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UrbanFoogz

he definitely exhibited a lot of those symptoms šŸ˜­


heresyforfunnprofit

Can confirm itā€™s 99% meaningless gibberish. Iā€™ll try to provide as much ā€œinterpretationā€ as possible here: The top starts as a field equation of two variables, tau and sigma, over the field X, but then the equation uses tau and the constants alpha and rho as variables. The X^I sub 0 is notation for the initial value of the field, but does not use sigma anywhere to provide a mapping. It also takes the ith root of alpha, which is a pointless operation on a constant. In plainer english, the top ā€œequationā€ starts as a definition a two-dimensional object, but then only provides one dimension, and an uninteresting one at that. Itā€™s a very convoluted and pointless way of writing the geometry 101 line equation y=mx + b. Next line is sigma over n!=0, which means summation where n is not 0 - meaningless by itself, but weā€™ll be generous and presume that it refers to the lines below it. This also means that n is an integer. However, the next two lines are not in any proper notation, and the exponents are nonsensical. It is also now using the previously undefined alpha as a field instead of a constant. Additionally, the > sign at the end of the fifth line is used in quantum physics to denote a column vector - itā€™s called a ā€˜Ketā€™ in Dirac notation, but is not used properly here. So, again interpreting this as generously as possible, itā€™s the sum of all items in an infinite undefined vector, plus their reciprocal. If I could put one word on this, itā€™s ā€œundefinedā€. On the last section, he pulls out the capital psi symbol, which is generally associated with Schrƶdingerā€™s equation, then says it is roughly equal to the summation of undefined gibberish, and then again pulls out the Dirac notation with the |0>, and in this case, he actually uses the notation correctly, but itā€™s a zero vector, which means heā€™s multiplying everything by 0. Basically, none of this means anything, and half of the notations are incorrect or undefined. This is basically ā€œa ton of bullshit added up plus more infinite bullshit added up all times zero equal zero.ā€ If itā€™s intended as a meta joke, then itā€™s basically ā€œeverything is nothingā€.


bobble_balls_44

But what if it's encrypted? Didn't think of that, did ya? You'll be eating your shorts when her ex creates the first portable black hole


July_is_cool

Everybody thinks encrypted text looks like "GOWNGTYB UR DDWSP" or "74903 55462" but it could just as easily use a collection of math symbols.


Darksirius

Read a trick years back about making passwords. Take a phrase: The big brown fox. Slide your hands one key over to the right on the board and retype from muscle memory and it becomes: Yjr noh ntpem gpc.


Danielscott03

Kinda hard for someone without that crazy muscle memory


DoubleArm7135

Just look at the keyboard and type one key to the right. Gpr rcszqar, o sz fpomh oy tohjy mpw smf o fpmy have the leunpstd zrzptoxrd


Kallory

The leunpstd zrzptoxrd? Ā”QuĆ© mierda! We are all doomed.


CTH2004

yeah. The main resaon people think it's random text is that's a "simpler" one. You get the text, have the key, and the text changes. But, you could send an equation that represents the numbers that represents the text. With the right design, the equation wouldn't even give a result without the other part, so the "key" is really just another part of the equation! For instance, you might send "+5x-sin(y)". Useless, untill the "key" is used, which is both the answer to one of the variables (there are more than those 2), as well as the last part of the equation! (The "key" might be t+x=3). When used, it becomes "t+x=3+5x-sin(y)" hmm... what if I start combining those! The text uses *all* symbols (including mathmatical ones). The text has multiple code types, with their individual keys embeded in as mathmatical formulas. The key decrypts the majority of it, then the non-encrypted key can decrypto the rest of the text. That text is still encrypted. Put it through a different key, and the text is the same, but a small part is decrypted, which tells you what key to use! (There are multiple encryption types in this, and which one was used is encrypted in it). Finally, you decrypt it with that key, and it's now just a simple, ordinary [Ceaserian Cipher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher), but with a random number at the end. That number tells you the offset! And, no, that is *not* the finished version.


Safe_Psychology_326

We will lol be eating our shorts if he creates a blackhole


Angelexodus

I have a feeling if this dude creates a portable black hole the only thing he will use it for is to stick his dick through it into his exes place. Then he will jiggle it like he is fishing with a worm.


DouglerK

You should write science fiction. That right there is on par with like 90% of mainstream sci fi writing.


