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07 July 2018 5,692 4 View
Physics laws are supposed to be valid, here as usual, not to be modifiable by humans. The laws of physics speak equally to foes and friends alike, at any epoch. That is not changed in this...
07 July 2018 3,316 4 View
The Einstein Phenomenon and "fake news" Without special relativity, there is no electromagnetism, no magnetism. No light, radio, TV, laser, ICs, Internet, MRI. Maxwell's equations in...
07 July 2018 2,582 91 View
There is no conclusive evidence that time is quantized. However, the recent difficulties with the Standard Model, as it nears 50 years, for example, with non-inclusion of gravity in a testable...
06 June 2018 7,727 33 View
References are important for context, in conveying meaning to others in daily conversations, and even more in research. But how trustworthy is the reference used? The reason iWikipedia has no...
06 June 2018 1,592 3 View
Today, every college and university teach Newtonian Mechanics, first in engineering or physics, often concurrent with Calculus I. The question investigates whether it would be better to the...
06 June 2018 3,257 68 View
In Nature, nothing is a particle -- as we go in, we do not reach a particle, we reach quantum waves. E0 = mc2 is a well-known expression of that. But reality is observer-dependent, in QM and...
05 May 2018 8,996 93 View
Open access supporters, such as many users in RG, see the high cost of many academic journals, whose subscriptions often run into thousands of dollars per year, as unsustainable for cash-strapped...
03 March 2018 9,119 4 View
3D Gibbs vector calculus may live on in math, but as a physics tool it has perhaps too many defficencies to go beyond freshman level in college, and seems less and less used. In research, the...
03 March 2018 6,532 8 View
Data document the often confounding way that the gun control and gun ownership problems, and resulting massive deaths, occur today in the US (and world), exemplified in [1]. However, we take the...
10 October 2017 9,635 5 View
Circular definitions are a tautology, trivially right. For example, "a circle is a circle". Or, they can involve more complex patterns, where the repetition is disguised in multiple cycles, hard...
10 October 2017 6,290 7 View
Could one use the Deborah number to model quantitatively a collective behavior change, and measure the rate of change of behavior? Can one use the Deborah number to represent start-up success...
10 October 2017 8,806 4 View
Forms of collective behavior include electrons, photons, elections, crowds, mobs, panics, terrorism acts, disaster behavior, rumors, mass hysteria, moral panics, and fads and crazes, which can be...
09 September 2017 3,594 8 View
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzbKb59my3U Usually, the double slit experiment is viewed as two cases, with the quantum case as a proposed mixture of two classical cases: "The...
08 August 2017 9,987 13 View
In quantum physics, the no-communication theorem states that it is not possible to transmit information from one observer to another observer, whether entangled or not, by making a measurement of...
08 August 2017 4,259 18 View
It is assumed that any process in the brain can be investigated in natural science terms, such as using physics, chemistry, neurosciences and biology. The mind is often described as a "secretion...
04 April 2016 8,007 99 View
Many biology and botany textbooks, and online resources, say YES. That osmosis is the special case of diffusion involving water molecules, as as solvent. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules...
03 March 2016 8,206 8 View
[Edited to include my clarifications, as given in the Q&A below] This question is in the realm of the "demarcation problem" of natural sciences, often called "the sciences", which includes...
12 December 2015 1,906 26 View
This is highly improbable according to current physics theories, the probability being the product of already low probabilities.
12 December 2015 5,424 27 View
Referencing is very useful in science, offering support for evidence, reasoning, ethos, leads to a more concise text, and other advantages. But, quoting the words of another, which is widely used...
01 January 1970 1,269 3 View
In physics, many problems arise in the form of boundary value problems in second order ordinary differential equations. We are discussing here the Matrix Variational Method, as an efficient...
01 January 1970 2,424 13 View
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01 January 1970 4,795 4 View
Special relativity (SR) unquestionably exists, and has been presumably accurate when using descriptions based on: (a) Clifford Algebra, STA, Hestenes, and other 3D (space) + 1D (where time...
01 January 1970 2,825 2 View
24 Common Misconceptions of Mass and Energy in Special Relativity End of rational discussions on SR, the sooner it is accepted, the better. You should convince yourself that the answer is...
01 January 1970 2,792 99 View
A difficulty in just starting a research, is that IF it is hard to even know -- what it means to have property X, such as spacetime in physics? The question of avoiding circular thought...
