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Hi, I had the exact same question as the OP. Thanks for the clear response. Can you please explain the quoted part a little further. I want to know if the higgs mechanism can generate masses of fundamental particles from first principles

That's title of the paper I've linked below. It's small paper that argues against an eternal universe. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.4658v1.pdf I'd like some opinions on the paper. It seems interesting. although the argument for the geodesic incompleteness of the eternal inflation model is not...

Serious Blow to Dark Matter Theories? http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1217/ http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1217/eso1217.pdf

oh ok. Maybe i should teach myself GR. Any decent introductory textbooks.

Hello, I have a BA physics but I've never taken GR. My question is whether gravity is a force in GR? the answer i get everywhere is that it isn't a force, but rather the curvature of space. And objects moving under 'gravity' is simply them moving along a geodesic. But then i keep hearing the...

Another foundational question. Here it seems in her paper C is changing with time. IS there a violation of the conservation laws here

:( is there really no one

In this http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/einstein/Talks/aspauthor2004_3.pdf" L. Riofrio introduces a GM = tc^3 relation. where does this come from. Please help I know that GM=rv^2 for orbits. This is simple enough, but She also introduces a r=ct term and v=c I'd like to know whee this comes...

Sweet I got it

sorry. I want to know where you get this from: \int ds = \int \sqrt{dt^2-(atdt)^2}

Thanks, but how did you get that integral

Starthaus, what have I done wrong with rest frame calculation. And isn't bcrowell correct since I'm measuring in a rest frame. I thought this question was conceptually a little difficult for me to grasp because the object is moving in non inertial frame and lambda is difficult to define.

I have a couple of questions, I'd be most grateful if someone could help me? Assume that you are accelerating at ate 'a' relative to a rest frame for distance 'D' which is also measued relative to the rest frame. 1) Is it right to use v=\sqrt{2aD} to find the find velocity, and D=1/2at^{2}. to...

Thanks Physics Monkey, So in essence what it says is that the quantum mechanical description of gravity of a particular space time can be described as a function of the surface area of that space. Am I right, or did I muck it up. My background is that I have major in Maths & Physics...

Can someone please explain the holographic principle to me? I'm decent in my physics and math, so you don't need to dumb things down too much :smile: