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Care to elaborate? Also why is the word "smearing" used to refer to it? I understand it's not the same "smearing" you'd see in everyday life but there has to be some reason they chose that word. I've seen colored graphs of Bose-Einstein Condensates forming and I don't see how it's even...

That's still a definition if that is the definition. I'm not looking for familiarity just as long as there is a definition even if the definition is anything that fits such-and-such equation. Even if I can't accurately picture it happening (which as you pointed out is impossible) what I'm...

I've seen these terms in connection with quantum mechanics a lot. I've looked them up but it's hard to find just a straightforward definition of them.

An example being its use in the beginning of this document: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1288789.files/Rotations-Lorentz-Transformations.pdf I haven't read the whole document yet so forgive me if it explains what it means later on.

I'm new to physics and I see "det" used in math a lot. What does it mean?

Sorry if this turns out to be a colossally stupid question. I'm a newbie. But since light has a constant speed in all inertial frames wouldn't that mean where it would end up would have to be relative? A famous example of relativity for things in inertial frames of reference other than...