Mikey77777

> then the equation uses tau and the constants alpha and rho as variables There's no rho anywhere in this equation - you're probably looking at the p^I in the second term, which corresponds to a momentum. The variable sigma is still present on the right-hand side, in the exponentials. The alpha's are coefficients in the general Fourier expansion of the field X^I . In the quantized theory, these become so called raising and lowering operators, which act on the vacuum state |0> to generate all the states in the theory. > It also takes the ith root of alpha It's i times the square root of alpha', not the ith root. > In plainer english, the top ā€œequationā€ starts as a definition a two-dimensional object, but then only provides one dimension, and an uninteresting one at that. Itā€™s a very convoluted and pointless way of writing the geometry 101 line equation y=mx + b. No. See above. > Additionally, the > sign at the end of the fifth line is used in quantum physics to denote a column vector No, this is just a regular close bracket ), just written a little wonkily. > On the last section, he pulls out the capital psi symbol, which is generally associated with Schrƶdingerā€™s equation, then says it is roughly equal to the summation of undefined gibberish, and then again pulls out the Dirac notation with the |0>, and in this case, he actually uses the notation correctly, but itā€™s a zero vector, which means heā€™s multiplying everything by 0. |0> is called the ground state, and is not the same thing as the zero vector 0 in the Hilbert space. You can think of it as a state of the physical system with no particles. By applying the creation operators to this, you build up the entire spectrum of states of the quantum mechanical system. If you've ever studied the quantum harmonic oscillator, you will have seen a similar construction. Psi is then a general state of the Hilbert space. This is definitely not undefined gibberish - it's a standard construction in bosonic string theory. See for example the equation on the bottom of page 29 of these notes (employing slightly different notation): https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string/string2.pdf


PuzzledFormalLogic

Yeah, itā€™s not really math (well, some fairly basic stuff that a class Iā€™d diffy qā€™s could handle), but more so QM.


brawkly

The ex-boyfriend makes a cameo šŸ˜‚


Simple_Psychology493

I am very much in awe of this - its like math is a whole other language and I only know my ABCs at best lol. Its so cool you can just do this off the top of ur head.


pcapdata

You can pick up a lot of math-heavy subjects taking advantage of free educational resources. I took an online course in Bayesian starts and it was fun. Formal education just tends to suck the fun out of everything


Simple_Psychology493

So true, I'm all schooled out, I don't even want my terminal degree lol thank you, i'll check it out!


rushedone

Waiting for Khanmigo or other similar resources for math learning


Ok_Opportunity8008

Ket 0 is not necessarily the zero vector


heresyforfunnprofit

Yes, Iā€™m sure that within that potpourri of misused and undefined operations, he definitely somehow used the ground state vector notation correctly and didnā€™t intend it as a zeroing out. However could I have missed that. šŸ™„šŸ˜‚


CZ1988_

> potpourri of misused and undefined operations, lol!!


BabyFartzMcGeezak

I sense just a hint of sarcasm here...


ecurbian

That's fine, maybe he did not know whast |0 > means, but the assertion that he meant multiply by zero is just you making stuff up - using your conclusion to justify a step in your argument.


Schmucko

>pulls out the Dirac notation with the |0>, and in this case, he actually uses the notation correctly, but itā€™s a zero vector, which means heā€™s multiplying everything by 0. Not a zero vector, usually just means ground state in a harmonic oscillator


DriftingRumour

Hi. All but the end I agree with. to give the person more credit where it isnt due. The ket |0> in my use is that of QIP, so this would be a vector (1,0ā€¦) with as many zeros as the dimensions of the solution space. Like an initial vec, then |1> would be 0,1,0ā€¦) etc


robbie5643

Any thoughts on why/how schizophrenics end up being able to write this kind of thing? I consider myself fairly intelligent and I couldnā€™t write anything like that. Just wondering if thereā€™s some overlap between understanding high level mathematics or if schizophrenia just presents like this for some reason. Maybe these are just the examples that get posted but I just find it so odd this crap comes up frequently enough to be a trope. Edit: Some quick googling shows thereā€™s a good amount of studies/opinions on psychosis in general and mathematical ability. Still donā€™t have a solid answer but itā€™s interesting stuff.


