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The muon is a particle very much like an electron but about 207 times heavier. … |
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Post #AddLoVaVWn0QnlgQ2S by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Moves at the same speed - this is totally not what I expected. … |
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Post #AddNKWSZv99Yj9ntRo by [email protected] |
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@Pashhur - yeah, I was freaking out about this right after I posted this! I di… |
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Post #AddP3Orr5yQSAKadlY by [email protected] |
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@shalien - not only is the Bohr radius of muonic hydrogen 207 times smaller tha… |
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Post #AddQbRIIgDLFUWkpbk by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @Pashhur The Bohr radius is inversely proportional to the mass … |
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Post #AddRphneD1iAgtmcsa by [email protected] |
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@gregeganSF - that's very nice. But I imagine @Pashhur and I were getting… |
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Post #AddT3tYlNmivAj9RXE by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @Pashhur Classically, both potential and kinetic energy, for bo… |
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Post #AddU4DlSMUnXn2o8mG by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I think this calculation has to be taken with a grain of salt. … |
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Post #AddVHCe5vsGQ2U7PFI by [email protected] |
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@BartoszMilewski - I assume you're proposing your puzzle to give beginners … |
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Post #AddWAdy82zUihuvR9E by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @Pashhur It’s probably clearer to write some formulas.Equatin… |
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Post #AddWAe2NnAtgv6upmK by [email protected] |
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@gregeganSF - excellent! Yes, I think our "planetary orbit" intuiti… |
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Post #AddZhy66WvZGYPEoSG by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez This just shows how our classical intuitions fail in the quantu… |
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Post #AddaSSe7HdCycTJfai by [email protected] |
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@BartoszMilewski - Another way to think about it is this:If you use the path-in… |
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Post #Addeci8svIHBOPqovw by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I could never wrap my brain around the S-matrix for bound state… |
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Post #AddejjJYxmHr3VBzTE by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski what I don't understand is why you use the… |
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Post #AddejjOAgdyPHnLfea by [email protected] |
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@zabow - In special relativity time dilation depends on the speed, not the velo… |
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Post #Addejkdo204dAZfff6 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski Anyway, I found this paper on the subject http… |
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Post #AddjmpoxjDfrsHBATQ by [email protected] |
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@BartoszMilewski - Me neither. It didn't help that my thesis advisor, supp… |
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Post #AddjumjL6T6mbbL8ee by [email protected] |
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@zabow - that paper uses Bohmian quantum mechanics, which I'd rather avoid … |
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Post #AddmSX0WGbxJb0axEm by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I was taught (decades ago) that the path integral is used to ca… |
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Post #AddoKUOAJpRr49wqg4 by [email protected] |
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@BartoszMilewski - In these discussions you often seem to jump straight to QFT … |
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Post #Addr0gu0NrNDwm5lrM by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Is that 1/137 the fine structure constant? |
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Post #Addr0gxu9MUc8ruswC by [email protected] |
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@gregpoo - yes! |
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Post #AddraoXRTEII3SlNgG by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I went into QFT because we were talking about relativistic effe… |
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Post #Addurj1BY0txifQlaC by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @gregpoo I came to ask this very question! I don't see imme… |
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Post #AdfLEZjb1R5jYMihJw by [email protected] |
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@sstadnicki - you can estimate the radius of a hydrogen atom, called the Bohr r… |
