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 Universe Should Be Empty
In the spring of 1964, on opposite sides of New York City, two teams of physicists were being annoyed by their equipment.
In Holmdel, New Jersey, two radio astronomers named Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had a horn-shaped antenna the size...
Hospitals Use Antimatter Every Day
There is a form I sign in the hospital that I have never once signed without a small private pause. It sends a patient for a PET scan. The instructions we give them sound less like medicine and more like superstition. Nothing to eat after m...
Something Is Outrunning Light
It happens millions of times a second inside nuclear reactor pools. The blue glow is what losing the race looks like.
There is a room in every nuclear power plant that visitors never forget.
How We Know the Universe Is Running Away From Us
You’re probably reading this somewhere with a road nearby. Do me a favor: think back to the last time an ambulance passed you while you stood still.
You heard the siren climb to a high pitch as it came toward you, then drop lower as it spe...
The Quantum Rule That Holds the World Apart
The reason nothing solid can be squeezed out of existence, from your hand to the heart of a collapsed star.
On Monday I left you with your hand resting on a table it never actually touches, floating a few atoms’ width above the surface on...
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