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Yes! But the Coulomb central force is exactly solvable super degenerate (read: easy), and spin and relativistic effects are tiny perturbations.
In nuclei, you have a non-coulomb central force (it's a mix of repulsion and attraction). the spin-spin and spin-orbit terms are of the same size, and there's a non-central (tensor) force, and individual spin-orbit and helicity terms.
Back to atoms, you can treat the electron orbits as independent...each one just see a central force electric charge, in nuclei, each nucleon sees all the nearby nucleons...so it's a many body problem.
for charge particles, only charge matters, but in nucleons there's a strong force, and then there's another one that cares if you're a proton or neutron, in a way that is independent of being a proton or neutron---and protons and neutrons lose their identity in a nucleus....the colored ball picture is wrong...they're all in entangled states of being part proton, part neutron.
No matter how big an atom is, it's a sum of 2-body interactions. The strong force has 3 and even 4 body interactions that cannot be broken down further---it's just a huge mess.
Finally: quantum field theory effect (the Lamb shift) are tiny corrections to atomic orbitals. In the effective field theory of the strong interactions, the nucleus is full of virtual pions, sigmas, even kaons...
so as messy as you can imagine, it is far worse...while an atom is basically Laguerre and Legendre polynomials.
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Also: A scientist should not be using the political term "Climate Deniers"...esp. not a German, but that's a hole nutha thing. A more accurate term would be "climate catastrophe denier". Ofc, "climate catastrophe" is unscientific, and it is now appearing in formerly reputable publications like Scientific American.
Furthermore: climate scientist who advocate policy to non-policymakers are being unscientific, they are engaging in politics, and we know that corrupts. A scientist job is say "we're gonna die if we do X". Here's what happens when we do "Y +/- dY" or "Z +/- dZ". Elected officials then choose X, Y, Z, ..., and the People choose the elected officials.
Once the scientist skips the middle and tells the ppl who to choose--s/he's lost objectivity, and it is a scientific fact s/he will be biased. So it's antiscience to deny your own bias. They become bias-denier.
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The intro is bit misleading, in that it described the fusion as if it where in a plasma, but with orbitals filled. For a normal deuterium gas, D2, you have the nuclei in an orbital with some overlap at r=0. Normal D2 gas will fuse this way, at a really, really slow rate. With a muon serving in the role of an electron, the nuclei are 186 times closer, so the overlap of the wave function goes way up.
The point, tho, is that temperature doesn't matter: we're not smashing D's into D's via internal kinetic energy, rather just letting quantum mechanics do its thing on a molecular orbital.
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@TheLivirus the synchrotron I saw was from 28 GeV positrons going around Hamburg. But on second thought… it may have been a black and white camera. Since the visible spectrum is so far below the critical frequency for any reasonable source …power would go like the cube root of frequency….which is pretty mild, so white is reasonable. Cherenkov has number of photons proportion to frequency, power as the square of frequency, and it is most certainly blue (and UV)…. But I have on,y done Cherenkov and bremstrahlung professionally…and the latter was in the few GeV range, far from visible.
Regarding the color..idk my atomic and molecular lines, but it comes from solar wind ionizing or exciting atmospheric gases, and then in recombination or deexcitation, characteristic lines are emitted (scintillation) but note: it depends strongly on pressure and temp, because the mean collision time can be much less than the excited atom/molecule lifetime, and collisions quench the emission. Oh, and I worked in gas scintillation, since it is background noise for gas Cherenkov detectors. So I worked in everything but synchrotron.
Except for the fact that DESY used synchrotron emission to polarize the positron beam via the Sokolov Ternov effect.
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prof < 'stroid < nobel < unit < SI unit < particle < Element < Theory
e.g, Einstein has: prof, 'stroid, nobel, unit, element, theory.
while newton: prof, stroid 2x (+1 one for his book), SI Unit, Theory.
Feynman: prof, 'stroid, Element 137
though he does have a "gauge", as do Lorentz and Couloub. Oh, and by theory, I mean a whole sector of physics: Newtonian Physics, Einstein Theory of Relativity...and that's it. I don't mean "Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory"...no.
Where Boson and Fermion go idk, the latter has a unit and an element, but his weak interaction theory does not, But he has a Paradox. idk where that goes.
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Exactly. So weird that it makes no sense. It's a spin-0 nuclear after all. After some thinking and looking at Clebsch-Gordan tables, I'm guessing , the 2 alphas are in an L=2 state (D-wave), and so are the neutrons l=2. With |Mm> referring to the alpha, neutron z-projection, the CG tables says:
(|2, -2> - |1, -1> + |0, 0> - |-1, 1> + |-2, 2>) / sqrt(5)
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...ofc that violates the Pauli-exclusion principle since neutrons are fermions, while alphas are bosons....no, never mind....the neutron spins are antisymmetric.
