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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.I don't view it that way. Energy as a concept is quite well defined and precise within each physical theory. Indeed that definition... -
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Disabusing people of notions like everything is made of energy is well within the wheelhouse of physicists. -
Matterwave replied to the thread High School Building intuition for waves (& quantum waves).If you care more about the mathematical treatment of waves, then you would want to study the mathematics of oscillatory motion...
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Matterwave replied to the thread High School Building intuition for waves (& quantum waves).I think if you want to build intuition for physical waves, it's best to start with the simple cases -- with waves on a rope, waves on...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields?.See @renormalize post #22. The asymmetry comes because magnetic monopoles, as far as we know, do not exist. This asymmetry is indeed...
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Matterwave reacted to renormalize's post in the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields? with Like.
Actually, both the electric and magnetic fields are on the same footing as part of the Maxwell's "unified" electromagnetism. Any...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.What do you mean by "highest level"? QFT and GR both form our fundamental understanding of physics. Creation operators are a...
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Matterwave reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
A creation operator does not represent an actual physical process. (It's not even an observable since it has no eigenstates.) It's a...
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Matterwave reacted to spagettot's post in the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields? with Like.
if thats the case then i think i understand it a bit more than i though. thank you
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Matterwave replied to the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields?.More precisely, in electrostatics (where my charge distribution doesn't move) the electric field gives rise to a force via...
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Matterwave reacted to spagettot's post in the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields? with Like.
its a force like gravity, gravity doesnt need to generate (i think i have good mental model but i am not sure this is confusing im gonna...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields?.Could you clarify your question? Are you asking about why moving charges give rise to magnetic fields while stationary ones do not...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields?.I agree with "not generated". It is good to go away from the idea that fields are created or generated, they just "are". In every day...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Why does the movement of electrons create fields?.I might not phrase things that way, but I also can't tell exactly how you are thinking of things. Maybe you would like to rephrase it?
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Matterwave reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Comparing the time of two moving clocks with Like.
I don't think this is true. You're asking the same question here that you asked in your previous threads (of which there have been more...