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This is very confusing for myself, I'm pretty sure it will be so for everyone else.
My question is really related to quantum theory, but I find it most appropriate to spell it out here as it's more of a maths question on the basics of probability.
Here my experiment:
I stand at a...
Thanks for the link!
Yes, shortly after submitting the post I've realized that whether the detector is halved or tilted, one should see a similar pattern. So some hypothesis I toyed with went out of the window.
What I'm trying to say is that I reckon my question was stupid to begin with...
I guess inaccuracies in the actual experiment suggests the answer for this question. But would still ask to confirm.
If instead of using a whole screen, one simply puts half a screen. That is, from a top view the screen extends upwards from the central beam axis, also right in the middle...
In literature I came across, gravity being weak as a problem is often mentioned with relation to how hard it is to 'measure' or 'detect' gravity in experiments.
For one, the idea that a pill-size magnet overpower the gravity of a very big planet in preventing your keys from falling towards...
Excellent question. So what space looks like for something that travels at the speed of light?
In a way, maybe saying that space 'shrinks' is not right, but how about saying that as you only travel through the space axis of space time, you are actually traveling (obviously at the same time)...
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When reading about the Double Slit Experiment, often the author will rave about something like 'the photon must pass through both slits at the same time'.
I'm struggling a bit with the simple phrasing of this statement, and can't come to terms with two questions I have:
Isn't the...
OK, that solves it. Apologies for carrying on asking, but I really want to get this clear:
If a spaceship traveling half the speed of light shoots a laser beam downwards right as it passes above Barcelona. What frames are involved, and what each observer will see (the one in Barcelona and the...
Perhaps I'm confusing wave-like with high-divergence light, and particle-like with low-divergence light.
I'm not sure why the light moving diagonally away happens without any cause - the cause is that the observer is getting away from a fixed line in space on which light travels.
Consider the...
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In attempt to understand SR, a moving mirror clock is often given as part of a thought experiment, which leads to the dismissal of absolute time.
To save people reading, the short version of my question is this: This experiment assumes light is wave-like, right?
The long version of...
OK,
So last (rather historical) question then:
Was the inverse square law an excepted, yet unexplained law of nature until General Relativity and Quantum field theory came about?
In other words, did any previous attempts to put this concept into a coherent proof failed? Newton used it...