FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON SCI.PHYSICS - Part 1/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - This Frequently Asked Questions List is posted monthly, on or near the first of the month, to the USENET newsgroups sci.physics.research, sci.physics and alt.sci.physics.new-theories in an attempt to provide good answers to frequently asked questions and other reference material which is worth preserving. If you have corrections or answers to other frequently asked questions that you would like included in this posting, send E-mail to sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (Scott I. Chase). The FAQ is distributed to all interested parties whenever sufficient changes have accumulated to warrant such a mailing. To request that your address be added to the list, send mail to my address, above, and include the words "FAQ Mailing List" in the subject header of your message. Please send your request from the exact address you would like to use for receipt of the FAQ. To faciliate mailing, the FAQ is now being distributed as a multi-part posting. If you are a new reader of the Physics newsgroups, please read item #1, below. If you do not wish to read the FAQ at all, add "Frequently Asked Questions" to your .KILL file. A listing of new items can be found above the subject index, so that you can quickly identify new subjects of interest. To locate old items which have been updated since the last posting, look for the stars (*) in the subject index, which indicate new material. Items which have been submitted by a single individual are attributed to the original author. All other contributors have been thanked privately. New Items: NONE Index of Subjects ----------------- 1.*An Introduction to the Physics Newsgroups on USENET 2. Gravitational Radiation 3. Energy Conservation in Cosmology and Red Shift 4. Effects Due to the Finite Speed of Light 5. The Top Quark 6. Tachyons 7. Special Relativistic Paradoxes and Puzzles (a) The Barn and the Pole (b) The Twin Paradox (c) The Superluminal Scissors 8. The Particle Zoo 9. Olbers' Paradox 10. What is Dark Matter? 11. Hot Water Freezes Faster than Cold! 12. Why are Golf Balls Dimpled? 13. How to Change Nuclear Decay Rates 14. Some Frequently Asked Questions About Black Holes 15. Below Absolute Zero - What Does Negative Temperature Mean? 16. Which Way Will my Bathtub Drain? 17. Why do Mirrors Reverse Left and Right? 18. What is the Mass of a Photon? 19. Why Do Stars Twinkle While Planets Do Not? 20. Baryogenesis - Why Are There More Protons Than Antiprotons? 21. Time Travel - Fact or Fiction? 22. The Nobel Prize for Physics 23.*Open Questions 24. Accessing and Using Online Physics Resources