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Hi everyone, This question is from my problem set this week in my Phys 371 class. Any help, hints or ideas would be very much appreciated! "Use the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to estimate the ground state energy in the hydrogen atom. Since the wave function that solves this problem is...

Sorry for the confusion. I was taking about classical particles. My question was not whether or not what we call particles exists (eg electrons, quarks, gluons etc.), but rather whether or not what we are forced to think of when we say the word "particle" exists. This is also why I was...

If it helps further, there are theoretical sizes of nuclei that are (potentially) extremely stable elements; element 114 (more specifically the 286(?) isotope), is a theoretical size that physical chemists and nuclear physicists have been trying to create for a little while now. Although I...

Do waves and/or particles exist at all? This question may come out of some ignorance on my part, but I was reading the Feynman Lectures on Physics and it said that saying that light is both a wave and a particle is synonymous with saying that it is really neither one; BUT my textbook said that...

As far as Neils Bohr and Marie Curie goes, I must admit that I agree; honestly, I just didn't want to seem sexist by leaving her off (she did, after all, receive two noble prizes in a period of history much more sexist than our own, and to leave her off may have looked bad). And I like the...

Marlon, I appologize if I offended you in any way. It was not my intention to ridicule your opinion, as I may have come off. Gauss was a great mathematician, and a fine choice. BH

There are also podcasts from Biology courses that you can download for free from Itunes. Itunes is also free. If you get it (or already use it), go to the "Itunes music store" in the left-hand column. Wait, it may take a few minutes to upload, Then in the search box (upper...

What!? Gauss the best!? While I have to admit that Gauss was good, Euler was far better; As he is indisputably the most prolific mathematician of all time. Not to mention that when he became blind from cataracts everyone thought that he was at the end of his rope--they could not have...