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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
-- Bertrand Russell
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Mar 2 |
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In layman's terms, what is a quantum fluctuation? You're right. I guess I haven't been doing QM for too long. I've lost acquaintance with the terminology. |
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Mar 2 |
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In layman's terms, what is a quantum fluctuation? That's not bad and interesting in itself but can not be the full story. "Fluctuation" implies some temporal variation. Whereas the variance you are talking about is just the spread a distribution has around its mean value. |
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Feb 29 |
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Thought experiment with entangled electrons How is magnetic field undetermined equivalent to magnetic field zero? I would say that magnetic field zero is very determined. |
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Feb 22 |
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Does red shift evidence necessarily imply that the universe started from a singularity? edited body |
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Feb 15 |
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Why tea dust in a cup of tea seems to concentrate in the bottom center? Have you read this? |
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Dec 25 |
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Question Based On Galileo's Law Of Falling Bodies Don't be shy to ask. I'm just saying that someone had to do the experiment. You can't just reason out what nature is like. |
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Dec 25 |
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Question Based On Galileo's Law Of Falling Bodies I'm not sure what you mean by common sense here? If it was that obvious, we wouldn't be praising Galileo for discovering the law. It's also something contingent to a certain extent, i.e. it does not follow from some reasoning starting from "common sense" principles. |
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Dec 1 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Nov 12 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 10 |
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Is instantaneous velocity an abstraction? Think of the Doppler effect. There, it is the speed that determines the shift in frequency of the wave phenomenon. So, as you measure the frequency, you can acquire knowledge of the instantaneous speed. |
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Nov 3 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 15 |
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Relativistic effects Makes no sense. It might very well be that the particle is travelling at 1% of c in one case and that you need to account for relativistic effects, where as the same particle travelling at the same speed but in another context doesn't require you to add that level of detail in the computations. |
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Oct 15 |
answered | Relativistic effects |
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Oct 5 |
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Anyone Know Details About the New Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry? nobelprize.org |
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Oct 4 |
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Does the heat death of the universe really imply a maximum entropy state *all* of the time? Or most of the time? I think you answered your own question. |
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Sep 27 |
answered | Trying to understand a step in deriving Maxwell-Boltzman statistics |
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Sep 21 |
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Use of escort distribution in nonextensive stat. mech If you use the original distribution, you just won't get nonextensive stat phys. It's just a recipe to generate nonextensiveness. |
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Sep 15 |
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Why does the fundamental mode of a recorder disappear when you blow harder? It must be a non-linear effect. This paper describes some of these, but it seems, as far as I could gather from gleening over it, that the second harmonic is usually weaker. |
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Sep 9 |
answered | Exactly how is the constant measured velocity of light deduced from Maxwell's equation? |
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Sep 6 |
answered | Learn algebra and interpretation of QM |
