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Isaiah 8:12-13 (NIV) "Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread."
Real physics question coming up with a little background...3,2,1...
The 'whys' are somewhat important for me to actually achieve understanding. This would be one major reason that quantum physics holds such a problem for me. I can't grasp the whys that underlie it. I can feel it right beyond my grasp, I think I can almost grab hold of it and then it eludes me.
Now on to specifics. The infamous double slit experiment. I don't get how light can act as a particle if we are watching and a wave if we are not. Any help?
__________________ "We are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was." --Terry Pratchett
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." --Emo Philips
If a massive object comes in at the speed of light and smacks the moon that's right above me, which happens first: We see the moon dissappear, or the tide starts to go out?
ie: Does the effects of gravity influence instantaneously, at the speed of light, or slower.
__________________ "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while."
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
Albert Einstein
Dark matter is technically "missing mass" or "mass we cannot account for" based on current theory. Of course current theory is based upon all sorts of assumptions which are now being undermined. When I went to college the term really just referred to mass we could not identify yet with our relative primitive technology. MACHO forms of "dark matter" there thought to compose a lot of the missing mass at that point in time.
Over the past couple of decades however, that has all changed. They now talk about "baryonic matter"(protons, neutrons) and "non baryonic matter" that typically is equated with SUSY related dark matter theories/hypothesis. It should be noted that SUSY theory however is a "non standard" brand of particle physics theory. In standard particle physics theory, we're only missing a single particle that has yet to be detected, the Higg's boson. In SUSY theory, there are presumably other, as of yet unseen types of matter. The LHC program, and the energy states at which it will operate, could in fact test both the standard Higg's particle theory and SUSY theory as well. To date there are no confirmed reports of any actual SUSY particles, nor have any of the presumed necessary properties of dark matter (like longevity) been confirmed to come from any SUSY particle.
Modern Lambda-CMD theory is based upon the existence of "cold dark matter", most of which is presumed to be 'non baryonic" (SUSY particle) in nature. Note that a neutrino is actually a form of "non baryonic dark matter", but we know where that comes from and it's existence has been verified in the conventional empirical manner. That is not true of SUSY theory, at least not yet.
__________________ "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while."
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
Albert Einstein
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