March 18, 1987: Woodstock for Physicists
1987: Thousands of physicists crowd a ballroom at the New York Hilton for a hastily arranged marathon session on high-temperature superconductivity. The event generates so much excitement that it is later referred to as the “Woodstock of Physics.”
The Physics of Pixar’s Hair
How is a curling hair like a long-range oil pipeline? And what two groups are working on the physics that apply to both? Learn about the science of engineering mop-tops.
Earth’s North Magnetic Pole
Faucet with Oil and Water
“A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.”
Henry Kissinger
Quantum Suicide: How to Prove the Multiverse Exists, in the Most Violent Way Possible
Quantum mechanics says objective reality doesn’t exist, that instead all we see are probabilities collapsing into one particular configuration… and all other possible realities might just exist together in a quantum multiverse. Here’s the deadly experiment that could help you to test that very idea. More »
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patent drawing
March 7, 1876.
Publicity picture of Nikola Tesla sitting in his laboratory in Colorado Springs with his “Magnifying transmitter” generating millions of volts. The arcs are about 7 meters (23 ft) long. (Tesla’s notes identify this as a multiple exposure photograph.)
