Please tell me what I'm thinking wrong.
Take Flatland and imagine it on a piece of construction paper. We theorize that the world is curved, so for simplicity's sake, roll up the construction paper into a cylinder. Now take a pencil and poke it completely through. To the Flatlanders, they...
My first post!
Bear with me here - I'm a weekend warrior of particle physics and am just learning because it amazes me.
In my journey through nuclear fusion and quantum theory, I first learned that our sun isn't big enough to overcome the Coulomb barrier between two protons necessary to...