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Many popsci presentations really grossly misrepresent “the” double slit experiment. There are at least three different types of “double...

Oh wow! I searched YouTube for "openstax pbs" and it's the first hit. The professor's name is Richard Baraniuk, Ph.D. and he's the...

Yeah. You may be able to make some progress there. It's been 10 years or so but I was featured in a local PBS news piece on OpenStax...

Have you tried reaching out to the administrators at OpenStax?

The idea that Richard Feynman didn't understand the basics of relativity as well as anyone else who ever lived is cretinous.

I prefer the operational definitions precisely because they minimize the philosophical dead ends. It also gives our theories an explicit...

The construction of a theory is a modeling process. It creates models.

Newton's absolute frame included an absolute time. We know from observation and experiment that that is demonstrably false. If engineers...

No it doesn't. It shows that 3.5 years pass. You're assuming (incorrectly) that 4 light years is the distance traveled.

If you "talk about" it as an object, mathematical or otherwise, then you contradict yourself when say it's nothing.

In your mind you are debating yourself, which is good. It's a sign of higher order thinking. But you are creating your own personal...

Yes, but suppose you throw the ball at 110 km/h from OUTSIDE the car. That is, relative to the road the car has a speed of 100 km/h and...

But only briefly. "Converting to energy" actually means "converting to radiation", which would immediately spread out. In a second it...

It would be an explosion. The amount of gravity produced would be the least concern.

Good point. Never heard of the foam but it seems a good idea. So the most support is needed not along the vertical edges but in the center?