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The LAST Eclipse in History
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But What IS A Lens Flare?
30 views / 0 likes - addedSign up for Brilliant (for free) and get 30 days of full access to all of their courses, go to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics - The first 200 people get 20% off a premium subscription! A lot of people took pictures of the recent solar eclipse in Nort
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Should You Wipe Off Your Sweat?
38 views / 0 likes - addedWant to donate to the highest-impact charities AND get your donation matched up to $100? Visit https://Givewell.org/MinutePhysicsIf youre in scorching heat, or when your body is working hard and youve got hot, hot sweat all over, sticky and stifling - doe
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Geosynchronous Orbits are WEIRD
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Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat
167 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant. Thanks to Brilliant for their support.This video is about a better way to understand Penrose tilings (the famous tilings invented by Roger
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Is Anything on the Internet Real?
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The Bizarre Physics of Electric Guitars
98 views / 0 likes - addedTo try everything Brilliant has to offerfreefor a full 30 days, visit http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysicsThe first 200 people get 20% off a premium subscription! I was sent a magnetic guitar pick to review, so I reviewed it. Does it work? How? Why? What's
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03:27
The Rocket & String Paradox
150 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 200 people to go to http://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant.This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accel
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How Many Fossils to Go an Inch? (ft. Robert Krulwich)
143 views / 0 likes - addedA beautiful guest video by Robert Krulwich and Nate MiltonSupport MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsLink to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysicsAnd facebook -
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The Problem With The Butterfly Effect
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Most Collisions Are Secretly in One Dimension
565 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics/ get 20% off an annual Premium subscription to Brilliant.This video is about elastic and inelastic collisions in 1D, 2D and 3D - and how the collision of conservation of energy with conservation
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The Trinity of Quality
128 views / 1 likes - addedThe first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics/ get 20% off an annual Premium subscription to Brilliant. MinutePhysics is on Patreon: https://patreon.com/minutephysicsIn order to make something good, you need to have the right combination of
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04:57
Another Portal Paradox
165 views / 0 likes - addedWe have a course on Brilliant! And the first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant, with full access to all courses, including ours. What happens if you extend a piston through a portal?
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Passing A Portal Through Itself
215 views / 0 likes - addedNebula Classes - Great classes by your favorite creators on a creator-owned streaming service: https://nebulaclasses.com/minutephysicsThis video is about what happens if you try to pass a portal (like in the video game Portal or Portal 2) through itself -
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You're Technically HOTTER Than The Sun (with XKCD!)
161 views / 0 likes - addedWhere to buy WHAT IF? 2 by Randall Munroe Amazon: https://bit.ly/3Rk5Vy2 Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3AKwXIl Penguin Random House: https://bit.ly/3HgfucP Books-A-Million: https://bit.ly/3Q4bEH3 Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3q26vVk IndieBound: https://bit
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Freezing water expands. What if you don't let it?
174 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant. Thanks to Brilliant for their support.REFERENCESPage with TONS of info about water and icehttps://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_density.htm
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A Better Way To Picture Atoms
370 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video!Support MinutePhysics on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsThis video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom p
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Why Do All Boats Make This Shape?