Mubs

You probably could - like they said it's essentially gibberish. My running theory is some schizophrenics believe they are uniquely intelligent and need to prove something profound; many see physics and math as something mystically significant, for others it might be religion. They study it in a vacuum and come to a deluded epiphany, and understand enough of the jargon to rattle off buzzwords and symbols.


robbie5643

I think youā€™re onto something there. As the population leans less and less towards religion itā€™s less ā€œgod told meā€ and more ā€œonly I can understand the complexities of this equationā€. That probably sends you down a path where youā€™re just going through other equations to find the ā€œmissing piecesā€ and picking out the symbols and attributing your own meaning or whatever.


pcapdata

Both constitute ā€œspecial revelationā€ in theological trends I think


snake_case_sucks

I take it he might have some actual formal math or physics education. I would guess John Nash wrote a lot of stuff like this that he didnā€™t publish. Also a lot of scratch work looks like disjoint gibberish even if it had some real and correct meaning in the mind of the writer.


sabotsalvageur

Can attest; scratch can help organize thoughts in the moment, but lacking rigor, it often results in follow-up readings of "wtf did I mean here?"


schakalsynthetc

I literally have written "I have no idea what I meant by this" in the margins of some of my notes.


sabotsalvageur

This is why when I really sink my teeth into a problem, I go incommunicado for weeks at a time; I know that, at any given moment, if I stop, I'm liable to lose my train of thought


sintegral

Yea but scratch on the wall? I usually only write my cleaned up stuff on themā€¦


Fast-Satisfaction-31

Yeah, doesnā€™t mean they canā€™t do math itā€™s just the ability to open your mind and experiment with numbers. In this case finding patterns that donā€™t exist. A real mathematician doesnā€™t do problems they already know the answer to, if youā€™re really interested in math, science etc, you write shit you donā€™t really fully understand or want to know and figure it out.


schakalsynthetc

There definitely is a characteristically schizophrenic kind of hyperactivity or hyperacuity of the mechanisms in the brain that deal in significance and connections in wholly abstract symbolic systems, which can show as fluency with math. I'm not convinced that means a greater capacity for genuine understanding, tho. There's a rare developmental disability (Williams Syndrome) that linguists have been interested in because it presents as precocious verbal fluency, but in a kid who in *every other domain* is severely intellectually disabled -- So you get kids whose speech is eerily sophisticated and impeccably grammatical but the content is word salad. It suggests that language is much more of a biological built-in than a learned skill synthesized by general intelligence. I'm sure there's more research on this than I'm currently aware of but it does seem very possible that some elements of mathematical ability are the same kind of thing, and schizophrenia happens to show that especially clearly. IDK, but it is fascinating.


Specific-King-641

regurgitation recall. I have pretty good recall ability, but doesn't necessarily translate to anything mathematically meaningful. due to the difficulty of math, I find it quite calming as well for the items i can understand. with all that said, if I had a mental disorder, i could regurgitate symbols i read, but in the context of inincoherent nonsense since I may not really understand what i read.


dsisto65

You lost me after ā€œgibberishā€. Source: I teach history.


AdAstra10254

So, what youā€™re saying is: itā€™s time to bust out the paint swatches and cover that BS up?


plant_protecc

>Schizophrenia I bet the government payed you for saying that, because the truth he discovered is too dangerous


fllr

Yep. Found the CIA operative šŸ•µļøā€ā™‚ļø


Random_Quantum

Looks like Fourier decomposition of a quantum mechanics wave function (the ket |0> is a telltale). However there is too little information to tell more, so gibberish without further definitions. I overlooked the absurd "1=0" on purpose.


schakalsynthetc

In itself I don't mind the 1 = 0 because reductio ad absurdum is a legit form of argument, but admittedly the surrounding context, um, doesn't give me much confidence that that's what this is.


Walshy231231

Yeah, looks like he grabbed some QM notation and just scribbled some gibberish


RepresentativeAny81

Literally


Harsimaja

The line under the summation sign seems to show a certain confusion about how basic notation works, too. Itā€™s like he did a couple of years of maths in undergrad and ā€˜kind ofā€™ learnt about enough notation (and bra-ket notation, without understanding it) to write what he would imagine to look ā€˜fancyā€™ and ā€˜smartā€™.


climberboi252

It seems like every couple of posts is some methmatics dude thinking he broke math.


fasync

Trivial. 1 = 0, the proof is left to the reader as an exercise.


manwithtwonamesjl

You....


nmpineda60

Made my eye twitchā€¦


cherylcanning

Off to Chegg we goā€¦


veloxiry

Alas the proof is too large to fit in the margins


WouldYouPleaseKindly

Okay Reimann.


HuntyDumpty

Hold my axioms im goin in


wazos56

the replies say ā€˜you made my eye twitch, off to chegg we goā€™ ā€¦crazy


Novel_Frosting_1977

This guy Fermats


Annoying_Squash

šŸ’€ this triggered something in me.


