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New Scientist violates the laws of physics (updated)
A new article in the New Scientist begins with a statement of Newton’s third law that is blissfully ignorant of the irony. The article’s headline is: The magazine is notorious for its use of sensationalist headlines and seems to have done it again. Jon … Continue reading
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Tagged David Burns, em drive, helical drive, laws of physics, mass-energy equivalence, mass-energy-momentum equivalence, momentum, particle accelerator, special relativity
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Self-siphoning beads
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day, and I’m pretty sure it’ll be the coolest thing you’d have seen all day, too: The Chain of Self-siphoning Beads, a.k.a. Physics Brainmelt. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6ukMId5fIi0] It’s so simple; just think of the … Continue reading
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Tagged momentum, physics, self-siphoning beads
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