The general formulation of quantum mechanics is done by describing quantum mechanical states by vectors $|\psi_t(x)\rangle$ in some Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ and describes their time evolution by the Schrödinger equation
$$i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial t}|\psi_t\rangle = H|\psi_t\rangle$$
wher...
There are many questions which should be faq on the main site in my opinion. So I'm starting this meta post to vote on questions which could become faq.
Yesterday I had 1693 rep, but when I logged on today I had only 1689 left. I went in to see if I'd gotten any downvotes. There weren't any, but I did have a "post was removed" notice - I ticked the "show removed posts" box at the bottom of the page because I've come across this before (this and t...
The flag reasons are outdated: http://physics.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts. It still has "too localised" and others. Shouldn't it be updated? .
@ManishEarth this good answer to a very interesting technical question references one of Ron Maimon's exellent answer to another question. So it might well be that the OP of the first newer question has questions concerning Ron Maimon's answer to the second question.
Ron Maimon still answers to questions concerning his own text, but the second question is locked... So can the second question be onlocked such that Ron's answer can still be discussed from a physics point of view, if needed?
@ManishEarth as the question is locked, nobody can edit to improve it either ... The issue of the path integral formulation of QM is narrowed down enough to follow your proposed policy, in the Antony Zee's "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell" it takes just about 10 pages to explain it.
@ManishEarth If I'd edit to improve it to see if it can be reopend, would you and the other moderators then let the community who can review the reopen queue decide?
I was checking the community promotion ad stats at Physics meta. I found that each click of mine counts in the Total clicks. I thought the total clicks is based on each IP address. But, it's not.
I clicked 4 or 5 times from my computer and the total clicks (plus, the ratio) has increased by that...
@ManishEarth I would really like it if the moderators could leave the reopen queue more allone to see, if a proposal to reopen a question attains enough community support instead of saying leave closed as soon as it appears therein. If the community likes questions to be open but the moderators do not, then there is rather something wrong with the policies as they are applied. I hope that your meta post will finally change the isssue of books for good at the end :-)
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@ManishEarth I may have to make an account on Space Exploration eventually
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someone has to correct all the lagrange point questions that come up :P
@Dilaton Again, if you don't like the policies, go to meta. And that's a pretty rough indicator really, on small sites like this. I do keep an eye on the queues at times and make note of controversial (conflicting cotes) stuff, though. So far not much has turned up aside from the books issue.
The fluorescent lifetimes of molecules used in biological applications tend to be in the sub-ns to a few ns timescale (let's say 0.8-4). The most direct methods to measure lifetimes typically involve gating (either explicit or via time correlations).
But this is horribly wasteful as information...
@CrazyBuddy I'm a specialist, so there are many things I wonder about. It's just that I usually only mention them when there are related to my specialty. Like this one.
Or sometimes there are just wonderfully off the wall. Chris White asks some of those.
I really ought to start adding favs. A couple of days ago I found a question which I really liked but only half-read. And then I was looking for it but couldn't find it >.<
@ManishEarth I don't use favorites at all... Because, I know that whenever I bookmark some stuff, I don't read it until it fills up to a 100 and finally, I delete everything :P
There are many questions which should be faq on the main site in my opinion. So I'm starting this meta post to vote on questions which could become faq.
The fluorescent lifetimes of molecules used in biological applications tend to be in the sub-ns to a few ns timescale (let's say 0.8-4). The most direct methods to measure lifetimes typically involve gating (either explicit or via time correlations).
But this is horribly wasteful as information...
