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- person to win the Nobel prize. His theory of mesons was the first clear ... His name remains visible in the quantum field theory. Written in a ...3 KB (480 words) - 13:02, 22 January 2024
- two main branches: classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. as classical mechanics. The foundations of quantum mechanics were established ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- that in any reasonable relativistic quantum field theory, particles with integer ... However, in relativistic quantum field theory, the spin-statistics ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 17:22, 22 December 2022
- discovery of the density matrix method in quantum mechanics, the quantum mechanical ... kinetic theory of gases, quantum field theory, and plasma physics ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- charge. Electrons generate an electric field. In organized motion they ... were only described by the classical theory of electrodynamics and there ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- * Cao, Tian Yu. Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge ... * Fulling, Stephen A. Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- force.[http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/hadrons.html Hadrons] Stanford ... quarks.Quarks and antiquarks that impart quantum numbers to hadrons are called ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- a more detailed explanation, see quantum field theory. Following the convention ... to date have been catalogued in a quantum field theory called the Standard ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- 10, 2008.Mark Allen Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge ... * Srednicki, Mark Allen. 2007. Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge, UK: ...13 KB (1,903 words) - 06:57, 21 August 2023
- by Albert Einstein at the time when the quantum (photon) theory of light ... and constants are also integral to the field of physical chemistry. ...4 KB (569 words) - 04:25, 24 November 2022
- The modern quantum mechanical view of the three fundamental forces ... which was described by a mathematical theory. In ancient times, Aristotle ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 09:25, 18 October 2022
- Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: A field ... A changing magnetic field produces an electric field, a phenomenon ...14 KB (1,902 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- Democritus postulated the first physical theory of dream telepathy, which ... took advantage of new developments in the field of statistics to evaluate ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- 1963, "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- With the development of quantum theory, chemistry began to be explained ... Annotated Physics Encyclopædia: Quantum Field Theory]. ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- have been used as specialized solvents (quantum solvents) in spectroscopy ... 1937. It is a major facet in the study of quantum hydrodynamics. ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- exceedingly useful in relativistic quantum field theory, in part because it ... to dealing with these infinities in quantum field theory and his work on the ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- that make up all matter. It is a quantum field theory developed between 1970 and 1973, and it is consistent with both quantum mechanics and special ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- in 1979 for his work in Electro-Weak Theory which is the mathematical ... thesis contained fundamental work in Quantum Electrodynamics. By the ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- However, contemporary physics such as quantum mechanics and general relativity ... With the development of quantum field theory and general relativity ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s ... of Microsystems that obey the rules of quantum theory, was one of the top ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- Central to elementary particle theory are the concepts of "quanta ... The spin-statistics theorem identifies the resulting quantum statistics ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- sharing of electrons and are described by quantum mechanical theories of the ... Chemical bonding theory explains one aspect of the relational nature ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- (Here, "spin" refers to the angular momentum quantum number ... In a quantum field theory, the situation is more interesting. There ...16 KB (2,185 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the ... century, and created a revolution in quantum mechanics, and indeed of ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- From the 1770s until the 1850s, the caloric theory was the commonly ... In the following decades, the caloric theory was heatedly debated ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- EM radiation has both electric and magnetic field components, which oscillate ... === Theory === [[Image:Visible EM modes.png|thumb|Shows three electromagnetic ...22 KB (3,329 words) - 15:54, 13 February 2024
- in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field has a property called an ... The electric field is a vector field with SI units of newtons per ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- Atoms from Democritus to Dalton] Atomic Theory and Structure. Retrieved ... Chemistry is a large field comprising many sub-disciplines that often ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- This hypothesis was at the basis of quantum mechanics. Nowadays, this ... 1992. Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- driving forces behind the development of quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics ... is identified by unique values of three quantum numbers: ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he ... Bohr's great insight was to use Planck's quantum of action ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- kilometers/second. According to the quantum mechanical model, these ... Moreover, Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts ...13 KB (2,010 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Bose–Einstein condensation, quantum field theory, and the probabilistic ... a local gauge symmetry and the laws of quantum field theory ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged ... == Quantum mechanics == As a student, he met Niels Bohr in Göttingen ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- qualitative picture of covalent bonding, quantum mechanics is needed to understand ... constructed mathematically, based on the theory of "linear combination ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- canals, channels, and levees; this is the field of hydraulic engineering ... equations, which are common in the field of continuum mechanics. ...15 KB (2,275 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which ... to important steps in understanding the quantum nature of light and electrons ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 04:26, 24 November 2022