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@mikemondano3624 one of the bigs....I think Poincare? We had newtons laws, thermodynamic, EM, and in Lagrangian, Hamilton, and Hamilton-Jacobian formalisms. Given the correct initial conditions: all could be predicted.
At this point, they didn't understand chaos , which is still classical, so infinite precision can transform it from chaos to basic dynamics.
The addition of relativity didn't change that.
Of course, if you think classically, it's very difficult to come up with a microscopic theory of matter. Without the Pauli exclusion principle, it really should collapse. And then ofc, full blown quantum mechanics is totally different. And QFT--yikes, and all that led to the Standard Model , which is awesome, but leaves some questions. When particle physics entered cosmology and computers allow us to model galaxy-clusters (or bigger or smaller sized) systems...here we are.
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@garywhitt98 so glad you asked. You're looking at from a normie "lens": barrack ain't do s**t. I used to think that, but no: to understand Stockholm, you have to think like Stockholm.
1) The Cold War was just "different ways of knowing". Peace Prizes accordingly.
2) OK, Ante-Cold-Bellum: What is the biggest threat to world peace?
The remaining super power.
Who dat?
USA.
What's their problem?
Capitalist, white, christian, nationalist, colonialist, imperialist, etc, etc. (sound like a lecture at the Kennedy School of Government).
What the best way to end that threat?
Elect a non-white (non-chrsitian (no-capitalist (foreign born (....etc)))), with the 1st one being the most important.
So it's not what he did (nothing), it's what he represented: a destabilization of the identity of the greatest threat to world peace: boom, peace prize.
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A normal graviton is just a quantum of non-flat spacetime metric, so it's not some missing particle, it's gravity at a scale we can't probe experimentally. When you have a lot of real gravitons (like 10^30 of them), well, LIGO sees those.
Any massless spin-2 particle gives the Einstein field eqs.
Torsion in the metric of spacetime is not new. I've seen it, but never studied it.
GR is a field theory, where the field is the spacetime metric--if you quantize that, I mean what is an operator valued metric?...you get infinities.
So there's not much new here, unless it's renormalizable (I guess it is?), and it makes testable differences from GR, and if it doesn't: can we at-least calculate things in the highly non-linear region, i.e: what's the singularity in a black hole?--or is it like QCD, a beautiful theory for some, but to quote Fredrick Zacharison, "an ugly disgusting mess that makes me want to vomit" when you try to calculate the simplest bound states (e.g., a proton).
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In the future, all our DNA will be catalogued and used for ID. Moreover, the profile will allow the ministry of history to compute our racial guilt or victimhood, which will be used to adjust all financial transactions (digital and centralized, ofc) in real-time (to make up for historical wrongs).
Now the pessimistic view is much worse, and that is when we use the above information to make population adjustments to save the 🌎 from 🤒, of course AI will decide the optimal mix of 🧬 to maximize a harmonious future. This may require losing so, uh, information, but it will be stored in a bank, just in case we need those people again.
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@Mentaculus42 1) if you can do electromagentics, that is good. Many a spy satellite actively uses some part of the EM spectrum, and I tell you, these engineers just don't understand it deeply 1b) there's also the passive blackbody domain. 2) In simulation, engineers are terrible at uncertainties, e.g you sim the 99.7% success in your Mars landing and ask them : what the uncertainty on that? Boom: blank stares. 3) Hypersonic reentry? does quantum degeneracy (identical particles) mean the Apollo reentry code doesn't work on Mars? Yes. Do aerospace engineer understand that? No. How many mars rovers go long before they figure it out? 4) Star tracking: does special relativity matter? Yes it does, do AE understand it? No. Same for GPS. 5) does knowledge differential geometry make a better interfermometric synthetic aperture radar processor, in FORTRAN, yes it does. 6) GN&C: flight software loves quaternion, hates "direction cosine" matrices. Do AE understand representation theory of Lie group (and hence: quanternions) No. They do not.
7) plasmas and ionosphere stuff: forget about it. Saha equation is a mystery to them. 8) Kramers-Kronig relation--does it come up in AE? Yes. Do AE's understand it? No...same for Fokker-Planck fluctuation dissipation theorem and other forms of noise. They just see colors (white, brown, pink, blue)....we see: physics. 9) they can't do anything "coordinate-free", everything needs a reference frame and "components"--yuck. It inhibits understanding.
So that's just off the top of my head. I am sure there's more reasons why a giant DoD prime or FFRDC would want someone who knows physics on staff.
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no, it's not forgotten. Assuming that talking about an idea is the same as supporting it is a standard tool, possibly with some twists, used to silence debate. It's basically a cloaked ad hominem. It is used daily, and applied liberally when needed. Here's a hypothetical (with a twist, since we go from ideas to basic word association):
A comedian tells a joke about a neglected US territory's landfill problem that has been growing since it was hit by a hurricane 4 years ago; the comedic twist occurs when were led to believe the subject matter is major environmental problem that has the word "island" in it (oh, and the Territory is also an island). The crowd, being not to bright, boos the joke due to the negative word association. Nevertheless, the entire incident is used as an ad hominem "proving" the subject believes unacceptable things about the citizens of the US Territory. It's easy to do, and it works on dumb people, emotional people, and reasoned smart people with deep biases.
