Recent content by ddd1600

Now here is MY question, and I'll be coming back to check on it, so use your man-head: What if one was in deep space (super low density, just a few sparse hydrogen particles mainly), in a ship of course, and wanted to accelerate with very little pre-existing momentum? I guess my question is...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that space is not a vacuum and that friction: - caused by the energy exchange between object 1, the spaceship, and objects n -- small particles in space, viz. by the transfer of momentum between the two variables would cause the ship to slowly decrease in...

Oh yeah, and this could be really dumb. Oh well, in order to have good ideas, you have to give the potentially bad ones a voice too

Learning device, help me expound: on Faraday's choice of "ion", and "unionized" So I was writing down some notes to myself on electrochemistry (100 level college chemistry---elementary electrochemistry chapter) and I wrote down the word "unionized" (as in, 'un-ionized') and realized that there...

Indeed, that's more than good enough for government work, thanks.

Oh, so the positive charge would be a field-type existence which originates in the protons of the conducting metal or metalloid?

Seeing that electron holes "flow" in the opposite direction of the electron current in a wire, its basically just a "flowing" of the absence of electrons? What is the point of even creating an abstraction to explain something like that? I know this is how it goes in physics, but why on Earth...

Qualitatively speaking, an 'electron hole' and a positron sound quite similar. Are they they same? If they are, why are different terms used and what is the utility of that, and if they aren't the same, am I completely wrong in assuming that they are in some way analogous? What kind of tree am I...