he took a very small piece of hose and showed me that, if you fill it with water, and hang it over the edge of the pool, as long as the edge outside of the pool was longer than that inside the pool water, it creates a siphon and the water flowed naturally out until it was more or less empty.
Tag: Physics
Impossible 10/2/21
Will people fall for the scam? Of course, they will. How often have students complained about science or math saying, “I’ll never use this”? Those are the people who don’t understand even rudimentary physics and will be likely victims of this scam.
Quantum Mechanics 3/9/19
the same atom, existing at the same moment in time, about ten times its diameter from each other. It's like a happy you and a sad you standing ten feet apart looking at each other.
Science WAY Fiction 2/20/10
I'm not blaming entertainment for this problem, but it does seem to be a symptom of the lack of concern for science and mathematics. How is it that we have come to a point in our society that people will pay money to watch ice fall through water? Why can't we hold each other to higher standards?