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I want to know what is the physical process that happens inside crystal.
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Prof Kulakov wrote an unusual textbook (please, look at pp. 44-57) for his students and devoted it to his supervisor Igor Tamm. This book isn't translated yet, but it's possible to use Yandex...
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Some physicists believe that gravity is not a real force like the electromagnetic or the strong force because an inertial frame of reference eliminates the effects of gravity. However, it can be...
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Electron-electron interaction can be incorporated only through Phase breaking potential.How we can say this while as far as i know it can be approximately calculated by Schrodinger-Poisson solver...
05 May 2015 9,145 4 View
Many a great theoretical physicist have gone on to explain their work qualitatively to the public, often times by virtue of analogies. Now, I know analogies and qualitative explanations can be...
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Where the redshift value could be the combination of gravitational, rotational and Doppler and matching with observed values.
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Is there a distinction of Sagnac effect between SRT and GR or absolute referential is enough? Are the clocks runing at same frequencies?
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the laser beam is perpandicular to the sectional plane.
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Well, the answer to the question is the Anglo-Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney FRS (1826 – 1911). He introduced the concept, as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity", as early as...
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I don't think this question requires any further details. To me it seems like a crucial question that is almost completely avoided in theoretical physics.
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I am supervising an undergraduate student doing a final year research project in statistics. For her project she would like to look at cosmological parameter estimation using Monte Carlo Markov...
19 March 2015 5,998 7 View
I am just curious to know that can sound and light interact in a way that can be used for quantum computation. Because these two are the most fundamental way to communicate and carry information.
18 March 2015 6,139 4 View
What's a good reference for the massive spin-2 and massive Rarita-Schwinger particles?
07 March 2015 6,185 2 View
It is generally believed that the GPS need be calibrated with the relative time observed with the Hafele-keating experiment. But, it is not true. 1. The altitude of the GPS satellite is less than...
06 March 2015 6,962 10 View
The electromagnetic force is modeled as being transferred by virtual photons. These are messenger particles which must be able to create a force at a distance of either attraction or repulsion....
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I found some papers discussing ISW as a proof of dark energy, but what is its physical meaning? What is your opinion? And how to calculate it?
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This is a question on the foundations of physics on which I would like to get the opinion of fellow researchers on RG. We have so many principles, starting from the principle of least action...
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A muon has about 207 times more energy than an electron. It seems that there must be some difference between these two particles that produces this difference. The standard model says that...
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Kuhn says leading physicists accepted Newton's theory of gravitation before astronomical measurements were accurate enough to decide the issue ["Structure of Scientific Revolutions" 1962]. Other...
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