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  2. Relativistic rocket - Wikipedia

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    Relativistic rocket means any spacecraft that travels close enough to light speed for relativistic effects to become significant. The meaning of "significant" is a matter of context, but often a threshold velocity of 30% to 50% of the speed of light (0.3 c to 0.5 c ) is used.

  3. Bell's spaceship paradox - Wikipedia

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    This means, by definition, that with respect to S the distance between the two rockets does not change even when they speed up to relativistic velocities." [ 1 ] Then this setup is repeated again, but this time the back of the first rocket is connected with the front of the second rocket by a silk thread.

  4. Hans Bethe - Wikipedia

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    Hans Albrecht Bethe (/ ˈ b ɛ θ ə /; German: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ⓘ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

  5. Bethe formula - Wikipedia

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    The non-relativistic version was found by Hans Bethe in 1930; the relativistic version (shown below) was found by him in 1932. [2] The most probable energy loss differs from the mean energy loss and is described by the Landau-Vavilov distribution. [3]

  6. Alternatives to general relativity - Wikipedia

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    It did not include relativistic effects; It violated the conservation of energy, momentum and angular momentum; It was inconsistent in that it gives different galactic orbits for gas and for stars; It did not state how to calculate gravitational lensing from galaxy clusters. By 1984, problems 2 and 3 had been solved by introducing a Lagrangian ...

  7. Lev Landau - Wikipedia

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    Landau ranked himself as a 2.5 but later promoted to a 2. N. David Mermin, writing about Landau, referred to the scale, and ranked himself in the fourth division, in the article "My Life with Landau: Homage of a 4.5 to a 2". [52] [53] Landau had a lesser known scale to measure the genius of a scientist using diagrams instead.

  8. Canonical quantization - Wikipedia

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    As it turns out, the only pairs of these properties that lead to self-consistent, nontrivial solutions are 2 & 3, and possibly 1 & 3 or 1 & 4. Accepting properties 1 & 2, along with a weaker condition that 3 be true only asymptotically in the limit ħ →0 (see Moyal bracket ), leads to deformation quantization , and some extraneous information ...

  9. Pilot wave theory - Wikipedia

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    Louis de Broglie's early results on the pilot wave theory were presented in his thesis (1924) in the context of atomic orbitals where the waves are stationary.Early attempts to develop a general formulation for the dynamics of these guiding waves in terms of a relativistic wave equation were unsuccessful until in 1926 Schrödinger developed his non-relativistic wave equation.