# All Questions

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### Pulsars with accreting disk in binary system

Following this line, I am wondering about the following question. Accreting pulsars in binary systems are usually thought to accrete from a prograde disk, so increasing their spin in the process. ...
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### Is there a way to induce a net negative electric charge in an electrically conductive material, and If not why?

From what I've been reading, moving electrons don't compress relative to the protons within the atom, For reasons that I'm having difficulty understanding. Seeing that this is the case I would like to ...
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### Energy Required to Rip Spacetime

I have heard that the presence of an extremely strong gravitational field possesses the capacity to warp or tear spacetime and to potentially create a wormhole. Is any energy lost when spacetime is ...
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### What does “causally connected” or “causes” really mean?

In a different thread, a user stated the following in respect of events preceding or following other events: However, if the two events are causally connected ("event A causes event B"), the ...
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### Does the Alcubierre drive use negative energy to compress space infront of it?

The contraction in most images looks like a gravity well. Is it that you use negative energy to BOTH contract and expand space or positive and negative to contract (positive energy) and then expand ...
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### What are the Implications of Bell's Theorem?

Consider the following game show: two friends Tom and Jerry (X and Y) are selected from an audience to compete for a grand prize, a brand new Ferrari. The game description: The two contestants ...
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### Difference of the O(N) Non-linear Sigma model and SO(N) Non-linearSigma model

The Hamiltonian $$H=J\sum_{i,j}\vec{n}_i\cdot\vec{n}_j$$ is invariant under a global rotation $\vec{n}_i\rightarrow R\vec{n}_i$, where $\vec{n}$ is a $N$ component rotor ...
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### Quantum entanglement and special relativity PARADOX [closed]

Imagine two entangled atomic clocks. After we entangle them, we measure the time: it does has to be the same , right ? Now lets suppose that we entangle them , but don't measure them, then we plant ...
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### Do we have more than one $D$ term for a single gauge group?

I'm reading this note in chapter 6 which discusses ${\cal N} = 2$ supermultiplets, though the discussion is quite general and applies to ${\cal N} = 1$ fields in the adjoint representation. I ...
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### Solving the simplest coupled nonlinear ODES for chemical kinetics [closed]

I am just trying to get the integrated form for the kinetics of the reaction $A + B \rightarrow C + D$ characterized by: $$-\dfrac{d[A]}{dt} = -\dfrac{d[B]}{dt} = k[A][B] \; .$$ As you note, ...
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### Frequency of cosmic microwave background

Some people refer to cosmic microwave background's (CMB) frame of reference as an absolute one. If I understand correctly, we can measure 'absolute' velocity in this frame by using the Doppler effect. ...
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### Sound travel problem

Here's an example of my question to make my explanation a bit easier. Say a decent loudspeaker plays a tune at loud volume 100m away from me and another speaker plays the same tune at lot lower ...
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### Gauge invariance of Rarita-Schwinger action in curved spacetime

The Rarita-Schwinger action in curved $n$-dimensional spacetime is $$\int \sqrt{g} \overline{\psi}_a \gamma^{abc} D_b \psi_c$$ Here $g = \det(g_{\mu \nu})$, and the indices $a, b \dots$ are ...
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### Are there materials that get softer with temperature decrease?

Could be there material that begins melting/softening when it's temperature is lowered? I would say no, but I've seen enough physics to know that not always life is so easy. Moreover I think I've ...
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### What does the work on a current carrying wire in a Magnetic Field?

We consider that the force acting on a current carrying wire placed in a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the length of the wire is given by $IBl$. If the wire moves by a distance $x$ in a ...
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### Cause for Power Transmission Tower “Breathing”

OK, this question is not your usual one: Last night while hiking solo from the mountains back to my car at the mountain/desert interface (Lone Pine, CA), I had a rather bizarre -- and downright spooky ...
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### How to interpret $t^2$? [closed]

I can't think of the meaning of squaring the Time (multiplying it by itself). It makes sense in Mathematics. But how can you figure it out in nature (or physics). As an example, the formula ...
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### Defy gravity torques with gyroscopes?

Context On the following drawing, a platform is hung from the ceiling not exactly from its centre of gravity. Because of this it can't sustain an arbitrary orientation for long; I want to increase ...
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### How to load Bose-Einstein Condensates into an optical lattice?

In cold atom experiments, what techniques are used to load Bose-Einstein Condensates into an optical lattice??
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### Energy of one-electron state $E(k) \sim k^2$ “$\implies$” occupied region in $k$-space indistinguishable from sphere

When we consider a system of $N\gg 1$ one-electrons the occupied region in $k$-space is stated to be indistinguishable from a sphere, since the energy of a one-electron level is directly proportional ...
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### Application of Poisson summation Formula to Casimir Effect

I'm studying the Casimir Effect at finite temperature. To calculate the Helmoltz free energy in the canonical ensemble I need to sum a particular series. In some scientific papers it is suggested to ...
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### Quantum Field Theory with (2,2) metric

Does someone know some reference which treats QFT in a space with the following non-Lorentzian signature: $g_{\mu\nu}=\text{diag}(-1,-1,1,1)$. I'm interested in basic stuff like the shape of the ...
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### Coherent intermediate scattering function from simulations

I want to calculate the coherent intermediate scattering function, $S_{\text{coh}} (\mathbf{Q},t)$, from a molecular dynamics trajectory, based on its definition. The definition of the function is: ...
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### Examples of evolving networks in physics [closed]

I'm a master student working on networks analysis in general. A network is something that has nodes and there are links between the nodes. Nodes and links could have attributes. An evolving network is ...
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### What is the shape of a rope hanging from two ends

If I hang a rope from two points that are at the same height above the ground, what is the mathematical function that describes the shape of the rope between the two points? Assuming the mass of the ...
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### Dimension of galaxy filaments

Galaxy filaments are amongst the largest known cosmic structures in the universe. They [...] form the boundaries between large voids in the universe. As their name suggests filaments are ...