# All Questions

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### How close would you have to be to the merger of two black holes, for the effects of gravitational waves to be detected without instruments?

Assume two black holes in the most common size range, spiraling into each other until they merge. The event releases significant amounts of energy via gravitational waves, which warp the space-time. ...
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### What was Feynman's “much better way of presenting the electrodynamics” — which did **not** appear in the Feynman lectures?

Does anyone know what Feynman was referring to in this interview which appears at the beginning of The Feynman Tips on Physics? Note that he is referring to something that did not appear in the ...
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### How do I translate from CIE xyY color space to combinations of monochromatic wavelengths

Let's say I have a chromaticity point, on the CIE xyY color space that falls within the real colors. (Like y:0.1, x:0.4 Y:1 -- magenta)[1] I also know that humans can perceive the same color, when ...
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### Prove that Laughlin's 3-electron states are a complete set of states

In R. B. Laughlin's 1983 Physical Review B article, Quantized motion of three two-dimensional electrons in a strong magnetic field, Laughlin separates out the center of mass motion of the electrons, ...
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### What does the $I$-$V$ curve in josephson junction mean?

According to the $I$-$V$ curve for Josephson junction tunneling for S-I-S (superconductor-insulator-superconductor), Do we have any tunneling current for $0< V\leq V_c$? If yes, then why don't ...
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### How was this one probability amplitude derived by Mattuck?

I'm reading A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem by Richard D. Mattuck (2nd edition). You can look at the relevant pages here. On page 45, he presents a formula for $D_t c_p(t)$. ...
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### Georgi-Glashow model and the VEV of the scalar field

Consider the Georgi-Glashow model, an $SU(2)$ gauge theory with a real scalar in the adjoint (thus a 3-vector in the colour space) $\phi$. The Lagrangian is  L = -\frac{1}{4g^2} F_{\mu \nu}^{\, a} ...
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### Is there some no-go theorem for $D=9$ Kaluza Klein QCD+EM?

While QCD is a typical product of AdS/CFT and some other research trends in extra dimensions, I have never found in the literature an example producing the non-chiral part of the standard model, ...