# All Questions

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### Is the flatness of space a measure of entropy?

This is a bit quirky: For a very long time I've found Stephen Hawking's evaporating small black holes a lot more reasonable and intuitive than large black holes. The main reason is that gravity is ...
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### Why is it possible to expand the SM Higgs field in its second component only

In the lecture, the professor said something along the lines of: "After a suitable gauge transformation, the standard model higgs field can be expanded as \phi =\left(\begin{array}{c} 0 \\ v+H(x) ...
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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 ...
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### What are the Generators of the electroweak interaction after symmetry breaking. (SM)

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 ...