Recent content by Dunce

I can find the conversion easy enough, but I want to understand the fundamentals behind it. How do we KNOW that 4.184 J are in a cal? I'm learning thermodynamics and my book neglects to mention this(yet), and I'm getting hung up on it. I am having difficulty understanding how temperature...

I admit I'm biased, so I apologize if I offend anybody. It seems to me at least, that most of these crazy QM experiments can be pretty easily and logically explained. When we speak of an "observer", we don't literally mean just a mechanical eyeball or something like that. In order to gain a...

I think I may understand what the poster is confused about. They don't understand why the speed of light comes into the equation at all, so they're assuming that IN REGARDS TO THE EQUATION, the speed of light is a randomly chosen number. If matter could be completely converted into energy, that...