Well of course it's the mighty Proton! Opposite forces attract, right?, no? Please tell us!😕
I'm certain it was what The Beatles were referring to in "You Know My Name (look up the number)"
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Oh come on! You bounce a round ball, it comes back down. The Moon revolves around the Earth, planets around the Sun. Galaxies are spherical. Electrons around the nucleus. It's all circular/parallel. Sheesh! Why so stubborn?
THE UNIVERSE IS SPHERICAL!
THE UNIVERSE IS SPHERICAL!
Well, I'm certainly no physicist, but that always seemed like the odd part for me. If energy can only be transferred, why did the energy exist in the first place.... and in one single place?
Galaxies form in a two dimensional plane (spiral-like) instead of in a three dimensional ball (spherical-like).
Galaxies come in four different shapes; spiral, elliptical, lenticular, and irregular.
Again, it can't!
The Standard Model of Particle Physics specifies the rules by which every particle in the universe interacts with every other particle e.g. the interaction between electrons and protons in the atom.)
The sole exception is that it does not account for gravity.
The big problem for physicists is that the Standard Model cannot be meshed with Einstein's general relativity, which is currently our best theory of gravity.
The holy grail of current research is to find a theory which unifies the Standard Model with gravity, the so-called Grand Unified Theory.
I've attached the 'Master Equation' of the Standard Model - you see, it's all mathematics and hard to put into words! 😉
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We don't really know what existed before the Big Bang.
Here's what Stephen Hawking had to say on events prior to the Big Bang:
You see, sometimes we have to accept thare is no answer!
I suspect somewhere along the line, EMR will have to be revisited or even reinterpreted.
Ask any physicist what EMR is and they will tell you it’s a field - nothing more to add. With Maxwell’s equations we are able to describe - and predict- it’s behavior with exquisite precision (think LHC for example) but there there is no more fundamental explanation as to what it is other than a field.
Then think about the consequences of the double slit experiment. A photon leaves an object on the other side of the universe a billion years after the BB. Circa 12 billion years later, that photon which has a spheroidal radiation pattern, has a wavefront that extends billions of light years across. The photon then intersects with an atom on the coating of a telescope mirror and instantly ceases to exist anywhere - the best analogy being like a bubble getting popped. Best of all, that photon, because it’s travelled at the speed of light, ‘experienced’ no passage of time - it was created and destroyed in an instant.
Ask any physicist what EMR is and they will tell you it’s a field - nothing more to add. With Maxwell’s equations we are able to describe - and predict- it’s behavior with exquisite precision (think LHC for example) but there there is no more fundamental explanation as to what it is other than a field.
Then think about the consequences of the double slit experiment. A photon leaves an object on the other side of the universe a billion years after the BB. Circa 12 billion years later, that photon which has a spheroidal radiation pattern, has a wavefront that extends billions of light years across. The photon then intersects with an atom on the coating of a telescope mirror and instantly ceases to exist anywhere - the best analogy being like a bubble getting popped. Best of all, that photon, because it’s travelled at the speed of light, ‘experienced’ no passage of time - it was created and destroyed in an instant.
In classical electromagnetism, the concept of the 'field' is introduced to help visualise the spooky 'action at a distance' forces that act between charged particles.
For example, an electric field is defined as a region of space in which a charged particle will experience a force of electrical origin - note that this does not explain how the force actually comes about!
The concept of the field is useful, however, as in the case of the magnetic field round a bar magnet which allows us to visualise the 'lines of force'.
In modern quantum field theory, the force between charged particles is explained by the exchange of other particles. For example, the photon is the particle responsible for carrying the repulsive force between two electrons.
Think of this mechanism as being like two children, each on roller skates, passing a football between each other and, as a result, moving apart.
For example, an electric field is defined as a region of space in which a charged particle will experience a force of electrical origin - note that this does not explain how the force actually comes about!
The concept of the field is useful, however, as in the case of the magnetic field round a bar magnet which allows us to visualise the 'lines of force'.
In modern quantum field theory, the force between charged particles is explained by the exchange of other particles. For example, the photon is the particle responsible for carrying the repulsive force between two electrons.
Think of this mechanism as being like two children, each on roller skates, passing a football between each other and, as a result, moving apart.
Transistors are similar in that electrons passing through the barrier actually disappear and reappear on the other side. Action that we know takes place but has no explanation.
I could definitely be bonging here
But I did read something to the effect in an article.
I could definitely be bonging here
But I did read something to the effect in an article.
No, you are not talking a lot of 'spherical galaxies', I believe you are referring to 'quantum tunneling'.I could definitely be bonging here
That's something which was first predicted by quantum mechanics and then found to have a real life application. 🙂
Quantum Tunneling
If we imagine a single photon being sent from a great distance away, wouldn't the wave function that describes its motion through space look like a plane wave, not a circular one?
I submit that the wave function of the photon is only revealed after it is detected. It's position remains a probability up to the point of detection when it becomes a certainty.
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