Recent content by marshallmeyer1

I would like to be a physicist and hopefully one day get involved in particle physics or theories of quantum gravity, but I am not a savant and couldn't solve different equations by the time I was four years old. I have only taken up to pre-calculus math classes. I was supposed to graduate at...

Baryogenesis! Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you.

So, I posted this on a philosophy forum... I was in a psychology class and I thought of something while reading "Why does the Earth exist?"... Bear with me here: We know that ... 0=1-1 or also shown as 0= 1 + (-1) In the latter, we know that 0=nothing. So, essentially, one and...

lasymphonie, I probably do have the option of HYP. Top of the class, top-notch test scores, national achievements, tri-athlete, family connections, all that yadda-yadda. But I did all of that stuff for the intrinsic value, not to go surround myself with kids whose lives are their accolades. If...

I do not know what I want to do. It may be neuroscience, it may be philosophy, it may be physics. I want to have an eclectic college experience, and study a little bit of everything. However I'm worried that all of the HYP, MIT, and CalTech kids will be miles ahead of me in grad school if I...

Hi guys, a buddy of mine and I are high school students and we are attempting to create a lattice fusion reactor using deuterium heavy water. However, know that there are ways to detect oxygen, carbon, etc... but how would one detect hydrogen or helium? Thanks

Absolutely, thanks Crazymechanic and Astronuc

^^^ Thanks man.

What would be the difficulty of building each? I have read of Michio Kaku building an atom smasher (albeit it ruined the power flow to his house,) I have found a 200,000 volt generator so I presume that a particle accelerator would be possible, and my friend is currently working on a nuclear...

Of course I'm using loose terminology. I am just inquiring as to whether or not it would be feasible to refute a theory such as this. I am not stating that I have any observational evidence to ascertain or even contemplate it. It's more of a philosophical question on my part, and I wanted to...

Could the "universe" just be a piece of something bigger? Okay, I say universe in quotations because it's supposed to refer to everything. But what if our current perception of the universe was just a small piece that, along with many other "universes" orbited some megaplanet? Does this...

So I understand that: Protons= 2 up quarks and a down quark... and Neutrons= an up quark and 2 down quarks... and Electrons are not made of quarks (so small!) So my questions are: 1.) According the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we don't know how many strings (according to string...

Oh thank you so much!

Lets establish our givens (please correct me if any of my givens are incorrect, for I am a physics noob.) 1.) A proton is made up of two up quarks and one down quark. 2.) An antiproton is made up of one up quark and two down quarks. 3.) A neutron is made up of one up quark and two down...