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Is electron-positron annihilation time reversible?

Consider that a low energy electron and positron annihilate creating two 511keV photons with no other particles around. To time reverse this process, we send two 511eV photons to collide...

Asked on 08/15/2021

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Why can a piece of paper be folded along a straight line but not along a curved line?

It seems that if something can be stretched then it can be folded along a curved line. Since paper can't be stretched I can't fold it along a curve. But...

Asked on 08/15/2021 by Abu Saleh Musa

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How can I intuit all the Feynman diagrams from a given interaction?

Let's say I want to calculate all connected 1-loop 4-point Feynman diagrams for a given interaction (in my case, with both $phi^3$ and $phi^4$ terms). Is there a...

Asked on 08/15/2021 by Sotiris

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Kinetic energy produced in an explosion

If there is a train moving at 2 m/s with a cannon attached to it loaded with a ball, and then the ball is launched from the train, how would...

Asked on 08/15/2021 by planckton

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Surface charge on a current carrying conductor is impossible?

I have heard from numerous sources (most notably "Surface charges on circuit wires and resistors play three roles" by J. D. Jackson) that there is surface charge on any...

Asked on 08/15/2021

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Energy of a waterfall

Why cannot a waterfall be considered to be never ending source of energy?A waterfall is converting it's potential into kinetic energy and if we "take out" some of it's...

Asked on 08/15/2021

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Generator + Motor = Perpetual motion?

A DC generator work by converting the mechanical energy of the rotating coil to electrical energy and hence current is generated. What if this generated current is supplied to a...

Asked on 08/15/2021 by Booritth Balaji

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Energy Eigenstate of a Hamiltonian

What exactly are energy eigenstates?For something like H = $homega left( begin{matrix}1 & 2i -2i & 4end{matrix}right)$ , what the eigenstates be like the eigenvectors, so ...

Asked on 08/15/2021 by Julia Volovich

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Transfer of energy from radiated to conducted

Can a CO$_2$ molecule in the atmosphere that has been heated by the earth's radiation, transfer that energy to one of the many O$_2$ or N$_2$ molecules...

Asked on 08/14/2021 by Barry Rodgers

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Why is spacetime curved by mass but not charge?

It is written everywhere that gravity is curvature of spacetime caused by the mass of the objects or something to the same effect. This raises a question with me: why...

Asked on 08/14/2021

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