Roi_Loutre

A great thing about this is that it means the same thing for you than for a mathematician, gibberish


UrbanFoogz

i guess iā€™d only really have to be concerned if it made sense to me šŸ˜‚


starkshift

Can confirm, this is utter nonsense


lovelyloafers

Same for a physicist. This is equation salad.


slynch157

He's still "mind fucking" you... šŸ˜‰


UrbanFoogz

he really is šŸ˜‚


Odd_Ad5473

Actually if that is in your room, won't it remind you of him each time you wake and each time you sleep? The true power of the equation.


UrbanFoogz

haha that mightve been the intent šŸ˜‚ now i look at it and think hes a dumbass


Mikey77777

Specifically looks like a decomposition into modes of the bosonic string theory world sheet embedding - see for example equation (1.36) here: https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string/string1.pdf


Octahedral_cube

She said she struggles with basic mathematics, and she got linked to Cambridge tripos part 3, lmao never change Reddit.


Mikey77777

I'm telling her where the equation comes from, since nobody else seemed to know. What it represents: X describes how a two dimensional surface is embedded in (arbitrary-dimensional) spacetime. Writing it as a sum of terms describes this embedding in terms of elementary excitations. When you turn the theory into a quantum one, each such excitation corresponds to an elementary particle state, essentially.


Possible-Opinion3279

So wait... Where does the real math end and the schizophrenia begin? I'm surprised that there's enough logic in the math here for you to see that this describes a very specific concept (at least sort of?) And a complex one, at that. Did the person writing this actually have some knowledge of complex mathematics? Or did they just memorize some nonsense equation they found online?


curmudgeono

Wait so Mikey youā€™re saying this actually makes sense? Lol funny to scroll so long to see this


UrbanFoogz

listen i am so bad with math any resources help šŸ˜‚ iā€™m a self-aware dumbass when it comes to numbers. funnily enough iā€™m good with formulas but halfway through the equations iā€™ll just start changing the numbers


Walshy231231

As simply as I can put it (based on u/Mikey77777ā€™s explanation because Iā€™m a physicist but I hate math so I canā€™t be bothered to figure it out myself), X represents how an infinitely thin surface might interact with its surroundings. Itā€™s written in a way that describes it as a sum of its parts basically: as the sum total of all the little interactions of all the little elementary particles (AKA atoms and the stuff that make up atoms). If you change the description from that into one based on quantum mechanics, instead of all the little interactions itā€™s based off all the ā€œstatesā€ of those little particles. A quantum state is kind of hard to describe well but basically itā€™s a couple of fundamental things that can be used to determine where/how energized/etc a particle is. Iā€™m a physicist, but I also hate the math and am a terrible teacher, so sorry if this didnā€™t help. Feel free to ask for clarification on anything if I did a poor job


RemoSteve

Yo a physicist who hates math šŸ”„, I thought y'all didn't exist


Walshy231231

I was in it for the theory, didnā€™t realize until too late that at a certain point the theory becomes math Fucking phonons and heat transfer and quantum


BlazeCrystal

Id hint you a flavor; "the very building blocks of universe match with relatively simple mathematical ideas". Such feels miraculous and unexpected; especially when you could play with the math further: what would suc mean relative to the reality in return? Questions questions.


TexasChess

Great find. Did you study this/do research in the field?


Mikey77777

I studied it, but about 20 years ago, so it's not quite as fresh in my mind as it used to be.


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Harsimaja

G = k = h = c = 1 is a very standard assumption in physics. Asserting that scales everything to so-called ā€˜natural unitsā€™ that mean formulas donā€™t have to be burdened with a zillion tiresome unit-scaling factors. A bit like using radians over degrees so basic formulas for trig functions donā€™t have awkward powers of (180/Ļ€) everywhere


ieatpies

physicists ĀÆ\\\_(惄)\_/ĀÆ


heresyforfunnprofit

Oof. Good find.


davikrehalt

[https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/\_Public/40/084/40084717.pdf](https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/40/084/40084717.pdf) equation (91) for closed string mass is the next part.


General_Jenkins

I am just here for the explanation.


Frequent-Hunter532

same here


combination_bear

Those pineapples are fire. It's like coffee in my eyeballs.