188 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://curiositystream.com/minutephysics to get access to CuriosityStream AND Nebula (where you can watch the extended version of this video), plus you'll get a 26% discount on an annual subscription.This video is about the "Kelvin wake" shape of w
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Windmills Are NOT Like Dams
177 views / 0 likes - addedWatch the bonus material cut from this video and get 26% off an annual subscription to CuriosityStream and Nebula at https://www.curiositystream.com/minutephysics The Solution to the Windmill Paradox. This video is about the tradeoff of Windmills: the fac
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The Physics of Windmill Design
220 views / 0 likes - addedThis video was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Find out more here: https://gatesnot.es/3u7UUVUThis video is about how physics dictates the design of modern windmills - why they are so big,
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General Relativity Explained in 7 Levels of Difficulty
259 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://curiositystream.com/minutephysics get access to CuriosityStream AND Nebula (where you can watch the extended version of this video), plus you'll get a 26% discount on an annual subscription.This video covers the General theory of Relativity,
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The Case for LESS Sensitive COVID Tests
280 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Brilliant for sponsoring this video - the first 200 people to click on https://www.brilliant.org/MinutePhysics will get 20% off a Premium subscription to Brilliant.This video written & produced in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia, https://www.aa
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Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think
267 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the Heising-Simons foundation for their support: https://www.hsfoundation.org (their COVID-19 grants: https://www.hsfoundation.org/grants/covid-19-response-grants/ )Check out https://aatishb.com/maskmath to explore and for references.This video
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How the Sun works: Fusion and Quantum Tunneling
360 views / 0 likes - addedNow that you know about the sun, do you want to learn about quantum tunneling? http://bit.ly/p7l3gv Sorry I'm late - I was busy working on freddiew's new video: http://bit.ly/n73Uwj minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - htt
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06:08
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks
379 views / 0 likes - addedHead to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics to sign up for free and get 20% off a Premium subscription to Brilliant!This video was written in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia - https://aatishb.com To learn more about using & decontaminating N95 masks: htt
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How to Tell Matter From Antimatter | CP Violation & The Ozma Problem
346 views / 0 likes - addedThis video was made with the support of the Heising Simons Foundation.Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsLink to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/This video is about the Ozma problem of disting
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How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19
362 views / 0 likes - addedThis video made possible with support of Brilliant - the first 200 subscribers to go to http://Brilliant.org/MinutePhysics get 20% off a Premium subscription to Brilliant. Go to http://aatishb.com/covidtrends to explore the graph from the video yourself!
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Hacking the Periodic Table
697 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://Brilliant.org/MinutePhysics to gift Brilliant Premium for the holidays, and for 20% off!This video is about cutting, taping, and rearranging the periodic table into the Left Step form, the Mendeleev's flower form, the cake form, the wide for
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Why Do Mirrors Flip Left & Right (but not up & down)?
295 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://curiositystream.com/minutephysics to check out MinuteBody, and for a free month of CuriosityStream PLUS Nebula! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsLink to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/su
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The Man Who Corrected Einstein
367 views / 0 likes - addedSign up for Brilliant FOR FREE at http://brilliant.org/minutephysics - the first 200 people get 20% of a premium subscription.This video is about how Russian physicist Aleksandr Fridman corrected Albert Einstein about the expansion of the universe. Einste
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Do Photons Cast Shadows?
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How to Build a Lava Moat (with xkcd)
505 views / 0 likes - addedWhere to Buy "How To" by Randall Munroe: PRH.com: https://bit.ly/2L2G5hy Amazon: https://bit.ly/2zfy974 Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/2Zozxmt IndieBound: https://bit.ly/2ZfwSre Books-A-Million: https://bit.ly/2ZfxD3y Apple Books: https://bit.ly/33TK3kX
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Protecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)
409 views / 0 likes - addedThis video was made in collaboration with the US Census Bureau and fact-checked by Census Bureau scientists. Any opinions and errors are my own. For more information, visit https://census.gov/about/policies/privacy/statistical_safeguards.html or search "d
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The Portal Paradox
736 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to CuriosityStream for supporting this video. Head to http://curiositystream.com/minutephysics and use promo code minutephysics for 30 days FREE!This video is about the Portal Paradox - a paradox in the video game Portal (and Portal 2) regarding wh
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Why Some Days Aren't 24 Hours
430 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out the "What is a Day?" interactive video at https://labs.minutelabs.io/what-is-a-day/It's super cool!! (and made by Jasper Palfree & the MinuteEarth/MinutePhysics team)The MinutePhysics video about Why December Has the Longest Days: https://www.yo
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Einstein's Biggest Blunder, Explained
360 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Brilliant for supporting MinutePhysics. Get 20% off a premium subscription at https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics/This video is about how Albert Einstein made a mistake when applying the Field Equations of General Relativity to cosmology (in par
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Our Ignorance About Gravity
433 views / 0 likes - addedThanks 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 distance scales, what the
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How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained
546 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://www.dashlane.com/minutephysics to download Dashlane for free, and use offer code minutephysics for 10% off Dashlane Premium!Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsThis video explains Shors Algorithm, a way to ef
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Why Do Compressed Air Cans Get Cold?
