The Simpsons by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
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The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened by Super Eyepatch Wolf (2017)
Source. This interesting video essay makes the main point that the Simpsons used to be good because they mocked mainstream. But then they became mainstream, which basically defeated their purpose. Think different from Apple comes to mind.
Superfluid helium-3 by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Surprisingly, it can also become a superfluid even though each atom is a fermion! This is because of Cooper pair formation, just like in superconductors, but the transition happens at lower temperatures than superfluid helium-4, which is a boson.
aps.org/publications/apsnews/202110/history.cfm: October 1972: Publication of Discovery of Superfluid Helium-3 contains comments on the seminal paper and a graph which we must steal.
The most important example is perhaps and , both of which have the same Lie algebra, but are not isomorphic.
Poisson's equation by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Generalization of Laplace's equation where the value is not necessarily 0.
The variables of the Lagrangian, e.g. the angles of a double pendulum. From that example it is clear that these variables don't need to be simple things like cartesian coordinates or polar coordinates (although these tend to be the overwhelming majority of simple case encountered): any way to describe the system is perfectly valid.
In quantum field theory, those variables are actually fields.
Josephson equations by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Two equations derived from first principles by Brian Josephson that characterize the device, somewhat like an I-V curve:
where:
Note how these equations are not a typical I-V curve, as they are not an instantaneous dependency between voltage and current: the history of the voltage matters! Or in other words, the system has an internal state, represented by the Josephson phase at a given point in time.
To understand them better, it is important to look at some important cases separately:

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