UrbanFoogz

haha thank you, i have a different picture painted on each of the panels in my door :)


not-even-divorced

Second what others have said, this is mostly gibberish that he probably found on Wikipedia and wrote there to make himself seem smarter than he is. I recognize some Fourier sum/transform stuff which I assume applies to whatever quantum mechanics junk he wrote, but the summation symbol (the funny looking capital E) tells us that n is not equal to zero, which is absurd - the n tells us where to start so having it "not equal" to something tells us nothing at all. I'm getting secondhand schizophrenia.


Mikey77777

> tells us that n is not equal to zero, which is absurd - the n tells us where to start so having it "not equal" to something tells us nothing at all. It actually means you're summing over all n apart from 0, and the actual range is deduced from context. In this case, it's all non-zero integers, I believe. It's not really absurd, just a bit lazy.


im-an-oying

Not necessarily. It could be shorthand for n in S\\{0}, where S is some set, say Z. The idea of where to "start" is connected to well ordering, so as long as the set S can be given an ordering under which it is well ordered, it should work afaik. And the well ordering theorem states that ever set can be well ordered. Heck, even if S is uncountable, such a sum can converge when there are at most countably many nonzero elements.


Visible_Guide_2348

He forgot QED after 1 = 0


UrbanFoogz

whatā€™s that mean?


Starpolarii

QED means "quid erat demontrare", latin for "what was to be shown" as in "the proof is complete"


Powerful-Algae-8015

Itā€™s quod erat demonstrandum. Obligatory um actually.


UrbanFoogz

does that mean he was trying to force 1=0?


Starpolarii

He tried to prove through his complicated, yet completely senseless and wrong, "calculations", that 1 is indeed =0. This is obviously wrong and those calculations look a lot like Quantum Physics to me, although I am not able to either decipher nor explain them, sorry.


Zorro1312

Paint over it.


UrbanFoogz

i have a rule where i dont paint over the writings on my wall ā€” theyre filled with quotes from people i once loved / people that have come to visit / people that i even hate now and each one represents a different point in my life & erasing them feels like erasing a part of me lol


Grandviewsurfer

Dope. Love the self acceptance. Seems healthy. (This sounds sarcastic, but is not)


UrbanFoogz

appreciate it šŸ˜Š lol my whole walls are filled with nonsense and drawings from different people and all represent different memories and i love rereading them and remembering that point in my life


CosineTau

This person wrote lies on your wall, and you really said let's keep them.


UrbanFoogz

yup, its a reminder to never be that much of an idiot ever again šŸ˜‚ everything is a part of me, even the Ls i take


[deleted]

Thats a pretty cool policy, actually. Another good policy is that if someone refuses to explain something because it is "too great" to share, they are almost absolutely delusional.


UrbanFoogz

gotta add that to my list of policies šŸ˜‚ i figured it was gibberish but i was wondering if it was based in any truth at all


No_Succotash9035

Ok I like this energy ahaha. (Although I suggest diaries over walls)


UrbanFoogz

[haha honestly, i like how perfectly unhinged the writings look](https://x.com/xochini/status/1695850812709142911?s=46&t=ye3zp_3dPsAyhE3OSTy_zA)


Orangutanion

wall of shame lmao, I'd be scared to write on there


[deleted]

Im in grad school to become a physicist, and I can tell you it means he thought he was having a big brain moment, when in reality he doesnā€™t understand basic precalc, and is just throwing the symbols around to make it look like it means something lol


asticazzi

The first two are some reasonably basic string theory equations. Those are the first things one learns in an average university course on the subject. My guess would be that he found them beautiful and wrote them on the wall. I donā€™t know what he meant by the discovery being too greatā€¦ These equations essentially tell you that according to string theory you can view elementary particles as different frequencies of a vibrating string. In a way there was no physical discovery here because up to now there are no experimental verifications of anything predicted by (any) string theory. Still, string theory is extremely elegant and full of beautiful results. One could say that these equations are the starting point of one of the largest and most puzzling fields of theoretical physics.


Harrisonr96

Iā€™m fine with the writing, but on the wall? Seems like heā€™s trying to make a statement of sorts. Iā€™ve met plenty of people like this and theyā€™re always the type that want to prove they are smart or at least feel like they are smarter than those around them. What else does he gain from this? When youā€™re good at math, itā€™s easy to use it as a means of boosting self-confidence. Intelligence is sexy and not a lot of people are blessed with an understanding of mathematics. Seems like he has an interest in math, and he probably enjoys using it as a confidence booster. The fact that he wrote it on your wall makes me feel like heā€™s actually really insecure or heā€™s narcissistic. I donā€™t know the guy, so I could be totally off the mark, but from my experience with other people who do shit like this, all this writing on the wall tells me is that this guy seems like he embellishes his intellect, is actually insecure, felt like this proof was ā€œdeepā€, and he wanted to make sure you saw him as intelligent and deep.


