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For questions regarding theories in the discipline of Physics
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Who first used complex analysis to account for singularities in field theory?
In 1925, Frenkel wrote a paper titled Zur Elektrodynamik punktförmiger Elektronen, which used complex analysis to treat an electron as a point, and its corresponding potential function as an isolated …
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Why was the idea of anti-particles having negative mass abandoned?
In Dirac's 1938 paper on classically radiating electrons, he writes:
Secondly we have the idea of the positron... in which positive and negative values for the mass of an electron play symmetrical …
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Was there a period of doubt in the history of the Higgs mechanism?
As the LHC begins its second run this year, the physics community seems to be significantly split between those who are confident that SUSY exists and those who believe it doesn't, given its failure t …
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Who first developed the idea of conservation of information in physics?
I've recently come across the idea of the "conservation of information" in the so called Black Hole Information Paradox. Yet this article claims that:
Conservation of information is a term with a …
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When was the pseudo-vector first defined?
In an answer to a question asked here on the history of vector notation, it's mentioned in an answer that W. Voigt in 1896 distinguished between "polar vectors" and axial vectors". Although a pseudo v …
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