Recent content by kurious

Perpetual motion occurs all the time. According to Newton a mass will keep moving at the same speed unless it is disturbed by a force. I could explain why but my explanation might be too "interesting" for the mentors on theory development!

In the Kortewege de Vries equation what is the physical origin of the linear and non-linear terms? I'm thinking of the explanation of a water wave here.What properties of the water molecules cause the profile and stability of the wave?

Thanks for your comments Marlon. I'll let you know if I can take this idea anywhere.

Marlon: The dual abelian Higgs-model predicts precise values for these colourcharges and a triplet can never yield colourcharge -1 Kurious: What about the antiproton?

A mass such as a proton moving through a volume of particles with which it can exchange force mediating bosons , would get closer to some of the surrounding particles as it moved faster because it would take a bigger force to slow the proton at a higher speed (assuming the force between the...

marlon: you are referring to the Quarkconfinement-situation. Yet you are mixing two things : the assymetry in EM does not occur from these fenomena, but from the magnetic monopole Kurious: I was aware of Dirac's thinking. But I am talking about electric charges on the one hand seeming to...

Marlon: No, because mass is also generated by interactions with virtual particles for example Kurious: And this is true whether or not the Higgs theory is correct.

Marlon: You are using the gamma-factor for "relativistic mass" from special relativity. Note that this factor is a consequence of the fact that the light speed is a universal constant. It is a property that is omnipresent in special relativity, yet it has nothing to do with mass-generation in...

I am all for a quantum gravity and GUT forum that does not include strings or LQG.The mentors want to close down theory development so why not use its server space for a new forum.

I think I have been specific.However, I will state again what I am trying to do. There is an asymmetry for electromagnetism from the point of view that the electric charge on electrons can exist independently of other charged particles, whereas the electric charge on quarks only exists in the...

Marlon: This area you are talking about is another speculation. What is your proof for making such a statement. Kurious: The de Broglie wavelength itself was speculation when it first came out. Marlon: Besides a transition from excited to groundstate has very high probability so that it...

Is it possible that electron transitions from a high energy state to a low energy state are caused by the electrons interacting with some other partilces in the space around atoms.Let's look at the case of a hydrogen atom: According to Niels Bohr, for an electron, r = n^2 h^2 / (8 pi x epsilonx...

If the postulated residual force carrier moves at a maximum of 100 m/s then this is the maximum speed it can impart to a positron or electron. An electron moving close to the speed of light through a bubble chamber of a particle accelerator experiment would take 10^-7 seconds to cross 10...

Thanks a lot folks.

Humanino: Here is an objection : you are trying to build a theory far away from any observational possibility, this is not science. Kurious: Then I must bring a quantitative observational possibility into this discussion. The Planck length is not proven to be the shortest length in the...