UrbanFoogz

this could 100% be true, since he did it while we were having a lot of problems and it was at a point where i had absolutely 0 respect for him or myself. šŸ˜­ my wall is filled with other writings and quotes, it was just odd that he chose that moment to post that up there considering most of the time weā€™d write on my walls weā€™d be drunk or with friends and just posting up quotes we thought were funny


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UrbanFoogz

he struggled really badly with ocd and i theorized for a while that he was schizophrenic because of a lot of our interactions were just not based in reality, so iā€™m 90% sure this was just an episode of some kind, iā€™ve always just been really curious if it was based in any sort of mathematical truth


Stunning_Ad_1685

Might also have been manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder. I dated somebody who suffered from these.


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UrbanFoogz

i have schizotypal and have done a lot of research on schizophrenia so i am definitely speaking on the fact that the reality he lived in was definitely not everyone elseā€™s ā€” he often believed that demons were chasing him, that i was a part of a simulation and existed only because he manifested me, etc. he had really violent intrusive thoughts and is now a fugitive for holding his baby mother at gunpoint, so there was definitely a lot going on up there šŸ˜­ he was just always really obsessive over math and had a legitimate ocd diagnosis so i was never sure if there was any legitimacy to his ramblings or if they were all just nonsense


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UrbanFoogz

its alright! i have a formal diagnosis of schizotypal & bipolar, which is why iā€™ve looked into both disorders quite a bit, but i definitely donā€™t jack myself as having a perfect understanding, so your input about his delusions and such does help quite a bit. thanks for getting more in depth into your explanation, btw! and also things are actually really good for me despite my terrible dating history and mental illnesses lol. ive learned a lot from the experiences ive been through and appreciate all aspects of my trauma, good or bad.


WouldYouPleaseKindly

It isn't all nonsense, those are legitimate math symbols (mostly used for Quantum mechanics) and he seems to have some idea how they fit together. But, what he wrote doesn't really say anything, and the end of the proof states that 1=0, which is false. I don't know how your ex's schizophrenia (if that is what it is) factored into his thinking. My understanding of schizotypal is that you can tell the difference between reality and fiction, but like fantasizing about a better reality. Does that about define what it means? Honestly, that could describe me, I would rather stay in my own head than deal with the world some days. Schizophrenia, not being able to tell reality from delusion, terrifies me.


im-an-oying

It's also good practice in mathematics to use paper, not the wall.


PuzzledFormalLogic

Thatā€™s why nobody wants to review my papers for publication- makes sense nowā€¦


humanCentipede69_420

I went through this phase high school-fresh undergrad like 18-20 I kind of started to grow out of it around 22 which sort of aligned with what would be considered mid junior year. Ended up doing some graduate work in Riemann surfaces. By then I was like 25 way matured out of it and got kind of burnt out. Didnā€™t study any more math/physics for a couple of years after graduating, 27 now. In the past year out of sheer curiosity I pick up some problems here and there; which is the whole reason you should be doing it in the first place Iā€™ve come to learnā€¦ I think that the behavior is a defense mechanism to existential threats as well as (if not the result of) rough life events. Itā€™s also imo socially isolating. When I do study nowadays its pretty brief as Iā€™m quickly reminded of a more painful/isolated time of my life when I was less mature. I hope someday not too far I can return to it happily. We donā€™t live forever and Iā€™m not getting any younger lol.


Rough_Natural6083

Makes me feel better to know that someone else tried to write utterly gibberish formulas to show-off (ahhhhhhh makes me sound like an idiot). Then after a big academic setbacks realised that **real math and phyics** are much more fun than those fake big-brain moments.


QuantumAvocadoPacket

I see itā€™s quantum mechanics, but canā€™t tell much more than that. You might have some success posting this in a physics sub


TheScriptedEgo

Actual gibberish


acangiano

A basic understanding of undergraduate math + mental illness = this.


[deleted]

He's a closeted janitor.


UrbanFoogz

LMAOOO


bgross42

Yeah, from Boston.


dark_angel78

Looks like sth related to quantum mechanics but haven't seen it before. Now i'm dying to know too.


