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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Your Eye Slows Light Down
Two rival formulas for the momentum of a photon inside glass, water, and the vitreous of your own eye. They differ by a factor of nearly two. Both of them are correct.
There is a small violence in fundoscopy (Eyes imaging) that nobody warn...
Sunlight Weighs Nothing and Pushes You Anyway
There is a kind of afternoon in August here when the sun stops behaving like light and starts behaving like weather. You step out of a building and something arrives on your face and your shoulders, and the most natural word for it is press...
A Measurement in the Quantum World
I want to shift away from explaining what a measurement collapsing the wave function means to what the measurement even mean
In the hospital we have a running joke that the most dangerous thing for your blood pressure is a doctor. A patien...
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
When I used to talk about quantum mechanics to my friends, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle was always brought up and everyone had their own opinion on it. They all sensed its existence in their lives. The uncertainty principle, as most...
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...
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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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