January 2012
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“If you were standing at arm’s length from someone and each of you had one...”
– Richard Feynman
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle...”
– Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his garage in high school
Watchabluegirl:
New Scientist TV: Seeing Relativity
What would it look like to tour the solar system at near-light speed? In this animation, created by physicist Paul Altin from the Australian National University, you can experience the weird effects predicted by Einstein’s special theory of relativity as you fly by different planets. The tour starts in an orbit high above the surface of the...
October 2011
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Well folks, physicsphysics has hit another...
Thanks to all of you wonderful people, we have recently broken the 10,000 followers mark!
Ten. Thousand. That’s a lot.
Words can’t describe how much we appreciate all of you. It’s the reason we keep finding things to post here. As we’ve always said, so long as there’s people who enjoy the content we post, we’ll keep on posting.
When this blog was spawned a...
Anonymous asked: Do you know of any videos/documentaries about quantum physics (and that I could possibly download)?
contemplatingstardust:
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White holes?
cosmosscience:
Yep, that’s right, white holes. Not black holes, white! Scientists have come up with a theory of white holes.
5 years ago, GRB 060614 (Also called Ralph) was discovered. Ralph was a gamma-ray burst but not your average one. As you might know, Gamma-ray bursts are known to be the most powerful explosions in the Universe. They are usually caused by either long bursts (caused by the...
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Scientists studying universe's expansion win Nobel... →
(CNN) — Two scientists from the United States and one from Australia have won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent discoveries that our universe is apparently expanding at an accelerating rate, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. The expansion is happening apparently because of a mysterious force known as dark energy, according to the findings. Half of...
September 2011
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Anonymous asked: did you hear about the particle being faster than the speed of light? what is our output on it?
hatewizard asked: Re: preparing for AP Physics--STUDY GROUPS! I never ever went to study groups, had study dates, or really focused all that much on studying until that class. It helped me immensely, try to make time for studying with other people in your class if you can. Good luck!
Progress toward FTL travel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
“Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.”
citlalyy asked: So I'm taking AP Physics this year...how can I prepare myself for this class? :)
Anonymous asked: Why is AP Physics mean
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“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees...”
– Carl Sagan (via kl0vis)
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