DO NOT USE THIS TAG just because the question deals with a law of physics!
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What happens to matter in a standard model with zero Higgs VEV?
Suppose you reset the parameters of the standard model so that the Higgs field average value is zero in the vacuum, what would happen to standard matter?
If the fundamental fermions go from a finite ...
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Laws of Atomic Theory - how is this possible?
Not sure if this is the right place to post, but how is it possible to have laws of a theory?
A theory is not able to be a law, since it's just an explanation that can always be disproven. So how is ...
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Why is it thought that normal physics doesn't exist inside the event horizon of a black hole?
A black hole is so dense that a sphere around it called the event horizon has a greater escape velocity than the speed of light, making it black. So why do astronomers think that there is anything ...
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Why didn't Newton just propose the 2nd Law and leave it at that?
Why didn't Newton just propose the 2nd Law ($F=\dot{p}$) and leave it at that? The 2nd Law implicitly contains the first, doesn't it? If so, it seems he wasn't following his own Rule #1 of Book 3 of ...