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How To Make MUONS
343 views / 0 likes - addedTo keep your brain sharp with quick daily math & science puzzles, head to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics This video is about how to create muons in a particle accelerator via bombardment of heavy nuclei with protons, which results in creation of c
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Impossible Muons
321 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Brilliant.org for supporting MinutePhysics! The first 200 people who go to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics will get 20% off a Premium Subscription to Brilliant. This video is about how terrestrial muons are part of our experimental proof
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How ISPs Violate the Laws of Mathematics
409 views / 0 likes - addedGet a free trial of Audible at https://audible.com/minutephysics or by texting 'minutephysics' to 500500 Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ MinutePhys
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Hardy's Paradox | Quantum Double Double Slit Experiment
456 views / 0 likes - addedNeed a last minute holiday gift idea? Go to https://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant (can be given as a gift). Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters
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Shells of Cosmic Time (ft. @AstroKatie)
496 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to @AstroKatie (http://astrokatie.com, http://twitter.com/astrokatie) for the collaboration! Go to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics for free daily science puzzles Here's the original twitter thread https://twitter.com/astrokatie/status/106652
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Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?
454 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter's moon Europa - they're ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed due to some sort of
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The Physics of Caramel: How To Make a Caramelized Sugar Cube
628 views / 0 likes - addedWatch the original video in Spanish here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Vkv5GQXww This video is about how the physics and chemistry of sugar (in particular, how it melts, and how it caramelizes) is more complicated than you might think. It involves fr
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Legitimate Cold Fusion Exists | Muon-Catalyzed Fusion
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Spacetime Intervals: Not EVERYTHING is Relative | Special Relativity Ch. 7
970 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant! Mark Rober's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/markrober This video is chapter 7 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the idea that some things A
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The Twins Paradox Hands-On Explanation | Special Relativity Ch. 8
550 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant! Mark Rober's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/markrober This video is chapter 8 in my series on special relativity, and it presents a hands-on explanation of
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Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)
394 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Grant’s channel: 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/3blue1brown This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynma
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How To Stop Structures from SHAKING: LEGO Saturn V Tuned Mass Damper
516 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to LEGO for sponsoring this video. Find your own LEGOs at https://shop.lego.com/?cmp=SOC-OneMinutePhysics or https://shop.lego.com/product?p=21309&cmp=SOC-OneMinutePhysics This video is about Tuned Mass Dampers, which can be used to reduce or avoid
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The Brown Dwarf Debate
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Lorentz Transformations | Special Relativity Ch. 3
556 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant! Mark Rober's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/markrober The previous videos in this series: Chapter 1: Why Relativity is Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Relativity of Simultaneity | Special Relativity Ch. 4
413 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant! Mark Rober's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/markrober The previous videos in this series: Chapter 1: Why Relativity is Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Relativistic Addition of Velocity | Special Relativity Ch. 6
1,038 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant! Mark Rober's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/markrober This video is chapter 6 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the topic of relativistic a
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Length Contraction and Time Dilation | Special Relativity Ch. 5
555 views / 0 likes - addedGo to http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant! Mark Rober's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/markrober This video is chapter 5 in my series on special relativity, and it covers how things that are moving
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Why is Relativity Hard? | Special Relativity Chapter 1
465 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics for supporting this video! Thanks to my friend Mark Rober (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg) for making the spacetime globe, and to Grant Sanderson (https://www.youtube.com/3blue1bro
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What is fire?
470 views / 0 likes - addedFire it up! We explain hot stuff. Video of a candle in microgravity: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/QTVR/0601309.mov Tweet it - http://bit.ly/pOz9Dn Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/n0pCUE minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook
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Weigh a million dollars with your mind
532 views / 0 likes - addedA million dollars is a ton of money. But how much does it weigh? Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works Tweet it - http://bit.ly/so35wI Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/s54PZ1 minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qz
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Proof Without Words: The Circle
513 views / 0 likes - addedProve πR² using only beads and a ruler! I first saw this proof in an article by Russell Jay Hendel, Dowling College: http://bit.ly/LQlwQw minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter -
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Picture of the Big Bang (a.k.a. Oldest Light in the Universe)
427 views / 0 likes - addedWhere does all the stuff in the universe come from? Explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute P
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How to Count Infinity
410 views / 0 likes - added"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities" - Hazel Grace Lancaster, in "The Fault in Our Stars," by John Green minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Min
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GPS, relativity, and nuclear detection
424 views / 0 likes - addedGPS is just a big clock in space! (and it can detect nuclear explosions) Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works Tweet it - http://bit.ly/ufPyF7 Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/vBkxlV minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://b
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How to break the speed of light
522 views / 0 likes - addedYou can break the speed of light in your back yard! (but don't worry, Einstein is still right) Tweet it - http://bit.ly/rOv00A Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/tOzkUm minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/m
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The Speed of Light in Glass
454 views / 0 likes - addedHow does light speed up after leaving glass or water? What do light and the President of the United States have in common? Tweet it - http://bit.ly/pK7A3A Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/q7BQbz minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And face
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There is no pink light
359 views / 0 likes - addedPink doesn't exist! Tweet it - http://bit.ly/panYYg Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/nxhind minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of
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Schrödinger's Cat
519 views / 0 likes - addedNo cats were harmed in the making of this video. Tweet it - http://bit.ly/qJZry7 Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/rfgo9J minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energe
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Taming Infinity
560 views / 0 likes - addedHow does physics deal with infinity? Tweet it - http://bit.ly/r7EwHK Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/n4pShU minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and ente
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The Hairy Ball Theorem
492 views / 0 likes - addedEver tried to comb a hairy ball? Math says you failed! Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works Tweet it - http://bit.ly/sKAjpS Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/ujIFvN minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And f
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How lasers work (in theory)
443 views / 0 likes - addedHow does a laser really work? It's Bose - Einstein statistics! (photons are bosons) Check out Smarter Every Day's video showing lasers in real life: http://bit.ly/uBwhU2 Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works Tweet it - htt
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What is a Neutrino?
