4 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

I got downvotes because i am 15 and they think i cant write this.

It's more likely you got Dv's bc you lack the hubris necessary to learn anything of value... 😉

44 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

It's more likely you got Dv's bc you lack the hubris necessary to learn anything of value... 😉

I’m open to learning, which is exactly why I participate and share. But learning doesn't mean silence or deference — it means thinking critically and testing ideas, even if they’re new or challenging. If sharing a fresh approach looks like 'hubris', maybe the field could use more of it.

56 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

It's more likely you got Dv's bc you lack the hubris necessary to learn anything of value... 😉

Hubris is excessive pride and self-confidence. How does lacking it prevent learning? Perhaps you meant it’s opposite, humility?

6 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

No problem,i am also new to this subject.
I got downvotes because i am 15 and they think i cant write this.
They said i am decieving new member by pretending as a expert(It makes no sense)
I didnt claim to be expert,I admitted that i used AI to use correct terminology but i first learnt about it,.
I gathered info to help guy who was asking.

Do you know what VASP is?

Edited August 3Aug 3 by exchemist

9 minutes ago, Dhillon1724X said:

I’m open to learning, which is exactly why I participate and share. But learning doesn't mean silence or deference — it means thinking critically and testing ideas, even if they’re new or challenging. If sharing a fresh approach looks like 'hubris', maybe the field could use more of it.

I think it's fair to say that I'm the DV king, in terms of numbers, I seem to piss a lot of people off, mostly by asking why.

If you can support your hubris, then good luck to you; most of us can't...

9 minutes ago, iNow said:

Hubris is excessive pride and self-confidence. How does lacking it prevent learning? Perhaps you meant it’s opposite, humility?

It's almost always a double edged sword...

13 minutes ago, exchemist said:

Do you know what VASP is?

Did i claim to know?
Its a computer program used for modeling or something.

I will try not to continue arguing with a elder on personal issues.
Thanks for your perspective.

Just now, Dhillon1724X said:

Its a computer program used for modeling or something.

atomic scale modeling.

Just now, Dhillon1724X said:

Did i claim to know?
Its a computer program used for modeling or something.

I will try not to continue arguing with a elder on personal issues.
Thanks for your perspective.

You asked someone to send a POSCAR file. What were you thinking would be done with that when it arrived? Have you got access to VASP?

2 minutes ago, exchemist said:

Have you got access to VASP?

12 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

I’ll be happy to help simulate or evaluate it using open-source tools.

I stated ¨ I will be happy to help simulate or evaluate it using open source tools¨.

6 minutes ago, exchemist said:

What were you thinking would be done with that when it arrived?

I would have tried different ways and gathered info to help him as much as i can.

9 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

I got downvotes because i am 15 and they think i cant write this.

Once again, your assumptions about this subject are wrong. One of the current Admins (and part owner of the forum) joined when he was 12. He made a lot of bold assertions, had them picked apart by the members, dropped them to move on to other bold assertions. At one point, he admitted to me privately how old he was. By that time, he'd learned enough science that his assertions became supported hypotheses, so I told him it really didn't matter.

If anybody thinks "you can't write this", it's not because you're 15. It's because you're generally trying to overreach your own education. You make a LOT of assertions that don't match up with mainstream science, mostly because you haven't learned that part yet. Filling in gaps in your knowledge with stuff you've made up is dangerous. The stuff we make up makes such perfect sense to us, because we designed it specifically to fill a gap in our studies, or to explain something we don't yet understand.

On 8/2/2025 at 11:26 AM, pinball1970 said:

I would like to think the mods may step in if a poster was liberally dishing out DVs.

We have done so. Some members have had the privilege removed.

18 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

I got downvotes because i am 15 and they think i cant write this.

I suspect it was because of the difficulty reconciling what you posted (e.g mentioning band structure and phonons) with “I’m a 10th-grade student, and I’ve only studied basic physics from NCERT so far — Newton’s laws, gravitation, sound, and motion.” when phonons and band structure aren’t part of those subjects.

13 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

I will try not to continue arguing with a elder on personal issues.
Thanks for your perspective.

I believe it’s best both of you clarify or make terms with the DM’s

4 hours ago, swansont said:

We have done so. Some members have had the privilege removed.

Good to know.

6 hours ago, swansont said:

only studied basic physics from NCERT so far — Newton’s laws, gravitation, sound, and motion.” when phonons and band structure aren’t part of those subjects.

Yes,they are not part but i have access to Internet.I keep gathering knowledge.

4 hours ago, Dhillon1724X said:

Yes,they are not part but i have access to Internet.I keep gathering knowledge.

The problem with this claim is there’s no way to verify if it’s you gaining knowledge or just copy-pasting things. The incredulity comes from people who have actually gone to university and know how hard it is to actually truly learn these concepts, and just reading some text on a screen doesn’t lead you there. In a university setting you could take a test, but here if you were asked such questions there’s no way to be sure if the answer is coming from you or from something you looked up.