Tag: atom

GPS, relativity, and nuclear detection

GPS is just a big clock in space! (and it can detect nuclear explosions)

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The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy

Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN’T resonance.

And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf

Vortex shedding video: http://youtu.be/JI0M1gVNhbw?t=2m12s
Tacoma Bridge video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mclp9QmCGs

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The Tides

Bad tidings – the tides are slowing down the earth!

For more detail about the tides: http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/Tides_new2.pdf

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How lasers work (in theory)

How does a laser really work? It’s Bose – Einstein statistics! (photons are bosons)

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The World’s Smallest “Pewdiepie”—The Microscopic Writing Experiment

What is a Neutrino?

Neutrinos are the vampires of physics.

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