Recent content by lovenugget

oh sorry about the error in the title. it's correctly spelled as you all have. thanks for the responses. i still wonder though, is there a googolplex photons in the universe? there has to be... or else I'm still underestimating the true size of the how large a number it is. EDIT there's not...

you're right. good answer. what if i asked instead if you could record all of the zeros of a googleplex? i understand the number of zeros is far less.

will someone please enlighten me on whether this is possible? I'm debating a friend on whether it is, but I'm starting to reconsider my position. to be more specific, i want to know if you can store (10^(10^100)) in a text file on a hard drive that would fit inside the universe. also, what's...

I want to know why someone hasn't built a 'rover' of some sort that could easily navigate the lunar surface while recording HD video. I don't think funding would be an issue since you could easily strike a deal with a large company pertaining to product placement i.e. a coca-cola bottle in the...

ohhhhhhh i should probably send my old physics teacher an email- although the odds are she knew and was just telling me 'white lies' since the actual answer would have been over my head. thanks for your insight i will check out the thread you suggested.

I didn’t believe it when I first heard it. I don't know how to reconcile this fact with what I understand about the known laws of physics. It appears to be one of the grandest mysteries I can think of. I understand that most of the universe is empty space but zero volume is different. Anyways...

wow I'm not sure how i managed to overlook the demonstration page you provided. I've been looking for a similar page for months. i think it's great that they're made available to everyone, as opposed to being hoarded which the contributors and wolfram could easily have done. much appreciated.

Thank you all for your responses and for confirming what I imagined would happen. I looked at the mathematica notebooks you posted on the other thread Doolin. I really like mathematica and I'm interested in finding more (more like a collection) of mathematica notebooks relating to physics. Does...

I understand that it would be physically impossible to stay in orbit around the Earth at 99% the speed of light... with this being a thought experiment I would like to ignore that fact. remember, the spaceship never leaves the orbit. it just keeps racing around the Earth during the...

The setup: You're in a spaceship rocketing around the earth, never breaking orbit. You have a video recorder constantly pointing inward toward the earth, capturing the events. You then begin accelerating to 99% the speed of light. After a few hours at this speed you decelerate to 1% c...

“Welcome to PhysicsForums!” Thanks I like it here. Constructive responses from the informed are really appreciated. I have lots of questions. “When a photon is absorbed, the appropriate "reality" takes shape. Assuming the photon came from an electron dropping from one orbital to another...

"Yes, exactly. The act of observation limits how many possible realities can exist." So to reiterate and expand: observing one particle real close causes surrounding particles to start snapping into their most probable states based upon the position/velocity of the observed particle... but...

Thanks for the insight Goldstone. I don't completely understand your response... it sounds like i need to take physical chem. haha i seem to lack essential vocabulary. "Tiny particles are constantly having eigenstates being defined by the observation of other particles on them. This is how...

Thanks for the replies Lost Conjugate and San K. I'd appreciate some feedback from others!

I’ve been fascinated with the different QM interpretations since I discovered them… but I want to sort of restrict my imagination to more solid ideas. I know about the Double-Slit experiment and that there are many misconceptions about the correct definition of an ‘observer’ and what role the...