Paper Definition and 999 Threads

hi, this is a simple question. I think reading an ebook on the computer screen is LESS effective then reading a paper books. Sometimes, my eyes feel pain especiall the ebook scrolling on the screen. So, I think it's more effective and healthy way to read on papers. Do you think so? Hope...

Hi All, On some other scientific forums, it is possible to submit alternative theories papers. These papers are of course, discussed following the scientific rule "All things being equal...". Is there such a section in Physics Forums?

Major paper by Fairbairn--a way to put matter into 4D quantum gravity I expect this paper will "raise the dead" in the sense of evoking a comment from John Baez :-). It develops some lines of research he was working on three years ago. It references work by Derek Wise, a Baez PhD----also...

I'm reading a paper and I came across a passage that seems wrong. The context is describing axioms for a system ZFU, with an operation \dot F that relates urelements to natural numbers. \dot U(v) holds exactly when v is an urelement. The first line, then, says that \dot F(u,v) is a relation...

What exactly is the criteria for a research paper to get published? It seems that few papers contain major breakthroughs like the cloning of a sheep. A lot of papers seem to be contain incomplete ideas, and a lot of times papers seem to discuss ideas that were developed by someone other than...

Is this forum of people who help each other or a place of nasty people?

Hello everyone, i just started a electrical technician degree at a tech school. right now were about to start with series-parallel circuits...but we need to write a research paper on it. i have never done a research paper not even in high school. so my question is can i read a book or two on...

Every quarter we have a poll predicting which will be the quarter's most valuable QG paper, most important for future non-string quantum gravity research. In this case, I'm collecting nominees for the time period April thru June 2008, This simple elegant 6-page paper by members of Loll's group...

I'm getting a little stuck on terminology, but most of it can be looked up in wikipedia. However, there's one term I'm having trouble with. The paper is for a model of micrometeorites entering the atmosphere. It says: "Entry velocities ranged between 11.2 and 72 km/sec following a v^-5,394...

In this case, on the top corner of the book. I occasionally buy some of my books used, and they have stickers and stamps on them. I generally don't mind but this one is on the top of the book when the book is closed (on the top of the page), and it is some ink stamp. I tried removing it...

Hello, I am taking Conceptual Physics and I am writing a paper about an every day use of physics, defining at least 5 physics concepts. I have about 3 and a half pages completed over walking, and I would love for someone to proof read it to make sure everything makes sense. If anyone has...

I have an idea for a research paper. Given sufficient free time, I'm fully capable of writing this paper by myself. For some reason most papers seem to have multiple authors. Are there any good reasons why I should attempt to enlist others to make contributions to this paper?

Hi, I'm new, hello to you all! I am in need of a physics past paper mark scheme! I need the mark scheme for the PHYSICS (B) ADVANCING PHYSICS OCR AS Level exam Monday 18th June 2001. I need it as quick as possible so any ideas or links would be great! Many thanks Mark

Hey first time poster long time reader, I have a question on the physics behind this shockwave applet. Are there a series or set of equations that could approximate something that is done in this applet? http://www.workman.com/etcetera/games/fliersclub/ I don't think air resistance is a...

]http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0037 Particle Identifications from Symmetries of Braided Ribbon Network Invariants Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Lou Kauffman, Lee Smolin 9 pages, 7 figures (Submitted on 1 Apr 2008) "We develop the idea that the particles of the standard model may...

1. Why are some pigment spots larger (area and volume) than others? I understand that pigments move up the porous paper by capillary action, from research. But why are some pigment colours (areas) larger? THanks

http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3101 Empirical Neutrino Mass Matrix Related to Up-Quark Masses Yoshio Koide 12 pages, 2 figures (Submitted on 21 Mar 2008) "A new approach to quark and lepton masses is proposed: the mass spectra originate in vacuum expectation values of U(3) flavor nonet (gauge...

Which of these first quarter 2008 papers/presentations do you expect to contribute most to future research? 1. http://cift.fuw.edu.pl/users/kostecki/zakopane08/rovelli.pdf Looppy & Foammy: at long last, falling in love Carlo Rovelli This is Rovelli's report at the March 2008 Zakopane...

Hello, I am trying to make a cardboard pipe organ...After a few days of research, I kind of have a idea of how the keys work, but I still have trouble on -make a workable pipe -make the air pass through the pipe I have made a 16cm * 1.5 cm * 1.5 cm cardboard (thickness: 1mm) pipe , with a...

can anyone give me the webpage link of this paper by Einstein Einstein, Albert, 1911, "On the Influence of Gravity on the Propagation of Light", Annalen der Physik, 35: 898–90 I heard that in this paper Einstein tells that velocity of light is changed by gravitational field...i want to...

Paper: Rovelli's "What is observable in classical and quantum gravity?" I'm reading Rovelli's QG book and found a reference to his own article: "What is observable in classical and quantum gravity?" I fail to find it on arxiv - anyone know if this is available or do you have to buy it from...

I'm making a question paper with answers having multiple options. I made/got the questions and right answer, but I'm unable to get wrong answers. Please people try to make some basic level mistake to get a wrong answer and tell me (Pardon me if I've posted this in wrong place) 1) Find the...

we are supposed to find a recent news article that relates to chemistry and contains at least 3 chemical compounds and write a paper about it anyone know of anything interesting that i could write about?

Hi there, As u might have understood I am an Electronics and telecommunication engineering student.I am hoping to participate in some of the technical paper presentation competitions in my area.I wanted some suggestions for the topic I might choose.The topic should be from my field and if...

