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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics be studied without the Copenhagen interpretation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mechanics is an answer to the original question?- Ger
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- Forum: Quantum Interpretations and Foundations
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Graduate Is there a centre to the universe
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Graduate Is there a centre to the universe
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." And for the tone of the conversation: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." and for learning something 'new': "We can't... -
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Graduate Is there a centre to the universe
Another approach: the impossibility to find a centre of mass point in (hyper)space. To triangulate such point one needs at least a point at 'the other side' of hyperspace. Getting there by traveling over the surface isn't do-able, as you have no way of knowing where that other side may be. Even... -
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Graduate Two Questions: Yukawa Potential and Weak Force
yukawa coupling constants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_potential. Can be used for for all types potentials/fields. Just reduces to Coulomb potential if m =0 (photons). g, another coupling constant, can not be charge: units don't fit. Would be depending on ε0 and μ0. For Coulomb...- Ger
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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Undergrad Energy Equvalant of different masses
Mass and energy are equivalent, but are not the same thing. Part of the mass in Uranium is in the binding energy. That energy is being released in the form of photons and a few bits and parts of elements flying off. In butter most of it is carbon (in weight) and hydrogen. Hydrogen can't be...- Ger
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- Forum: Quantum Physics
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Graduate Photon Size: Uncertainty Principle & QM Explained
Size defined as the apparture of your measuring device? Being build of the same stuff your detector is made off, it becomes complex to measure size of your own building block. It then is going to depend on how well (a part of) the wave will interact with your detector, transfering just enough...- Ger
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- Forum: Quantum Physics
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Graduate If I acclerate and observe a photon, do I see the spin of the photon changing?
No, charge, magnetic and spin are invariant. The spin of a baseball, as in sample, is related to the mass of the baseball, so will be variant.- Ger
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Understanding the Lorentz Group: What does O(1,3) mean?
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~kirillov/mat552/liegroups.pdf. Uses also two indices, parameters in the brackets in O(n,ℝ)- Ger
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Heading towards what ? and when will reach the destination ?
time t=0 is at the start of an event. Time t=t1 is the time of another event in same frame. The time difference between both events depends on your frame of reference and the frame speed difference between the rest frame of the events. Time,x,y,z are all depending on your frame of reference and...- Ger
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- Forum: Other Physics Topics
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Graduate Speed of light in relative frames and acceleration
Frame A and B are accellerating away from frame C. Both with same accelleration along same vector. Perpendiculair both frames drift away with a constant speed. You can not say that there is no acceleration, there is. It is the relative constant speed between two (mass) frames which counts. for...- Ger
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Many worlds interpretation, probability distribution
you can state any answer to a problem as a plausible one, but have to find the maths proving your answer. Find a closed solution which does fit the answer. And then present a solution to a problem which can not be solved, or does solve an existing problem in an easy way. Must be observable...- Ger
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- Forum: Quantum Interpretations and Foundations
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Graduate Speed of light in relative frames and acceleration
Speed of light (information) is constant in every frame. Every frame can be defined as an inertial frame, even if one is accelerating away/towards another frame. Small objects, in reference to the observer frame are moving in observers frame space, not necessarly along a geodesic (corrections...- Ger
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Is vacuum having any temperature.?
Temperature is propotional to the average kinetic energy of an idealized mon-atomic gas. So if in space there is some energy, there will be some temperature. Just a few nano Kelvin above absolute zero. If talking about virtual particles with properties like inverse time travel, negative mass or...- Ger
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- Forum: Quantum Physics
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Graduate Does spacetime emit and absorb energy?
As one might suspect and already addressed, thing do take the point of perspective of the 'observer', observer being the theory in use. A point with the mathematics involved is that, for mathematical reasoning it (should) not matter at which point you start substituting units back to see if...- Ger
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity