Kostya

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Currently working in particle physics -- theory and phenomenology. Member of CMS collaboration.

Interests: theoretical physics, computer science, guitar.
Countries: Russia, Poland, Italy.


147 Answers

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Why does one experience a short pull in the wrong direction when a vehicle stops?
feb 28 '11 at 16:20
18
What would happen if Large Hadron Collider would collide electrons?
feb 10 at 22:04
16
Why is Higgs Boson given the name “The God Particle”?
jul 4 '12 at 16:14
15
Do photons gain mass when they travel through glass?
dec 14 '10 at 14:25
14
What is the difference between implicit and explicit time dependence e.g. $\frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t}$ and $\frac{d \rho} {dt}$?
apr 26 '11 at 10:12
14
What physics does occur at short distances in QED?
feb 20 '11 at 20:35
14
What is the usefulness of the Wigner-Eckart theorem?
feb 8 '11 at 13:53
13
Guessing what a simple partial differential equation is describing physically
nov 28 '11 at 22:13
12
Since radioactive material decays how is it possible that there is any left after 4.5 billion years?
mar 18 '11 at 16:19
12
If the universe were compressed into a super massive black hole, how big would it be?
dec 14 '10 at 14:45
11
Are water waves (i.e. on the surface of the ocean) longitudinal or transverse?
mar 8 '11 at 12:18
11
Your favorite Physics/Astrophysics blogs?
jan 21 '11 at 10:33
10
Why can't a single photon produce an electron-positron pair?
mar 28 '12 at 12:48
8
What are the alternatives to the Higgs mechanism?
feb 12 '11 at 23:16
7
Do the rings in Mass Effect's mass relays (2-axis gimbal) describe a stable rotation?
jun 21 '12 at 22:01
7
How can be proved that one-way speed of light is equal to two-way speed?
jun 3 '12 at 10:05
7
Interference of polarized light
feb 9 '11 at 16:53
7
Conserved quantities in generalized n-body problem
feb 2 '11 at 15:17
7
Why is a 1mW laser dangerous?
jan 26 '11 at 17:49
7
A pedestrian explanation of Renormalization Groups - from QED to classical field theories
jan 7 '11 at 17:12
7
Myths in the history of Physics
dec 28 '10 at 15:42
6
Results of Statistical Mechanics first obtained by formal mathematical methods
mar 20 at 12:12
6
Entangled electron-positron pair
oct 15 at 15:38
6
Why is there a breakdown in Kolmogorov scaling in turbulence?
feb 24 '11 at 10:19
6
What are some useful ways to imagine the concept of spin as it relates to subatomic particles?
feb 10 '11 at 13:30
6
Why does calculus of variations work?
jan 14 '11 at 17:03
5
Meaning of the Poisson bracket as a coordinate transformation
feb 28 '11 at 10:37
5
Is the orbit of earth around the sun chaotic?
jun 28 '11 at 9:47
5
How does Fraunhofer diffraction depend on the orientation of the sides of a lens?
may 16 '11 at 14:56
5
Rigor in quantum field theory
mar 8 '11 at 21:06
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