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Nobel lectures

Please enlighten us, what are the equations of the ER=EPR conjecture?

Realism means too many things in philosophy and physics that it leads to many pointless debates. Better use, cite or define more specific terms.

Yet there's still Strings '26 coming up

How? What wave? Have you ever seen how we quantize the electromagnetic field to get photons? It is the same idea, photons might be real but the description is the same. We say a "photon with momentum ##\hbar \mathbf k##" and we do not worry about semantics if its a wave/mode or whatever...

You are right it is a short hand to avoid "excitation of mode ##\omega,\mathbf k##". But in second quantization treatment, this is exactly what we do with particles, the particles are excitations of a mode with a given energy-momentum, and we say particles with momentum ##\mathbf p##. The only...

On turbulence: –Horace Lamb (1932 address British Association for the Advancement of Science, I could not find it) –Richard Feynman (The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1, chapter 3)

Einstein got (Nobel) help from his dad? Albert Einstein was unable to get an assistant position while he was studying in Zurich. He tried to contact chemist Wilhelm Ostwald twice and got no reply. The situation was so harsh that that Hermann Einstein, Albert's father, wrote to Ostwald asking...

If anybody here knows: How readable is Galois’ original work? I was wondering how much could he do without the work of Noether and Van der Waerden…

I liked this half more than most of the stories at the end of Foundation 1. Sure but a reason was given. In the TV series there is no indication yet on why psychohistory fails (and kind of does not matter, Seldon is manipulating everything actively in the TV series).

Oh boy I finally got to watch season 2. What a fabulous... mess. I can say that: I liked most of the fabricated new plots related to Empire. Disliked most of the fabricated new plots related to Seldon and Gaal Dornick. As for the original plot, it covers everything from third chapter of...

In previous threads, I have argued that it is not an interpretation in the sense that it does not claim to give an explanatory interpretation of what happens. It is just like some kind of duality.

A single fermion in vacuum cannot turn into a single boson in vacuum due to conservation laws (can you tell which?). If you want to consider more than one particle please develop.

Isn’t that how we justify the whole Standard Model Lagrangian? What’s new here?