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…s and philosophy of general relativity, all of which is available for free online. If you know of any online resources that are not on this list, suggest them in the comments and I will add them to the list! Contents Non-mathematical introductions to general relativity Mathematical introductions to general relativity Philosophy of general relativity Other general relativity references. Non-mathematical introductions to general relativity Einstein…
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…o make and sell burgers in. The wealthy Scrooge McDuck had enough money to buy buildings. So they struck the following deal. McDuck gave BurgerBee the money to buy a building for their burger joint (say, 100,000 dollars). In return, BurgerBee gave McDuck a little certificate, which says that BurgerBee will pay McDuck MUCH MORE than the original amount (say, 200,000 dollars). But the payments are made in small amounts, every month, over the course…
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…ansformations that preserve probabilities are the unitary ones. So, we can capture this homogeneity precisely by say that the spatially translated position operators are related by a unitary transformation, More can be said about these translation operators . If we think of the infinite string as continuous, then we’ll want to have a continuous collection of operators , one for each real number . We’ll also want to capture the additive relatio…
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…the 60’s, Kao was able to show that this attenuation was the result of the absorption and scattering of light, caused by metal ions in the glass. The problem was thus to figure out how to develop more pure glass fibers. Kao correctly argued that this could be done using silica. His research on the problem later led to the development of the super-efficient optical fibers we know today. Boyle and Smith are being recognized for their invention of th…
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