Some time ago I received a call from a colleague who asked if I would be the referee on the grading of an examination question. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a...
Political parties can be explained using chemistry. Here’s how:
Political parties are the basic building blocks of the political scene, just as atoms are the basic building blocks of matter.
Every party strives for stability and for filling its membership ranks,...
Police control
The policeman stopped the car driver for regular control, the speed limit on the highway section was 120km / h, he legitimized the driver and asked him a few routine questions:
POLICEMAN: How long were you driving today?
DRIVER: I...
This is an example of physics majors with way too much time on their hands...
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects...
Drama in Three Acts
Introduction
No one really knows how fascinating the story of electric current is.
We know that when we press a switch, the light turns on. We know that when we turn a key, a car starts. But rarely...
After the discovery of the first battery, no one knew exactly what flowed through a conductor.
That was the key question at the beginning of the 19th century.
Two Italians – Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta – responsible for the first...
Among all possible forms of prestige in society—whether wealth, social class, or titles—I have always been most fascinated by intellectual aristocracy. At the very top of that aristocracy stand geniuses. They are the true driving force of social processes,...
One day, all of the world's famous physicists decided to get together for a tea luncheon. Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and able to observe some of the guests...
Everyone gravitated toward Newton, but he just kept...
Imagine being able to count electrons – those tiny, invisible particles no one has ever seen. They are so small that we can’t even picture them, let alone count them. But if we know the charge each one carries...
Conclusion:
So every inhabitant of the Earth should count for 5 years to count all electrons that pass in only 5 hours through a mining bulb.
