# All Questions

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### Does the ensemble of effective Lagrangians in the String theory landscape mostly include gauge theories?

String theory false vacua can be described by effective Lagrangians at low energy. Is there generally a correspondence between these effective Lagrangians and SU(N) gauge theories? Or do the effective ...
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### Help me get out of a speeding ticket

I was driving uphill from a complete stop for a distance of .4 miles estimated to take 1 minute in a navigation app. I was pulled over right after cresting the hill. The cop had me on radar going ...
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### Why does a superconductor obey particle-hole symmetry?

We normally solve the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations in order to compute the energy spectrum of a superconductor. The Nambu spinor is a common object that is used in formulating these equations. ...
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Say we have three forces $F_1, F_2, F_3$, such that $$F_1 + F_2 - F_3 = 0\hspace 10mm (1)$$ And let us say that $F_1$ and $F_2$ have the same direction and magnitude, and that $F_3$ has double the ...
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### Conversion of a star

I need to know what would happen to a star that has size 2 times the solar mass. I guess it would either be a neutron or red giant. Is that right?
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### What exactly does this news story mean by “magnetic charge”?

I recently saw this article in my Google News page, whose headline and first paragraph are: Antimatter's Magnetic Charge Revealed Scientists say they've made the most precise measurements to ...
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### Why should multiple versions of a weak measurement preclude it from being a measurement of intrinsic properties of some system

I've been trying to understand Stephen Parrott's criticisms of weak measurement, outlined most concisely here: http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0295 One of his major criticisms is that weak measurement is ...
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### Landauer's principle vs Wien's displacement law

Can we argue based on Landauer's principle that if one bit information is changed inside a blackbody, the total radiated energy should be at least or in order of kTln2? If it is so, can we also argue ...
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### The relation between Hamiltonian and Energy

I know Hamiltonian can be energy and be a constant of motion if and only if: Lagrangian be time-independent, potential be independent of velocity, coordinate be time independent. Otherwise ...
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### Uncertainty in Acceleration given the uncertainty in position

I had a motion detector record the position of a dynamics cart and automatically plot Position vs Time and Velocity vs Time plots in Logger Pro on the computer. If the instrument uncertainty in ...
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### Concentration of Proteins

You release a billion protein molecules at position $x = 0$ in the middle of a narrow capillary test tube. The molecules’ diffusion constant is $10^{−6} \ cm^2 s^{−1}$. An electric field pulls ...
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### Force with zero acceleration [duplicate]

If I apply a force on a body which is kept against a wall, then the body will not move. The body is not moving means that its velocity is zero, and hence its acceleration is also zero. According to ...
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### 2 following gates, inverse circuit

I have a circuit that has 4 wires and 2 following each other Toffoli gates. The first Toffoli gate occupies 3 wires from above, the following Toffoli gate occupies 3 wires from below. What will look ...
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### Correlators in String Theory (Green Schwarz Witten)

I'm reading about correlators in string theory for amplitude computations. More specifically formulae 7.1.53 and 7.1.54 in Green Schwarz Witten. I don't see how they can be derived. E.g. 7.1.53 is ...
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### Name of fermionic CFT theory

I'm looking for a name or references to theories that include a stress energy tensor of the form $$T(z)=A:\phi^\alpha\partial\phi_\alpha:(z)+B:\prod_{i=1}^{D}\phi^i:(z)$$ $\alpha=1,...,D$. Where ...
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### Radial quantization and infrared divergences

I am reading Ginspard lectures "Applied CFT" http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9108028 which is not my first material on the subject. He tries to motivates radial quantization on the reason that ...
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### Behaviour of individual terms in Einstein-Smoluchowski fluctuation-dissipation relation

Consider a bath of Brownian particles at temperature $T$. If we sprinkle some larger particles in this (eg: pollen grains in water or dust motes in air), they'll diffuse with diffusion constant $D$ ...