What experimental evidence prevents us using non-unitary, non-Hermitian mathematics to represent pure quantum states?

What experimental evidence (or any other) contradicts the use of non-unitary, non-Hermitian mathematics to represent pure quantum states? This question relates to pure states, not mixed states....

22 April 2018 3,350 16 View

Can operators (possibly the Pauli matrices) be used as a basis to replace the conventional basis for 3-space --- the unit vectors i, j, k?

25 August 2015 9,690 23 View

Is it helpful to consider the concept of randomness when only one outcome option is possible?

Does it help us understand concepts of randomness and probability by considering the possibility that randomness may be involved in certain strange systems, where only one outcome is possible....

28 May 2015 2,176 8 View

What is the relationship between randomness and probability?

18 March 2015 8,510 55 View

Irrespective of whether (human) beings model it, can the Universe escape self-reference or logical circularity?

Will this be the final incarnation of this question? My purpose in asking these questions is to motivate the kind of physical theory that accepts that Physical Laws are part of The Universe, as...

09 October 2014 2,947 35 View

Can the Physical Laws escape self-reference and logical circularity?

05 October 2014 8,382 24 View

In The Measurement Problem, what is a system's information content before and after measurement?

14 September 2014 6,025 2 View

Is logical independence of the square root of minus one a consequence of arithmetic's incompleteness?

14 September 2014 3,842 13 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Timeout error!! Processor in the loop (PIL) using STM32F4 Matlab 2018a?

Dear Researchers I am trying to perform a PIL simulation using STM32F4 Discovery board and comunication serial USB TO TTL. During simulation I receive the following timeout error: An error...

01 March 2021 2,327 1 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View