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! Moderator Note Linking to your closed threads without correcting the behavior that caused the closure is interpreted as an attempt to circumvent the efforts of the moderators. You need to stop doing that. With regard to this last post, I don't see any connection whatsoever to the topic. You have made no connection between e.g. the corruption of the gospel (or any of the rest of what you posted) and science. Please stick to the topic that you introduced.
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Interference is the result of wave addition.The solution to the Schrödinger equation for a central potential gives one specific answer. The solution for hydrogen only looks like your zone plate interference pattern for the l=0, ml = 0 solutions for various values of n. Get away from that and they don't look similar at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#/media/File:Hydrogen_Density_Plots.png Light and deBroglie wave interference is typically of sine waves, because of Huygens principle - every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical waves. So you get a spherical wave when you go through an aperture, and that's the origin of the interference.
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Hypothetical "Spaceless" Universe
swansont replied to Anchovyforestbane's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
That still makes no sense. A planck is not a unit of space.(length, area or volume) You need to fill in the detail of this hypothetical influence. Right now you are doing the equivalent of asking "What's the difference between a duck?" -
We already have the math for describing wave functions in 3D. You can solve the Schrödinger equation for hydrogen-like atoms.
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The plasma is likely protons and electrons (i.e. recombination would give you hydrogen). There's no chemistry going on, per se, in that situation.
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L isn't moving relative to Bob. But why are you expecting the value to be 29.58? That's taking L and multiplying by gamma. There's no reason for this to happen. Bob can ask "What does Alice see?" and transform his measurements into her frame. That maps L to L', and t to t'. Alice can do the converse and map L' to L, and t' to t. What you are doing is taking what Bob measures and doing an inverse of a transform, which doesn't get him into Alice's frame. IOW, there is no "L' in Bob's frame" or "L in Alice's frame" That's mixing frames L' is in Alice's frame. L is in Bob's frame.
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The math is the math of QM. Interpretations are ways to help understand the physics. If you don’t like an interpretation you can use a different one. The QM is the same.
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Photochemistry still requires some other element. Your “external influence” has to be “introduction of a bunch of different chemicals”
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If you make a statement like this without referring to a frame in which the statement is true, it has to be true for all observers. Depending on details, this statement might not be true for all observers, since the strikes are simultaneous in only one frame. ”Coexist” is not something I’ve run across in relativity before, as I noted. It needs to be rigorously defined. Probably related to having a space-like interval.
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Effects of a Tipler Cylinder on the Preternatural
swansont replied to Anchovyforestbane's topic in Speculations
! Moderator Note It's breaking relativity, then breaking it again with time travel, using a device that only works with unphysical conditions...and then asking physics to weigh in on the answer. Bufofrog was on the right track with their answer. This is science fiction. Write the story any way you please. If anyone wants to discuss actual physics further (e.g. what the limitations of a Tipler cylinder are), we can split those posts off (use "report post"). Otherwise there's not enough rigor in the OP to warrant discussion -
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The opposite of visual persistence time...
swansont replied to Externet's topic in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience
It’s going to depend on how bright the light is, since this is related to how many photons you need to collect to see it. -
Charles 3781 has not only made no effort to improve their post quality while in the mod queue, they have decided to troll the mods. They have chosen...poorly.
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Should we reply to the WOW! Signal?
swansont replied to alfa015222's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
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If the sun is directly overhead
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That’s not enough detail. The temperature limit for sunlight is the sun’s surface temperature, about 6000 K. You potentially have several hundred watts per square meter of light, so overlapping mirrors, or light outside the focus of mirrors/lenses can still get quite warm. Flat mirrors arranged analogous to a Fresnel lens could easily start a fire.
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That’s not the most probable explanation. Unbalanced load is. The reason the wobble varies is, as I said, because of resonance. The device will rick back and forth at some natural frequency that depends on its mechanical makeup and stability. So any imbalance at or near that frequency means the imbalance is happening when it can add to the tipping - you’re tipped to one side, but momentarily at rest, ready to rock back, and the extra mass is on the other side, so you have more torque to make it tip the other way. But now you increase the frequency. That mass is giving you less restoring torque. You get to the point where the device is tipping one way and still has a velocity, and the mass is providing a torque that makes it want to tip in the opposite direction, reducing the wobble. (Paul traps use a similar concept to confine ions with an oscillating electric field)
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Then they aren’t identical. But particles of the same type are. No.
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A top’s behavior is from precession. Gravity exerts a torque trying to pull the top over. But in a ceiling fan, the torque gravity exerts would tend to straighten it.
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It’s not info from Trump, it’s from the intelligence (and other) professionals. The briefings that Trump ignores unless they’re hidden in a piece of cheese.
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Why wouldn’t gravity tend to straighten the fan?