Recent content by NYSportsguy

Yes, but the word and formula definitons for the concept of "momentum" still contain a mass unit in it. You can't calculate any type of momentum unless you have mass...it's part of what makes up momentum! Just look at the two formulas posted already for Relativisitic and Classical momentum by...

Ideasrule already brought up this equation if you read his response. The problem ONCE AGAIN is how come "p" in LaTeX Code: E=\\sqrt{p^2c^2+m^2c^4} has a value? Remember "p" stands for momentum and no matter what equation you use to define momentum there is always mass involved again...an we...

This is actually a very good question you ask in the case of quantum mechanics. The only I answer I know for certain, according to the Uncertainty Principle (again), is that YOU CAN'T MEASURE IT. If you try to measure a wave function it basically collapses the second the measurement is made...

Well it's not that I don't accept it, it's just I want to know WHY this is the formula. I believe the question I posed was a valid one and if the formula holds true there should be an answer for my question. I plan on doing some research online and seeing why "photons have momentum". If I can...

I actually have seen this formula before, E=hf, in quantum mechanics. I believe it describes the Energy of a Photon = the Photon's Frequency * Planck's constant. And I realize that a Photon's Frequency can be re-written as [Frequency = speed of light/ wavelength.] But again, where is...

Well duh, I wasn't the one that came up with that equation...I was questioning it. Someone else brought it up as a possible answer to my original question above, I just want to know why that would be correct considering photons usually don't have mass, so how can momentum (the "p" part of the...

According to Heisenberg's "Uncertainty" Principle you cannot accurately measure most sub atomic particles in their natural state. This is the reason we still use probability wave functions to begin with. There are certain things that are linked together in physics in a cause and effect sort of...

You state "0 times infinity is an indeterminate form"... But isn't zero x anything (including infiniti) still equal to ZERO? Once again, how can we get the momentum of a photon from the equation E = pc when p = zero?? You still didn't answer the question sufficiently.

The whole issue was the general principle of how to go about explaining quantum physics to begin with. Schrodinger was merely trying to point out the absurdity with which Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky were trying to "reason" quantum super positions in scientific terms. To Schrodinger, it didn't...

Ideasrule: Thanks for your replies. But now I have some more inquiries to bring up with some of your responses. a) If Einstein's statement that as an object increases in mass and heaviness as it approaches "c" or goes faster and faster...how was he able to measure or prove this? And why do...

I read somewhere that Einstein found out in 1905 that as an object approached the speed of light (c), the object's mass would increase. He also found out that as the object goes faster and approaches "c", it also gets heavier. In fact, at "c" itself, an object's mass and energy should both be...

To be honest with you...I posed this question because I wanted to get a thoughtful discussion going. I really wasn't trying to "nullify" anything. My purpose was to get an end outcome that either justified the need to look for "gravitons" or disprove it as a myth. Either resolution or outcome...

Basically Schrodinger's cat experiment was a thought experiment created by physicist Erwin Schrodinger, who was trying to come up with a logical analogy in real life as to why matter (more specifically particles with very little mass like an electron or proton) behave with a particle-wave...

I'll start from the beginning: Basically in Quantum Mechanics (as we mere mortals understand it so far), particles having mass, like the electron, as well as with no mass, such as the photon, travel in what is called a "quantum wave function". In this "wave function", the location of the...