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Physicists search for explanations and a theory of everything, but how do we know that the 'everything' is any particular way? What if there is no ONE theory of everything. What if there is an infinite number of TOE's that can be shown to exist? How would we choose among them? For example what...

We know that whatever we experience as happening in the universe is actually a model created in our brains. For example when we look at the Milky Way Galaxy, light rays are transduced in the rods and cones into nerve impulses and we experience those impulses and not the actually light from the...

Of course! Thanks for the response and the link.

Given: e^(i*pi) = -1 and e^(2*i*pi)=1 Adding we get: e^(i*pi) + e^(2*i*pi) = (-1+1) = 0 Factoring gives e^(i*pi) * [ 1 + e^(i*pi) ] = 0 so setting the second factor = to 0 gives 1 + e^(i*pi) = 0 which gives e^(i*pi)=-1 Okay so far, but setting the first...

The smallest unit of information is a bit, which has two possible states. Yet don't you also have to specify the location of this information? So in a 4d world we're talking about 4 + 1 = 5 degrees of freedom, or 5 bits of information to code for just the one bit. So is there really such...

[Since "the universe is a capacitor" got zero hits on Google, I'm reasonably sure this is wrong, but I'm just not sure why it's wrong. Thanks in advance for your response.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Batteries and...

If seems to me that the conditions in the early universe which led to the activation of the Higgs field might be found inside a black hole, but in reverse. This might explain the mystery of infinite density inside a black hole, uniting Gen Rel and QM. Might a black hole then be a baby universe...

It seems to me that classically physics is based upon the idea of measurement, that the length of a meter, the duration of a second, and the mass of an object is the same for one person as it is for another. Wheeler in his Geometrodynamics further was able to express mass and time in terms of...

I apologize for my ignorance, as my understanding is quite limited, but isn't a harmonic oscillator tracing out a wave pattern in spacetime, so can't resonance be viewed as a wave interacting with an incident wave? Wouldn't there be interference and some degree of coherence/decoherence in such...

Could someone please concisely explain the difference between resonance and coherence?