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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.
At Gist.Science, we process every new preprint in this General Physics category as it arrives from arXiv, ensuring you never miss a breakthrough. For each paper, we provide both a detailed technical summary for experts and a plain-language explanation that makes complex ideas accessible to everyone. Below are the latest papers in General Physics, freshly summarized and ready for you to explore.
This paper proposes a regularization principle based on the -function that resolves macroscopic temporal paradoxes associated with tachyons by reinterpreting backward-in-time momenta as an infinite sum of forward-in-time physical momenta, thereby eliminating the need for the Reinterpretation Principle while also addressing implications for naked singularities and faster-than-light communication.
This paper proposes that the recently observed threshold enhancement in top-antitop production at the LHC can be consistently explained within a finite, gauge-covariant, entire-function-regulated nonlocal quantum field theory framework, where the top quark's large decay width uniquely shapes toponium phenomenology while preserving global QCD constraints.
This paper investigates the potential for quantum state reduction to locally violate charge conservation, proposing Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics as a consistent framework to describe the resulting non-conserved currents and outlining experimental proposals using biased diodes and superconductors to detect these effects.
This paper proposes and analyzes the BH--QCDGDE model, a unified dark-energy scenario combining Barrow entropy corrections and the QCD ghost mechanism, which successfully describes a viable transition from deceleration to late-time cosmic acceleration while satisfying thermodynamic laws and ensuring classical stability.
This paper presents a unified framework for deriving conditionally exact solutions to Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon oscillators in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity with global and Wu-Yang magnetic monopoles by reducing their radial equations to confluent Heun forms and enforcing degree-one polynomial truncation to quantize frequencies and constrain angular momentum.
This paper presents a reproducible benchmark study quantifying how non-Maxwellian Tsallis electron energy distributions and cross-section model uncertainties affect single-ionization rates for neutral He, Li, and Be, providing a validated numerical pipeline for collisional-radiative modeling of light-neutral plasmas.
This paper introduces a projective framework for multi-scale relational structures by defining cosurfaces valued in reciprocal pairwise comparison matrices, which enable the reconstruction of global objects from local comparative data through compatible refinements while quantifying global incoherence via curvature-like inconsistency observables.
This paper demonstrates that while the energy density formulas for Newtonian gravity proposed by Maxwell, Bondi, and Ohanian yield identical energy balances and cannot be distinguished by boundary conditions, they are fundamentally non-equivalent, with Ohanian's formulation being uniquely distinguished from a thermodynamic perspective.
This paper proposes a phenomenological extension of the PNJL model where curvature-sensitive QCD confinement dynamics generate an effective dynamical vacuum component that drives late-time cosmic acceleration, offering a statistically competitive alternative to CDM that is consistent with current low-redshift cosmological observations.
This paper analyzes the implications of a discrete Boltzmann factor with compact energy support for black hole thermodynamics and fluctuation theorems, demonstrating that while it naturally suppresses Hawking radiation near the cutoff and yields exact Jarzynski identities, it introduces non-universal corrections to Crooks relations and modified dispersion effects that remain negligible in laboratory settings if the cutoff scale is Planck suppressed.