Today in 1897 J. J. Thomson announced that he had discovered the electron, and in 2024 I’m lucky to find the remote.
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The so-called Doppler effect
Satellite tracked Malaysia plane in ‘unprecedented’ way writes: In its further detective work, Inmarsat studied the so-called Doppler effect, the name for what makes the noise from an approaching vehicle sound different from one speeding away from a listener. Right up there with the so-called gravity effect and so-called wind resistance effect that ultimately brought the plane down. Read more →
How does water instantly freeze in a water bottle?
In our garage we have some bottled water. With the colder weather I’ve witnessed an interesting phenomenon. When I bring a water bottle into the house, it is entirely liquid, but as soon as I shake it, it fills with slush. Apparently, it’s a process called supercooling. The water temperature is brought below the freezing point, and all it takes… Read more →