MinutePhysics

Guns in Space, and How to Kill Our Sun

MinutePhysics showed us what would happen if the Earth were hollow, but that was just one part of the nerdy YouTube channel tag team this weekend. Here’s the other half, wherein we learn how big a gun you’d need for the bullet to orbit the moon and hit you in the back of the head,…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Aug 27

Which Olympic “Throwing” World Record Required the Most Power?

The Olympics are full of beefy men and women throwing heavy things long distances. That’s just good television. But which event takes the most power to compete in? MinutePhysics broke down the numbers for the world records in the shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer throw. (Spoiler: It’s called the hammer throw. What did you…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 3

The Craziest Number You’ll See About the Higgs Boson Discovery

So sure, the Higgs “discovery” wasn’t really a discovery. More scientific fact checking, as our friends at MinutePhysics put it. But in the course of explaining all that, the number they dropped on our heads about confirming the existence of the Higgs statistically was mind-blowing: Statistical confirmation for the new particle required 600 million particle…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 26

A Simple Explanation of How All Mass in the Universe Is Allowed to Exist

The Higgs boson discovery is a good excuse to learn a bit (and just a bit) about why it was so damn important in the first place. By now, you’ve probably heard that the Higgs is the final piece of the standard model of physics. But what does that actually mean? For one, that the…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Jul 11

A Really Simple Explanation of What This Higgs Boson Thing Is

So while you were out drinking beer and shooting guns at hamburgers yesterday, science found “the God particle.” But, uh, if you didn’t already know what that was, you were probably too drunk or are too hungover to read anything too in-depth about the new boson. No problem. Here’s part one of the MinutePhysics rundown,…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Jul 5

Incredibly Complicated Physics Explained with Sheep and Canada (No, Really!)

If you measure two identical items, one in feet, and another in centimeters, there’s no difference, right? Just do the conversion, and you’ll see that the two objects are the same size, in both feet and inches. Right? No. Bad. Wrong. What? Minute Physics—in one of its longer, many minute editions—explains why the differences in…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner May 21

Where Does “Ye Olde” Really Come From? (Hint: You Say It Wrong)

“Ye Olde” is one of those phrases we throw around for cheap laughs, but do you have any idea where that first part comes from? Or how to pronounce it? Probably not! Minute Physics takes a stab at explaining, and like most things in life, “Ye” was born out of laziness—and totally France’s fault. Back…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 20

The One-Minute Explanation of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation: E=mc2

Most of us don’t know much about Einstein. Minutephysics has spent the past month trying to beat a little context into our pea-sized dummy brains beyond, like, E=mc2. But it’s about time we got to learning the big one. So here it is, a quick, concise explanation of the world’s most famous equation, with a…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Mar 29

How Einstein (Sort of) Fixed All of Physics with the Special Theory of Relativity

The Special Theory of Relativity. It’s the most famous thing the most famous physicist ever did, but what makes it so special? Turns out, it helped prove that we could, uhh, move. Seriously. Here’s the latest in MinutePhysics’ crusade to educate the stupid, stupid world about Einstein. [MinutePhysics]

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner Mar 19

What Einstein Actually Said About Light Particles

When someone says Einstein, you think “E=mc2,” Relativity, and funny haircuts. But most of us don’t have a clue about the specific scientific contributions he made. That ain’t right. So here’s Minute Physics breaking down one of the scientific breakthroughs that turned the German patent clerk into a Nobel Prize winner. [MinutePhysics]

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 13

How much milk would you have to vomit in order to levitate?

In X-Men: First Class, Banshee uses ultrasonic screaming like a jet pack to power his flight. In a recent video from special effects whiz Freddie Wong, a character named “Milk Man” gushes gallons of milk from his gullet to achieve a similar effect. This, of course, got MinutePhysics‘ Henry Reich thinking: how much milk would…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 13

Believe it or not, you can explain why tides go in and out

Surprise, surprise. Leave it to MinutePhysics’ Henry Reich to serve up a quick, clean rebuttal to Bill O’Reilly’s infamous assertion that the rise and fall of sea levels can’t be explained. And as an added bonus, Reich throws in an additional sixty seconds to explore the finer points of tidal forces, including why we only…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 9

How to Weigh a Million Dollar Bills Without a Scale (Or a Million Bucks)

In physics, approximations are important. Developing a predictive model for how something will move/behave/react based on information from another object or scenario can provide a helpful frame of reference. To illustrate this point, the always excellent YouTube series MinutePhysics shows us how to weigh a million dollar bills without having a scale, a single bill,…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert Nov 21

How do we know for sure that we live in three dimensions?

Sure, our surroundings certainly appear to exist in three dimensions, but any good Cartesian will tell you that the appearance of a material object alone is insufficient evidence of its true nature. So how do we go about proving that we aren’t, in fact, deluded inhabitants of Abott’s two-dimensional Flatland, or even the one-dimensional Lineland?…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 6

Guns in Space, and How to Kill Our Sun

Which Olympic “Throwing” World Record Required the Most Power?

The Craziest Number You’ll See About the Higgs Boson Discovery

A Simple Explanation of How All Mass in the Universe Is Allowed to Exist

A Really Simple Explanation of What This Higgs Boson Thing Is

Incredibly Complicated Physics Explained with Sheep and Canada (No, Really!)

Where Does “Ye Olde” Really Come From? (Hint: You Say It Wrong)

The One-Minute Explanation of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation: E=mc2

How Einstein (Sort of) Fixed All of Physics with the Special Theory of Relativity

What Einstein Actually Said About Light Particles

How much milk would you have to vomit in order to levitate?

Believe it or not, you can explain why tides go in and out

How to Weigh a Million Dollar Bills Without a Scale (Or a Million Bucks)

How do we know for sure that we live in three dimensions?

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