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Doc Al reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Graduate Do any Bell papers plot raw data for non-entangled controls? with
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Only if they have been published in a peer-reviewed journal that meets our requirements (see the Rules under INFO at the top of the... -
Doc Al reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Is there a direct link between Newton’s gravitational formula and a quantum theory of gravitation? with Like.
If the new theory doesn’t reduce to the old one in the appropriate limits, then the new theory is falsified by existing experimental...
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Doc Al reacted to pines-demon's post in the thread Graduate Do any Bell papers plot raw data for non-entangled controls? with
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Doc Al reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread Graduate Why is Bell’s theorem still considered controversial? with Like.
There’s not a lot of controversy about what Bell’s theorem says, nor about how it emerges from the mathematical formalism of quantum...
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Doc Al reacted to kuruman's post in the thread Physics How to prepare for being a mathematical physicist in the era of AI? with Like.
I am not sure that AI is capable of generating questions that have never been asked before. Asking such questions and then answering...
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Doc Al reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread RIP Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov, original Star Trek with
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Walter Koenig has passed away at age 90. https://apnews.com/article/walter-koenig-dies-ad6aed51fc41417a8812bffccec1393c -
Doc Al reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Special Relativity - clocks on two trains with Like.
I wouldn’t recommend trying to redo the same analysis with different numbers. I would do the following: Start with the left train’s...
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Doc Al replied to the thread Undergrad Special Relativity - clocks on two trains.Why are you bringing up non-inertial frames? How is that relevant here?
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Doc Al replied to the thread Undergrad Special Relativity - clocks on two trains.Huh? In your setup, there are three "things": Train 1, Train 2, and the Platform. All move relative to each other. You may choose...
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Doc Al reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Special Relativity - clocks on two trains with Like.
This makes no sense. A frame can't be "at rest" or "moving" in any absolute sense. You need to specify what is at rest and moving...
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Doc Al reacted to Dale's post in the thread Why time? Could physical change be more fundamental than time itself? with Like.
It is pretty firmly philosophical. If you are interested in diving into the philosophical stuff on this topic you could start here...