# All Questions

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### Possibility of stable muonic structures?

In an analogy to the neutron, which decays rapidly as a free particle, but when bound in a nucleus it is stable, would it be possible to crease a structure that permits the stability of muons - be it ...
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### Fluid in a rotating cylinder

I have been wondering why a fluid in a rotating container has a parabola shape? Is it possible to prove this mathematically?
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### Formula for residence time/turnover rate with unsteady state

I'm not sure this is the correct place to ask my question... but maybe someone could still help me. I'm looking for a way to calculate the residence time/turnover rate. I have the production and ...
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### Is the standard model so full of holes it is time to start again? [closed]

I have read a lot about dark matter and dark energy, the fact that we are spending a small fortune trying to detect their presence, but the only reason they have been postulated it is an effort to ...
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### Regarding time dilation and particle entanglement

I have a question regarding time dilation and particle entanglement. As I have read a few forums and questions here, I am aware both aspects do not contradict each other. Still, a question that I am ...
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### Is there a way for an astronaut to rotate?

We know that if an imaginary astronaut is in the intergalactic (no external forces) and has an initial velocity zero, then he has is no way to change the position of his center of mass. The law of ...
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### What distance has the soldier travelled? [closed]

A troop $5$ meters long starts marching. A soldier at the end of the file steps out and starts marching forward at a higher speed. On reaching the head of the column, he immediately turns around ...
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### Scalar Field of a long thin wire

Given the situation that $B=-\nabla A$ where B is magnetic field and A is some Scalar Field. How can I calculate the scalar field, A. We are dealing with current free region, here. I know we can ...
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### Completing the square for Grassmann variables

When working with path integrals of both bosonic and fermionic field variables, I'm a bit unsure of how to do the usual complete the square trick when an interaction between the two is concerned. Say ...
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### Geometriclength and effective length

Why is effective length of a bar magnet shorter than its geometric length? Blockquote in a textbook, author wrote that, effective length is equal to 0.85 times geometric length. But didn't ...
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### If the absolute horizon were exclusionary of matter, what supernova behaviors would that predict?

Kip S Thorne's "Black Holes & Time Warps", 1994 paperback, p.415, Box 12.1: ... The absolute horizon is just a point when created, but it then expands smoothly, like a balloon being blown up, ...
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### Are synthetically-produced diamonds as hard as natural diamonds?

I was having a discussion with my friend about the intrinsic worthlessness of diamonds (DeBeers and whatnot) and how synthetic diamonds haven't caught on, again because of the marketing/propoganda ...
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### What if we were to travel against the speed of our galaxy?

The Earth (and its inhabitants) is rotating and moving along with the Milkyway at approximately 600 000 m/h (not the of the Earth's rotation). Now let's say I'm in my spaceship in earth orbit watching ...
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### What is the total mass of the accelerated viewpoint particle atmosphere of a black hole?

Kip S Thorne's "Black Holes & Time Warps", 1994 paperback, p.443, just above Figure 12.5: Surprisingly, from the accelerated viewpoint, the vacuum fluctuations consist not of virtual particles ...
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### If charged particles always attach to black hole event horizons, how can ordinary matter fall in?

(A friend at work kindly loaned me loaned me his copy of Kip S Thorne's "Black Holes & Time Warps". This may have been ill-advised... :) BH&TW 1994 paperback p.410 Figure 11.5: ... all ...
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### Muons Internal Clocks and Time Dilation? [closed]

I don't get how time dilation affects the half-life of muons? Time is just a tool that is used by humans how does that affect the internal clocks of elementary particles?
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### Power loss and Joule's law of heating

I really can't understand the power loss law. If we have a wire carrying a $15\:\mathrm{V}$ and $1\:\mathrm{ A}$ going into an inverter, giving $150\:\mathrm{V}$ and $0.1\:\mathrm{A}$, if we want to ...
In the standard model (omitting the QCD part), we start off with the set of generators $T_1$, $T_2$, $T_3$, $Y$ for the four-parametric gauge group $SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$. We then define a new ...