“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” — Albert Einstein Alright, let’s talk about something super simple: light hits metal, and BAM! Electrons just fly out of it. This was the weird reality physicists were wrestling with in the early 1900s, and no one really knew why it was […]
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“We choose to examine a phenomenon that is impossible to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics” – Richard Feynman Physics has this reputation. It’s like the A+ student of the science world—the know-it-all, dependable kind of science. For centuries, classical physics was the law of the
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“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” – Niels Bohr Introduction to Quantum PhysicsEverything around you—the computer, the coffee mug, even the air—is made up of tiny, invisible building blocks. Now, what if I told you that these building blocks don’t work how you expect them to at all? In
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Imagine you’re zooming through space on a mind-bendingly fast spaceship. Your watch ticks away normally, but when you glance at Earth’s clock—something’s off. It’s ticking slower than yours. Welcome to Einstein’s playground of relativity—where reality loves to mess up everything you thought you knew about time and space. First things first: light. It zooms through
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