Everything posted by Genady
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The Observer Effect
Viscosity is a concept that we have invented to deal with fluids. (And, not an easy one to grasp.) Yes. It says that the world is such that these tools work better than those tools.
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The Observer Effect
Right. Not necessarily. There are other factors. Not all fish have slender profile. We can. But it will be another tool of us. Yes, we can. It says something. It does not say, what.
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The Observer Effect
How can we know this? Here is an analogy. To swim efficiently through water, fish evolved a slender profile. It implies something about the water. But it does not imply that the water has a slender profile. The water even does not have a profile. (To be clear about this analogy, our tools are like fish, the world is like the water.)
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Expansion
The space expansion is the one where the clock co-moves.
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The Observer Effect
Upon reading it a second time and thinking about it, i would now say a greater yes than before and linearity / non-linearity are properties of the tools rather than of the world.
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I did a thing
Dimensional analysis does not help you to find out dimensionless factors.
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Expansion
You are correct. Not since the Big Bang. It started accelerating only several billion years ago: Evolution of the universe - Expansion of the universe - Wikipedia
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I did a thing
Right. I've expected a question from OP regarding this \(2\).
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I did a thing
In other words, you have found that \(v=\sqrt {ax}\), where \(v\) is speed, \(a\) is acceleration, and \(x\) is displacement. There is a known kinematic equation for this: if a body starts moving from a rest with a constant acceleration \(a\), when it moves the distance \(x\) its speed is \(v=\sqrt {2ax}\).
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The Observer Effect
and scientific concepts / models being tools to deal with the world rather than representations of the world.
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The Observer Effect
It is a subject matter for some, e.g., Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, among others. This is too bad. Are you sure it is irreversible?
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The length, breadth and height of a cuboid are in the ratio 5 : 3 : 2. If its volume is 240 cm^3, find its dimensions. Also find the total surface area of the cuboid.
A straightforward trial-and-error gets it on a second trial.
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How can a big bang expand to an infinite size?
Why?
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The Observer Effect
I don't have a definition. I refer with this word to an object of scientific studies.
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The Observer Effect
It is not that it is somewhere, but we don't know where. We know that it does not have a definite position.
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The Observer Effect
No, it they do not. All your references - measurements, clockwork, unexpected - refer to our use of models. They say nothing about the world.
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The Observer Effect
In my understanding, world is neither. The concept of linearity is not applicable to world.
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The Observer Effect
So, you mean that our models are non-linear, not our world.
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The Observer Effect
If the particle is in a superposition of momentum eigenstates and its momentum is measured, then its state changes and becomes one of the momentum eigenstates (physically, a narrow range around such eigenstate). (It is after midnight here, so the follow up questions might need to wait.)
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The Observer Effect
Generally, we do not. Physically, as @swansont has mentioned, momentum eigenstate is impossible. So, physically, it is always a superposition. But its range can be very narrow, concentrated very close to an eigenstate.
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The Observer Effect
Superposition of states.
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The Observer Effect
Yes, it is completely uncertain before and after the measurement. I call this, "does not change."
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The Observer Effect
This cannot be answered. What can be said is, If a particle has a definite momentum, measuring its momentum does not change its momentum, its position, its spin, etc.
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The Observer Effect
(We can call it, "particle".) Yes, if a particle has a definite momentum, measuring its momentum does not change its state. The same holds for its position.
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The Observer Effect
Sure. If the state of a system is an eigenstate of the observable in question, then it does not change.