Physics Gene
I write about the real intuition behind physics concepts, explained the way a curious person actually wants to understand them. One deep-dive a week that changes how you see the universe
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The Physics behind an ECG
It's not measuring your heart. It's measuring which way a wave is pointing.
By the end of this, you’ll look at an electrocardiogram and know exactly what you’re seeing. From the medical side, and from the physicist’s side.
The Machine That Stops His Heart to Save It
I had just finished my floor and come down to the cardiac unit. I had been there maybe a minute when the monitor over one of the beds started to alarm.
The line on the screen had lost its shape. Where there should have been the clean, spac...
What does spacetime curvature look like?
The picture in your head is wrong, the bending is intrinsic and not extrinsic.
This is zero dimensions.
Gravity Is Not a Force
You’ve seen it. A bowling ball sitting in the middle of a stretched rubber sheet, the surface sagging into a smooth funnel around it, a few marbles circling the dip like little planets.
Maybe it was a textbook. Maybe it was a science video...
The Bridge to Quantum Mechanics
Three frameworks describe one falling box. Only one of them became quantum mechanics.
Last time I told you the universe is lazy. Out of every path a system could take, it takes the one that costs the least action. I showed you that Newton...
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Physics graduate & medical doctor in training. I write about the real intuition behind physics concepts, explained the way a curious person actually wants to understand them. One deep-dive a week that changes how you see the universe.
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