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Some years ago, I visited with friends whose father is a physicist, and he spent a few minutes telling me about some development that I didn't really understand at all. As I understood it, they'd discovered that pairs of electrons could have their movements modified (some kind of "spinning") so that any action on one would instantly be equalled in the other, no matter how far away the two were from each other. Can anyone explain whether this is anywhere close to realistic? I can't get past the second intro paragraph in Spin (physics), and even the first sentence of Electron magnetic dipole moment is too much for me — not to mention that I've had several years in which this already confused memory has been able to get even weaker. Nyttend ( talk) 06:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Is there anywhere I can find a list of mathematics problems/research that is relevant to medicine, but is not focused on the medical aspect so much as the mathematical. For example, I recently stumbled on viral tiling, which sounds interesting, but most of what I found seems focused on the values of it or the biology of it, is there anywhere I could find out about the math aspect with the biology as a background? I mean in the same sense that I can find books on group theory that discuss the parts related to chemistry or physics, but are more geared towards someone with a mathematics background. I'm interested in the medical applications, but I am far stronger in mathematics than medicine and feel like I'm coming from the wrong end (it doesn't need to be viral tiling, by the way, just an example). Thank you for any help, I'm seeming to have bad luck with this on my own. Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 10:57, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for all of the replies:-) After following up on some of these, I definitely need to learn more of the relevant biology; thank you for the advice in that regard, Looie496. The protein structure prediction problem looks interesting, thank you.(Sorry if this reads weird, I just got back from a business trip and am half asleep, but I wanted to make sure I said thank you before this ended up getting archived; I really appreciate all the answers, very helpful:-)). Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 06:48, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Is it possible to burn a candle efficiently with a blue flame? Making it burn more slowly so that the available oxygen was sufficient and no carbon was wasted would be acceptable. -- 78.148.110.69 ( talk) 23:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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Some years ago, I visited with friends whose father is a physicist, and he spent a few minutes telling me about some development that I didn't really understand at all. As I understood it, they'd discovered that pairs of electrons could have their movements modified (some kind of "spinning") so that any action on one would instantly be equalled in the other, no matter how far away the two were from each other. Can anyone explain whether this is anywhere close to realistic? I can't get past the second intro paragraph in Spin (physics), and even the first sentence of Electron magnetic dipole moment is too much for me — not to mention that I've had several years in which this already confused memory has been able to get even weaker. Nyttend ( talk) 06:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Is there anywhere I can find a list of mathematics problems/research that is relevant to medicine, but is not focused on the medical aspect so much as the mathematical. For example, I recently stumbled on viral tiling, which sounds interesting, but most of what I found seems focused on the values of it or the biology of it, is there anywhere I could find out about the math aspect with the biology as a background? I mean in the same sense that I can find books on group theory that discuss the parts related to chemistry or physics, but are more geared towards someone with a mathematics background. I'm interested in the medical applications, but I am far stronger in mathematics than medicine and feel like I'm coming from the wrong end (it doesn't need to be viral tiling, by the way, just an example). Thank you for any help, I'm seeming to have bad luck with this on my own. Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 10:57, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for all of the replies:-) After following up on some of these, I definitely need to learn more of the relevant biology; thank you for the advice in that regard, Looie496. The protein structure prediction problem looks interesting, thank you.(Sorry if this reads weird, I just got back from a business trip and am half asleep, but I wanted to make sure I said thank you before this ended up getting archived; I really appreciate all the answers, very helpful:-)). Phoenixia1177 ( talk) 06:48, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Is it possible to burn a candle efficiently with a blue flame? Making it burn more slowly so that the available oxygen was sufficient and no carbon was wasted would be acceptable. -- 78.148.110.69 ( talk) 23:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)