For a project in my combustion class, I have to do a review paper on an area of combustion research. I don't know a lot about this field or the technologies that are at the forefront, so I was hoping the people on this board could help me out. I'm kind of a sci-fi geek, so I would like...

In case anyone's interested, I've put an English translation of Poincaré's 1900 paper, "La Théorie de Lorentz et Le Principe de Réaction", here: http://physicsinsights.org/poincare-1900.pdf" It's a moderately interesting paper which occasionally comes up in discussions of the history of...

Ok, my physics teacher has a assigned a 10 page paper to be completed by the end of the year. this is my senior year just for refrence. I would like to pick a topic in the Aerospace engineering field, and who better than u guys to help me find a good topic to do my project on. Here are my...

Hello, I have been trying to work out the mathematical details of H Snyder's 1947 paper, titled http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v71/i1/p38_1" , and I am stuck at something. When the space-time variables are considered as Hermitian operators, and we need to verify that they satisfy Lorentz...

I'm in undergraduate physics 2 and I'm looking for an interesting (but not too broad) topic to write an 8-10 page paper on. I've considered color vision & color blindness, lasers, quantum theory, etc. What would be a good topic to write on? Thanks.

[FONT="Times New Roman"]I've recently purchased a laptop for my schoolwork, planning to do most of it on the laptop, but have found that the actual constructive work coming out of it is minimal. How do you learn best? Do you learn best writing on a computer or just pen and paper? I find with pen...

Here I have a translation from French to English of the original paper by Poisson about his brackets. I cannot understand why the function a=f(q,u,t) doesn't have a second order derivative (in q or u). The problem is on the top of the third page (second .JPG) after he took the time derivative...

Hello, I have read in a susy introduction paper that if we call Q the charge which links fermions and bosons, then we have the following anticommutation relation : {Q_a, Q_b} = 2 sigma_ab P where P is 4-momentum. So, is this relation only due to Coleman-Mandula theorem which force the...

Sorry for the ridiculously long title! But, for some of my and my girlfriend's classes this semester, we need to get very specific notebooks. You know those composition notebooks? (they actually say "COMPOSITION" right on the covers) They have a black and white "marble" looking cover...

I got bored, and I found this cool sheet that you can print out and make your own paper airplane. It happens to look almost exactly like the airplane I fly, so I made it. Pretty neat! (I printed it on medium card stock paper I had laying around). I added a few extras like the antennas and...

Hey, well recently I've found out at the late age of 17, that you can only fold a sheet of paper 7 times over, no matter how thin, or large the piece of paper is. Is there any scientific reasoning behind this? I can't think of anything??

[SOLVED] Which Paper Do I Pick? Homework Statement A philanthropist writes a positive number x on a piece of paper, shows it to an impartial observer, and then turns it face down on the table. The observer then flips a fair coin. If it shows heads, she writes the value 2x, and, if tails, the...

Why I can burn a paper with magnifying glass and sun? Isn't it something to do with the electromagnetic field (because light is itself electromagnetic field)?

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/12/21/2124258.htm He makes some interesting claims:

QG Paper of the Year---2007 In the poll please ignore the "(blue)" and "(green)" that got in by mistake. I tried but was unable to edit them out. To me, for QG paper of the year, looks like a clear choice between Marseille and Utrecht. Both have made major progress this year, which can be...

Doing the staff christmas cards ,and i just paper cut my tongue licking an envelope, and it feels realy, realy, sore. envelopes should have warning signs on.

Hey folks. If anyones interested in warp drives I've co-written a new paper. http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0712/0712.1649v2.pdf Its being published inthe Journal of the British Interplanetary Society early 08. Anyone else interested in warp drives/ wormholes etc?

Hello I am new to this forum and I just wanted to post about a paper that I found in Physical Review Letters. It is in Volume 90, number 20, 201102 (2003). It is titled "Traversable Wormholes with Arbitrarily Small Energy Condition Violations", by Matt Visser et al. In this paper, it is...

You may be interested in http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0019" recent pre-print. Edit: I thought I should add some more info. The paper I linked to argues that the weak field GR result for a smooth lump of mass is not the same as the Newtonian one. While they agree that the weak-field results agree...

Just noticed that http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0110060 has an antecedent in http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?j=EULEE,2,199 It is a deep meditation. If one takes C and l (The Planck length, not the Planck mass) as fundamentals, then one can to build an angular momentum...

Highly speculative recent paper by Lawrence Krauss and James Dent. Can't help suspecting there is some logical flaw or unjustified assumption. In any case the paper is short (only 4 pages) and contains several striking speculative ideas, so some may want to check it out if only from curiosity...

"An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" by A. Garrett Lisi. http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770 He uses the Lie Algebra E8.

Today I told my astronomy teacher I would like to write my 5 page paper, that is due Monday, on the origin of the solar system. I am in no way one of the best writers out there and have no clue on how I could write 5 pages about this. Hopefully someone here can give me some helpfull input...

Bette Nesmith Graham is credited with the invention but she had help. Anyone know who and why she needed the help?

How to do this in 10 seconds without a calculator and scratch paper? 1565 x 1197 = ?

I'm trying to build a bridge but I have no clue where to start. I need to make a poster first but I don't know which design to use. I have found a website with the exact same project I need to make. For all the details, please go to www.gravitykills.net. It has to be made of paper, hold...