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The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike
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How To Fall 35,000 Feet and Survive
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You're six miles up, alone and falling without a parachute. Though the odds are long, a small number of people have found themselves in similar situations—and lived to tell the tale.
What is Schrodinger's Cat?
www.scienceme.com • 10 min
Schrodinger's Cat is a hypothetical thought experiment created in 1935 by a man who loved physics and hated cats.
Our simple, magic-free recipe for quantum entanglement
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Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)
Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry
www.quantamagazine.org • 13+ min
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces, new research suggests.
Flow of time: reality or illusion?
blog.oup.com • 4 min
Real time of space-time is one of the dimensions on which we comprehend and describe reality. Time neither flows, nor flies, or drags on; it doesn’t run out and is not a commodity that can be wasted.
RESONANCE AND ALIENATION. TWO MODES OF EXPERIENCING TIME?
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By Hartmut Rosa for TimeWorld 2019, the International congress on Time.https://timeworldevent.com/1/accueil/Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology and Social...
Crisis in Particle Physics Forces a Rethink of What Is ‘Natural’
www.quantamagazine.org • 19+ min
For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a…
What is quantum entanglement? A physicist explains the science of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’
theconversation.com • 5 min
A multitude of experiments have shown the mysterious phenomena of quantum mechanics to be how the universe functions. The scientists behind these experiments won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.
How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press Into Believing He'd Invented the Light Bulb
www.smithsonianmag.com • 4 min
A year before he developed a working bulb, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time
Our Brains Completely Distort How Time Actually Happens — Here’s How To Take Advantage Of It
www.inverse.com • 4 min
Researchers are attempting to understand how our interaction with our environment shapes our experience of time.
No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
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The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it. ■ A paper about their work, in...
We tried to build a nuclear fusion reactor
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What’s really going on with nuclear fusion?? @Simone Giertz and I try to explain...Get your own Oura ring (I got silver, if you want to match!): https://www....
Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize
www.quantamagazine.org • 5 min
The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons.