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Spin has long been one of the most fundamental — yet least understood — properties in particle physics. It shapes quantum identity, atomic structure, and the entire architecture of matter. And yet, paradoxically, nothing is actually spinning. This new paper offers a definitive resolution. Within...

Quantum Mechanics arose in the 20th century — an era when science became deeply entangled with politics, ideology, and institutional power. The Manhattan Project, Cold War rivalries, and the advent of Big Science transformed physics from a pursuit of natural understanding into a battlefield of...

Thank you, for picking up on that. You are absolutely right. What I meant, and should have said, is that relative to characteristic x-rays, x-rays produced by bremsstrahlung for instance are almost generic in their wave-lengths and frequencies. But have a look at this chart showing...

What a wonderful way to describe the force of gravity, it is so concise. The most telling point is that the single word ‘mass’ encapsulates everything about a substance that describes the gravitational force it exerts, no need to talk about, dimensions, or structure or composition. Just the...

I completely agree, Descartes, was definitely a genius, and it is fortunate that he is remembered through Cartesian co-ordinates.

This is a post about characteristic x-rays, and how they are formed. In normal x-rays the emitted x-ray supposedly can possess any frequency and has little to do with the atoms involved. However, with characteristic x-rays the energy of the x-ray is closely linked to the type of atom that emits...

Interesting line of thought, and I can see how the hypersphere model opens up some intriguing possibilities, especially when paired with holography and bounce cosmologies. That said, I do wonder whether shifting from a 2-sphere to a 3-sphere black hole structure, while elegant, might be adding...

Thank you Gibsense for a fascinating post, what comes to mind is that not only is the current theory of the CMB as relic radiation non-intuitive but that it is ambitious on a vast scale introducing complexities such as vast red-shifts, not compatible with any known physics either in the past or...

I am currently reading "A tarpaulin Muster " by John Masefield, erstwhile poet laureate. What can I say ,and I am not saying its all good, but some of his descriptions of life on a sailing ship are really terrific. (terrifying). His descriptions of the clippers in the tea trade are so...

Classical motion’s post is deeply significant. As it turns out the gist of what is stated about the redshift, not being detected at the accepted values, is more or less the reality. In fact, there is substantial evidence that this is the case. Eric Lerner conducted a redshift survey based on...

Yes, thank you Gibsense, the irony is that the greater part of the Universe does have characteristics that indicate a cmb like radiation is possible.

The OP seems to have resulted in an ongoing debate centered around the interpretation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB is commonly understood as relic radiation from the recombination phase of the Big Bang, approximately 13.6 billion years ago. Many of the rebuttals to...

Thank you G_x0a

That sums it up very well, with the caveat that if you do read the paper you probably would not have so many questions to ask.

If I understand G_xOa’s post correctly, the core idea seems to be that in its current state, physics has become indistinguishable from metaphysics. The two are now so intertwined that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. As a result, physics has become open to an infinite...