Hello,
I would like second (and more) opinions on comments i received from a physicist in response to my observations on a certain experimental setup designed to make a particular point about information theory in the context of entropy.
The experimental narrative is found on pages 9 &...
Hello HF,
First of all many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread and to my greatly increased understanding of this phenomenon as a result.
Just one more (perhaps) final question to HF : You use the term "background". How is this to be understood ? Is there some...
Hello Chronos,
a few questions please if you don't mind :
1)you say :"the early, hot big bang universe would leave a heat trace in the background. It was found to be there."
Why SHOULD there be some left over "heat trace" ?
2) you also wrote :" Others also predicted the early...
OK. so George Gamow predicted it. Can anyone in layman's terms explain the physics behind it ? Why does that radiation that is observed HAVE to be a remant of the Bing Bang ? Could it not just as easily mean something else ?
Celal
Dear All,
I am trying to understand SPECIFICALLY the physics HOW and WHY the discovery of the 2 Bell scientists is hailed as something like the cosmological equivalent to the "missing link" as regard the Big Bang Theory ?
I am looking for any and all links that explain this connection...
I just read Penrose's explanation of entropy in his book "The
Emperor's New Mind". His explanation is completely saturated in an
extended discussion of "phase space" . Is this concept of "phase
space" absolutely necessary in order to explain or understand
entropy ?
Celal
Hello Listmembers,
I am trying to make some progress in my understanding of
Schrodinger's equation.I have been trying to teach myself about
Fourier transforms in the hope that this will help me understand the
derivation of Schrodinger's equation.
My question has to do with slide number...
Many Thanks Bruno (is that your name?)
So how did Planck, by what thought or reasoning processes did he go from the relation S= k log W to E=Hf ?
--Celal
Hello List,
I understand Boltzmann defined entropy [S] as log W where W is the number of microstates in the system time a constant "k" ; hence S= k Log W.
Can someone explain to me where the logarithmic relationship comes from please ?
Many thanks in advance,
Celal Berker
London...