Recent content by Jarwulf

Hi, the wikipedia article on binary stars in the formation section claims that conservation of energy forbids a single object from capturing another. If this is true how so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zdjfRQRHeE Here is the video, interesting approach but not sure about the effectiveness at actually doing anything besides inducing embarrassment.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/18/17006552-will-our-universe-end-in-a-big-slurp-higgs-like-particle-suggests-it-might?lite There are several news sites saying the discovery of the higgs boson indicates that the universe is a 'false vacuum' but they're very light on the details...

Wikipedia simply says that it is impossible to transform a quantum state to classical info and then back to the same state but doesn't really give a reason why. Can anybody explain in simple terms the reasoning behind this.

Alright I've asked before but this is still bugging me. given that the mass energy equation is this energy=mass(lightspeed)2 xz2=x(lightspeed(z/y) )2 y2where x=arbitrary unit for mass y =arbitrary unit for time z=arbitrary unit for length I'm wondering why the value that converts mass to...

Alright I'm a little dense so you'll have to bang things in me a little harder. What I'm getting from this is basically a scaled down version of the time travel prohibition in SR. Causality between spacelike separated events will allow event B to occur before event A in some FrameofRef...

I was reading Baez's FAQ at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html#17" and I came across this nugget Except for gravity, all physical phenomena are observed to comply with the "Standard Model" of particle physics. The Standard Model is a relativistic quantum...

Yeah but what is the reason behind that? And why would you be able to do it instead with something like an alpha particle?

Hi, the wikipedia article on fermium states that it is the last element that can be synthesized by neutron bombardment but decides not to explain why. Can anybody give a layman's explanation? Thanks.

I don't know I think a buffet would be a lot cooler with an infinite variety of food.

If the wavefunction really does contain all possibilities than theoretically it should allow say for instance a quanta or maybe even Los Angeles to teleport to the other side of the visible universe or an infinite distance instantaneously right? Assuming an unbounded universe where quantum...

So theoretically it would be possible to teleport from one side of the universe to the other instantaneously.

Okay so the FAQ is wrong

I guess I'm missing something here but I find it odd that an arbitrary unit of mass has the energy to have 1 Newton of force applied to it over the distance of exactly a lightyear squared. Its the same way if you use grams or whatever. I don't know how to explain my bemusement properly. So...

For E=mc2 I'm having trouble understanding intuitively how every kilogram of m conveniently is associated with a neat c2 joules since as far as I know neither kg or joules were formulated with c in mind. I've seen that the mathematical derivation works out but I can't quite put it together on a...