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General Physics explores the fundamental laws that govern everything from the tiniest subatomic particles to the vastness of the cosmos. This field serves as the bedrock for understanding how the universe operates, covering mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism without getting bogged down in overly specialized sub-disciplines. It is where the big questions about matter, energy, and force come together to explain the physical world around us.
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This paper generalizes the Wigner representation from particle quantum mechanics to Bose fields, demonstrating that standard Hilbert space quantization is equivalent to adding a Gaussian zeropoint field distribution to the vacuum and providing a unified c-number formulation of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics with potential applications to quantum fields in curved spaces.
This paper demonstrates that hyperstatistics, a framework yielding a closed-form q-generalized Boltzmann factor independent of the underlying distribution, provides a numerically stable and analytically tractable alternative to Beck's superstatistics for modeling the thermodynamics of one-dimensional Klein-Gordon and Dirac oscillators, successfully capturing spin-induced degeneracy effects and avoiding the unphysical limitations of asymptotic expansions at high temperatures.
This paper presents a systematic formulation of generalized Fock--Lorentz transformations using projective conformal coordinates to derive coordinate-dependent physical effects, including an apparent mass and modified speed of light, and applies this framework to construct and analyze one-dimensional relativistic oscillators in both time-like and space-like deformation regimes.
This study employs a Padé cosmographic analysis within a Bayesian framework to demonstrate that the VCDM model, a Type-II MMG realization, effectively mimics the standard CDM cosmology at the background level without significant deviations in higher-order parameters, while revealing that previously reported transition features are sensitive to the choice of parametrization rather than being robust observational requirements.
This paper proposes a theoretical framework where the resolution of a local optical Codazzi defect in a four-dimensional Lorentzian branch leads to a -quantized structure that naturally yields the gauge group and a single-generation Standard Model module, with family structure and physical parameters emerging from subsequent topological and spectral completions.
This paper surveys the scientific motivations and historical milestones of gamma-ray astrophysics while highlighting the persistent "MeV gap" in sensitivity that hinders progress in understanding nucleosynthesis, dark matter, and multimessenger counterparts, and discusses ongoing efforts to address this limitation.
The paper argues that the conventional theory of superconductivity contains fundamental thermodynamic errors, specifically claiming that it violates the second law of thermodynamics and the law of conservation of energy due to a widespread but mistaken belief in the standard interpretation of free energy and the Meissner effect.
This paper investigates the relationship between the three-dimensional spin-glass Ising model and Boolean satisfiability (K-SAT) problems by utilizing Clifford algebra to demonstrate long-range entanglements and proving that the model's absolute minimum core is equivalent to 3-SAT while the full model maps to K-SAT for K ≥ 4.
This paper proves that the computational complexity of the three-dimensional spin-glass Ising model cannot be reduced below the subexponential bound of O(2^mn) because any further simplification would destroy the model's fundamental structure and essential information.
This paper claims to determine the lower bound of computational complexity for knapsack problems by applying quantum statistics to reveal that nontrivial topological structures arising from dimensional contradictions create an NP-intermediate region, thereby preventing these problems from collapsing directly into the P-class and guiding the development of subexponential algorithms.