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I am in high school and i am taking a independent research class that requires me to do a few months of research and then present it at a science fair. I have access to a good amount of materials. Nothing too complex because I'm in high school and there are limitations. Are there any ideas of...

Ah, that's a very valuable piece of information I was not aware of. Thank you!

Precisely my question, HOW does the EM radiation get emitted from the laser and actually travel to he mirror to be reflected? Wouldn't the light wave be traveling parallel to the mirror? The light wave would have to hit the mirror, meaning it's not parallel to the mirror anymore, right?

I have a thought experiment that i need a answer to. In my experiment, I am in a bathroom with a mirror along one wall. I also have a laser that emits a single file line of photons. The laser is attached to the ceiling and emits a line of photons parallel to the mirror. What property of light...

I constantly read physics topics that are generally more QM, and i always find descriptions of SU groups. I have no idea what they mean? this is not a discussion topic and i don't mind if it's taken down but i really would like a simple, yet informative answer! Thanks!

What do you mean a "Scheme"?

If all of the known forces that we know today were unified into one force before the Planck Epoch, does that mean there was just one field in which the forces acted? Is it mathematically and logically possible for all of the fields in QFT to have been united into one field?

i'm assuming is particle physics... but could it be anything else? I am curious to know because i am trying to lay out a path for my educational career and i definitely know physics is my path. However, i don't know exactly was field of physics i want to specialize in. I think QM is the most...

How much progression has physics made in uniting QM and gravity? Have we made any steps to unite them? have we discovered anything remotely related to it?

haha that's true, thanks for the guidance.

thanks a lot!

The problem is i am simply not as interested in general physics as i am in QM. I'm more than happy to learn general physics to set myself up for QM, but i can't make a career out of normal physics, it needs to be, well, strange. And QM offers strange phenomena i crave to learn about.

free?

what your saying is quantum computing has very strong scientific applications? But not necessarily everyday applications like Microsoft Word or maybe a computer video game?

I'm a 10th grade student in the United States and currently taking geometry which is a breeze, and if anyone else reading this is in the U.S. you know that 10th graders haven't reached calculus yet, not even physics. Since i know I'm going into quantum physics, i have thirst to learn calculus...