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That's quite alright,it is an interesting consequence though!

Thank you.

I don't want one I'm asking is it theoretically impossible for one to exist, as Feynman said in the video above. edit: by one I mean a conservation law that does not apply locally.

Is it impossible for conservation laws to be global but not local ignoring the general relativity or is ignoring general relativity an unreasonable ask?

at 10:50. Sorry to repeat myself but all I'm asking is is it possible in principle for a conservation law to be non local (to have charge disappearing at one point and appearing at another point) in other words is that what Feynman said outdated.

Thanks for the reply. My current understanding is that all quantities that are conserved must be conserved locally. If for example you had charge appearing in one place and disappearing 'instantaneously' in another place then depending on your frame of reference you would be able to see the...

Does the relativity of simultaneity imply the impossibility of non local conservation laws?

I'm trying to work out the luminosity of the sun. 1630 Watts/m2 apparent magnitude reduces with distance squared so 1/(1.496*1011)2 = 4.468*10-23m2 has the same brightness 1630 Watts from earth Surface area of the sun divided by 4.468*10-23m2 = # of 1630 Watt sections *1630 = 2.21*1044...

So there's nothing special about mass then? its just concentrated energy in a small volume?

If you trap a lot of energy in a box does the system (box plus its contents) gain inertia and become more difficult to accelerate?

So we don't know what causes it only that it happens? Why assign a range to it then, surely that's meaningless? I ask because I watched a video on YouTube that claimed its caused by bosons inside neutrinos ,when they get within a certain range, interacting with quarks in hadrons, and I was...

Hi all I'm an AS (Year 12 in England) level student with a bordering on obsessive interest in physics :)

Recently it struck me that I'm not sure I understand the weak interaction at all. What causes it to happen? I know that its mediated by the W and Z bosons and has a short range as a result of the large mass these bosons posses, but what does that range refer to? Range from what?!