Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Fun fact about that tweet is that it was written in a state of semi-delirium while I was writing my dissertation. Finished my full first draft <48 hours later! 010
Reposted by Vetri Velanholly parkinson @parkinsonhb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025@vvelan.bsky.social once tweeted: The Large Hadron Collider is operating at 13.6 TeV, which is a funny amount of energy for humans to comprehend, because it is simultaneously: 1. The energy of a mosquito flying at 1 m/s 2. 27 trillion times hotter than the Sun and I did the maths (now on bluesky) 111
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025That sounds pretty similar to STAR voting but more chaotic lol 010
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Even I get this, to a lesser extent! Despite being and looking ethnically Indian, when I go to India, the locals easily clock me as an American, and I get treated very well. 020
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I'm an academic so 9am is fine lmao (but on the flip side there's never "no work to do ") 000
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Lmaooo I've never seen this before on any fellowship/summer program thing 110
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I guess caveat is I was in grad school for 7 years, but that's not particularly abnormal for particle physics. 020
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I didn't have a first author paper until Year 5 of grad school and landed a competitive postdoc fellowship, you're fine! 230
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I wonder if most people realize that when their coffee cools down, it mostly loses heat to the table it's sitting on, not to the air. 050
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024scientists have recently discovered a fourth eye blind 030
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I swear we'll have Half Life 3 before California finishes counting 160
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Tons of people edit dating app photos much more aggressively, I've realized. A lighting fix is perfectly fine imo. 110
Reposted by Vetri Velanlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/11/2024i'm going to invent an "american style" full english breakfast that's so good it heals the wound first opened at lexington and concord 4307167303
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Man, being a physicist has its pros, but it's in times like this I wish I had been a social scientist 020
Reposted by Vetri VelanJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral 1334222424
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Nice. I've been watching Monk and had a Richard Schiff cameo a few days ago. And then Bradley Whitford today! 010
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hello there! scholar.google.com/citations?us...scholar.google.comVetri VelanChamberlain Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Cited by 2,380 - particle physics - dark matter - particle detection - liquid noble elements - instrumentation 110
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I was following you on Twitter and now here, but I never figured out why you post so much AI art. Is there a backstory or just for fun? 120
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I guess actually the closest question is the 3 body problem 030
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024In physics, the closest I can think of is "what is the charge of the electron?" Sounds easy, we teach it to high schoolers but then 151
Reposted by Vetri VelanRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Diophantine equations have to have the craziest ratio of "simplicity of problem statement" to "intractability of the math" of anything other than the Collatz conjecture. 4233
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024In my final year of grad school, I went to some event welcoming students (back) to campus; it was Fall 2021. While looking for the check-in line, I stumbled on a line of teenagers surely for some undergrad event. Except no, these were 22 year old grad students 😬 020
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/07/2023It's good! Would swipe right if i wasn't allergic to cats 000
Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/07/2023Love the energy of the woman sitting next to me at the airport with a glass of wine and a cup of coffee at 10:30am. 170