If you obsess about light, as many obsessive people do, and as many people who are fascinated by light do, and if you are prone to break into song and then explain without singing what you have just sung about, you might find yourself singing a song such as Sabine Hossenfelder sings here, and then […]
Tag: Physics
Is a Slowly-Rolling Car Not Dangerous?
Physics can help a person realize that it’s not always good to be hit by a slowly rolling car, even if the ground appears to be flat. This medical report gives details: “Pedestrian accident analysis with a silicone dummy block,” Youngnae Lee, Sungji Park, Seokhyun Yoon, Youngsu Kong, and Jae-Mo Goh, Forensic Science International, vol. 220, […]
Do Frogs in Helium Get Squeaky Voices? (Podcast #94)
Do frogs get all high-voiced when they breathe in some helium, the way people do? A research study explores that very question, and we explore that study, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published helium-filled study, with dramatic readings from Dany Adams, a biology professor at Tufts University […]
Blais sings, in parallel, of quantum gravity
Timothy Blais acted out his master’s thesis (which is called “A new quantization condition for parity-violating three-dimensional gravity“) in a manner unusual for a physicist. He sang it, in n-part harmony, to the tune of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”: (Thanks to Andrea Rapisarda for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: An older, printer-performed version of the song, which […]