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I would guess start by finding the probability density. See what happens when the two electrons occupy the same location in the two different states.

Hmm interesting. Any recommendation for a introductory book to learn what you're talking about in more detail? I'm a first year grad student. Thanks a lot for your responses.

Wow alright that makes sense, thank you. So the only way that this field can deviate from its constant value is with a higgs boson, which we are looking for. So fermions interact with the field more simply than the vector bosons which I assume means the W and Z bosons. I've heard the analogy...

Well so can you think of the higgs field like an em field except that it has a constant value everywhere whereas the em field can be zero? Obviously its different in the way it interacts with things. However if it is like an em field with a constant value then it has to have a preferred...

So I'm trying to understand how the Higgs field and Higgs boson are different from the EM field and the photon. Firstly how I understand the photon is that It is the quanta of energy that an electromagnetic field oscillating at a certain frequency can give to some other system. The photon is the...

Thanks for the response vanadium. I was just using cern as an example of a place that would be cool to work but probably hard to get into . So finding a professor here who is prestigious in their field would be the best goal for me now, if I wanted the best research position after getting my...

PhD from a "regular" University Hi, So I recently started grad school going for a PhD in Physics at Oregon State University.So far It seems like a decent program and the research is interesting. I've just started thinking about what kind of opportunities I'll have after I get my PhD though...

Not sure if this is correct but... When you pick a photon of a certain frequency it will have an electric field associated with it. Yes you can only have photons of discrete frequencies (with boundary conditions) but the electric field associated with whatever frequency you pick will be...

Ok so I am attempting to get a "feel" of the Lorentz equations. For a observer O' moving with velocity v respect to a observer O along the x direction the transformed variables are x and t. x' = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}(x - vt) t' = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}(t -...

I believe the misunderstanding you have is from your assumption that when the first clock shows 4:00, you can somehow instantly know what the other guys clock will read. When you look out into space when your clock reads 4:00, the light from when his clock was 5:00 will now be reaching you. His...

To me, the usage of E=mc^2 is completely unfounded in this situation. It says that energy and mass can be converted into one another but just because a system has more "energy" that doesn't mean it has more mass. If i lift up a stone it has more gravitational potential energy, but it didn't gain...

I am very confused about the reasoning given here. Is the statement about the system having a different energy and therefore a different mass based on E=mc^2? The changing of 0s to 1s only affects the energy of the magnetic moment orientation. This doesn't have anything to do with the rest mass...

Hey I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard or knows of a touch screen program that would maybe use something similar to the Mathematica engine. I have seen some handheld touch screen computers for very cheap. It would be really useful(and just plain awesome) to be able to create equations and...

Is this a calculus based physics course? Looking at this the only way i can think of how to do it is with calculus. I'm going to assume it is. The question is asking at which angle is the mass maximized. There fore you need to find \frac{dm}{d\theta} and set it equal to zero. then you can solve...

Great I think I got it. Thanks a lot!