- to explain using existing rules or theory. If they exist at all, paranormal ... paranormal is largely conducted within the field of parapsychology. Although ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- distance has been attributed to a magnetic field. Magnets attract iron and ... The Earth itself is a giant magnet. Its magnetic field shields living ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- as their interactions. Scientists in the field of astrophysics are known ... physics. Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity plays a major ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- and exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect). Materials ... phenomenon not explained by the current theory. Also, because the superconducting ...21 KB (3,041 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- famous for his application of probability theory to the study of molecules ... In this same year, he published his first paper on the kinetic theory ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- a new way of looking at the world, called quantum theory. like units. He called each such unit a quantum (the plural form being quanta ...30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- symmetry is a basic consequence of quantum field theory and no violations ... * Santilli, Ruggero Maria. 2006. Isodual Theory of Antimatter: with ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- handle gravitation at a deeper level; and quantum mechanics handles the wave ... and aggregates of bodies. The other sub-field is quantum mechanics. ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- thermodynamics. He also placed the kinetic theory of gases on a firmer footing ... often considered as having established the field of thermodynamics on a firm ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- six ligands in an octahedral geometry. The theory allows one to understand ... This approach is the essence of Crystal field theory (CFT). Crystal field ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- The theory of large scale structure, which governs the formation of ... are related by E=mc^2, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- which formed the material for the kinetic theory of gases. ... mechanics." to mean, not just the theory of colliding molecules in ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 20:00, 7 September 2022
- optics, and more particularly, to the wave theory of light. under Max Planck, who gave birth to the quantum theory revolution on 14 ...27 KB (3,968 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- jargon to suggest that a scientific theory about the effects of quantum ... Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,"Alan D. Sokal ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- a mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis ... a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, a member ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- approach has helped describe concepts in quantum mechanics—that is, the ... In the physical world, according to the theory of relativity the fourth ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- 1825 to 1828 the paper was renamed The theory of systems of rays, and grew ... In 1828, Hamilton published the first part of his Theory of Systems ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- Nonetheless, with the development of quantum chemistry in the twentieth ... A successful "Grand Unified Theory" or "Theory of ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- to the other under the influence of the electric field. ... In metals, the Fermi level lies in the conduction band (see Band Theory ...12 KB (1,798 words) - 15:52, 13 February 2024
- atom. Although the basic principles of quantum physics treat matter and ... an antiparticle, for which each additive quantum number has the negative ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- and thereby gave great support to the wave theory of light that had been advanced ... or QED. This so-called quantum field theory is among the most ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- of Holism is also present in system theory and organicism, and it is ... The holistic perspective is also found in Organicism, system theory ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Nuclear physics is a field of physics that involves investigation ... of nuclear physics, but the research field is also the basis for a far ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 00:29, 17 November 2022
- size of the atom. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom through his discovery ... from breaking apart. Rutherford's theory of neutrons was later proved ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- solved the mystery of alpha decay by the theory known as "quantum tunneling ... assuming the "plum pudding" theory was correct. It was soon ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- of its forms. On the other hand, quantum field theory models fields as exchanges ... particles that mediate fields in quantum field theory are bosons. Thus matter ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- have the same energy, leading to the theory of ultraviolet catastrophe ... of classical electromagnetism by quantum electrodynamics. Today, ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- in favor of the more elegant quantum field theory. The development ... In quantum field theory and string theory, the term "vacuum" ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- it provides strong evidence for the theory of galaxy formation and poses ... However, constructing a relativistic MOND theory has been troublesome, and ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- a result Chadwick explained in 1930 as a quantum phenomenon. ... *Mehra, Jagdish. 2001. The historical development of quantum theory ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 21:08, 20 March 2024