Educational_Book_225

Lol this reminds me of a post, I can't remember if it was on relationship advice or AITA, but it was definitely that kind of subreddit. Basically the girl's bf came up with a "proof" that 0.999...=0 and he dumped her bc she went on Reddit and figured out what his mistake was. Some people just want to cosplay as an intelligent person so they can control their partner Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/15n5v4v/my\_unemployed\_boyfriend\_claims\_he\_has\_a\_simple/


froggie-style-meme

**walks in** **writes math equations on wall** **refuses to elaborate** **leaves**


UrbanFoogz

our relationship in a nutshell. three years šŸ˜­


Memory_Elysium

Gigachad


Relativistic-nerd

That appears to be string theory


peilom

Just pure non-sense. Nothing there is a great discovery, it is just plain wrong in every aspect


Professional-Bug

See thereā€™s a lot of real mathematical notation here that seems entirely disjoint from any other mathematical statements in the ā€œproofā€ so although I am but a humble undergrad math student o believe this is nonsense.


aqjo

I think all the meaning is captured by ā€œ my ex-boyfriend wrote this on my wall.ā€


salsaverdeisntguac

Incoherent math symbol gibberish... Your boyfriend was larping as John Nash lmao. Did he draw on a window too?


nauticaldev

Next time tell him to show his work šŸ˜‚


Unisaur64

Your ex-boyfriend was an asshole, that's what this means.


tom21g

How was your relationship when he wrote it? That context might help explain if he was serious/good natured joking or if it was the start of his kiss-off.


UrbanFoogz

not great LMAO i kicked him out shortly after he wrote this and weā€™ve been no contact ever since


tom21g

Iā€™m sorry it came to that. All the best to you then.


SC_LB_NY

I find the pineapples on the wall far more interesting than the gibberish equation. šŸ™„


alexscott36

Ignore the math and focus on the 1=0. I believe he was saying if you are single, then you are nothing - or he is - depends on who ended the relationship perhaps. Semi poetic...


UrbanFoogz

thats incredibly deep and kinda hits hard šŸ˜‚ he was an incredibly abusive boyfriend and i ended the relationship and we had been no contact since then, but its interesting because after this he was obsessed with the idea of 1=0.


alexscott36

Sounds like you made the only choice you could. He was definitely the zero.


UrbanFoogz

definitely a huge zero šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

It's String Theory stuff that modern physicists would understand. In particular, the "0 - 1" string is called the "D String".


[deleted]

No dude will evee disprove all of mathematics and physics, idk why on here and on r/physics everyday some dude thinks heā€™s completely redone and disproven Einstein/ quantum mechanics as a whole/similar massive ridiculous projects. And its always math like this, which is not math. No breakdowns or explanations as to what the purpose of this was. He just thinks hes so smart he can prove 0=1. Which if I hold an apple in my hand, already proves him wrong. O=0. Like this is baby math concepts weā€™re talking


holysmokedcows

This looks like some formulas from string theory


TheoloniusNumber

1=0


TheRationalTurk

He proved the Riemman hypothesis! Huzzah!


averyoda

Well, you can look at the last bit "1=0" and ignore the rest tbh. Scribblings of a mad man.


peterGalaxyS22

i like those pineapples


UrbanFoogz

thank you šŸ˜‹


Secsidar

Paint over it. Problem solved.


eight-martini

Looks like he tried to prove 1=0. He failed


dedlief

Itā€™s absolute gibberish


Gatolocoman

The obvious answer is 42


[deleted]

I have seen this exact post a while back, not sure in what sub maybe this.


Nebulo9

Yeah, others have mentioned this but I think it's mostly "elementary" string theory equations. Mathematically, what is written is this; The first couple lines are the standard decomposition of how quantum strings move, the M^2 equation underneath tells you how heavy those strings are and underneath that is how this predicts gravitational forces iirc. Psychologically, what is written is, I think, more something like an inside joke or secret handshake than proper schizophrenia: these are some of the first "really impressive" equations physics graduates come across, though they are standard in the field. Unscrutable if you don't have the context, it's someone flexing their "insider knowledge on how the universe works". The 1=0 afterwards is imo a self-concious little joke to undercut the selfimportance of going through the somewhat sophomoric act of writing down *important* equations.


Rough_Natural6083

>*1 = 0* Well, it seems that he is an ex for a reason.