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@GeoffryGifari (1) is my favorite question, and no AI has ever got it right. In the chiral limit, p and n are two states of the same particle. P is isospin up, and n is isospin down, and the nuclear force depends on the dot product of isospin…which is called an isoscalar force….the math is the same as the math of spin or magnetic moments in zero field….and the chiral symmetry breaking is like turning on a weak field that slightly differentiates the two states…e.g the neutron is slight more massive than the proton. But not much.
Anyway, there are 4 n p combos that are isospin states, which, like quantum spin of two,electrons are divided up into:
Isospin 1, symmetric under particle interchange
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And isospin 0, antisymetric under interchange:
(pn - np) / sqrt 2
So the isospin force is repulsive, and the anti symmetric one has a 0 factor, leaving other attractive forces working, hence the deuteron is isospin 0. The isospin 1 wave functions are not bound.
So here the AI question: There is no helium-2 isotope, nor an di-neutron: what is the spin of the deuteron?
Btw: try to answer it. It’s simple, but don’t feel bad, many PhDs have failed. Not nuclear physics PhDs, but others.
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@GeoffryGifari on (2), electromagnetism is 137 times weaker than the strong force, and the you need to square that to get and energy difference. So less than one part in ten thousand. It only starts to matter in large nuclei, which pick up a factor of Z squared, and the nucleus is bigger than the range of the strong force.
T and He3 are mirror nuclei, so have the exact same structure….in the chiral limit. But chiral symmetry breaking…which just means down quarks are heavier than up quarks, makes neutrons heavier than protons….that means the density of final states is go for the decay, the decay happens.
HE3 is heavily studied because it can be polarized, so it’s a stand in for a stable polarized neutron target. See proton Spin crisis and the Bjorken Sum rule….both of which are backed by brutal theory….way harder than high energy particle physics…(it’s called medium energy physics, and doesn’t get as much press. Btw, I’ve been out of it for 25 years, so my info may be dated. I do 🛰️ stuff now…more job opportunities).
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@rodschmidt8952 and it's traveling slower than light. Now on this thread I've been told I'm "ignorant" for not knowing the opposite of what you said it true (that non-linear QED effects, which should occur above the Schwinger Limit are observable at all magnetic field strengths, which would mean a photon doesn't need to be in a medium to have a finite n-1.)
Personally, I've worked with both real and virtual photons (both near shell and deeply-virtual..polarized, even) in the GeV range, optical/IR quantum light, and classical EM from hundreds of MHz to sub-THz, and photons from atomic/molecular scintillation, Cherenkov radiation and its weird cousin: Transition Radiation,...and interferometry (both amplitude and intensity, the latter with pions, tho)..oh and with the photon's hadronic content as in VMD/diffractive rho & phi production/pomerons..oh snap, and with parity violating photon/Z-boson interference coupling to the strange sea, so I think I have a decent understanding.
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@a64738 well Fermat's principle says it takes the longest path (in time), but if you change increasing time to (fixed) frequency times increasing phase, the extremal path has stationary phase so amplitudes add coherently for that path...this works classically (e.g, Fresnel Zone in telecom) and quantum (Feynman path integral).
regarding index of refraction, idk if it works in space, one retort that the atom spacing is>> wavelength was a legit complaint--it's not measurable anyway...but ppl talk about light traveling at c in material, and the phase shift makes it look slower.
It's true, but saying light travels slower is fine too.
Now if you toss Maxwell's eq and use Jeffimenko's (equivalent) version: there is no light propagation, there is just causality propagation where light is only caused by charges and currents on the past light cone, not by changing fields from the prior cycle. rn I prefer Jeffimenkos's Eq, even though I can't stand "c is the speed of causality" posts...but all views have their regions of application, so it's best to know all of them (which I do b/c I've been doing it for 45 years...shit I'm a decade older than Sabine...I musta twin paradoxed, cause I look good).
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A good look at this problem is when is it rn on Earth (x=0 Mly)?, easy, it's t_e=2025 AD. So E_0 = (2025, 0)
Ok, so when is it right now at Andromeda (x= +2.5 Mly)? easy, it's t_a = 2025 AD. So E_1 = (2025, 2.5M)
Now the paradox.
When is it on Earth, right now at Andromeda? That is, at event E_1, now, 2,500,000 ly away, what's the simultaneous date on Earth?
Since Andromeda is closing at 300 km/sec (0.1%c) = 1 ly/kY, you get:
t'_e = 2500 AD + (2500 kly)(1 ly/kly) / [1 ly/ly]^2 = 4525 AD.
Yikes, so right now in andromeda, it is the year 4525 AD now.
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