You are correct, of course. I lost my temper and I said hasty things. I am unworthy to sweep the shavings from the lead of Chandrasekhar’s radiation pencil. humbles self
Although it was almost worth it to goad someone into calling me a “spacklehead.” That was amusing. That would be Miss Podkayne Fries, though.
I wish I was working on something so profound and revolutionary that it was over my advisor’s head, but it’s really just a tedious and annoying geometry problem, and I’m just going nuts over factors of pi and the definition of theta. sigh
Chandrasekhar Limit. . . tee hee . . . I’ll think about that the next time I’m about to bash my head through the screen of my monitor.
Thank you all for the support. I am going to spend the weekend away from the problem and attempt to gain some perspective. I’m sure it will all look much more reasonable on Tuesday.