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Could the entire universe be considered as having a single quantum mechanical wave function? At the time of the Big Bang the universe was extremely small, of dimensions in which quantum phenomena were dominant compared to gravity, as the entire universe was smaller than a proton. As the universe expanded, matter filled a much larger region, but particles whose wave functions were entangled would have remain entangled. A textbook analogy would be what happens when two elections with equal but opposite momentum are emitted from a source. The resultant particles can become separated by the size of the universe, but their total wave function won’t collapse from its range…

Chadwick noted that a free neutron was extremely unstable, if this is so, should we not immediately shut down Fermi? As we will soon be running out of neutrons.

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The Purpose of this is to Design Metamorphic Viral Pathogens named after the Synthetic Pathogens for Star Trek Deep Space Nine meaning of Metamorphic in coding Metamorphic Code The Beginning of this will start with this. Here was a Earlier creation the MV-5 Zombie Virus, which is Polymorphic Polymorphic Code In 1969, President Richard Nixon ended all offensive (i.e., non-defensive) aspects of the U.S. bio-weapons program. In 1975 the U.S. ratified both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)—international treaties outlawing biological warfare, which has been repealed making this legal. …

With more and better worldwide communication, comes a lot of "anti-science science". Some more ludicrous than others (think of the Niburu hoax, or the "flat earthers", ...) Some, like the Niburu collision course with Earth and whatnot cause quite a panic with some, and I consider this anti-science science to be very dangerous, for various reasons. But, then there are these odd ones, which I have quite a bit of difficulty believing whether these are true or not. To name one: the Atamac Creature; A 13cm tall humanoid, which was around 7 years young at the time of it's death, lacking ANY known form that could explain it's incredible small size (dwarfism, …

Take my word for it, I need this formula and value. IF the electron in a hydrogen atom were in a 2 dimensional elliptical orbit such that it passed so closely to the proton that the separation was negligible(assume it is separated from center of mass of the proton by the radius of the proton with the proton at one focus of the ellipse.). Assume an apogee of the Bohr radius. What would the average kinetic energy be, The max (@perigee) and the min(@apogee)?

What might its peak velocity be and how would its apparent mass compare to its rest mass?

Non-locality has been a main issue between Relativity and Quantum since almost a century, even if Bohr has been considered all this time as the winner of his debate with Einstein. Von Neumann was the first not only to formalize quantic theory, but also to give a mathematical justification to Bohr's conviction that his (Copenhagen) interpretation of the empirical results of quantum physics was the only correct one. Bohm valiantly attempted to revitalize an old de Brolie theory and base his own interpretation on the idea of the pilot wave, a wave that transports particles, as an alternative to Bohr's approach. His theory opened the way to the possibility of hidden vari…

Has anyone ever investigated the idea that the nature of light quanta could actually be the nature of matter to accept energy in specific quantities?

Is there evidence of the particle nature of light in laser interaction?

When an electron is said to have spin, what exactly is spin?

This is a spin-off of my thread "Double slit experiments and superposition". In that thread I had limited myself to that kind of experiment to argue that the so-called superpositon of particles was more a theoretical assumption/conclusion than an empirical fact. People reproached me to limit the discussion artificially and ignore interferometers, especially the Mach-Zehnder interferometer that is considered by many authors as the logical and practical equivalent of the double slit experiment. I will take this equivalence for granted, even though I think it is much more complicated than that. Still, I cannot deny that the same questions can be asked in both exper…

Does anyone else look at this and think echinoderm version of a worm?

The double slit experiment and Superposition The double slit experiment takes a special position in physics in that it is used as a "crucial experiment" both by classical and quantum Physics. While the first, classical physics, shows an understandable historical preference for light, quantum Physicists, also very understandably, very often use electrons to get their point across. When electrons or photons are ejected in the direction of the two slits, some strange things happen: 1) with one slit open we see the expected pattern of a single agglomerate of bright points on the screen at a location facing the slit. 2) when both slits are open we get the interfe…

The 1875 Paris, 1 kg standard (IPK, Pt Ir) seems to have lost about -50 µg in 100 years. Now, assuming that (1 kg) standard is based on 1 m length derived from the (average, back & forth) light_speed c, is it possible light's speed is NOT constant? E.g. if c varies semi_annually (to affect volume standards of a density) how can exactly 1 kg be expected? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram Otherwise, if the earth's speed v changed thru an ether; would that affect the Atomic weights enough to detect weight (not mass) differences between (different eleme…

