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Post #AlLzD1NQYRJ0wZmYhU by [email protected] |
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Physicists like to study all sorts of simplified situations, but here's one… |
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Post #AlLzWU6px6DHYeIqum by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I like to call it a "wave" 😉 |
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Post #AlM0vmakTJr64dv9ua by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez the first thing that comes to mind is ‘mode’. As in extendi… |
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Post #AlM4M43WSluLd5bTSy by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez … at much less effort and complexity. Phonons, as a particle,… |
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Post #AlM4M49Y6MjDvmQHrM by [email protected] |
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@cherti - I don't think it matters much if energy particles really exist be… |
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Post #AlM4nOFpTQIU5oODpo by [email protected] |
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@j_bertolotti - the closest sort of 'wave' I know to this is a single v… |
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Post #AlM5PtDYnhnP80gcCG by [email protected] |
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@4raylee - it's close, but with the 'modes' I know the energy is a … |
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Post #AlM6Ade0WItMRFLelM by [email protected] |
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@maxpool - all those terms are great, but how do I talk about 5 of them? Right… |
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Post #AlM6IgTds667XbKvNw by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I don't think they're plausible, because zero-dimension… |
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Post #AlM6Uip2ygToI15YJs by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez The search for the energon begins! Pure energy is kind of like … |
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Post #AlM7lJ7xrcT9TXPSD2 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez On the other hand, you can do statistical mechanics of classica… |
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Post #AlM9GswYqmnJUKhGxE by [email protected] |
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@j_bertolotti - that sounds like great stuff, but I'm doing some research w… |
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Post #AlM9QYmMfz9DqSXbMW by [email protected] |
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@simonburton - Like an alchemist I will take a mixture of matter and energy and… |
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Post #AlM9to94cjZ7tu6pxw by [email protected] |
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@vacuumbubbles -they're certainly incompatible with special relativity. Th… |
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Post #AlMAPruc9dEaqkdMQq by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I wondered how far I could push this... I was considering putti… |
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Post #AlMAPs0HoXlt8LHtGy by [email protected] |
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@mattkenworthy - so does one of your 'energyons' have nothing but energ… |
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Post #AlMCfQFgxexfbb2MU4 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Since they keep getting detected by the Enterprise's scienc… |
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Post #AlMOPCME3ItHKR7iAi by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Not sure if I get this, is it like:if two particles collide, th… |
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Post #AlMWwx0aQQVPCgbhyK by [email protected] |
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@j_bertolotti @johncarlosbaez Isn't this what phonons are? |
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Post #AlMWwx7K1NtRXZl5TE by [email protected] |
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@vlk @j_bertolotti - phonons have a lot of properties besides energy, most nota… |
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Post #AlMYDpbXJ3c97LVGT2 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Let's return to obscure and obsolete physical theories! I p… |
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Post #AlMYQRJ8x5YJWkucMq by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez The nadir of Treknobabble was that episode that was Die Hard IN… |
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@pschwahn - Nice idea. One phlogiston, two phlogistons... 🙃 Now you're … |
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Post #AlMizdvf19FCLfLy9Q by [email protected] |
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@ijk - I recently heard that lots of people went into science because of Star T… |
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@johncarlosbaez Star Trek has inspired me to try and figure out a feasible way … |
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@johncarlosbaezIf they have only energy, then they can only be distinguished by… |
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Post #AlN2jjEBXzM3ESht7A by [email protected] |
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@SvenGeier wrote: "If they have only energy, then they can only be disting… |
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@johncarlosbaez Yeah, I told her she was making a mistake; "identical part… |
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Post #AlO2UPTit3dYnLd7ey by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez What’s wrong with “energy quantum”? |
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Post #AlO2UPa6VKk178cDbc by [email protected] |
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@jsdodge - unfortunately Einstein beat me to that one, and he used it to denote… |
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Post #AlOmchUmNbcOsk10zY by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Then maybe “energy unit”, to avoid confusion with quantum o… |
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@jsdodge - each of these things can have any nonnegative energy E with probabil… |
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@johncarlosbaez Then again, “energy unit” could be confused with “joule�… |
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@jsdodge - right, "energy unit" means something clear in physics. Pe… |
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Post #AlOv556T00ERqGgftQ by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Ah—I see I misunderstood the original post, thanks. The OP wa… |
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Post #AlOv55CUdb3K8xVUHo by [email protected] |
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@jsdodge - Thanks! In a gas each molecule has a probability distribution of en… |
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Post #AlPhVdXiN7qzz1A1ZY by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez perhaps "energy level set" is the right term for what… |
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Post #AlPvYtcOSW9A4EnVRY by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez how about “ergon”? (After CGS “erg” which is apparently… |
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Post #AlSz4Acu9gll8CWLdw by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @jsdodge Better (easier) modeled by doesn't necessarily mea… |
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@johncarlosbaez How can it have no other properties, when the concept of energy… |
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Post #AlTRpHxHWSj8BhJ9VY by [email protected] |
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@MalthusJohn - I'm not asserting that the these things actually exist, just… |
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Post #AlTYlkglRueRp9qJcm by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Hm, numbers but no units for the energy? Well ok - at any rate … |
