all for the welcome! I think I'll ease into posting later this week. Also, no more physics humor from here on, especially when it's that bad. Sujatha, the pun never occurred to me :)

[Dean C. Rowan]

All humor is physics humor. A man slips on a banana peel...

[Ruchira]

Will look forward to your post if you get around to it later this week, D.

FYI, all A.B. authors:

I am leaving for a short trip for the rest of the week and won't be refreshing the page. If any one of you has the time to post, please do. I will have limited access to the Internet but will be checking the blog periodically. So if D's piece does go up, I will probably be able to read it.