Well, I will say the other side of this Energy is conserved in Dark Energy because Curvature is balanced out by Radius increase in the Friedmann equation for Hubble constant or Dark Energy which causes the acceleration not increase in energy assuming energy conservation is absolute for the universe along with Energy is neither created or destroyed it just changes form and in that case the Universe will always have the same amount of Energy-Mass never changing in value just form. Otherwise Thermodynamics needs to be rewritten, unless the energy is being received from another universe in which case that would be fine with those laws under 1 and 2 as systems can transfer hea…

You assume the (Coulomb's) electric force is a "constant" wrt the distance d between the 2 capacitor plates (e.g. for linac acceleration). But how can that be? I.e. When the equipotential (e.g. the (surface_)charge_density (sigma=charge/area)) in the middle between the plates is zero! Due to a "bipolar" Gauss (surface_charge) law sum, each plate receives half the voltage V/2, but has opposite polarity (i.e. +V/2 & -V/2) so the sum is the total voltage V between the 2 plates, but zero (voltage) in the middle of the air dielectric. Surely a "non_linear" acceleration must exist (instead) wrt distance between the 2 plates …

What was wrong with Michell's idea? Why isn't a very large star (& many of them, i.e. dark stars) simply the answer for so much invisible mass? & Why isn't the collision of 2 dark stars into fragments simply the explaination for so_called super novas? E.g. At what distance away (from earth) will a specific large radius star become invisible to us (on earth) as a dark star? (I can imagine a (distant) dark star would begin to become visible as we get near to it. E.g. it takes time for gravity to slow light down to zero & large distance w…

People have attributed various mental and physical benefits and drawbacks both to sexual abstinence and sexual activity. Purported benefits of abstinence would include increased testosterone, acetylcholine, dopamine, lecithin, phosphorus, calcium, mental energy, sensitivity, creativity, and spirituality, while purported drawbacks are insensitivity, anxiety, emotional suppression and, resulting from the latter, even physical symptoms. Purported benefits of sexual activity would include increased immunity, oxytocin, vasopressin, mental energy, testosterone, dopamine, sensitivity, creativity and spirituality (!), and reduced pain, anxiety, depression, risk of prostate ca…

With (the cone's) round base placed on the ground so the apex (=tip) points upward let the vertical y axis, be the rotatonal axis of symmetry. Let the x axis be on the ground, to the right from the cone, & the z axis also be on the ground but away from the cone & me. Let the cone's base radius R=1 (meter) & the cone's height h=1 m. I know both the x & z axii of the cone's contour are symmetric (by rotating the cone wrt the y axis). But the cone has a taper (the radius changes) wrt the y axis (height). Starting with the base's radius r=1 (meter) on the ground, both x & z will decr…

The right theory of everything may lead us to stable fusion, which can cheaply turn small amounts of lead into smaller amounts of gold, which can then be replicated into large amounts of gold. Who said money doesn't grow on trees? A ToE could tell us how fast future spacecrafts could ever possibly go. A ToE could provide avenues for computation & communication that bypass the speed of light. Such a theory would as much lead to a technological Utopia as Einstein's theory of General Relativity led to the atom bomb that ended all of the catastrophes of global scale warfare many decades ago. To start I had to ask myself a few questions: How do you …

I woke up this morning with light staring in my eyes. And I thought about the vastness of the universe, and how light is so much faster than human beings. It seemed unfair to me. But then I realized that it's not about fair or unfair, but the coldness of the physics. Light doesn't have morality, it just obeys the physics laws. It doesn't choose what speed to go, it just goes whatever speed it goes. And that was when I started thinking about this. So this morning I googled whether light is massless particle, google tells me light is a massless particle but I don't believe it. If light had no mass, how would a laser have knock back force? Here is a conversat…

Yes. Anything in nature that has a motion is translated into, say linear or rotational kinetic energies.

I have devised a photonic motor just in case people switch from electricity to light. It would work like a radiometer, except it would not need a vacuum. It would have about 6 vanes, which would be colored black. A laser would fire a laser beam at the vanes, which would absorb the photons and cause the vanes to rotate clockwise. For a faster speed, the vanes could be colored white, which when struck by a laser beam, would reflect the light back. When the laser light hits the vanes, the vanes would absorb the momentum of the light and be pushed clockwise. When the light is reflected, the reaction with the vane would push the vane clockwise, making it turn twice as fast as …