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Seems to me that this is similar to potential and kinetic energy. Simply-a stretched rubber band contains potential energy. When you release it it becomes kinetic. Could you explain dynamic verses static in this way?

I waited for one of the thirds to lose six times in a row. On the next throw, a fellow put his chips on both the thirds that were winning for the last six throws. I put $100 on the third that lost six times in a row, right in the middle between his two stacks of chips. I won $200. See for...

I waited for one of the thirds to lose six times in a row at Trump Plaza. On the nex roll someone bet on the two thirds that were coming up while I put $100 on the one that lost six times. I won $200. And yes, a third can lose for longer than six times. But the next time you are at a casino...

Can physics define what was or will be? I think outcomes can known from physics as well as understanding events in the past. But there seems to be a limit to what physics can conclude with certainty. Mathematics has the same restriction. Until verified conclusively as a reality that is...

"Whatever is is and cannot no be". "Matter cannot be created nor destroyed". But, was it always thus? If entropy will be the end of our universe, will energy always be present? Can a dimension disappear, while others thrive? I think that metaphysics studies what is, but not what was or will be.

Hot spots or cool spots, it would seem impossible for all three ants to avoid being cooked. Considering a moving dish and the fan, maybe one might survive, but three? This would seem on the order of Spock saying to Kirk that the odds of us making it are 1,321 to 1. Then they make it. Does...

Does all this really mean that there really never was "nothing". Is the Cosmos a never beginning and never ending existence? Is there any proof to this? Or is everything on this topic speculation?

There are a number of strategies, but I find simply watching the wheel for some time can help one to win. Given the 50-50, or even the odds in favor of the house that uses 0 and 00, you can always observe a wheel favoring one half of something on the table. For instance, I have seen a wheel hit...

Light is an electromagnetic force. Or one effected by magnetism. That is why it is given a "frequency". How do you tune a radio frequency to one you desire? The same principle can be applied to tuning light frequencies. Lights frequencies can be received just as radio frequencies can. It all...

[Mentor's Note: Post split off from this thread: ']https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/are-tracks-in-collision-experiments-proof-of-particles.857255/] I'm sorry, If a photon is a particle of energy, or bosom, and neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed, what happens to the...

I am not a physicist, but what happens to the photon when the energy of light is spent and matter cannot be created nor destroyed?