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Revisiting the Velocity-Time Function

May 24, 2026/0 Comments/in Physics Tutorials/by Neil Parker

Kinematics: The Velocity-Time Function By Neil Parker May 2026 Author’s Preface: A Collaborative Approach to Lesson Development The intention behind what I hope will be a series of articles on Kinematics (this one being the first) is to begin an open, collaborative process of lesson development on Physics Forums. In order to expedite this workflow,…

Inside the Scientific Box: History and Challenges Today

October 13, 2025/1 Comment/in Physics Articles/by fresh_42

In Memoriam In Memory of Dr. Thomas J. LeCompte (1964-2025), Detector Designer and Champion of Education and Science. Prologue Defining “the box” Someone who shows interest in science is initially a welcome development. So are fresh ideas from unexpected quarters. In contrast, there is a scientific community that is meticulously organized down to the last…

Why Entangled Photon-Polarization Qubits Violate Bell’s Inequality per Quantum Information Theory

September 29, 2025/0 Comments/in Physics Articles/by Mark Stuckey

In her YouTube video Bell’s Theorem Experiments on Entangled Photons, Dr. Fugate shows how polarization-entangled photons violate Bell’s inequality. In this Insight, I will use quantum information theory to explain why such entangled photon-polarization qubits violate the version of Bell’s inequality due to John Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony, and Richard Holt known as the…

Relativator (Circular Slide-Rule) – Simulated with Desmos

September 2, 2025/0 Comments/in Physics Articles/by robphy

The Relativator (revisited) This is an update of my 2006 post (reconstructed in 2014) Relativator: The circular slide-rule for physicists. This is a circular slide-rule for doing relativistic calculations for elementary particle physics that I learned about from – an article by Elizabeth Wade ( “Artifact: Relativator”, Symmetry (FNAL/SLAC), 01/01/06, https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2005january-2006/artifact-relativator https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/legacy/pdfs/200512/artifact_relativator.pdf ), which is…

Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect

August 27, 2025/0 Comments/in Physics Articles/by Mark Stuckey

Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated: Before we end, let’s now briefly talk about the birth of quantum information science, a pivotal shift that began in the 1990s. This is the era when researchers…

Why the Tidal Bulge Doesn’t Exist – Tidal Theory Explained

December 31, 2024/9 Comments/in Physics Articles/by D H

[CONTENT] Introduction Overview That there is no tidal bulge is the key premise of this article. Upper-level oceanography undergraduates and above know this. Yet the tidal bulge is still used to portray why the Moon is receding the Earth. If there is no tidal bulge, some other explanation is in order. That other explanation uses…

Quantum Reconstruction & Bell Correlations Explained

July 22, 2024/3 Comments/in Physics Articles/by Mark Stuckey

Comment on PBS Space Time video PBS Space Time produces some very good videos on the foundations of quantum mechanics (QM), so let me comment on their video What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality to provide (crucial) missing information. This comment pertains only to the first 9 min of the video, i.e., it has…

Aspects Behind the Concept of Dimension in Various Fields

June 21, 2024/2 Comments/in Physics Articles/by fresh_42

Abstract It took until the last century for physicists and mathematicians in the Netherlands to question the Euclidean concept of dimension as length, width, and height. Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer published a ground-breaking paper On the Natural Concept of Dimension (Amsterdam, [2]) in 1913 about the mathematical definition of dimension picking up a thought from…

Addition of Velocities (Velocity Composition) in Special Relativity

May 20, 2024/2 Comments/in Physics Articles/by robphy

The “Addition of Velocities” formula (more correctly, the “Composition of Velocities” formula) in Special Relativity [tex]\frac{v_{AC}}{c}=\frac{ \frac{v_{AB}}{c}+\frac{v_{BC}}{c} }{1 + \frac{v_{AB}}{c} \frac{v_{BC}}{c}}[/tex] is a non-intuitive result that arises from a “hyperbolic-tangent of a sum”-identity in Minkowski spacetime geometry, with its use of hyperbolic trigonometry. However, I claim it is difficult to obtain this by looking at…

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