410 views / 0 likes - addedNeutrinos are the vampires of physics. Tweet it - http://bit.ly/sJgKV0 Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/rPfLOA minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics
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Why the solar system can exist
661 views / 0 likes - addedIf gravity is so attractive, why doesn't the earth just crash into the sun? Or the moon into the earth? The answer: Stable Orbits hyperbolic funnel video: http://bit.ly/r5xhng minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://fa
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How far is a second?
394 views / 0 likes - addedThe moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time? minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an en
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Einstein's Proof of E=mc²
547 views / 0 likes - addedEver wonder how Einstein proved E=mc²? This is how. Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEw
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Einstein and The Special Theory of Relativity
455 views / 1 likes - addedHow Einstein (& others) discovered Special Relativity. Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/q
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Albert Einstein: The Size and Existence of Atoms
815 views / 2 likes - addedHow do we know atoms exist? And just how big are they? Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/q
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Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum
499 views / 1 likes - addedPi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics
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What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!
461 views / 0 likes - addedIt's leap year time... so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way? Mr. Grey, of course: http://www.youtube.com/cgpgrey Thanks to the UCLA Galactic Center: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/
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SMBC Physics: Why are stones round? feat. Zach Weiner
422 views / 0 likes - addedZach Weiner of SMBC comics is guest illustrator on MinutePhysics! http://www.smbc-comics.com Why are some stones round and others flat? Tweet it - http://bit.ly/xNraRa Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/xCCsrl minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qz
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Round Triangles!
390 views / 0 likes - addedWhy circles are round (and triangles too!) rotor in a square hole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUeQugasOkk more info on reuleaux rotors and other SWEET stuff: http://www.howround.com minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook -
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Football, Physics, and Symmetry
475 views / 0 likes - addedTwo linemen colliding can light a 60W bulb for over a minute! Cool book on habits: http://www.charlesduhigg.com minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Phy
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Theory of Everything (intro)
383 views / 0 likes - addedA brief intro to the current theory of (almost) everything - the Standard Model of particle physics. It's like cake, only universal. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @min
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Theory of Everything: What is Matter?
637 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is matter, anyway? What does it have to do with math? And why aren't you made of Jesus? Delving deeper into the theory of (almost) everything - the Standard Model of particle physics. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And faceboo
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How Big is the Universe?
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02:41
What Is The Universe?
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Another Physics Misconception
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TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round
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02:02
Is it Better to Walk or Run in the Rain?
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Is There Poop on the Moon? ft. Smarter Every Day
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02:41
Common Physics Misconceptions
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02:34
Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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02:19
What is Touch?
434 views / 0 likes - addedIn this quantum world, what does it mean to touch something? Do we really hover above the chairs we're sitting in? MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Phys
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04:56
The True Science of Parallel Universes
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02:54
Parallel Universes: Many Worlds
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Foiled Proof
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3 Simple Ways to Time Travel (& 3 Complicated Ones)
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How to Destroy a Magnet (+ interactive periodic table)
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01:27
Where Was The Big Bang?
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05:20
Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
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02:17
Do We Expand With The Universe?
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03:54
Where is the True North Pole?
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02:07
How to Turn Sound Into Light: Sonoluminescence
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02:34
Can Humans Really Feel Temperature?
