and doing my thesis I understood that it was more interesting for me to try and justify the handwavy parts of theoretical physics than continue to not care about them
Random question: If I'm working with the Laplace transform of a function $f(t)$, is there an easy formula for the Laplace transform of $[f(t)]^2$? Looks like it might just be the convolution formula.
How does the statement that to every AdS theory there is a corresponding CFT on the boundary that enocdes equivalent information look like Stokes' theorem to you, exactly?
A string speaker at a conference I accidentally sat in on said that some integral in a derivation can be done with stokes theorem, and then a realization is made. Now I must confess I was lost throughout most of the talk
@kevinTahN. Well, that Stokes' theorem appears somewhere in a proof of a relation between a theory in the bulk and a theory on the boundary is not really suprising. I was asking how you came to the thought that AdS/CFT is "just" a consequence of Stokes' theorem
@0celo7 Milnor is a wonderful read, and the prereqs are just basic diff-geo, I'd say. That is, you should know what a smooth manifold is, and it helps a lot for the second part if you know Riemannian geometry.
Well, what would happen, hypothetically, if we could get a photon's wavelength to absolute zero? Since wavelength increases as energy decreases, would it just become a straight line or...?
It's not a technical limitation, it is physically impossible. You cannot do physically impossible things and expect physics to give you an answer as to what happens afterward.
@SirCumference It...just doesn't have a temperature. Temperature is a property of thermodynamical systems - a single photon is not a thermodynamical system.
That is a completely different question. heat is just "energy flow", and a photon trivially represents energy flow since it has an energy of $E=\hbar\omega$ and is moving.
