Paper 02 showed that a pure solid angle of four pi appears in an inverse-square field. This paper asks when that four pi does not appear; the answer is the moment the source stops being a point. Raising the dimension of the source by one alone turns four pi into two pi and turns the one-over-r fall into a logarithm. No...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Chromatographic resolution goes as R_s proportional to sqrt(N) proportional to sqrt(L). This paper asks where that square root comes from──the answer is the additivity of variance. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no new law is clai...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Paper 02 showed that a pure solid angle of four pi appears in an inverse-square field. This paper asks when that four pi does not appear; the answer is the moment the source stops being a point. Raising the dimension of the source by one alone turns four pi into two pi and turns the one-over-r fall into a logarithm. No...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
The Langmuir adsorption isotherm of surface chemistry theta=Kp/(1+Kp), the Fermi distribution of solid-state physics f=1/1+e^(E-mu)/kT, and the Michaelis--Menten expression of enzyme kinetics v/V_max=[S]/(K_m+[S])──these three share a form. This paper asks whether that is an accidental likeness (a rhyme) or the same ro...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
The sentence “the strength of this material is 250 MPa” does not settle when it breaks. This paper asks what does settle it──the answer is that there are three ways to break and a different thing decides each. Buckling is decided by shape, fracture by a flaw, and yielding by the crystal. No new mathematical theorem and...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
A liquid carries one length, l_c=sqrt(gamma/rho g). This paper asks whose size that length is──the answer is nobody’s. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed──the Laplace pressure, Jurin’s law, the Bond number and th...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
For more than a century Maxwell's demon has been asked where the cost lies. What this paper counts is not the answer but where the cost was placed: five people put it in five different places. And once numbers are put in, the statement that an irreversible gate pays one bit turns out to be wrong as well. No new mathema...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
This corpus has cited Noether’s theorem in 27 papers. This paper asks whether every conserved quantity comes from a symmetry──the answer is no. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed──adiabatic invariants, action var...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Paper 10 established that only dimensionless numbers can be fine-tuned. This paper asks whether the same restriction applies to “has it changed”──the answer is it does. And one of them has actually been measured. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematica...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
“Magnitude” is not one thing. There are four──M_L, m_b, M_S, M_w──and all but M_w hit a ceiling for great earthquakes. This paper asks whether what hits the ceiling is the earthquake or the scale──the answer is the scale. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new ma...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
That a weather forecast cannot reach beyond a certain horizon is due neither to missing equations nor to slow computers. This paper asks what sets the limit──the answer is one number, the error doubling time tau_d. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathemati...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Drude (1900) obtained the ratio of thermal to electrical conductivity in a metal from classical theory alone, and got a value close to measurement. This paper asks why he was right──the answer is not that the premises were correct. Two premises erred largely in opposite directions and very nearly cancelled on taking a...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
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