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Okay, it's more math than physics but...

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Is your child texting about physics? Know the signs:

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Love this demo. Once we did it on an inflatable pool with a middle school class. Did you know that toothpaste is also a non-Newtonian fluid?

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Non-Newtonian fluids turn into solids when pressure is applied. Credit: @UChicago . Full video:

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Casual reminder to BE SOMEWHERE IN THE SHADED AREA on August 21st, 2017 if you want to actually experience a total eclipse.

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What's on your mind? Us: _ , - - - . _ / ' , ` . ` \ / ' ` , , ' ; ____ ) ( neutrinos . '; ) ( _ ' ; , - , --- ' ( ; ; , , ; / -- ' \ ; ; ; / /

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In April 1986, Las Vegas' MGM Grand hotel & casino hosted 4,000 physicists for a conference...and had the worst financial week in its history. We've been effectively banned ever since. The full story:

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zzz 　＜⌒／ヽ-､_＿_ ／＜_/＿＿＿＿／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣　　　∧_∧ light is both a 　　 (　･ω･) particle AND a 　＿|　⊃／(＿＿_ wave ／　└-(＿＿＿_／

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The "Slinky Drop" experiment is still a classic:

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Today's tea: ) ( ) ) _(___(____)____(___(__ \ physics / \ is / | \ for /____| \ everyone / \__________/ @SPSNational

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Today we honor Maria Goeppert Mayer, who is the second woman to win a Nobel prize in physics for her proposal of nuclear shells. Mayer endured many years of unpaid and unofficial work at labs but persevered to become a prominent figure in theoretical physics.

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This INCREDIBLE GIF is from @Jezzamonn 's explainer of Fourier transforms. It's rare someone makes it so engaging, easy, and FUN to master a complicated concept like this! Check it out:

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What stops at the speed of light? A. Energy B. Time C. Gravity #TriviaThursday

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This is 1300 generations of a "cyclic cellular automaton"; each pixel takes on the value (n) of its neighbor if that neighbor's value is n+1

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This is an engine block, designed by a deep-learning machine.

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THREAD: Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday! We're taking a minute to toast the high deity of modern science-nerd culture...but we'd do him a disservice to celebrate his genius without remembering his tenacity, and what his story meant in the larger struggle he was a part of. (1/13)

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@RoySocChem A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help with his luggage. He says, "No, I'm traveling light."

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Summoning circle, hope this works!! ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️ detectable ⚛️ ⚛️ dark matter ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️ ⚛️

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Physics is beautiful!

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The reduced surface tension lets water molecules spread out from one another, creating a kind of jet engine for the leaf!

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"Two-dimensional polar coordinates"—RT if you get it!

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In 1978, Anatoli Bugorski accidentally stuck his HEAD into the beam of a 67 GeV particle accelerator. For reference, that's more than 250x the energy we use when we want to treat cancer with particle radiation. As his face began to swell, he was taken to the hospital... 1/

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A new model for analyzing complex systems may succeed where traditional "network theory" has stalled:

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Here for wholesome science memes only.

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In our excitement about memes we did not catch our misspelling of baryons (not bayrons). This is regrettable. Here is an update:

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If 3/14 is "Pi Day", that makes today "e day" — 2/7/18! We're celebrating by reading up on Euler's number and reflecting on the strangeness of the transcendental numbers that arise when we try and quantify a curvy universe:

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If you could hold an electron up to a mirror, you'd see that your reflection is holding up the particle's antimatter counterpart: a positron. Does this point to a deeper insight on the true nature of electric charge? Read part 2 of "Waves & Whirlpools"!

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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ In this ┃╱╱╲╲ house, ╱╱╭╮╲╲ the acceleration of ▔▏┗┛▕▔ gravity is equal to ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ 9.80665 m/s^2 ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕

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This is actual footage from the surface of a comet, taken by the @esa spacecraft Rosetta. For scale, the cliff in the image is about 1km high.

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But what do you call someone who has made every possible mistake in every possible field?

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The Cassini craft's final image; the end of an era.

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I am a PHYSICIST. I study how the UNIVERSE works. I make REALLY BAD puns. If you don't like it, use your feet to ACCELERATE in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

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i will never get tired of these shirts. "so why'd you guys move?" "well, there was this drywaller who liked freedom and boobs..."

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I swear, at least once a week we get someone who thinks they've found "PsychicsCentral", and half of them want to know if they're pregnant.

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Somebody get Schrödinger on the line; we may be dealing with a Matryoshka Scenario here, people.

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The "Schwarzschild radius" of a black hole defines the spherical area that even light can't escape from. It was named for German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild—the first to solve Einstein's field equations—but curiously enough, "Schwarzschild" translates to "black shield"!

