by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jul 29, 2025 | Field Theory, Physics
The Speed of Light’s Relationship to mu and epsilon By Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, and Poe Assistant 7/29/2025 The relationship between the speed of light (ccc) and the permeability (μ0\mu_0μ0) and permittivity (ϵ0\epsilon_0ϵ0) of free space arises from the...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jul 21, 2025 | Quantum Mechanics
Entropy Increase in Neutron Star Formation by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, and Poe Assistant 7/21/2025 Thomas: It appears that the white dwarf Fermi gas transitioned from a high-entropy state to a lower-entropy state when the Fermi gas electrons combined with protons to...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jul 21, 2025 | Particle Theory, Physics
Baryon Decay and the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, Poe Assistant 7/21/2025 Assistant The detection of asymmetric matter-antimatter baryon decay is a significant step in understanding the origins of the universe’s observed...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jul 21, 2025 | Physics, Quantum Mechanics
The Fermi Gas and Stellar Collapse By Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, and Poe Assistant 7/21/2025 Assistant The Fermi gas is a physical model used in quantum mechanics and statistical physics to describe a system of many non-interacting fermions (particles that obey the Pauli...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jun 24, 2025 | Physics, Quantum Mechanics
Photon Absorption and Orbital Decay Modes by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, Copilot, and Poe Assistant 6/24/2024 Thomas: How does a photon transfer energy to a block of carbon? Is it by activating an electron orbital that decays, or by being absorbed by vibrating the...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jun 21, 2025 | Newtonian Mechanics, Physics
The Energetic and Entropic Determinants of Fracture by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, and Copilot, 6/21/2025 Thomas: When an object breaks, what is the principle that is being satisfied? Is it an increase of entropy by breaking into more possible configurations, or is it...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jun 20, 2025 | Physics, Quantum Mechanics
The Shape of the Wavefront Emanations from the Double Slit Experiment by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, and Poe Assistant 6/20/2025 Thomas: when the photon enters both of the double slits, the wave function propagates from its source as a wave packet, and hence I think...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jun 20, 2025 | Physics, Quantum Mechanics
Wavefunction Coherence Considerations in the Dual Slit Experiment by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, Copilot, and Poe Assistant 6/20/2025 Thomas: A photon obviously has a wavelength inferred by E=hf. Wavelength, of course, refers to the longitudinal distance over which the E...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jun 3, 2025 | Physics, Relativity
Air-Water Interface Bending of Light as an Analogy to Gravitational Bending by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND and AI 6/3/2025 Would the geodesic of the path between air and water, resulting in the bending of light between two different media be an analogy to the geodesic of...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Jun 3, 2025 | Physics, Relativity
Is Gravity mediated by Geometry or a Medium? by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND and AI 6/3/2025 Do the General Relativity equations imply that a force acts at each point in space (i.e., an absolute value at each point) or over an infinitesimally small increment of space? Or...
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