# All Questions

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### Is there a distinguished reference system, after all?

The equivalence principle, being the main postulate upon which the general relativity theory rests, basically states that all reference systems are equivalent, because pseudo forces can (locally) be ...
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### Integrating out fields from classical systems

Has anyone ever heard of integrating out fields from classical Lagrangians if they are quadratic?
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### Can matter be excited into energy and then be turned back into matter?

I was wondering the other day about teletransportation (human). And I had the idea that as far as I know, matter is energy. So I was wondering if it's possible to excite matter so it turns into ...
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### Electromagnetism: Conductors

Even though the thermal velocity of electron in a conductor is comparatively high, the thermal velocity is not responsible for current flow? Why is this the case?
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### Finding kinetic friction coefficient

A box is thrown up an incline with degree $\alpha$. the kinetic-friction coefficient is $\mu_k$. the body returns back to its start point. a. prove ...
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### Why is it easier to walk diagonally upstairs

Try it yourself on a set of wide steps! Work is given by $$\int_C \mathbf{F} \cdot d\mathbf{x}$$ where $C$ is a path integral. In this case I think $\mathbf{F}$ is a rotational vector field because ...
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### What gives substances their color?

As far as i know (i may be wrong!), substances appear to have a definite color because they reflect/ transmit all the light rays of the given color, and absorb all the lights rays of the remaining ...
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### Why must the final state be stationary?

I faced the following sentences: We consider a gravitational collapse taking place in this spacetime. The singularity theorems assure us that a singularity will form. The assumption that the ...
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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 ...
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 ...