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3 big lessons from Einstein’s most famous equation: E=mc²
Big Think ^ | August 8, 2024 | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 08/08/2024 9:58:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Because I’ve offended enough people for one day.”

Maybe we offended Steve? In never sourced his exact quote but found similar. Careless writing by website “science editors”.


101 posted on 08/08/2024 6:40:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Oh well. I didn’t understand his point at first but then it struck me. But yes, diffraction matters.


102 posted on 08/08/2024 6:45:16 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“The single slit shows no interference with the nonexistent other slit, which of course it can’t. That’s no mystery.”

The subject of my response to Steve was that single slit patterns was wave behavior. I only added the statement about interference to show that was the difference he was seeing. Not that one was particle.


103 posted on 08/08/2024 6:49:01 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Yes to be fair a single slit will not show an interference pattern. So one might think there is no wave function present but the experiment itself sort of eliminates anything that would produce an obvious wave pattern.


104 posted on 08/08/2024 6:57:16 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Yes to be fair a single slit will not show an interference pattern. So one might think there is no wave function present but the experiment itself sort of eliminates anything that would produce an obvious wave pattern.”

The single slit shows diffraction. No reason to think there is no wave function present. That IS a wave function. Basic 8th grade science.


105 posted on 08/08/2024 7:00:25 PM PDT by TexasGator
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Thanks Red Badger.


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106 posted on 08/08/2024 7:01:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: TexasGator

Yes, but nothing so obvious as with two slits.


107 posted on 08/08/2024 7:04:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Yes, but nothing so obvious as with two slits.”

Just as obvious. The diffraction pattern can’t be missed.


108 posted on 08/08/2024 7:12:52 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Red Badger

Easy Peasy. Good article.


109 posted on 08/08/2024 9:16:58 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Red Badger

great article!!


110 posted on 08/09/2024 7:02:23 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: Red Badger

“Mass, as far as we could tell, was truly a conserved quantity. But once we uncovered the laws of special relativity, we realized that mass, alone, simply couldn’t be the ultimate conserved quantity. “

In a closed system mass is an ultimate conserved quantity.


111 posted on 08/09/2024 5:45:59 PM PDT by TexasGator
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August 27, 2024
Scientists create bizarre form of nuclear antimatter
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed
August 27, 2024
Scientists create bizarre form of nuclear antimatter
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed


112 posted on 08/29/2024 8:37:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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August 27, 2024
Scientists create bizarre form of nuclear antimatter
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created the heaviest exotic antimatter hypernucleus ever observed
August 27, 2024
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/scientists-create-bizarre-form-of-nuclear-antimatter/


113 posted on 08/29/2024 8:37:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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