Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / April 2006

This would be an absurd question to one that knows the answer.
If say the peeks of an EM wave are mountains:
1. Do these mountains move forward with time and remain the same
distance apart (= frequency)?

I forget & I can't find on the web what's a 1/2 spin, 0, 1, etc.... can
anyone explain it as simple as possible so that I might continuously
remember in the future?

Hallo NG
what do You think about this:
a Photon is a Quantum of light. Light is swinging EM-field.
Since light is travelling through empty space, the EM-field must "there",

The wish of the scientists to understand the picture of Existence is
great.
That is why, aspiring to understand the structure of micro particles,
they created a new theory "quantum chromodynamics ", "quark model",

I was in bus when a thought crossed me. Remember what Bohr said about
the shells of atom? They have certain energy in which electrons are
free to move without loosing energy.(That was due to wave interference
of course). Can we apply same principal to dimensions, Having some

In an SPR post dated Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:55 PM, Igor Khavkine said "the
best you can hope for is a solution for the equations of motion of some kind
of charged fluid (macroscopic), together with the EM field, together with
the metric.  There is no way to directly identify ...

In the MM experiment, was the length of the two light paths set
exactly equal.  If so, how was this done?  If not, did the experiment
"rely" on the fact that there was no change in the interference
fringes when the apparatus was rotated?

I have a SHM problem.
A rod of length L is placed on two circular dics. The co-efficient of
friction between rod and disks is k. The rod is displaced by a small
distance x. Determine the time period of the oscillations.

I have recently downloaded some very good lectures videotaped by MIT on
basic physics and math
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm
As an aside the following text on Calculus is very good and great for anyone

I am rerunning this article because the TWIN PARADOX tables (which are
crucial) were all screwed up. When the reader comes to them now, he can
see them by following the link placed there.
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Is a Nuclear Bomb's energy exactly = seperation of two charges
(fission) TIMES the number of paired charges (chain reaction)?
If so how logically can binding energy be used to produce energy,
meaning you have a proton and an electron(or a pair of attracted

ON THE CO-DEPENDENCE OF TIME DILATION, SUPERLUMINAL VELOCITIES, AND
RELATIVISTIC MASS
Vertner Vergon
ABSTRACT:

"Where Is The Kinetic Energy of a Bullet Stored?"
    When a bullet is fired, an explosive charge imparts kinetic energy to
the bullet. That kinetic energy travels with the bullet and is transferred
to the target when the bullet strikes. The question to be answered is where

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"The Paradox of Zeno"
    The Paradox of Zeno is 2000 years old and its apparent ability to prove
that all motion is impossible was not resolved until the mathematical
techniques of Calculus became available, even though that technique is not