Sun Aug 03 08:07:55 GMT 2025 From /weblog/science/physics

light

The color purple is unlike all others, in a physical sense - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ience/color-purple-non-spectral-feature/

What color is a mirror? It’s not a trick question ( white and green ) - https://www.zmescience.com[..]or-is-a-mirror-its-not-a-trick-question/

why is snow white - https://www.zmescience.com/science/why-is-snow-white/

The Ames Room: The optical illusion that will make you doubt your eyes - https://www.zmescience.com[..]feature-post/optical-illusion-ames-room/

MIT 再現雙縫實驗，顛覆愛因斯坦百年觀點：光無法同時是波也是粒子 - https://www.inside.com.tw[..]6-mit-shatters-einsteins-quantum-beliefs

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Sun Jul 20 14:09:07 GMT 2025 From /weblog/science/physics

motion

The Magnus effect: the physical principle feared by goalkeepers - https://www.zmescience.com[..]hysical-principle-feared-by-goalkeepers/

Cycling Is Four Times More Efficient Than Walking. A Biomechanics Expert Explains Why - https://www.zmescience.com[..]king-a-biomechanics-expert-explains-why/

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Thu Mar 06 12:44:38 GMT 2025 From /weblog/science/physics

time

Quasar ‘clocks’ show universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang - https://www.zmescience.com[..]r-clocks-time-slows-down-early-universe/

Melting polar ice is changing Earth’s rotation and slowing down time. Here’s how this will affect the leap second - https://www.zmescience.com/space/melting-polar-ice-timekeeping/

Scientists Inch Closer to World’s First Nuclear Clock — A New Tool to Probe the Mysteries of the Universe - https://www.zmescience.com[..]science/news-science/nuclear-clock-jila/

Physicists Say Time’s Arrow Could Move in Two Directions at Once - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ow-could-move-in-two-directions-at-once/

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Tue Jan 07 11:45:21 GMT 2025 From /weblog/science/physics

physics

World’s Best Paper Airplane - https://makezine.com/projects/worlds-best-paper-airplane/

Water - http://list25.com/25-odd-facts-about-water/?view=all

Can we empty bottles faster? Yes, and here’s how - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/faster-bottle-emptying-physics-2562452/

The LeverAxe uses physics to finally bring splitting wood to the 21st century - http://www.zmescience.com/science/leveraxe-wood-chopping-423534/

Why cloud don't fall - http://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/why-clouds-dont-fall

What’s the difference between diffusion and osmosis - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ence/difference-diffusion-osmosis-043243
What is osmosis — the most important principle in biology - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-osmosis-0634/

葡萄進微波爐迸電漿閃光！最新論文解 - https://www.inside.com.tw[..]o-microwave-resonances-of-aqueous-dimers

bubbles-guinness-go-down - https://www.zmescience.com[..]hysics/bubbles-guinness-go-down-06062019

用物理學打造的這籃框，讓你投籃百發百中 - https://www.inside.com.tw[..]ticle/19633-a-Never-Miss-Basketball-Hoop

Time travel - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-post/time-travel-without-the-paradoxes/

relativity - https://www.zmescience.com[..]sics/what-is-special-relativity-0542352/

What is Mass-Energy Equivalence (E=mc^2): the most famous formula in science - https://www.zmescience.com[..]emc2-the-most-famous-formula-in-science/

What is the Standard Model of Particle Physics? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-the-standard-model-of-particle-physics/

Scientists develop origami inflatable structures that are stable both inflated and deflated - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/inflatable-origami-structures-22042021/

How a compass works: the trusty magnetic guide - https://www.zmescience.com[..]compass-works-the-trusty-magnetic-guide/

A brilliant 100-year-old Nikola Tesla invention is just beginning to make sense - https://www.zmescience.com[..]news-science/tesla-valve-patent-0543252/

Why don’t satellites fall down from the sky? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]cience/why-dont-satellites-fall-feature/

Massive objects become the astrophysicists’ extra lenses. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]at-is-gravitational-lensing-astronomers/

vacuum - https://www.zmescience.com[..]eature-post/what-is-the-vacuum-of-space/ https://www.zmescience.com[..]ature-post/mysteries-of-vacuum-13052022/

電影《沙丘》的沙子是流體還是固體？談談顆粒流的物理學 - https://dq.yam.com/post/14952

The unlikely story of neutrino research involves ultrapure water, shifting masses, and two casino-loving physicists - https://www.zmescience.com[..]masses-and-two-casino-loving-physicists/

Ice Spikes - http://www.its.caltech.edu[..]mic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm

Who invented air conditioning, and why there’s more than meets the eye to his humble invention - https://www.zmescience.com/science/who-invented-ac-19072022/

Does time really exist? - https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/does-time-exist-182965/

Most fans don’t know it but Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver exists for real. Well, sort of - https://www.zmescience.com[..]crewdriver-exists-for-real-well-sort-of/

Why does time go forwards, not backwards? - https://www.bbc.com[..]-why-does-time-go-forwards-not-backwards

Scientists devised a quantum watch that measures time in a fundamentally different way - https://www.zmescience.com[..]s-time-in-a-fundamentally-different-way/

Why did Einstein find quantum mechanics debatable? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nstein-find-quantum-mechanics-debatable/

What is the Electron Cloud Model: this is how electrons inside an atom really behave - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-electrons-inside-an-atom-really-behave/

Scientists just invented an entirely new way to cool things that could one day replace our polluting fridges - https://www.zmescience.com[..]d-one-day-replace-our-polluting-fridges/

Why More Physicists Are Starting to Think Space and Time Are ‘Illusions’ - https://www.thedailybeast.com[..]ng-to-think-space-and-time-are-illusions

The Plum Pudding Model: how a flawed idea was instrumental in our understanding of the atom - https://www.zmescience.com[..]e-post/plum-pudding-model-atom-16072020/

What are isotopes: everything you need to know - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-are-isotopes-feature/

Emmy Noether: the woman who developed one of the most beautiful theorems in physics - https://www.zmescience.com[..]anities/people/emmy-noether-mathematics/

New Experiment Could Solve One of Physics’ Biggest Mysteries: The Graviton - https://www.zmescience.com[..]s-science/graviton-detection-experiment/

Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Is Surprisingly Scientifically Accurate, Mirroring Complex Atmospheric Physics - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-goghs-starry-night-atmospheric-physics/

Scientists Uncover the Ideal Physique for Keeping a Hula Hoop Spinning - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ysique-for-keeping-a-hula-hoop-spinning/

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Sat Dec 28 01:24:47 GMT 2024 From /weblog/science/physics

sound

Sound - https://list25.com/25-randomly-cool-facts-about-sound/

What, really, is the speed of sound? - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-speed-sound-2625234/

The loudest sound in mankind’s history - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-loudest-sound-ever-in-mankinds-history/

25 Mind-Blowing Facts About Time - https://list25.com/25-mind-blowing-facts-about-time/

Scientists found a way to make sound travel in only one direction - https://www.zmescience.com[..]make-sound-travel-in-only-one-direction/

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