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Posts by dmckee‭

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Q&A Unusual way to write spacetime coordinates/metric: Is there any downside?

There is no problem with the approach you suggest: it's equivalent to deciding to use seconds and light-seconds as your units for space-time four vectors instead of light-meters and meters. (I actu...

posted 3y ago by dmckee‭  ·  edited 3y ago by dmckee‭

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Meta Book suggestion category proposal

The experience we had on the physics site Somewhere Else may be instructive (I've already written a little about it on Software Meta). In short, against my wishes they were allowed but because ther...

posted 2y ago by dmckee‭

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Q&A What happens if an electron collides with a proton?

Answering from the point of view of a particle physicist. Meaning we consider an event where and electron and proton approach each other in an initially free condition (not already bound). Electro...

posted 2y ago by dmckee‭  ·  edited 2y ago by dmckee‭

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