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 In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds. - Albert Einstein, A. Moszkowski, Conversations with Einstein, page 67, Horizon Press (1970) |
Anaerobic animal manure processing plants
James "the Amazing" Randi and other iconoclasts
Pseudoscience
Spontaneous generation (parthenogenesis)
UFOs
Scaling
The usual arguments
Historical controversies
Debates and court decisions
Sunspots and solar cycles
Hyabusa and other asteroid probes
Space Missions
Giant Impact Hypotheis on the formation of the Moon
Great debates in astronomy
NEOs (near-Earth objects)
In search of brown dwarfs
Pickering's Women
Discovery of Pluto
Space colonization
Space elevator
Bode's law and the discoveries of Uranus and Ceres
History of Supernovae
Asteroid mining
Extinction-level events
The Sky
Ancient Calendars and Observatories
The Great Siberian Explosion ("...the greatest flash witnessed before nuclear weapons.")
Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
The Great Spectroscopists
Tools of astronomy
The Great Cosmologists
Extraterrestrial intelligence
The story of D.M. Barringer
Ancient astronomers
Not-so-recent astronomers
Great revolutionaries
Modern astronomers
Newton and Halley
The library of Alexandria
Surtsey
Alfred Wegener
Alternative Energy Sources
Trebuchet and other tools from ballistics
SHARP and HARP--the supercannon projects
Stability of Sports Utility Vehicles
Big ideas in history
Physics of sports
Great engineering feats
Great Disasters
Terminal velocity
Technology
Momentum propulsion
Torque and angular momentum
Reference frames and fictitious forces
Age of the Sun/Earth: A historical perspective
Satellites
Henry Cavendish's Gravity Experiments
Stirling vs Otto vs Carnot
Perpetual motion machines
Industrial revolution
History of Heat
Appian Way and other Roman aqueducts
Siphon
Pumps
The Wandering Magnetic Pole and Chronometry
cool electrostatic ideas
Motor
Antigravity lifter
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/FreeEnergy/Directory/Lifter/
http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifterb.htm
Quantum Hall Effect
Superconductors
Tesla coil
Electromagnetic guns
Electromagnetic can crush
Tethered Satellite project
Electrocution
Animal electricity (vitalism)
Thomas Edison
Electrostatic precipitators
Solar storms
Ground fault interrupt and other safety devices
Magnetic braking
Lightning
Medical devices
Impedance plethysmography
RAM and other information-storage devices
Corona and St. Elmo's fire
Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Singing goblets
Foucault pendulum
Viscoelastic damping
Earthquakes and seismography
Space telescopes
Imaging technology
Gramophone
Hypersonics
Culvert whistler
SOFAR channel
Echolocation
Active Noise Reduction (ANR)
Audiology and hearing aids
Echolocation and animal communication (ultrasound and infrasound)
Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy
Chromatic musical scale
Holograms
Endoscopy and fiber optics
Fizeau, Michaelson, and experiment and the speed of light
Microscopes and telescopes
Rainbows and mirages
Big Bang
Lasers
Chaos
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