YOU MIGHT BE A PHYSICS MAJOR...
if you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
if you enjoy pain.
if you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
if you chuckle...
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...
It occurred to me: our planet should perhaps be called Water, not Earth.
Not only because three quarters of its surface is water and only one quarter is land, but also because 75% of the human body is water.
Because water...
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,...
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving together one day. Heisenberg is behind the wheel when he sees a cop car is approaching. He dutifully pulls over.
He rolls down the window and the cop asks: "Do you know how...
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...
While I was thinking about the birds I saw Shaun walk over to the man. I recognized him; he had sat in front of me on the plane. I had remembered him saying something about being a Physicist so...
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,...
Like all stars, the Sun has its beginning, life, and eventual end. Although it gives us light and warmth every day, it is just one of many inhabitants of the universe, destined to follow the fate shared by all...
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist were asked to name the greatest invention of all times.
The engineer chose fire, which gave humanity power over matter.
The mathematician chose the wheel, which gave humanity the power over space.
The physicist mystic...
