Is it a dark photon or an x boson? Whatever it is I guess it's a big deal. Have scientists discovered a fifth fundamental force of nature? - CSMonitor.com
These things always frustrate me a little because they highlight exactly how little we really know about how the universe works. Same with this: Researchers orbit a muon around an atom, confirm physics is broken
I'll do you one better, I have to wait for auto-correct to even spell fizicks correctly. Math *snork*.
I didn't take math seriously in high school, so I did the minimum to graduate, which wasn't more advanced than taking off my shoes to count to twenty. It's something of a regret.
One of my academic secrets is that after I got out of Wentworth I decided to push myself a bit, just to see what I could do, and I took some Physics courses at UMass Boston. Thermodynamics, Quantum Physics and Relativity. I think the grades were in the B- to C+ range. I knew at that point that I had hit my limit with the Math. I was amazed to watch the other people though. A little freakish because they were doing calculations in their heads that I was having trouble with on paper. And fast too. I continue to have an interest in that subject and a big respect for the crazy people who can do that work.
My personal Waterloo was Ordinary Linear Differential Equations thirty-some years ago. Strange, though...on just one mid course exam I did exceedingly well because I could "see" something I otherwise knew about being described by that set of equations. Overall, the C- was a blatant gift. But I keep after it; right now I'm in the middle of a somewhat less rigorous book on Antenna Physics. Less rigorous because it doesn't derive Maxwell's Equations but they're there along with nabla, Lorentz Transforms, and Snell's Law and the intrinsic impedance of empty space. Annnd inevitably, the fact that empty space HAS an intrinsic, finite, measurable impedance sent me back into the swamps of Quantum Mechanics without a paddle. As always. Sigh.
Oh noooo - not again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_University Oh -- I see. You mean Willibrord Snell! :smile: https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m309-01a/chu/Fundamentals/snell.htm J.
