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What is the meaning and cause of T-symmetry violation in the weak interaction?

What is the meaning and cause of T-symmetry violation in the weak interaction?


What is the meaning and cause of T-symmetry violation in the weak interaction?

Posted: 10 Apr 2016 04:23 AM PDT

From what I understand, the weak interaction violates time reversal symmetry, but the other forces don't. Given that T-symmetry is violated by the arrow of time, why don't the other interactions exhibit this violation? Also, what are examples of it?

I have a basic understanding that the source of C and P violation in the weak interaction is due to the weak force only acting on left-handed particles and right-handed antiparticles. Is there a similar reason for the T violation observed in the weak interaction (and only the weak)?

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What would an atom "look" like if you were small enough to see it?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 06:25 PM PDT

The main thing that I want to know is, would the atom look like the traditional sphere shape or something different, any additional information is welcome though!

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I heated up water in a food can by a heat lamp and got a strange temperature graph. Why did the temperature rise in this pattern?

Posted: 10 Apr 2016 01:32 AM PDT

A few weeks ago I was doing an experiment for my physics assignment. I had 2 cups of water that was refrigerated to near 0 degrees inside a food can with no labels and had aluminum foil over the top. I then had aluminum foil in a concave shape around the can of water and over the top. I also had white paper on the floor and next to the heat lamp so most of the light would stay in the little 'cave'. I currently don't have photos so I roughly recreated the experiment design on paint:

Birds eye view of the experiment

Side view

Obviously its not to scale but if it helps the measurements of the cans are:

  • Height: 11.5 centimeters

  • Circumference: .4 centimeters

The aluminum foil wall had white A4 paper on the outside to help it stand.

I started tracking the temperature over 20 minutes when the heat lamp was turned on when the water was ~2.4 C degrees. I tracked 5 different cans and they all similar rising temperature rates. Here's a graph of the temperature of all five cans.

Can someone explain why the water had a strange temperature rate? I initially thought that the graph would be displaying a exponential graph but instead it showed that instead.

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Why does Saturn have rings?

Posted: 10 Apr 2016 02:37 AM PDT

Is it because of a property of Saturn or an event that caused it to have rings?

Also, why doesn't the matter in the rings clump together to form moons?

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What's the fastest moving visible star, in relation to other visible stars?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 07:00 PM PDT

Inspired by this big dipper gif: https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/4e1gch/the_big_dipper_100000_bc_10000_ad/

Which star/point of light, visible to the naked eye, is moving fastest in relation to the other stars? Are there any that will noticeably shift in the sky during the next 50 years?

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Why doesn't dark matter collapse together to form black holes?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 10:07 AM PDT

If they aren't really interacting what force is stopping their collapse?

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If you travel at next to near the speed of light in space, would there be any resistance? (and you are made of matter)

Posted: 10 Apr 2016 05:42 AM PDT

If it ever got cold enough for our atmosphere to condense, how deep would the sea of liquid nitrogen, oxygen and other gases be on Earth's surface, given its current terrain?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 09:08 AM PDT

Would you be able to see a nuclear explosion on the moon with the naked eye from earth?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 06:57 AM PDT

Considering the nuclear bomb is 50 Megaton, and there's no clouds during night time.

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How can solar sails work? Where does the momentum come from?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 02:17 PM PDT

Solar sails work by using the momentum from photons to "push" the sail, but my understanding is that photons can only travel at c. If the photon is traveling at c, then it bounces off of the sail, still moving at c. Where did the momentum to move the sail come from?

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What happens to matter at the center of a nuclear explosion?

Posted: 10 Apr 2016 01:42 AM PDT

Civil Engg:How tuned mass damper works to resist earthquake vibrations? How it is tuned to the building?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 11:20 AM PDT

As tuned mass damper is usually light weight ball compared to building which is attached on top of building and move out of phase relative to it.

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Why does electricity form and cause lightning in a volcanic eruption?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 09:56 AM PDT

Is there ever any variation between the individual Gs, As, Ts, and Cs of a single DNA strain?

Posted: 10 Apr 2016 01:16 AM PDT

Clarification because I really know very little about DNA so my question might sound like gibberish: Can two separate G "connectors" be slightly different when compared or all they all identical?

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Do high energy electrons interact chemically with conpounds?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 06:45 PM PDT

I want to know if free electrons such as in a cathode ray tube interact chemically and if do how?

If they do could you use them to cause a reduction half reaction without an associated oxydation?

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What are + and x modes of gravitational waves?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 01:55 PM PDT

I am currently reading a publication of Tomimatsu Tomimatsu . In his introduction he mentioned x and + modes of waves and i have no idea what that is. My search tourned out some x and o modes, is this the same? I study physics in a different language so the confusion may be caused by that.

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How is the concept of Transfer of Training helpful in Psychology?

Posted: 09 Apr 2016 09:48 AM PDT

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