The astronomers of my childhood
Honestly, there was a time when I thought that being an astronomer meant working at the “Europäische Südsternwarte”. 🙂
Tag: physics
What is space?
Wikipedia has an answer – and what an answer that is!
On divorce and margarine
No, I don’t know how real these graphs circulating are, but the point stands regardless.
It’s not nothing, just not very much
…or is it? On quantum fluctuations.
That time Newton’s rings saved a mouse
Think of the quintessential exuberant kitten. Then think of the quintessential timid mouse. How do you think the interaction between those two will look like? You are right. One will chase the other along the wall to a room inside a house. Unfortunately for the mouse, there is only one possibility for escape from that […]
Supernova salad dressing
On “instability fingers”.
Height jump lightbulb moment
…for me, at least.
The Venturi effect
…as explained by a Swabian woodworker from Canada.
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