Natural Science Forum / Physics / Research / May 2007

I've read the text books and searched the web,
but I still have not achieved enlightenment.
I have a PhD in maths and I am not yet entirely senile.
I have elementary knowledge of Clifford algebra.

I'd like to ask for feedback on my paper
''On the foundations of thermodynamics'', available from
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/papers/physpapers.html#eq
If you ever had misgivings about the treatment of thermodynamics

Let's say I am in a space station which has a supercooled 150 KHz DX
analog receiver that receives the magnetic fields [while ignoring the
electric fields] of extremely weak 150 KHz AM analog carrier signals.
In addition, this receiver is so sensitive and powerful that it can

Suppose we have a system consisting of an on shell massive particle with
momentum p^u such that p^u p_u = m^2 and an on shell massless particle
with momentum q^u such that q^u q_u = 0.
The center of mass squared is:

This is in response to a very old post which can be found at:
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Perhaps this may not be the place for the ...

What is the analogous of Pauli matrices (summation implied for
repeated indices)
exp(i s_i theta_i) = cos(|theta|)+i s_i (theta_i/|theta|) sin(|
theta|)

Dear friends:
Maxwell's equation is often written as J^u = d_v d^v A^u where A^u is
the photon potential and J^u is the current.
Because the current is conserved, d_u J^u = 0, we know that J^u has

According to the SO(10) grand unified theory, there is a field which
is invariant under SU(5) and hence it is a singlet under
SU(3)*SU(2)*U(1). In other words this field does not participate in
the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. Thus, this field

Questions about Bose-Einstein condensation:
（1）In a Bose-Einstein condensate，all the bosons are in the ground
state. Can the ground state has degeneracies? If the answer is
positive, the bosons could be in different states and are no longer

I have a question about a thought experiment described in Gerard 't Hooft's
paper ``Can Quantum Mechanics be reconciled with cellular automata?",
which is available in PDF format from:
     http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/gthpub/digit01.pdf

12-MAY-2007
Hello -
I was wondering: can the big-bang be idealized as an electromagnetic
pulse?  Or perhaps more appropriately, would there be a pulse

Can someone explain, please, why the so-called horizon problem is such
for the understanding of the universe?
Thanks
Enrique Vela

Good day,
I work in medical research with mice and rats.  My work often involves
anesthetizing rodents with isoflurane (the same type of gas anesthetic
that is used in human medicine).  The animal is placed in a small box

What is the coordinate representation of the wavefunction of the
photon in QFT?
According QFT the wavefunction of a single photon is a+/0> where a+ is
the creation operator of the photon and /0> means the vacuum state.

It is known that the gravitational force between two static point
particles is proportional to the masses.
Now let's consider a scalar field interacting with gravity. The scalar
field part of the action is of Klein-Gordon type. Of course we must