Recent content by Ontophobe

Thank you, thank, thank you. That made perfect sense to me. I'm scared to ask questions on this forum because people can be so mean. I really appreciate that you took the time to break it down for me. This encourages me to ask more questions in the future.

Why is it that the EM force can't be modeled on spatio-temporal curvature the way gravity can be?

Keeping it basic, is "information" really the best word here? Scientists are notoriously bad at naming things. "Information" certainly does invoke concepts like knowledge and minds, and it makes laypeople like me ask questions that don't actually make sense, like "What sense does it make to...

So, floppy discs and thumb drives can be empty or full, but their storage capacity remains the same. We therefore might say that the universe's storage capacity is a fixed quantity. There is a fixed number of bits in the entire universe. Floppy discs and thumb drives can be destroyed, but...

There are irreversible logic gates, are there not? Gates who's outputs don't preserve information about their inputs, no? Or take for example computer parts that crunch numbers. If you know the answer to a calculation is 12 but that's all you know, then you can't figure out whether the...

Honestly, thank you millions for understanding that I was genuinely curious about this and for taking the question seriously and at face value. I was bracing myself for trolls.

There are inertial reference frames and accelerated reference frames, and the laws of physics change depending on the frame through which you're observing them. The universe when viewed through an inertial frame won't let you go faster than light, but the very same universe when viewed through...

Thank you so much for your response :) So I'd be using the term correctly if I were to say that the electromagnetic force is coupled to charge? Or that the strong force is coupled to "color"? (Not sure if my last statement is technically true)

When I Google this, I find nothing straight forward. What is "force coupling" and what is "force decoupling"? Here are things I've found online that don't seem to match up. I see that a "force couple" is a way of applying force to a body so as to generate spin without causing translation...

What would be the ramifications of discovering that a) dark matter radiates something non-electromagnetic, and that b) this radiation always travels at a constant velocity according to all inertial reference frames, but c) this constant velocity is equal to, say, c times pi?

On the one hand, gravity waves travel at c, but on the other hand, spatial expansion has no speed limit; ie, it can happen at FTL speeds. At first one might think, "So what? Gravity waves are gravity waves and spatial expansion is spatial expansion." But what is a gravity wave other than the...

I heard it from a friend. Where he heard it from I don't know. You're right. It's a business. I don't fault Science or Nature specifically. But I'm with Popper on the role of falsification in science, so basically, I'd absolutely want to read a "10 Things That Totally Didn't Work" article.

I've heard tell of a science journal like Science or Nature that a) only publishes studies with null results, and/or b) only publishes heavily replicated studies. Is this true? and if so, what's it called?

I just heard something that made me realize I was taking the equivalence principle way too literally. If I were in a windowless room, and was standing on its floor, then there is, in principle, a performable experiment by which I could determine whether I was moving upward at 1 g of...

What is a CM frame and and SU(2) context?