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RE: What does E=MC2 really mean?
Sure. If you start to be too accurate you will loose everybody. I was only trying to be in the middle (without offensing you of course) :p
Sure. If you start to be too accurate you will loose everybody. I was only trying to be in the middle (without offensing you of course) :p
@lemouth Nope you'll never offend me by providing corrected information.
Especially if you can cite a peer reviewed reputable source for it.
Remember, this place has real Quantum Physicists, Theoretical Physicists, Mathematicians and even arm chair quarterbacking polyglot nerds like me.
I think we can do an ELI5 on it and get more minds intrigued and excited. While at the same time keeping some solid standards of rigeur.
@lemouth Cool! Sounds excellent! We really do need more people who spend their lives doing this.
Great to meet you!
In this case, I think that confirmation can be found in many quantum mechanics textbooks (I however cannot point you to a given one and a given page number right now as I don't have them with me).
Btw, this is exactly how I introduced the microscopic world to my students when I had to lecture quantum mechanics. That's actually part of my lecture #1 where I mix the scope of quantum mechanics, some description of the microscopic world and some history of science.
@lemouth Oh yeah. Sorry I wasn't saying you needed to cite something that's common knowledge. I was saying I have a tendency to parrot things I've learned once I've learned them. However the scientific world moves so quickly that entire fields of study can crop up, take over the world and then be found to have no basis in reality faster than I can ever hope to keep up.
Hence if I'm wrong especially about something edgy or "wooish". I love knowing as soon as possible. If that information comes from peer reviewed articles, then that's even better.
So remind me, what do you teach again? Because I have some QM stuff that I'm not sure if it's woo or bs, or accepted and valid fact. But whatever it is it's fascinating and got my attention like a bloodhound on a scent.
Eitherway I don't have an audience before I present it and if you have the background for it, I would love to have a sanity check before I run with it much further.
I am answering here as I cannot answer to your answer. During the last ten years, I designed lectures on quantum mechanics, particle physics, the electroweak theory, wave mechanics, electromagnetism, high-energy physics tools, supersymmetry, etc.
My main field of expertise is actually theoretical particle physics.