User sabiland - Physics Stack Exchange

bio	website
	location
	age
visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
	seen	May 21 at 11:24
stats	profile views	3

	124 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
5 badges		location			seen	May 21 at 11:24

33

53

votes

49

answers

7

kviews

Common false beliefs in Physics

soft-question

sep 1 at 4:19 James Cooper 36

20

37

votes

14

answers

7

kviews

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed?

may 19 at 10:40 malbert 1

9

32

votes

10

answers

4

kviews

Why does dust stick to rotating fan propeller?

fluid-dynamics rotational-dynamics electrostatics

mar 31 at 15:36 MARTIN MADDERS 1

39

29

votes

24

answers

5

kviews

Books that every physicist should read

soft-question books reference-request big-list

jan 3 at 8:41 AchiralSarkar 35

7

20

votes

6

answers

2

kviews

Why is there no absolute maximum temperature?

special-relativity temperature

dec 9 at 23:58 Claudius 1,684

5

14

votes

10

answers

6

kviews

Does the Pauli exclusion principle instantaneously affect distant electrons?

quantum-mechanics special-relativity speed-of-light pauli-exclusion-principle

apr 17 at 15:57 anc 1

7

13

votes

4

answers

3

kviews

Online QFT video lectures

quantum-field-theory

nov 13 '11 at 22:33 Dilaton 2,478

5

12

votes

5

answers

903

views

Why singularity in a black hole, and not just “very dense”?

black-holes singularity

dec 15 at 17:01 marshall peck 1

7

12

votes

3

answers

935

views

Is the universe a quantum computer - is light speed barrier a computational constraint

quantum-mechanics special-relativity speed-of-light quantum-information quantum-computation

mar 25 '12 at 18:11 Halfdan Faber 144

4

10

votes

13

answers

1

kviews

What are the mechanics by which Time Dilation and Length Contraction occur?

special-relativity space time inertial-frames observer

oct 25 at 14:58 Anthony Rose 21

5

10

votes

8

answers

1

kviews

What reasons are there to suspect string theory may be an incorrect theory?

string-theory

feb 15 '12 at 20:48 Jose Javier Garcia 1,147

5

10

votes

5

answers

611

views

What are some useful ways to imagine the concept of spin as it relates to subatomic particles?

quantum-mechanics spin

oct 13 '11 at 17:27 Greg Loftus 183

5

9

votes

3

answers

429

views

How do we explain accelerated motion in Newtonian physics and in modern physics?

classical-mechanics acceleration newtonian-gravity machs-principle

jul 11 at 15:08 Peter Martin 66

8

9

votes

7

answers

3

kviews

What does it take to understand Maxwell's equations?

electromagnetism soft-question education

nov 20 '11 at 20:44 Marty Green 819

4

8

votes

4

answers

408

views

What longest time ever was achieved at holding light in a closed volume?

optics light photons reflection

feb 27 '12 at 8:08 gigacyan 1,579

2

8

votes

3

answers

609

views

Could teleportation ever really happen?

quantum-mechanics teleportation

aug 13 at 12:13 Qmechanic♦ 17.4k

2

8

votes

1

answer

387

views

NASCAR drafting at Daytona

aerodynamics

jan 16 '12 at 11:37 Community♦ 1

2

7

votes

6

answers

319

views

How does such strange microscopic behavior at the atomic level (quantum mechanics) lead to the macroscopic behavior at our level?

quantum-mechanics classical-mechanics statistical-mechanics coherence scales

mar 2 '12 at 15:39 Arnold Neumaier 13.9k

3

7

votes

4

answers

3

kviews

How fast do electrons travel in an atomic orbital?

electron

apr 15 at 23:14 Colin McFaul 1,479

2

7

votes

1

answer

312

views

Falling into Saturn or Jupiter, would we pass through it until we hit the nucleus?

planets

mar 14 '12 at 18:03 Garmen1778 658

1

6

votes

1

answer

630

views

How does placing objects in liquids affect the mass?

newtonian-mechanics forces buoyancy

may 16 at 1:21 shara 1

2

6

votes

4

answers

2

kviews

Can someone explain the color Pink to me?

visible-light vision

mar 29 at 3:10 FunkyFresh84 120

1

6

votes

2

answers

2

kviews

Hawking's alternative to Higgs Boson

black-holes large-hadron-collider higgs-boson

jan 9 '12 at 1:54 wnoise 549

1

6

votes

3

answers

955

views

Photon wave packets from distant stars

quantum-mechanics quantum-optics

nov 7 '11 at 9:13 Marty Green 819

5

votes

5

answers

986

views

Is electricity instantaneous?

electricity

dec 22 '11 at 11:20 Corbs 27

2

5

votes

4

answers

561

views

Quantum Physics and the Law of Large Numbers

quantum-mechanics quantum-interpretations

mar 1 '12 at 20:44 Arnold Neumaier 13.9k

3

5

votes

4

answers

606

views

Alternate layman's metaphors for illustrating curved space-time

gravity forces spacetime education

feb 10 at 19:47 answerman 11

2

5

votes

3

answers

532

views

Electrons - What is Waving?

quantum-mechanics electron wavefunction measurement-problem wave-particle-duality

mar 5 '12 at 9:07 Manishearth♦ 8,021

2

4

votes

2

answers

993

views

How to calculate a ballistic trajectory for a suborbital flight?

newtonian-mechanics orbital-motion

dec 12 '10 at 22:48 David Zaslavsky♦ 27.4k

2

3

votes

2

answers

406

views

Size of a quantum computer to effectively calculate macroscopic reality from quantum mechanics

quantum-information quantum-computation

22h ago Ali 13

sabiland

31 Favorites