Recent content by MatthewKM

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Please temper your comments. I have not consumed any PopScience" whatever that is. (Books read in the last 6 months: Love and Math by Edward Frenkel, Helgoland and The Order of Time, by Rovelli, Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll, Fundamentals by Frank Wilezek, The End of Everything by...

I was trying to ask a question about the isolated effect of gravity on relative subatomic clock speed. That is all I am asking I picked a bad hypothetical I though an answer to that question might help me. Guilty as charged.

A question about general relativity and clocks. Clocks run slower in lower gravity. Or said a different way, the oscillation frequency of a subatomic particle approaches maximum as gravitational effect approaches minimum.The further away from the centre of mass of a planetary body, the faster a...

Yes impossible I totally agree. Vacuum pressure? with this impossible question part of the impossibility of the question is that the measure of vacuum is determined by the energy of the particles within so I was trying to address this in the question by referring to vacuum in that context...

Entropy question. Take a finite number of identical atoms in a specific volume of space at a moment of time. Run two thought experiments on this system scenarios (both time independent) 1: expand the volume of space of the system instantaneously by a factor of 10. The fixed number of atoms...

Excellent Thank you Thought process now nicely shifted in the right direction. (or is it left) Thank you

Surely yes. But is not a unitarity a "time independent" Hamiltonian? I can't follow the math well but I'm getting better by the week. Never straight forward for certain. Entropy being the inexorable change of a system "over time" toward the most uniform possible distribution of energy, the...

Well yes and no. Your response in a way is a restatement of my question without answering it but it is asking a question analogous to a later lumpier time in the universe. Re framing it Let me mix two cups of entropy of different amounts of time from a final state and what happens They...

My understanding is that a sub atomic particle has no arrow of time. Clearly the Arrow of time as understood in our macroscopic world has one direction. Entropy being an arrow in the direction toward uniform distribution of the individual and or sums of all the forms of energy in a system and ...

I find it fascinating that all nucleons are three quark configurations. It is proof that each quark needs two others to remain stable. The hypothesis that early in the big bang there was a uniform foam of quarks and coalescence of threes formed protons begs the question: what percentage of...

62 y old Dr of medicine. 37 years in practice no formal training in physics or quantum math. Right out of the gate foot in mouth move posting a mathless conjecture in the wrong area and now laughing at myself. Take above as a metaphor for me generally and we’ll get along fine