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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
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With GHG in the atmosphere the surface of the earth is in radiative “contact” with a reservoir that is at the temperature of the... -
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Just think about that for a minute. You are standing by the road and a passing car turns on its turn indicator. How are you and the...
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Nugatory reacted to PAllen's post in the thread Undergrad The Einstein Clock aka Light Clock with Like.
Maybe it would help to imagine two flash bulbs, one in motion relative to the other. They both flash when one just passes the other. In...
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Nugatory replied to the thread High School Train Fall Paradox.Most relativity "paradoxes" are better described as "apparent contradiction resulting from a hidden bogus assumption, often used as a...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Is this device possible (hope not)?.Sure, if you assume the simuulation hypothesis then anything is possible; the master software developer just has to hack together a few...
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Nugatory replied to the thread Physics Career Prospects (outside of academia).With tongue somewhat in cheek, I've said that I used my undergraduate physics degree the way that a male peacock uses its tail feathers...
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Nugatory reacted to Cthugha's post in the thread Undergrad Importance of Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment with Like.
Michelson interferometers, Mach-Zehnder interferometers (and also the double slit) measure field correlations. The quantity you measure...