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  1. Keepin' it weird on what we have dubbed, Weird Science Wednesday. Wherein we revisit all of the ways science likes to keep it strange.
    Today? OCTOPUS TONGUES. You're welcome.
    octonation.com/do-octopus-have
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    #hwatweekly #ScienceExplained #sciencefun #WeirdScienceWednesday

  2. 🔭 Marvin Watches a Cube Break Common Sense

    If a cube flew past at nearly the speed of light, it wouldn’t look squashed.
    It would look… rotated.

    Marvin pauses mid-sip of tea.
    “That,” he notes, “is not what intuition promised.”

    Terrell & Penrose showed (1959) that relativistic motion produces an optical twist, not a squash. Light from different parts of an object reaches the observer at different times, and the brain stitches time into shape.

    A new lab experiment made this visible by slowing light with ultrafast lasers. Cubes and spheres appear rotated — exactly as predicted.

    Marvin understands the problem immediately;
    “You never see the thing,” he says. “You see the story light tells you.”

    Nothing changes physically.

    The boundary does.

    🧠 In relativity, seeing is a space-time calculation.

    #Relativity #Physics #ObserverEffect #SpaceTime
    #HybridMind42 #BoundaryPhysics #ScienceExplained

  3. Why Even Physicists Still Don’t Understand Quantum Theory 100 Years On

    Wiktor Mazin. Credit: Wiktor Mazin, Quantum Fractal Artist Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television set when the picture went fuzzy. Today, it might be turning your computer off and on again. Quantum mechanics the most successful and important theory in modern physics is like that. It works wonderfully, explaining things from lasers […]

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  4. Ever wonder why constants like 'c' or 'G' have such specific, weird values? It's not deep cosmic magic! Our everyday units (meters, kg, seconds) are arbitrary human inventions that don't inherently match nature's true proportions. Physical constants are simply the crucial scaling factors that harmonize our man-made SI units with the universe's actual way of working. That's why they "vanish" (become 1) in "natural" unit systems – the scaling job is then done by the unit definition itself!

    #Physics #Constants #ScienceExplained #RethinkPhysics

  5. Ever wonder why constants like 'c' or 'G' have such specific, weird values? It's not deep cosmic magic! Our everyday units (meters, kg, seconds) are arbitrary human inventions that don't inherently match nature's true proportions. Physical constants are simply the crucial scaling factors that harmonize our man-made SI units with the universe's actual way of working. That's why they "vanish" (become 1) in "natural" unit systems – the scaling job is then done by the unit definition itself!

    #Physics #Constants #ScienceExplained #RethinkPhysics

  6. Ever wonder why constants like 'c' or 'G' have such specific, weird values? It's not deep cosmic magic! Our everyday units (meters, kg, seconds) are arbitrary human inventions that don't inherently match nature's true proportions. Physical constants are simply the crucial scaling factors that harmonize our man-made SI units with the universe's actual way of working. That's why they "vanish" (become 1) in "natural" unit systems – the scaling job is then done by the unit definition itself!

    #Physics #Constants #ScienceExplained #RethinkPhysics

  7. Ever wonder why constants like 'c' or 'G' have such specific, weird values? It's not deep cosmic magic! Our everyday units (meters, kg, seconds) are arbitrary human inventions that don't inherently match nature's true proportions. Physical constants are simply the crucial scaling factors that harmonize our man-made SI units with the universe's actual way of working. That's why they "vanish" (become 1) in "natural" unit systems – the scaling job is then done by the unit definition itself!

    #Physics #Constants #ScienceExplained #RethinkPhysics

  8. Ever wonder why constants like 'c' or 'G' have such specific, weird values? It's not deep cosmic magic! Our everyday units (meters, kg, seconds) are arbitrary human inventions that don't inherently match nature's true proportions. Physical constants are simply the crucial scaling factors that harmonize our man-made SI units with the universe's actual way of working. That's why they "vanish" (become 1) in "natural" unit systems – the scaling job is then done by the unit definition itself!

    #Physics #Constants #ScienceExplained #RethinkPhysics