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DaveE reacted to jeffn1's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with
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My impression is, for practicing physicists, the major difference between ordinary quantum physics and quantum field theory is the... -
DaveE replied to the thread Famous people known for two totally unrelated accomplishments.Winston Churchill
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DaveE reacted to sevensages's post in the thread Famous people known for two totally unrelated accomplishments with Skeptical.
Thank you for your response. It would behoove you to say what two things that Benjamin Franklin is famous for though.
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DaveE replied to the thread Famous people known for two totally unrelated accomplishments.Benjamin Franklin
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DaveE replied to the thread Famous people known for two totally unrelated accomplishments.Linus Pauling - 2 different nobel prizes
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DaveE replied to the thread Bismuth Crystals.This has become a very strange thread. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something.
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DaveE replied to the thread Bismuth Crystals.Perhaps you misspoke? Isn't that everything? Also, I don't think the Carbon in Steel is a metal, but I'm bad at Chemistry and Carbon is...
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I would say that the most fundamental concept in mathematics is the natural numbers. And since the set of all natural numbers is...
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DaveE reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread Undergrad Is infinity a necessary concept? with
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There isn’t any single “the concept” of infinity in math. There are multiple concepts, all of which have rigorous definitions that... -
DaveE replied to the thread Bismuth Crystals.I always thought that steel, bronze, and brass were metals. But that's the problem with vernacular language, it all depends on how you...
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DaveE replied to the thread Bismuth Crystals.Pure metals? "Like that", like what? There is Galena (PbS), Pyrite (FeS2), Stibnite (Sb2S3) Plus more exotic metals...
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DaveE replied to the thread Basic skills that kids are lacking.Motivation is the first step in teaching. Students will only rarely learn and remember things that they don't think are interesting or...
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DaveE reacted to renormalize's post in the thread Double slit experiment with single electrons and no observation with Like.
Can you describe an empirical observation or experiment which would distinguish between an electron that actually "exist(s) in our...
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DaveE reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers with
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Are you comfortable with long division using pencil and paper? My generation was taught how to do this. There is no problem in... -
DaveE replied to the thread Basic skills that kids are lacking.Yes, I do think it is possible that kids today don't need to learn the Riemann - Roch theorem. I don't think your birthdate is the issue...