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Nugatory replied to the thread High School Thought Experiment on Charge Carriers and Electrical Conduction.Your hypothetical “electrop”differs from the positron (the electron’s anti-particle, and not hypothetical) only in that it doesn’t... -
Nugatory reacted to timmdeeg's post in the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics with
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Sorry for a layman question in between. As I understood it a quantum object has no well defined properties unless it interacts. Isn't... -
Nugatory reacted to Sambuco's post in the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics with Like.
I would like to add that the idea that a quantum object exists at all times and possesses objective properties is nothing more than a...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Undergrad Reference frames, center of rotation, etc.We aren't. We are analyzing the forces acting on a given infinitesimal volume somewhere along the rod, and these are all external to...
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Nugatory reacted to Herman Trivilino's post in the thread Undergrad Is energy really conserved? with Like.
No. One of the great unifications in physics was the discovery that there is an equivalence between mechanical and thermal energy...
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Nugatory replied to the thread High School The M paradox.Any time you run into a paradox, your first thought should be that you have taken a wrong turn on the way there. You have started from...
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Back on and signed in, using Firefox. I see an Alert at the bell-icon. Let's see what's there and how the page behaves there...
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Nugatory reacted to verb's post in the thread Undergrad Why use Stefan's Law to measure temperature? with Like.
The Wikipedia article on Planck's law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_law, has a section called Percentiles that I wrote from...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Random Thoughts 7.Many legal documents do that. At the beginning of most of my insurance policies there is a section of definitions, stuff like...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Random Thoughts 7.If this is intended as a "random thought" - and yes, it does qualify as such - what's going on here is that the word "variable" means...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Undergrad Is there anything inside a black hole?.@Green dwarf did we not go through all of this with you ten years ago...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Independent Researcher.Whether mainstream or not, Physics Forums is not intended for prepublication review or initial presentation of new work. This policy...
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Nugatory reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad About the notion of non-standard inertial frame with Like.
I think that the term “inertial frame” means what the author using the term defines it to mean. There are variations in the literature.
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Nugatory replied to the thread High School Opposite law propose.There's not much point in proposing a greek letter for us in describing multiverses when the multiverse notion is an idle speculation...
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Nugatory reacted to Dale's post in the thread High School Why would an atmosphere without greenhouse gasses be colder than with them? with Like.
With GHG in the atmosphere the surface of the earth is in radiative “contact” with a reservoir that is at the temperature of the...