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Alex Klotz
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Alex Klotz
@AlexanderRKlotz
Physics professor at California State University, Long Beach. Interested in biophysics, squishy things and knots. Mostly bad science jokes. 🇨🇦
Joined March 2015
- Google Scholar has parsed this cafeteria lunch menu as an author list, and it's delightful
- Fun facts about three dimensions: -the only dimensionality in which knots can exist -the only one where Newtonian gravity gives a closed stable orbit -the only one where the Ising model doesn't have a known solution -the last one where polymers bumping into themselves matters
- I have incidentally generated the tightest knot ever, it only uses 9.07 times as much rope as the mathematically proven lower bound for this topology. That may not sound impressive, but you have to realize that the lower bound kind of sucks.
- When👏I👏press👏view👏PDF👏on👏a👏journal👏website👏just👏show👏me👏a👏PDF👏not👏your👏proprietary👏PDF👏wrapper👏that👏nobody👏asked👏for
- There's a 50% chance this chair will be gone in 6000 years
- Replying to @jerseyphysicistMesopotamians couldn't make an iPhone because they'd need to get all that copper wire from Ea-Nasir.
- Why does school start this month? Because it's AUG.
- Happy to announce that I've received an NSF CAREER award, which will fund my research until 2029.
- Solid state physicists will be like "I know a place" then just take you to the first Brillouin zone.
