@jimkakalios
Your Friendly Neighborhood Physics Professor. Condensed Matter Experimentalist and author of THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES, THE AMAZING STORY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS and THE PHYSICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS.
In the list of heroes who do not *really* need motorized transportation, there is
It's a tie between these two, but I think I give the edge to: Tom Sawyer, you tricked me. This is less fun than previously indicated. Let this corny slice of Americana be your tomb for all eternity.
This Tuesday, the Summer of Quirky Quantum Physics continues at the UMN. Prof. Martin Greven, expert on Superconductors, will describe these fascinating materials, at 7 PM, June 30th at 10 Church St. (the Old Bell Museum). First the Knicks in 5, and now Free Physics! What's Next?
We're doing it again! Another all-new, FREE public lecture series at the UMN! Doors open at 6 PM at the Old Bell Museum (10 Church St.). All invited and welcome for math-free explorations of Quantum Physics! Find out why we put the word Quantum in front of everything!
Though to be fair, in the 1970's, people were very polite whenever you sneezed.
If Sue creates a sufficient distortion of spacetime around her (or another object), then she can push or pull anything away or toward her, similar to if she were manipulating Newtonian gravity.
The refraction effect implies she is bending light, which is the mechanism usually invoked to account for her invisibility. That is, just as real-world devices - metamaterials - can have an effective negative index of refraction, so bent light does not bounces off an object 4/N
In the comics, Sue's force field is denoted by dashed lines. How to represent it in the FF:FS film? By refractive effects at the edges of the field.
Another excuse to post my favorite teeshirt, featuring Shakespeare's secret of his success:
This is twice in two days I've had to use this. I'm only partially made of money Internet!
A thread by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social about Pig Latin preceding this story by the Guardian. It's going to be a strange day.
How can Ant-Man be light enough to ride an ant, but heavy enough to knock out a henchman? It involves Pym particles, the Higgs boson and quantum field theory. All explained in 15 pages without equations in my new book THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES GOES HOLLYWOOD.
In the late 1970's my date and I passed 9 W 57th St., where a movie was being filmed. A crowd on the other side of the street waited for the main actor to appear. We were not disappointed. (The start of Chapter 1 in THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES GOES HOLLYWOOD)
I think I know what the "unexpected turn" will be. She thinks he's going out at night, cheating on her, but she discovers that her fiance is Batman! High jinx ensue!
That's right, folks! I knew him when! (even then, he wouldn't wear a tie to a town hall meeting!)
The green line has a lifetime of less than a second. For people who use vacuum chambers, it was not until the 1920s that they were able to produce a good enough vacuum in the lab to be able to identify that red line." 2/2
Not only are the faculty sharing their aurora photos - but the explanations of what we saw! "The reason that the red line is seen at high altitudes is that it has a long lifetime (the order of 100 s), so it is collisionally de-excited at low altitudes where the atmosphere is more dense. 1/2
But Joseph, you did travel in time! You see... oh, you mean backwards in time.