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How do Rindler coordinates fit into special relativity?

15 votes
4 answers
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What does this notation for spin mean? $\mathbf{\frac 1 2}\otimes\mathbf{\frac 1 2}=\mathbf{1}\oplus\mathbf 0$

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2 answers
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Does the expansion of spacetime add energy to matter? [duplicate]

9 votes
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Is it possible to simulate QFT to make pretty animations?

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2 answers
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Does QFT predict that the lattice constant of the universe is zero?

6 votes
1 answer
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What's the (intuitive) difference between a primary and a quasi-primary operator in a CFT?

6 votes
2 answers
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Writing operators in the position basis

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3 answers
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How many photons are in a microwave oven?

4 votes
1 answer
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Dirac notation: what if we display tensor products vertically?

4 votes
2 answers
957 views

Why is $g_{\mu\nu}\frac{dx^\mu}{d\lambda}\frac{dx^\nu}{d\lambda}$ a constant for geodesics in GR?

4 votes
1 answer
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Why are Killing horizons related to event horizons?

4 votes
2 answers
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Constraints on the Einstein-Hilbert action

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2 answers
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Will the box float?

4 votes
2 answers
291 views

Inverted Pascal's barrel

3 votes
1 answer
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What appears in the wake of a moving event horizon? For 2 merging black holes for example

3 votes
1 answer
267 views

Why do mass terms in QFT couple to gravity?

3 votes
1 answer
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Why can atoms only absorb/emit certain frequencies of light?

3 votes
3 answers
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Why, when you eject an electron from a metal, do you get exactly one electron and not part of an electron?

3 votes
1 answer
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Problems implementing Lattice Boltzmann method

3 votes
1 answer
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Why is there no "parabolic abberation" in lenses?

3 votes
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Book recommendation: adaptive optics

3 votes
2 answers
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Can you reconstruct Poynting's vector from only the electric field?

3 votes
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In QFT, what happens when we only integrate over paths inside light cone? [closed]

2 votes
1 answer
271 views

How can parameters in QFT depend on scale or energy?

2 votes
1 answer
160 views

How does $\nabla \nabla$ work in the dyadic Green's function?

2 votes
2 answers
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Is there a symmetric form for change of basis of spin 1/2 basis states?

2 votes
1 answer
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Can somebody explain Projection-Valued Measures (PVMs) and POVMs in quantum mechanics? [closed]

2 votes
2 answers
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Can quantum particles spread out over large distances?

2 votes
1 answer
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What do you see in 'A Boy and His Atom'

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1 answer
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How can you interpret the Schrödinger equation? [closed]