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The Order of Operations is Wrong
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02:10
London Bridge Was Sold to the US!?
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03:53
Why is it Dark at Night?
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02:27
AMAZING Simulation of the Evolution of the Universe
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06:26
MAGNETS: How Do They Work?
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05:12
Real World Telekinesis (feat. Neil Turok)
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The Origin of Quantum Mechanics (feat. Neil Turok)
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02:07
E=mc² is Incomplete
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02:10
Can we Predict Everything?
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01:25
Usain Bolt vs. Gravity
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03:59
What if the Earth were Hollow?
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How to Simulate the Universe on your Laptop
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Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox
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04:13
How We Know Black Holes Exist
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The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes
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04:49
The Black Hole Tipping Point
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03:37
Are University Admissions Biased? | Simpson's Paradox Part 2
591 views / 0 likes - addedSimpson's Paradox Part 2. Thanks to Skillshare for supporting this video! Head to http://skl.sh/minutephysics for your first two months free. Comments disabled because the discourse failed to remain civil. This video is about how to tell whether or not un
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Time Travel in Fiction Rundown
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Simpson's Paradox
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How to Build a Teleporter with Aliens
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03:42
Solar Panels Made With a Particle Accelerator?!
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Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI
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Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs (Collab. w/ MinuteEarth)
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Correlation CAN Imply Causation! | Statistics Misconceptions
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Quantum SHAPE-SHIFTING: Neutrino Oscillations
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Will Batteries Power The World? | The Limits Of Lithium-ion
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What Is The Shape of Space?
446 views / 0 likes - addedA collaboration with Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson, check out "We Have No Idea" at http://www.wehavenoidea.com Jorge's PhDComics: http://www.phdcomics.com Numberphile video about sports in hyperbolic space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Got0X41pY Sup
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Why It's HARD To Land on Mars
469 views / 0 likes - addedSupport MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to at
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The "Mountain Or Valley?" Illusion
828 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to Skillshare for supporting this video: http://skl.sh/MinutePhysics for 2 free months! This video is about a multistable perceptual illusion, similar to the hollow face illusion, whereby maps or aerial or satellite photos look upside down/inside o
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Ring AROUND the Earth?
577 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is about what would happen if we built a giant ring around earth – what would happen to the ring, that is. Would if fall? Collapse? Start spinning? REFERENCES: Why Isn’t It Faster to Fly West? Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gNkgj9h2oM P
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How Do We Know The Universe Is ACCELERATING?
676 views / 0 likes - addedThe universe is expanding – this we know from looking at red shifts of distant galaxies – but the acceleration of the universe's expansion is harder to measure. It requires measuring the change of recession velocity over time, and it's done by comparing T
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Can We Survive Curiosity?
590 views / 0 likes - addedThere's a March for Science happening all over the world: http://marchforscience.com This is a video about how science is both inherently political and apolitical. And how hopefully we won't end up in nuclear war... REFERENCES: Language acquisition and ag
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How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat
592 views / 0 likes - addedSupport me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Previous video on No Cloning: https://youtu.be/owPC60Ue0BE How to teleport Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full quantum teleportation procedure, in which an arbitrary qubit (spin, etc)
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Should You Walk or Run When It's Cold?
552 views / 0 likes - addedHi! My name is Henry, I make MinutePhysics, and you can support me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Is it better to walk or run when it's cold out? If you run, then you have to deal with wind, wind chill, etc, but your body generates more
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The No Cloning Theorem
539 views / 1 likes - addedSupport MinutePhysics on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Three Blue One Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw Why you can’t clone Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full proof of the “No Cloning” Theorem in
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What is the Purpose of Life? (Big Picture Ep. 5/5)
911 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the universe seems to be. Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting this video, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! Playlist of the full video series:
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03:15
Is The Moon Held Up By A Spring? How Perspective Shapes Reality
658 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting this video, which is about how the way we describe the world can influence the way we perceive it. In particular, with regards to Bohmian mechanics, Schrodinger wave functions, Feynman path int
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How Entropy Powers The Earth (Big Picture Ep. 4/5)
632 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is about how we don't just need energy to power our lives, we need *low entropy* energy! Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! His book can be found here: http://www.penguin
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Where Does Complexity Come From?
468 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is about the difference between complexity and entropy, and how complex things like life can arise from disorder. Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! His book can be found
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03:28
Do Cause and Effect Really Exist?
