A selection rule is written as “this transition is forbidden.”Yet forbidden transitions are actually observed. This paper asks what “forbidden” means as a number──the answer is a matter of rate. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no n...
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
A rotating ocean has several characteristic lengths. Each is called “the length set by Coriolis.”This paper asks whether they are the same thing──the answer is that they are different things. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no new...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
A selection rule is written as “this transition is forbidden.”Yet forbidden transitions are actually observed. This paper asks what “forbidden” means as a number──the answer is a matter of rate. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no n...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
A “rate of return” looks like a quantity that can be added. This paper asks which way of writing it can──the answer is the log return alone. 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 relation between simple and log...
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
A rotating ocean has several characteristic lengths. Each is called “the length set by Coriolis.”This paper asks whether they are the same thing──the answer is that they are different things. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and no new...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Shannon’s coding theorem says that below the channel capacity C the error can be made arbitrarily small. This paper asks whether C itself is attainable──the answer is not at any finite blocklength. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new mathematical theorem and n...
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
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
The spread of a polymer chain is fixed by a power of the number of units N. For a Gaussian chain it is N^1/2, and for a self-avoiding chain N^0.588. This paper asks where that difference comes from and where it disappears──the answer is the count 2+2=4. No new mathematical theorem and no new law is claimed. Scope of th...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
A “rate of return” looks like a quantity that can be added. This paper asks which way of writing it can──the answer is the log return alone. 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 relation between simple and log...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
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