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Dale reacted to renormalize's post in the thread Insights What Exactly is Dirac’s Delta Function? - Insight with
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Dale reacted to renormalize's post in the thread Insights What Exactly is Dirac’s Delta Function? - Insight with Like.
It's elusive because neither of those citations support your claim. Here's an excerpt from pg. 398 of your first reference: These are...
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Dale reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box with Like.
Sorry, what does oth mean? Creative thinking can involve both, but modulo the fundamental laws that we understand. Like the...
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Dale reacted to Isabella Hope's post in the thread Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box with Like.
oth matter, but in different ways. Thinking outside the box helps you find creative solutions you wouldn’t normally consider. But...
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Dale reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box with Like.
I'm not sure I understood you correctly. The article is a historical perspective of the, in my mind, biggest turning points in physics...
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Dale replied to the thread Insights What Exactly is Dirac’s Delta Function? - Insight.You really didn’t clarify the notation. The fact that the notation is Dirac’s and is not used anymore is a bit of history, not a...
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Dale replied to the thread Undergrad Is energy really conserved?.If you ignore where energy goes then of course you will think that energy is not conserved.
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Dale reacted to Herman Trivilino's post in the thread Undergrad Is energy really conserved? with Like.
No. One of the great unifications in physics was the discovery that there is an equivalence between mechanical and thermal energy...
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I'm relatively self-educated.
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Dale replied to the thread Some thoughts about self-education.I am entirely self taught in relativity.
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Dale reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread High School Is it correct to state that all measurements count photons? with Like.
Electromagnetism is a fundamental force that is hard to avoid and has few alternatives. That does not mean that photons are counted...
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Dale reacted to euphoricrhino's post in the thread Graduate 3D rendering of electric field lines of a swiftly moving charge with Like.
Happy holidays folks. So I spent some time over the Thanksgiving holidays and developed a program that renders electric field lines of...
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Dale replied to the thread Graduate 3D rendering of electric field lines of a swiftly moving charge.Those are beautiful animations. The false color really helps to visualize the 3D fields.
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Dale reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread High School Is it correct to state that all measurements count photons? with Like.
Almost all measuring devices do not count photons. For example, you mention reading a thermometer, which requires light to see its...
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Dale replied to the thread High School Is it correct to state that all measurements count photons?.Most do not. Even measurements based on quantum phenomena, such as an atomic clock. I agree that it would be good to know the source of...
