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Why do both poles of a radio pulsar emit radio waves?
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Why exactly? Do you know how Lorentz force works? What does changing the sign of ##\vec{B}## do to particles movement? Hint: magnetic...
Aug 28, 2025
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Could fast radio bursts be alien radar signals?
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It can be assumed that on the way to Earth under the influence of the interstellar medium the signal is heavily distorted and becomes...
Aug 28, 2025
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Could fast radio bursts be alien radar signals?
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But the evidence base is very thin so far. "Most of them are not repeatable, most of them are highly unpredictable, and only five out of...
Aug 28, 2025
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It's not my personal opinion! How many industry experts do you require? OK, let's do that, then*. * unfortunately, in blocks of text...
Aug 28, 2025
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@Dale also has less than perfect vision, which he stated multiple times, and you seem to deliberately ignore it. EDIT: Oh sorry, I...
Aug 27, 2025
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I am one such person and your suggested "improvement" marginalizes me. And you are misrepresenting them in favor of your personal...
Aug 27, 2025
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I am still not convinced of this. And although it clearly exasperates you, your exasperation is not a credible substitute for actual...
Aug 27, 2025
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Electric field due to arc shaped thin rod
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##Rcos\theta## is x component of vector ##\vec{r}## not ##d\vec{E}##, where by ##\vec{r}## i mean vector that starts at the origin, and...
Aug 27, 2025
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Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity
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That's out of bounds here. We can't discuss imagined theories. We can only discuss theories that have actually been published in the...
Aug 26, 2025
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OK. I give up. It seems as if to enact even the slightest change and accommodate a wider audience, apparently it will require PF to...
Aug 26, 2025
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Modern View of Quantum Phenomena
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Your name here, renormalize, holds the key, as I think you probably know. In QFT, early on, there was a deep problem. We kept getting...
Aug 26, 2025
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An effective theory is one that is admitted to not be fundamental. Or, if you insist on a definition that doesn't use either of those...
Aug 26, 2025
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You miss the point of why I started this thread. Particles are not fundamental; they emerge from fields. For fields, the question is...
Aug 26, 2025
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Is the constancy of c a postulate or a derivable theorem?
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Yes. Actually that was the way I was taught relativity at my uni. But it's less standard to do so and I guess more suitable for someone...
Aug 25, 2025
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Self-gravitating systems and MOND
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That's correct. And yet your post #8 does exactly that, as you confirm in your post #10. Therefore, this thread will remain closed.
Aug 22, 2025
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