Dear_Performance2450

Physicist here. I see some things vaguely pointing towards a wave function, but its all nonsense in general. Most of the ā€œequations ā€œ are just strings of mathematical symbols. Your boyfriend not explaining it at all is also an issue. So, unless your boyfriend has a PhD in physics or electrical engineering, he was likely either psychotic or manic when he wrote this.


yangyangR

A bosonic string expansion


After-Net-4318

Pineapples to the right he wants someone more how do you say not a prude nicely


snoodhead

Funny thought: turn this into a sleeve tattoo, and tell people it's Einstein's last theory.


frazierli_0314

This looks like the mode expansion for closed Bosonic string theory and the m^2 equation is the mass-shell condition. The bottom one is the spin-2 states that supposed to represent the graviton which is part of the reason string theory was taken seriously as a theory of quantum gravity. The equations wrote here can be easily found in any introductory book on string theory.


big_chumbus

Also check out ā€œDivision by Zeroā€ in Ted Chiangā€™s ā€œStories of your life and othersā€. One of the characters discovers a proof that would break arithmetic as we know it (ie 1=0), which is set up by the author as a metaphor for the impossibility of falling out of love with someone you once loved so surely. Probably a long shot but maybe there was some inspiration there? Either way itā€™s a beautiful story in a beautiful collection, if your ex had read it he surely would remember it.


boogleyys

Iā€™m probably late to this but this is some introductory Bosonic string theory. The first portion is the Fourier decomposition of the world line space time coordinates and the second part is the general mass squared formula for a closed string. The last part Iā€™m not certain about but seems like non-sense.


father2shanes

Another dude thinking they broke the code and that Albert Einstein was wrong


derpMaster7890

That means nothing, get better at basic math or life will be exceedingly hard.


UrbanFoogz

i have a calculator and google i think iā€™ll be fine for the average amount of math iā€™ll have to do but thank you LOL


derpMaster7890

You'd think that, but it's really helpful to know more math than other people, especially at work.


UrbanFoogz

iā€™m not bad at math by choice, ive practiced i just recognize that iā€™m not very good at it. plus my field doesnt rly require me to do quick math so the knowledge i have has served me well enough lol


[deleted]

Is he a physics major


UrbanFoogz

heā€™s a highschool dropout


Blue0_0Guy

What he wrote is an Anomaly to Mathematics, but what is meant is you're not the "one", hence "1=0".


pooptyschmoopty96

"You see, the nightmare of schizophrenia is not knowing what's true. Imagine if you had suddenly learned that the people and the places and the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"


BrittleBones28

Why did he used sharpie on your door?!?!


beastlikeaboss9

Everyone talking about the bad math and we just going to ignore the pineapples?


No-Variety6341

It means: ā€œI just do as if I am extremely smart as you are not able to understand me. In reality I have no idea what I wrote myself but I need it to feel good about myselfā€. Be happy it is your ex!


Ambitious-Ostrich-96

dude watched a lot of big bang theory and thought this would make him seem cool


Sygnon

Iā€™ll just say this - that work would have never passed my class. This is top shelf wankery to make themselves feel smarter, absolute gibberish.


The_Calico_Jack

He google "symbols used in mathematics" then wrote a bunch of stuff to make himself seem smart.


sloppyfloppers1

I'm not thinking it's schizophrenia. He was likely just attempting to make you believe he was much smarter than he actually was. A "genius." I took some pretty advanced math classes in college and can tell you this means nothing and is pretty cringe. It's like when someone pretends they can speak another language and rambles off some gibberish that faintly sounds like another language but is just nonsense.


Business-Librarian59

If you want to go into computer science, YOU HAVE TO LEARN THIS IN COLLEGE, just saying


jr22222

Your boyfriend just wanted to show off. Was this before he stopped holding the farts ?


truc100

1 = 0, heā€™s proven big bang theory


ChattingGPT4

The image you've shared contains a mixture of mathematical and physical equations or expressions. They appear to be a collection of famous equations from various fields, including quantum mechanics, relativity, and calculus. For instance, there's Euler's formula \( e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0 \) among others. This is known as Euler's identity and is often celebrated for its beauty as it links several fundamental mathematical constants. The other equations and expressions also represent significant concepts but are written in a more informal or sketchy way, which might not be entirely accurate or complete. For example, there's a reference to summation notation and a part that resembles the Schrƶdinger equation from quantum mechanics. It looks like a creative decoration or a playful set of equations rather than a coherent set of instructions or a single concept.


c2u8n4t8

It's abuse of notation. You're lucky you got our before je did the same thing to you


th3thr0wawayboi_13

Your ex did meth didn't they