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Jonte Hance
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Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Weird Quantum Stuff at Newcastle University (they/he) | queer, autistic academic | http://jontehance.com
Possibly - or just the ludicrous ego it takes for someone to believe they've come up with a solution to it (typically alone, typically as a retired engineer/techbro) is
December 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Ooh, good point - never realised that. Guess that's why we have to go "sk" rather than "sc" for skein, ski, skip, etc in English. Maybe it was George Lucas's attempt to get it to be pronounced with a french-style soft-s ç-sound, but without wanting to have to use diacritics?
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's the same as the "c" in "scene", or the first "c" in "science". By which I mean, English is weird and inconsistent 😂.
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Really sorry to hear 😞
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
They seem to be doing perturbative quantum gravity à la perturbative QED, but saying that, because they remove the hats, it's classical. Despite still using virtual particles...
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm an (Asst) Prof of Quantum Info, and this is my office wall - feel like over half of what I have up on it is SMBC 😂
August 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM