Category: Passionately Curious
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Passionately Curious: What The Hell Is Quantum?
Read more: Passionately Curious: What The Hell Is Quantum?If there was ever a word that a physicist dreads hearing in common parlance, it has to be ‘quantum’. Believe me, I think I’ve heard this word abused more than perhaps any other. As such, in this episode of Passionately Curious, back after a long hiatus, we’ll be diving into the how and what of…
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Passionately Curious: Let There Be Light! And He Saw That It Was Weird.
Read more: Passionately Curious: Let There Be Light! And He Saw That It Was Weird.Wait, what’s this? This strange science-y series that was going on last year is back? Well… not quite, just a one-shot for now! Still, there’s so much awesome stuff left to talk about! Take, for example, the weirdness that is light. Now, I’ve already gone into far too much detail on some of the…
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And Nothing Else (Anti-)Matters
Read more: And Nothing Else (Anti-)Matters“And now, puny generic sci-fi superhero, I shall charge up my hyper-flux-capacitated antimatter bomb, and annihilate your entire planet! Lawrence, cue the evil-laugh tape!” Anti-matter (or, alternatively) antimatter is an age-old favorite power source among writers of scifi and superhero comics alike, which is probably why most people you’ll talk with will at least admit…
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Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?
Read more: Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?What do you mean, “not that kind of evolution”? I am a scientist, and a fairly broadly educated one at that, and so I can have a tendency to forget that a lot of things I take for granted are, in reality, quite complicated for most of us. Like, you know, quantum mechanics. Or much…
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Passionately Curious: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
Read more: Passionately Curious: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish“It’s the end of the world as we know it – and I feel fine.” – R.E.M. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine). As Chaucer (reportedly) said rather long ago: “All good things must come to an end.” It seems that this is indeed the case for…
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