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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Something Faster Than Light?
Newton called it an absurdity. Einstein called it spooky. In 2008, somebody measured its speed.
In February 1693, Isaac Newton sat down in Cambridge to answer a letter from a young clergyman named Richard Bentley, who was preparing a serie...
Score 15 and You’ve Been Reading Properly
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No new physics today. Or rather, all of it at once, compressed into twenty questions.
This one is purely for fun. I...
Your Head Is Older Than Your Feet
Gravity slows time. We have measured it from a Harvard tower down to a single millimeter.
In the spring of 1959, two physicists at Harvard aimed a gamma-ray source up the inside of a tower and began hunting for one of the smallest effects...
If light is Massless, Why is it Affected by Gravity
On the morning of May 29, 1919, on a small volcanic island off the west coast of Africa, Arthur Eddington stood under a clouded sky and waited for the universe to cooperate.
He had sailed from England with crates of telescopes and photogra...
The Quantum Brain
A physicist won a major prize, then spent five years asking whether his own antidepressants were quantum mechanical. The evidence goes on trial today.
A lithium level came back at 1.4 in my psychiatry rotation, and I thought about it way t...
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