The Scientific Lens
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Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology. A curated deep-dive into the universe, from the subatomic to the supermassive.
Joined July 2024
How is it possible that something is moving faster than the speed of light if the speed of light is the fastest thing in the universe?
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You can teach a physicist finance but you cannot teach a finance person physics. — Jim Simons
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Imagine dropping from orbit in a 100-ton machine… with ZERO engines. It’s a marvel of science and engineering. After reentering Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speed, the Space Shuttle had no engines to help it land. Once it dropped out of orbit, it became a heavy glider,
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Einstein said to Chaplin: “What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!” “It’s true”, replied Chaplin. “But your fame is even greater: the world admires you, when nobody understands what you say.” — Chaplin and
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Scientists are often on the mark when it comes to predicting the future. Here is a prediction about America that Carl Sagan made 31 years ago.
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“Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.”
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In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. — Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Will We Ever Be Able To Teleport? The dream of "beaming up" is one of science fiction's most enduring tropes, but Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the laws of physics, have a few reality checks for us. Quantum Reconstruction vs. Spacetime Folding The Transporter Problem: This
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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter. — Richard Feynman
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What, in your view, is the strangest aspect of the universe?
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. —Richard Feynman
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At just 26 years old, in the year 1905, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers later called the “Annus Mirabilis” (Extraordinary Year) papers. These works explored the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the principle of mass–energy equivalence.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
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“I don’t feel small. I feel much bigger! My atoms come from those stars. I am part of this universe.” — Richard Feynman, on why the vastness of the universe isn’t disquieting, but wonderful.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein
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When Elon Musk speaks about World War III, the real issue isn’t politics, it’s survivability. A single-planet species confined to Earth carries existential risk. Without becoming multi-planetary before a global catastrophe, the probability of irreversible collapse rises
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“Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.”
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