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Is "borrowed energy" less available elsewhere?

W and Z bosons have large masses, but they can still come into existence for short periods of time by "borrowing" energy from the vacuum. When this energy is borrowed...

Asked on 07/19/2021

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Proton Antiproton collision

Can it be possible to form an electron-positron pair from a proton-antiproton collision through the following interaction?$$p+bar{p}rightarrow[X]rightarrow e^-+e^+$$Where [X] is a particular unstable intermediate and will decay...

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Practically speaking, why is a calculation of entropy change useful?

Entropy is a starting point for many advanced theoretical statistical mechanics books but beyond it just being negative or positive, what does it actually tell you? Specifically, what does the...

Asked on 07/19/2021

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Trace of two Dirac matrices in 4 dimensions

I want to show that tr($gamma^mu gamma^nu$) = 4$eta^{mu nu}$.I know that {$gamma^mu , gamma^nu$} = 2$eta^{munu}I_4$ and tr($gamma^mu gamma^nu$) = tr($gamma^nu...

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Why are EM waves transverse?

I was reading Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics, specifically Section 9.2.2 on plane waves. I can see that if we want a transverse wave traveling in the $z$ direction that...

Asked on 07/19/2021 by user1236

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Effective action quantum field

I am reading Peskin and Schroeder Section 11.4. They derive a formula for the effective action p.372 Equation 11.63 using a scalar field interaction, $$Gamma left ( phi...

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Why is the parachutist, in the enclosed image, not electrocuted?

Hello fellow physics experts, In reference to a recent electrodynamics course a question about electric potential difference was asked. This question states why the dangling parachutist in de picture below...

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Derivation of gravitational wave as quadrupole moment

In Carroll's Spacetime and geometry section 7.5, it is deriving metric $bar h_{mu nu}$ with Lorenz gauge in terms of quadrupole moment of energy density. In Eq.[7.135], ...

Asked on 07/19/2021

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Vacuum state for an asymmetric space

I am studying Bunch-Davies vacuum. In the derivation it is important the symmetry of the background space: the vacuum is the state which is invariant under the isometries of the...

Asked on 07/19/2021

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What density of an object of more than one substance affects the buoyant force?

If we immerse a sealed cup of a liquid in a fluid, what density is taken in consideration when it comes to the buoyant force, the density of the cup...

Asked on 07/19/2021

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