This is my favorite thing I've heard in a while! How fascinating!
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rebeccareynolds8953 weeks, 5 days ago
This one makes perfect sense to me. It’s weirder to think about walking forward compared to backward on a train that’s going at light speed.
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maríacristina_deanda3 weeks, 5 days ago
At a young age I learned nothing observable can go faster than the speed of light.
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meganmccarthy2683 weeks, 5 days ago
Everything is basically 99% empty space.
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ann_lewis3 weeks, 5 days ago
Minecraft redstone vs. wireless redstone....
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kevin.brown3 weeks, 5 days ago
"Spooky action at a distance."
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allenanderson4043 weeks, 5 days ago
That does make sense tho.
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vanessa_carlson3 weeks, 5 days ago
But if the pole was a fiber optic, I be instant.
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hans-hinrichhendriks2643 weeks, 6 days ago
This makes a lot of sense to me lol
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rafaél_gastélum4 weeks ago
“Haaah” vs light. Iykyk 😂
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daniel_garcia4 weeks ago
I was watching Ask Hank Anything the other day and thinking about what questions I would ask and this way basically it! I used to have a debate about the speed of motion through objects with a friend and I think this is basically the answer. Hank is the ultimate.
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trinidad_apodaca4 weeks, 1 day ago
It's true on paper, but if you were actually able to build it somehow, I can't imagine it actually working that way.
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adán.cuellar4 weeks, 1 day ago
Thats obvious and easy to visualise and grasp. But don't try to convince me about wave function collapse under observation if its not a simulation
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nicholas_smith4 weeks, 1 day ago
Humans see the world as a series of tools, and science is a tool to understand the world around us. That’s why we can use a tool, see the results, and still not comprehend fully what just happened. The phrase “science isn’t true, the world is true and science just tells us” is so real because the results often are so wildly outside of human prediction and perception.
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lilia_medrano4 weeks, 2 days ago
I also like the one about how shadows can move faster than the speed of light.
virginiedelta144 weeks, 2 days ago
The Monty Hall problem... i instantly become rage.
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john.jensen4 weeks, 2 days ago
This is a very interesting way to see why the speed of sound that I got while searching: While we often think of "sound" as something we hear with our ears, to a physicist, your "push" is just a very low-frequency sound wave traveling down the pole.
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vanessa_carlson4 weeks, 2 days ago
I like knowing Luna is only a slow blink away
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marguerite_robin4 weeks, 2 days ago
It makes perfect sense, we live in a physical reality with defined rules
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trinidad_apodaca4 weeks, 2 days ago
But it does make sense... Everything just acts kinda like a spring at that scale, shrinking slightly when pushed on one end until to pulse reaches the other end where the molecules can all extend again. Nothing in the universe is infinitely dense so at significant scales solids don't act completely like solids. I think people can wrap their mind around this.
This is my favorite thing I've heard in a while! How fascinating!
This one makes perfect sense to me. It’s weirder to think about walking forward compared to backward on a train that’s going at light speed.
At a young age I learned nothing observable can go faster than the speed of light.
Everything is basically 99% empty space.
Minecraft redstone vs. wireless redstone....
"Spooky action at a distance."
That does make sense tho.
But if the pole was a fiber optic, I be instant.
This makes a lot of sense to me lol
“Haaah” vs light. Iykyk 😂
I was watching Ask Hank Anything the other day and thinking about what questions I would ask and this way basically it! I used to have a debate about the speed of motion through objects with a friend and I think this is basically the answer. Hank is the ultimate.
It's true on paper, but if you were actually able to build it somehow, I can't imagine it actually working that way.
Thats obvious and easy to visualise and grasp. But don't try to convince me about wave function collapse under observation if its not a simulation
Humans see the world as a series of tools, and science is a tool to understand the world around us. That’s why we can use a tool, see the results, and still not comprehend fully what just happened. The phrase “science isn’t true, the world is true and science just tells us” is so real because the results often are so wildly outside of human prediction and perception.
I also like the one about how shadows can move faster than the speed of light.
The Monty Hall problem... i instantly become rage.
This is a very interesting way to see why the speed of sound that I got while searching: While we often think of "sound" as something we hear with our ears, to a physicist, your "push" is just a very low-frequency sound wave traveling down the pole.
I like knowing Luna is only a slow blink away
It makes perfect sense, we live in a physical reality with defined rules
But it does make sense... Everything just acts kinda like a spring at that scale, shrinking slightly when pushed on one end until to pulse reaches the other end where the molecules can all extend again. Nothing in the universe is infinitely dense so at significant scales solids don't act completely like solids. I think people can wrap their mind around this.