..probably because my only real exposure to physics are layman's books. I'll be taking physics soon, but I have to finish trig first. Please take my questions as just questions. I came here because I knew people who knew more about physics than I did would be here.
Yes, it is very intimidating when your theory brings calculated results from first principles in agreement with observed values to a hair's width compared to the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
Sometimes being that right, is reeeeeeellly intimidating. Especially if you can't do the...
One thing that we do know about photons is that they are most definitely particles. Devices used to detect them register less frequent clicks as light grows dimmer instead of softer clicks. So they are definitely particles...sort of. They still have a probability waveform. Considering that...
Interesting you would talk about knowledge. I read Murray Gell-Mann's "The Quark and the Jaguar" a few years back and he talks about how entropy and order fit neatly into information theory. According to Gell-Mann, you can't get more ordered without some kind of record that is written. It...
Something that has confused me for some time is how the entropy in the universe is less in the past than it is now, even though it seems to be getting more ordered.
I know that entropy must increase in any closed system. If the universe is finite, then it is a closed system?
I know also...
...because acceleration means more time dilation, and can be attributed solely to the twin in acceleration?
Does the twin paradox ignore the effects of gravity on the twin at earth, btw?
So the idea of absorption and emission is correct, but not with the electrons within atoms, but the collective nature of the material in which is passes.
Was this discovered after Feynman was writing QED, or was he simply mistaken or using obsolete information?
we were getting bogged down in the mechanics of the speed of light through a medium, I was just drawing that to a close where it could be asked in a different topic.
Thanks for the help, though guys.
Then don't answer. If you are getting weary from the question, none of you are required to answer. None of you have any reason to be frustrated that I don't get it when there is no requirement for you to answer, explain it, whatever. You HAVE your answers, I'm the one who doesn't understand it.
it doesn't. what surprises me is that you don't have a translation for your answer. You can translate the results of your other answers, yet for this one you act like it just isn't real. Okay, fine, if it isn't real, then what does that mean, because that doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't...