01 January 1970 1,224 1 View
We explained elsewhere on the danger, such as confirmation bias, of following one's opinion, or what one can imagine -- that it is better, in research and life, to focus on questions than...
01 January 1970 9,694 5 View
For example, as seen in physics and engineering, AI does NOT rival or replace the human brain (or soul), it complements. What about in neuroscience, or as we try to emulate the human mind in...
01 January 1970 9,497 1 View
There is a current irreproducibility crisis in biological areas, where a well-known journal editor declared that, for example, neuroscience would advance if all articles were destroyed. The reason...
01 January 1970 7,219 1 View
See Mathematics Without Accidents In software development, everything is digital. We motivate that software development and quantum mechanics are as difficult as they are because people...
01 January 1970 4,347 73 View
Trust is a word that is commonly applied to many situations and consequently has many shades of meaning. The following discussion focuses on one precise intersection of coherent meanings in the...
01 January 1970 7,699 3 View
Consciousness defies definition. We need to understand it, and a metric, to measure it. Can trust provide both, even if in a limiied fashion? Consciousness Measured by Trust
01 January 1970 805 35 View
All metaphors are false. But, on restricting this discussion to natural sciences, we hope to use a particular metaphor to clarify important areas in physics and often in dispute by researchers --...
01 January 1970 5,123 14 View
When Minkowski formulated Einstein special relativity (SR) in terms of spacetime, he changed the basis of the discussion from Lorentz transformation (LT) to the invariance of the interval ds2...
01 January 1970 440 6 View
Version: 2.0. We live in a day of false facts, fake news. Kant proposed that, on questions of fact (distictive of questions of right), that one (e.g., the courts) appeals to testimony and...
01 January 1970 2,087 4 View
Physically, a non-inertial frame of reference should modify what is seen but not shut-off length contraction, or time dilation, compared to what is calculated solely for inertial frames. Changes...
01 January 1970 9,488 33 View
We have evidence in the negative, against even the use of virtual particles They do not exist (by definition), and they seem to be NOT necessary. Only real particles seem needed to explain real...
01 January 1970 3,825 0 View
In the spacetime formalism, the question of acceleration is answered in the absolute, even though it may be experimentally difficult. Simply, the inertial observer has no worldline with curvature....
01 January 1970 8,417 2 View
The title is expanded below, for discussion, results are valid for both SR and GR. Opinions on if spacetime is real, as a "physical thing", are not metaphysics-- and this is evidenced just by...
01 January 1970 8,947 8 View
Of course, one can use Clifford Algebra Cl(3,1) in electromagnetism. But then, one is not working with Gibbs vectors anymore (NOTE 1.1, 1.2) , but with multivectors (NOTE 2.1, 2.2, 2.3). Better...
01 January 1970 2,970 47 View
In physics, spacetime mathematical models fuse the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. The question asks whether the existence of a...
01 January 1970 9,434 24 View
Collective effects are evident in billions and billions of particles or entities in physics, such as In lasers, electromagnetism [1], superconductivity, critical mass in nuclear physics, physics...
01 January 1970 5,108 11 View
(READ AT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZGL8TXY/ ) History cannot define nor limit any natural science; history can also be a drag. Both motion of charges and magnetic moments seem, at first, to...
01 January 1970 4,933 101 View
This discussion is not about contradicting SR, GR, or 4D spacetime. We do not believe in SR or 4D spacetime, we have seen them too many times, we have seen SR work in accelerated motion, provide...
01 January 1970 6,352 11 View
Maxwell Equations Excluded From Electromagnetism By Quantum Mechanics With thanks, the question was DELETED, please see Preprint above.
01 January 1970 3,316 96 View
In teaching, or as a student in physics, oftentimes a difficulty becomes a motivation for new understanding. In this context, what difficulty do you see in using Lagrangian or Hamiltonian methods...
01 January 1970 7,157 19 View
One remembers, first, that all matter used in anything is constructed of atoms, where atoms are made of particles, where quantum mechanics (QM) physically works. Any physics, chemistry,...
01 January 1970 686 15 View
According to Teplitz, “The state of the classical electromagnetic theory reminds one of a house under construction that was abandoned by its working workmen upon receiving news of an approaching...
01 January 1970 7,885 96 View
