The big news this week apparently is the report by NIST of the invention of a very miniscule atomic clock. NIST is claiming it to be the world's smallest...
And now navigation can be done using any satellite constellation. GPS just became obsolete. jt ZapperZ <zapperz2000@...> wrote: The big news this week...
I reported the news on the detection of the magnatic moment from individual electrons a while back. There is a very good article in this month's issue of...
There are several articles to mark CERN's 50th Anniversary. Most of these have rather interesting historical views on CERN's mission and impact. I. I. Rabi and...
If you can get access to the Am. Journal of Physics, this is a good paper to read: Abstract: While the classical, wavelike behavior of light (interference and...
The photon is an unnecessary contrivance; modern experiments proved so a decade ago. See: "In search of Schrodinger's Kittens" Einstein's only nobel prize was...
<One of the "objection" that we commonly encounter with quackeries is the doubt on the "photon" picture of light. Despite the success of this description, and...
... so a decade ago. ... quackery used in your comments, perhaps you believe in Darwin's evolution too. (and santa calus) ... 1. It is interesting, and quite...
Actually Zapper, it is explicitly stated in the second Gibbon's book that photons are an unnecessary contrivance. A gamma ray is quantum in nature, but light...
... book that photons are an unnecessary contrivance. A gamma ray is quantum in nature, but light is em. Light is bound by space and time and there is no...
I suppose then, you being a particle guy, you are aware that schrodinger considered you to be little more than a chef. Collapsing the wave this way and that...
... schrodinger considered you to be little more than a chef. Collapsing the wave this way and that has so little real value and wastes so many assets. "I do...
... dissonance. Fine. This thread will END here. But please make sure we are clear about one thing. This forum is NOT for debating physics principles based on ...
Humm.. maybe it wasn't a good idea to give a 2-week window to answer this vexer, since people forgot about it. ... the ... A weightless environment is not the...
OK, we are back to our normal schedule. [Here's a friendly hint: the best time to go to Disney World in Orlando is in between 2 hurricanes. There's almost no...
Sorry to continue this tread a little more. But I just wanted to add to this "argument" the point that the model of the photon is only of a quantisation of...
... add ... of ... vexer) ... [snip] Thanks for the reference for the article. While I'm here I might as well ask what is probably a real naive question....
thomas trotter ... Indeed, the photon represents one of the most difficult issues to conceptualize in modern physics. The standard qm-treatment of the em-field...
You might want to look at Scott and Tom's paper (Visualizing the Phonon ...) discussed earlier. The elastic deformation of a solid is described classically by...
... Hmmm. Doesn't GR tell us that there is really no difference? If you were in a space ship with the windows closed, how would you know whether you were in a...
... the ... the ... For the occupant of the craft, it is true that they can't tell the difference of the craft is either accelerating or on a planet with an ...
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:30:44 -0000 "David Strayhorn" ... Good point(s) David. From what I've read, zero gravity (or microgravity ... not, strictly speaking,...
... with respect to what? with respect to the earth, of course. Can you differentiate betwen weightless vs zero g, without making reference to the earth? (or...
... <zapperz2000@y...> ... the ... with an ... this ... that ... differentiate ... (or the ... I'm a bit confused. Are you still asking about the vexer, or ...
The way I interpreted this vexer is that it couldn't be zero gravity since the curvature of spacetime is nonzero. This is equivalent to saying that there are...
If desired we can look at the action of the gyroscope (and probably the Foucault pendulum also) in the non-inertial frame of the spaceship as being caused by a...
Sorry I shouldn't have said that the moon wasn't a gyroscope (in message 1158) - just meant that a spinning object can't act as a telltale to show that one is...
Can some one please give me a proof of this statement? When a function does not involve a variable explicitly its partial derivative will be zero Example: This...
An expression that does not contain an instance of some particular variable is a constant *in that variable*. The derivative of a constant is zero. QED IB...
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