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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Sep 1

Professor Hans Bethe explains superconductivity in his lecture titled " My Relation To Early Quantum Mechanics" at MIT November 21, 1977.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 24

Professor Brian Greene explains Einstein's theory of gravity.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 23

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

- Galileo Galilei

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 9

Beautiful slow-motion surface tension demonstration.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy Birthday to one of the titans of Quantum Mechanics, Paul Dirac, born 123 yrs ago today.
Dirac is one of the pioneers of Quantum mechanics and the first physicist to predict the existence of anti-matter. He received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Erwin Shcrödinger.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sine wave shown beautifully .

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 6

People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion.

— A. Einstein (1879-1955)

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 4

The physics of light refraction through broken glass

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 2

The double slit experiment was pivotal in demonstrating the wave-particle duality of light and matter. When particles like electrons are fired through slits, they produce an interference pattern typical of waves, not particles.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Tesseract" can mean many things: an OCR engine, a 4D hypercube in geometry, the Space Stone’s container in Marvel, a British metal band, or a premium e-scooter by Ultraviolette. One word, many dimensions.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 31

The last known picture of Albert Einstein, taken in March 1955, in front of 112 Mercer Street.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 16

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.

- Carl Sagan

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 14

Demonstration of double pendulum chaos

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 11

"The heart of physics is trying to understand what's real."

-Richard Feynman

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 8

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”

- Isaac Newton

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 7

You don't like it? Go somewhere else! as said by Richard Feynman in one of his lectures at University of Auckland.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 6

Galileo’s drawings of the Moon, 1610. The first realistic images in history.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 5

Einstein’s field equation on a wall in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 4

In order to see the true nature of gravity we have to remove the air.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein

The paper argues that the third principle of thermodynamics follows from the second principle, rather than being a separate or independent concept. Professor José María Martín-Olalla of the University...

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 2

120 years later, a thermodynamics puzzle is cracked, Professor José María Martín-Olalla showed that the Nernst theorem about how entropy (disorder) behaves near absolute zero is actually part of the second law of thermodynamics. Even Einstein thought it was a separate rule.

Credit: SciTechDaily

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 1

General relativity v/s Quantum Mechanics

-Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr c. 1934, Brussels

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jun 29

Spacetime curvature under mass, illustrating the geometric nature of gravity as described by general relativity.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jun 28

Einstein’s 3 Steps to Creative Genius:

- Imagination
- Intuitive thinking
- Rigorous and logical analysis

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jun 26

Static electricity in action!

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