- This theoretical view was eventually replaced by the current theory ... It may be caused by electron-stealing via quantum tunneling, or by transfer ...18 KB (2,558 words) - 16:05, 13 February 2024
- visual images synthetically. Computability theory helps us understand what ... the forerunner to modern formal language theory and a precursor to computing ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- pentagonal and hexagonal faces. In graph theory, the term fullerene refers ... Another proposed use in the field of space technologies and science ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- for a wide range of applications. The field first became an identifiable ... In 1873, Maxwell published a unified theory of electricity and magnetism ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ... relativity is not the only relativistic theory of gravity, it is the simplest ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. ... one of the founders of the new science of quantum chemistry. ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- in mathematics, and, more recently, in set theory and computer science. As ... * Formal logic is the field of study in which we are concerned with ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle ... gyroscopes, and measuring the magnetic field of the earth. Fermi's ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- material may also be labeled quantum dots if they are small enough ... dependent properties are observed such as quantum confinement in semiconductor ...18 KB (2,579 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- on "Some Recent Advances in the Theory of the Ionization of Gases ... out 15 years later with the formulation of quantum mechanics, Bragg said that ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:22, 17 April 2023
- is known for his early formulation of the theory of relativity and for formulating ... of Hermite. His doctoral thesis was in the field of differential equations ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- only the entities postulated by physical theory exist, and that the mind ... The field of psychology can be viewed as comprising three aspects ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and ... 1908, Hermann Minkowski reformulated the theory based on different postulates ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- A magnetic field is an invisible physical phenomenon caused (“induced” ... Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from the solar wind whose ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- Kepler's laws were derivable from his theory of gravitation and that, ... drag from the Earth's magnetic field. Basically, the wire cuts ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- materials at very low temperatures, in a field called cryogenics, and in ... Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Based on this theory, the abundance of helium ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- a current loop, which produces a magnetic field. Seebeck, however, at this ... since it measures the voltage or electric field induced in response to a ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- consider the laser as a combined quantum-mechanical and thermodynamical ... Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung (On the Quantum Theory of Radiation), laid ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- as Kerry Emanuel theorized in 1986, in the field of atmospheric thermodynamics; ... #039;s paper, An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat. ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- quot;). This transformation involves quantum probability, so it is impossible ... is distributed over a larger number of quantum states). Thus, an avalanche ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- the electronic properties prescribed by theory. This theory was first developed ... S. Novoselov, et al., "Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- be implied in the basic indeterminism of quantum mechanics. Also in neuroscience ... which is a deterministic physical theory, after two elastic bodies ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering ... of numerous nanotechnologies such as quantum dots and nanotubes, real ...39 KB (5,416 words) - 02:44, 11 March 2023
- These models show that the Big Bang theory is consistent with the theory ... The Big Bang theory developed from observations of the structure of ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- that there should be a role for history in theory of science, and that this ... by Kuhn and a central point of Kuhn’s theory--for better or worse. Paradigms ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- and is affiliated closely with information theory, computer security, and engineering ... of that message). In recent decades, the field has expanded beyond confidentiality ...47 KB (6,889 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- criterion for distinguishing scientific theory from non-science; and for ... and logical positivism, and put forth his theory of potential falsifiability ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- Sakharov proposed the idea of induced gravity as an alternative theory of quantum gravity. ===Turn to activism=== From the late 1950s, Sakharov ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- included multi-color imaging surveys around field stars, imaging surveys for ... become closely packed enough to create quantum electron degeneracy pressure ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- on physics and its philosophy, proposing a theory of relativity rivaling Einstein ... In 1905, the theory of general relativity had curtailed exploration ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
