Mass is not weight.....Weight is the pull of gravity -the downward force exerted by the earth. If there is no gravity there is no weight, but there is still inertia. In ordinary speech the two concept...
My mission soon turned into a labor of love, with emphasis on labor. I had not anticipated the breadth and depth of the subject, or the drama as our greatest minds waged what I think is our greatest b...
The job of science is to look beyond our intuition, to find out by any means possible what's really going on, and to give up old ways of thinking when the evidence requires it.
NOTHING CAN GO FASTER THAN LIGHTOf course the idea that there is an ultimate speed limit seems absurd. While the speed of light is very high by earthly standards, the magnitude is not the point; any k...
General spin is an abstract mathematical concept that is related to the number of field components and how they change when viewed from different angles. The more field components, the higher the
Energy. In classical physics, energy means the ability to do work, which is defined as exerting a force over a distance. This definition, however, doesn't provide much of a picture, so in classical ph...
Schrodinger, despite some misgivings, believed that the electron is a real wave spread throughout all of space
The number of matter quanta in a given region or state is limited by the Exclusion Principle.
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