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Infinite reflection of light and the conservation of energy / momentum
First off, I confess I'm no physicist, but I have been asking people with a more extensive knowledge this one question, without a definitive answer so far.
Basically, I'm playing around with the idea ...
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Matter - Antimatter Reactory Practicality
With current technology, would the energy released by a matter-antimatter annihilation be more than the energy needed to created the antimatter in the first place? Would it be worth it? Just curious, ...
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How can a Higgs decay to heavier products than its mass?
How is it possible that a higgs at ~125 GeV can decay into 2 W bosons @ ~ 80 GeV a piece (for example)? Shouldn't a particle only be allowed to decay to lighter particles + energy?
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Is the mass to energy physical process an exact mirror of the energy to mass process?
For my level of understanding the only explanation of mass to energy, ie nuclear weaponry, is limited to a simple summing game where a mass deficit is expressed as energy. For the 'reverse' process, ...
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Kinetic energy transfer in matter annihilation?
What happens to the kinetic energy of matter when it is annihilated? Is it released in the resultant explosion? In that case shouldn't it be $E=(mc^2 + \frac{1}{2} mv^2)$ ?
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How can neutrinos oscillate though the lepton flavors have differing masses?
Since the total mass-energy for the neutrino presumably does not change when a neutrino changes lepton flavor, though the mass is different, what compensates for the gain or loss of mass? Does the ...