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Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?
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Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox
621 views / 0 likes - addedOne of the most famous paradoxes of all of physics – who's older? Who's younger? and WHY? ***** Thanks to The Great Courses Plus (free trial here: http://ow.ly/RCty302dIHU) for supporting MinutePhysics ***** Thanks to everyone who supports MinutePhysics o
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The Twins Paradox Primer (Rotating TIME!)
568 views / 0 likes - addedHow can time be slower and faster at the same time? Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting MinutePhysics This video is about the famous “Twin paradox” of special relativity, and how time can appear to be faster for two different obs
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How Long Is A Day On The Sun?
856 views / 6 likes - addedThanks to everyone who supports MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon supporters here: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters.html This video is about the definition of a day, and how it applies (or not) on the su
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Where Do Galaxies Come From?
826 views / 1 likes - addedThanks to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for supporting this video! In particular, thanks to Dan Coe of STScI for taking the time to chat with me about what we do and don’t know about baby galaxies and
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Hitting The Sun Is HARD
708 views / 0 likes - addedListen to "The Paradox of Choice" for free at http://www.Audible.com/minutephysics This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it’s so hard to crash into the sun – the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar
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Gravitational Waves Explained Using Stick Figures
587 views / 0 likes - addedGO HERE NOW: https://www.einsteinathome.org Einstein@Home wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein@Home This video is about gravitational waves in the weak field limit as discovered by the LIGO collaboration, explained by parallels to elec
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How Long To Fall Through The Earth?
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Solution To The Grandfather Paradox
684 views / 0 likes - addedWhat if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather? Would you still be born? Or would you have thus killed yourself? Thanks to Google #sciencegoals for sponsoring this video! Link to the previous MinutePhysics video: https://youtu.be/XayNKY944l
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Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
706 views / 1 likes - addedThe physics behind the perfect size of a jet engine. Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting this video – if you try the free 30-day trial, I recommend "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card Thanks for everyone who supports MinutePhysics
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Aliens: Are We Looking In The Wrong Place?
596 views / 0 likes - addedBig Alien Theory explanation website - http://www.thebigalientheory.com/ Thanks to everyone who supports MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon supporters here: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters.html Music by
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Why You Should Care About Nukes
514 views / 0 likes - addedFor info about divesting from nuclear weapons companies, go to http://responsibleinvest.org/ Thanks to the Future of Life Institute for helping support this video http://www.futureoflife.org (in particular, thanks to Max Tegmark for guest narrating and Me
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The Limb Of The Sun
569 views / 0 likes - addedAlso, why do some flames look hollow? Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for sponsoring this video. More information about: Limb darkening – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limb_darkening Optical Depth – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_dep
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Transporters And Quantum Teleportation
537 views / 0 likes - addedA reply to CGP Grey's video about teleportation, consciousness and Star Trek. CGP Grey’s Transporter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI REFERENCES Scott Aaronson on teleportation machines: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec18.html
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How Do We Know What Air Is Like On Other Planets?
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Concrete Does Not Dry Out
725 views / 0 likes - addedConcrete doesn’t dry - it sets! Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting this video. More about the hydration reaction: http://iti.northwestern.edu/cement/monograph/Monograph5_3.html Portland Cement Hydration: http://people.ce.gatech.
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736 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe. Thanks to the Moore Foundation (http://www.moore.org) for supporting this video. More info
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Why December Has The Longest Days
464 views / 0 likes - addedSubscribe to MinutePhysics! December has the longest solar days (noon-to-noon) because of the weird way a combination of the axial tilt of the earth and the eccentricity of its elliptical orbit conspire in December. Perihelion + Solstices = Long Days. Her
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The Physics Of Car Crashes
686 views / 1 likes - addedHow is the chemical energy of gasoline transformed into kinetic energy of a moving car? And where does that kinetic energy go when the car crashes into something and stops moving? Thanks to Ford (http://www.takeagoodlook.com) for sponsoring this video. Li
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Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?
682 views / 0 likes - addedIf the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily? Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting MinutePhysics. Link to Patreon supporters here: www.minutephysics.com/supporters.html Music by
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Why Do We Put Telescopes In Space?
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Why It's Impossible To Tune A Piano
531 views / 0 likes - addedPianos can't be perfectly tuned - it's a mathematical fact! Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting MinutePhysics. Equal tempered tuning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament Just Tuning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just
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