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You can't visualize a ten-sphere, but that doesn't mean you can't think visually about it! @3Blue1Brown continues to amaze me—a magnificent video on thinking in higher-dimensional spaces. Best 20 minutes you'll spend online all day:

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"Consider a spherical cow..."

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Unbelievable. Zoom in close and you can see a single atom of strontium in this photo, winner of the @EPSRC 2018 photo contest. This was taken with a digital camera on long-exposure.

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Using sound waves and a super cold gas called a Bose-Einstein condensate, scientists create an analogue to a black hole, and find evidence of Hawking Radiation in it. via @LiveScience

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Not ashamed to say I gained a fuller understanding of the Fourier transform from this 20-minute video than I did from my undergrad physics profs; @3Blue1Brown is one of the best communicators on the internet. It's more than educational, it's awe-inspiring!

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Spacetime is generally thought to be perfectly smooth and curved, but what if it isn't? Like a small grain of sand flowing across a dune field, spacetime could be a fluid full of tiny grains. #PhysicsBuzz 🐝

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📕Happy #BookLoversDay ! What's your favorite science book?

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We were so preoccupied with whether we could, we didn’t stop to think if we should.

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Today we honor Hedy Lamarr, who was a Hollywood star and the inventor of an early version of the frequency-hopping spread spectrum (needed for the creation of WIFI and GPS). Lamarr showed that a woman could be glamours, but most of all a woman could be brilliant.

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An awful lot of hype is building up around a technology called Plasma Wakefield Acceleration—and with good reason: if it lives up to its promise, it'll mean particle accelerators more powerful than the LHC, at a fraction of the size & cost:

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At Physics Central we are proud to join @APSPhysics in celebrating #LGBTSTEMDay . Regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity, you belong in physics, and we’re thrilled to have you. To celebrate, we’ll be sharing the experiences of LGBTQ+ scientists.

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NASA's Juno mission pulled some impressive orbital gymnastics to get to its destination!

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A perfect demo on centripetal force & linear motion that you can do at home with nothing but a ball, pie plate, and some tin snips!

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Another awesomely simple circular motion demo, this time showing that when the centripetal force is removed the object follows a tangent to the circle. Src: YouTube/ISLE Physics

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It's very much "proof of concept"—but still exciting!

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Happy Birthday Carl Sagan! Thank you for teaching us about the cosmos and our place in the universe.

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HUGE if true—scientists in India report superconductivity at record-high temperatures. If this can be reproduced, it's a giant leap toward room-temperature superconductors. Read the preprint:

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😂 😂 😂

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A spherical transverse wave in 2D

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Scientists at @ORNL are reporting kinetic detection of a neutrino for the first time in history:

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Astronomy: the study of celestial objects, space, and the physical universe. Astrology: Not that.

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A fantastic vid from @veritasium (w/ a cameo from one of our OTHER favorite youtubers, @thephysicsgirl !)

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some incredible nano-sculpting by artist Jonty Hurwitz. That's literally a human hair she's standing on.

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This INCREDIBLE GIF is from @Jezzamonn 's explainer of Fourier transforms. It's rare someone makes it so engaging, easy, and FUN to master a complicated concept like this! Check it out:

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Its international joke day. We apologize in advance for the following: What do you call a caffeinated beverage thats both hot and cold at the same time? A quanti-tea.

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After this display of physics, we are now exclusively a @simone_biles fan account sorry I don't make the rules that's just how it is.

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Simone Biles, in extreme slow motion.

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Today we honor and celebrate Emmy Noether, who is known for Noether’s Theorem, which has tremendous effects on theoretical physics. Happy 138th Birthday Noether!

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An interactive periodic table, featuring a haiku about each element:

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At age 22, Stephen Hawking was told he had two years to live. On what most would consider borrowed time, he wrangled an unruly universe, & inspired millions to believe that we can understand the mysteries of this strange and wonderful spacetime we're a part of. He will be missed.

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So our "Ask a Physicist" inbox gets a truly hysterical number of inquiries from people who appear to think it's "Ask a Psychic". There are literally hundreds of these, so expect this to become a regular feature...&& dream big, Chastity. I believe in you.

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3-antenna gravitational wave detection opens doors to a new era of astronomy:

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Learn about The Hot Cocoa Effect

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[Image of Ludwig Boltzmann accompanied by quote: "It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems to me greater still to discover fundamental truths in a very modest room, with..."] (1/2)

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BREAKING: For the first time, scientists have identified the source of an astrophysical neutrino—a highly elusive subatomic particle moving with incredible energy—which appears to have come from the black hole at the core of a distant galaxy:

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Casual Friday, anyone?

