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So these analgesic patches like SOLANPAS actually work. Thinking about it, the patches introduce the medicine at the site of the pain instead of having it circulate throughout the body where it is not needed..

Not much was know about radiation effects at the turn of the century. They knew excess exposure caused severe tissue injury early on. Based on that radiation in particular from Radium was used to treat and cure cancers. But it was an impirical science. Ion chamber were used to measure...

As noted above the conventional method for the determination of statistical uncertainty for a function is $$\Delta f = \sqrt{ \sum_{i=1}^{n} \left ( \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}} \right )^{2}\left (\Delta \right )^{2} }$$ Where the deltas usually represent the uncertainty (or error) in...

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah was largely ignored until Jeff Buckley's rendition was largely ignored until his untimely death.. Cohen took five years to write the lyrics. Buckley's version is not Cohen's but John Cale's a musician and producer who was given all of Cohen's attempts to his final...

Can the use of AI by students be valuable? OpenAI thinks so. It has introduced a new mode for CHATGPT called "Study Mode". Instead of doing work for students, it engages students in active learning when they request an explanation of a topic...

I posted a remark on a MIT study of the effects of the use of AI on students in the thread; Is AI hype?

Less than 50%. A toss of a fair coin has a 50% chance of a heads or a tails coming up.

I am surprised no one has taken notice of Tim Henson, lead guitarist of the progressive band Polyphia. Polyphia "Ego Death" Polyphia "G.O.A.T."

No hoping, only doing.

The OP is a sophomore in HS and has a goal of understanding the paper in two years.

Will not happen, But, if by some chance you think you do, please let us know.

To get where?

Yes, you will have a lot of water under your bridge before you can fully appreciate the article.

Aren't you in a similar situation this time with engineering courses?

First, what country are you in? You will only have three semesters of physics courses before you apply to grad school. Even with a BS, you will be short of courses compared to a regular physics major. As you noted, medical physics is quite competitive. I suppose you can leverage your research...