Ideas of Frank Close, by Theme
[British, fl. 1983, At the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire.]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / b. Heat
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Work degrades into heat, but not vice versa
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy
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First Law: energy can change form, but is conserved overall
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / d. Entropy
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Third Law: total order and minimum entropy only occurs at absolute zero
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity
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20628
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The electric and magnetic are tightly linked, and viewed according to your own motion
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All motions are relative and ambiguous, but acceleration is the same in all inertial frames
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / b. General relativity
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20635
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The general relativity equations relate curvature in space-time to density of energy-momentum
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / a. Electrodynamics
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Photon exchange drives the electro-magnetic force
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20627
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Electric fields have four basic laws (two by Gauss, one by Ampère, one by Faraday)
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Light isn't just emitted in quanta called photons - light is photons
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In general relativity the energy and momentum of photons subjects them to gravity
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Electro-magnetic waves travel at light speed - so light is electromagnetism!
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In QED, electro-magnetism exists in quantum states, emitting and absorbing electrons
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
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Quantum fields contain continual rapid creation and disappearance
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / c. Electrons
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Dirac showed how electrons conform to special relativity
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Electrons get their mass by interaction with the Higgs field
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
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Modern theories of matter are grounded in heat, work and energy
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / a. Electro-weak unity
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The Higgs field is an electroweak plasma - but we don't know what stuff it consists of
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
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Space-time is indeterminate foam over short distances
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