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Today we celebrate one of the most important researchers in the area of theoretical cosmology and quantum gravity. Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking!

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New metamaterials may simultaneously help us study relativity AND shape the next gen. of solid-state electronics:

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The particle shown below is being moved through this maze...just using sound! How does this happen? In this thread, we’re going to take a closer look. (1/9)

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This is 1300 generations of a "cyclic cellular automaton"; each pixel takes on the value (n) of its neighbor if that neighbor's value is n+1

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Casual reminder that, on top of being one of the 20th century's most brilliant minds, Einstein had an untouchable level of chill.

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The size of a diamond may reveal changes in the universe's fundamental constants, and show the existence of dark matter 😮 . Here's the #PhysicsBuzz 🐝 , coming at ya.

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Today we honor Desiré Whitmore @DarthScience , who is a senior physics educator at the San Fransisco Exploratorium. She helps science teachers create engaging and hands-on lessons. #blackhistorymonth

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This is a pic of when we were making the mix. It was soo much fun! Also quicksand is another example of non-Newtonian fluid

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Happy #VelociraptorAwarenessDay . Did you know a velociraptor could run up to 60 km/hr?

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The evaporation of a droplet is more complex than you might think. via @fyfluiddynamics

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Okay #physics Twitter, we need your help: What the heck is this thing? Photo came from the archives of @CERN (was featured in a "29 best photos from the CERN archives" piece a few years back: ) @neiltyson @AlbertEinstein @thephysicsgirl

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This #InternationalWomensDay we're spotlighting #WomenInPhysics . Discover the incredible life and work of @NASA ’s Katherine Johnson in these #PhysicsQuest activities based on force and motion: . #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias

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When a movie character uses the word quantum:

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When you wear plaid to the club and accidentally turn into a demo on light & color perception

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PhysicsCentral is hosting a real-time Q&A with #LIGO physicist @lynnco tomorrow afternoon! Tweet your questions @PhysicsCentral #LIGOLive

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Expectation: @Fermilab literally turned into thousands of floating bubbles. Reality: In 1969 Fermilab built a particle accelerator that would leave trails of bubbles as particles sped past. Still cool still cool. via @ScienceNews

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Day is here! #WorldQuantumDay join us in celebrating the wonderful world of Quantum Science and Technologies. Find activities or read an article or better yet an experiment! Here we share a fun article by @Brownianaweb on a mystery solved 🕵️‍♀️ 🔍

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Newton's 3rd Law is always there for you. via @reddit

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From topology to nuclear fusion, donuts are the physicist's breakfast pastry of choice—not just because they’re tasty, but because their shape, the torus, is the subject of fascinating physics! Let's dig in: @dunkindonuts @krispykreme @TimHortonsUS

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A drop of oil in an electric field, surrounded by a more conductive fluid, produces a Saturn-like system of droplets

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Its #InternationalCatDay . Here's some pawsome facts that show the close relationship between felines and physics: 1. According to a recent study, cats understand basic laws of physics, and are surprised when objects appear to defy those laws.

Physics test suggests cats understand gravity, Japanese researchers say

"Our study is the first demonstration that cats seem to grasp the laws of physics,” said Kyoto University’s Saho Takagi. But an expert on domestic pets and author of a book about cats called the...

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It sounds like a supervillain's origin story, but Bugorski went on to have a respectable career in experimental physics. For those curious, he described the experience as painless, but "brighter than a thousand suns". 4/4 Read the full story at @Gizmodo :

What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into a Particle Accelerator

Today I found out what happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator. Exhibit A: Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, a Russian scientist who has

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The proton/electron mass ratio is, to a decent approximation, 6π^5. Numerical coincidences happen all the time, (think "golden spiral" memes) but I sometimes actually lose sleep over this one, bc it looks like someone took the first derivative of π^6.

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A team at the LHC's "beauty factory" has discovered a new kind of particle, 4x heavier than the proton: Ξcc++

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The Higgs boson has been observed coupling to a top quark by the CMS and ATLAS detectors. Read more:

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Happy birthday to Nikola Tesla! Let's celebrate a superior technology (AC) winning over established infrastructure and inertia (Edison's DC)

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An INCREDIBLE compilation of some of Cassini's best images of Saturn, as the mission nears its close:

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Even Hollywood doesn't have this type of star drama. via @PopSci

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Using adaptive optics—the same tech that lets #astronomers take the twinkle out of starlight—scientists have captured the first HD footage of a live immune cell moving around in its natural habitat.

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A team at the LHC's "beauty factory" has discovered a new kind of particle, 4x heavier than the proton: Ξcc++

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