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Does it make a sense to speak about age of electron or atom?
It's possible that this question is too soft or even quite senseless for this forum, but I will ask nevertheless.
Everyday (macroscopic) things, like a grandfather's pendulum clock or the grandfather ...
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Is there a mechanism for time symmetry breaking?
Excluding Thermodynamic's arrow of time, all mathematical descriptions of time are symmetric. We know the arrow of time is real and we know the equations describing physics are real so is there any ...
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Time to establish saturated vapour pressure above liquid
Thought experiment - a liquid is in a closed container in equilibrium with its vapour, and then suddenly all the vapour is pumped away. Switch off the pump so that instantaneosuly there is no vapour ...
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Slow thermal equilibrium
I have a question which is inspired by considering the light field coming off an incandescent lightbulb. As a blackbody radiation field, the light is in thermal equilibrium at temperature $T$, which ...
