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Quantum SHAPE-SHIFTING: Neutrino Oscillations
Thanks to the Heising-Simons Foundation for supporting this video: http://www.heisingsimons.org CRAZY Double Pendulum Footnote: https://youtu.be/gbJYK7q5ejY This video is about the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, which is where...
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¿A qué distancia está un segundo?
La Luna puede estar a 1.3 segundos luz de distancia, ¿pero por qué medimos distancias usando tiempo? ¡Muchas gracias a las siguientes personas que nos apoyan en Patreon! Ayudáis a que MinutoDeFísica sea posible. Marcelo Enrique Anguita...
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GPS, Relativity, and Nuclear Detection
GPS is just a big clock in space! (and it can detect nuclear explosions)
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Footnote †: Double Pendulums Are Crazy
A footnote to the video about Neutrino Shape-Shifting: https://youtu.be/7fgKBJDMO54
Sixty Symbols Video on Double Pendulum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy4a5erom8
Physics of The Double Pendulum:...
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Our Ignorance About Gravity
Thanks to the Heising Simons Foundation (https://www.hsfoundation.org/) for their support of this video, and of short range gravity research. This video is about how little we know about the behavior of gravity at short length and...
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The Wave/Particle Duality - Part 2
In this episode, I revisit the wave particle duality and present an intuitive analogy for understanding how it works.
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How to Count Infinity
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities" - Hazel Grace Lancaster, in "The Fault in Our Stars," by John Green
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Lorentz Transformations | Special Relativity Ch. 3
The previous videos in this series: Chapter 1: Why Relativity is Hard Chapter 2: Spacetime Diagrams This video is chapter 3 in my series on special relativity, and it covers boosts, galilean transformations, newtonian relativity, and of...
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Why the Solar System Can Exist
If gravity is so attractive, why doesn't the earth just crash into the sun? Or the moon into the earth? The answer: Stable Orbits
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The Origin of Quantum Mechanics (feat. Neil Turok)
The Origin of Quantum Mechanics (feat. Neil Turok)
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Relativistic Addition of Velocity | Special Relativity Ch. 6
This video is chapter 6 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the topic of relativistic addition of velocity: aka, how things that are moving relative to one inertial reference frame, which is moving relative to another...
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Why is it Dark at Night
Have you ever wondered why you look up and see a dark sky at night?
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Radar Explained in Ten Seconds
Typical radar can only send out radio waves in one direction at a time, which is why a doppler radar "sweeps" around in order to see in all directions.
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TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round
TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round
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What is the Wave-Particle Duality
In this episode, we discuss the Wave Particle Duality and why quantum mechanics is weirder than anything we're used to in our daily lives!