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Gonna pull an Ernest Rutherford & squeeze chemistry into #funphysicsfriday. 😁Anyone else think the periodic table is actually really cool? (*Raising hand like Hermione Granger in potions) Then this xkcd is for you! SO on point, I can't even pick a fave section - can you?

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a ... bolide?! #funphysicsfriday (Because if your question can't be solved with a flowchart - or a spreadsheet - it can't be answered. 😂)

#funphysicsfriday! PSA for a special celestial event early Mon, 6/3. I love spotting planets! Do you? 6/3: look for Mercury & Jupiter close & bright above the E horizon. Mars & Saturn will be visible farther up the "planetary path," but Uranus & Neptune will require good binocs!

#funphysicsfriday! I shared this in my monthly newsletter (not a subscriber yet? You get a bonus prequel to Scattered if you do! Sign-up link is in the comments) yesterday. It's classic! One word: entropy. 😂 It reminds me of how I think of science fiction versus fantasy fiction.

It's #funphysicsfriday, and I have to share this humbling review: SCATTERED has "neat physics Easter eggs"! 🩷🩷🩷 Glad you enjoyed them, McN! One common theme in reviews is that my story made physics approachable. Yesss! (Except the few that said they skimmed those parts!)

#funphysicsfriday! I 🤣 over this, which is true for a lot of technical jobs (except physics, I would wager). As a mech'l engineer undergrad, I took 9 really hard math classes - but have no idea now how to solve 👇 AdCal problems! But Excel spreadsheets? I am the MASTER. You?

#funphysicsfriday! On July 30, 2 meteor showers will peak that night! Btwn full dark & midnight (before moonrise) see: ☄️ Delta Aquariids ☄️ Alpha Capricornids ☄️ Bonus: Perseids (peak 11-12Aug but visible now) ⭐️Look everywhere in the sky for these blazing comet crumbs!

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#Funphysicsfriday! This summer a #nova explosion will occur w/in the Corona Borealis region! A white dwarf eating hydrogen from a nearby red giant will --> a thermonuclear explosion! It won't be a supernova, but the binary system will glow brightly for <1wk. No telescopes needed!

#funphysicsfriday! Anyone see the Tues meteors? I looked out, but it was cloudy by 10pm; didn't see a single ☄️. 😢 How about a laugh today? Why let the physicists at CERN have all the fun?! Me: "Look, boys, it's a kookymilliscmoom! We finally saw it!" Your best name?

#funphysicsfriday! I'm celebrating by sharing this vid of me reading chapter 1 of 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥! (Chap 2 & 3 in separate vids!) Elie Rutherford listens in on her father's Sunday physics discussions w his researchers; she wants to be part of it! youtu.be/xyt1mqm4O2M

#funphysicsfriday! In honor of July 4th and the ubiquitous fireworks we enjoy, here's the science behind it! I knew from being an ammunition engineer how the colors are mixed, but the ways charcoal and black powder is used to propel and blast are interesting. #fireworks #physics

1/4 #funphysicsfriday! Finished 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦; I recommend this #timetravel #scifi. Accurate hist & physics detail. BUT I have to painfully point out a glaring omission of Ernest Rutherford in this and in the movie "Oppenheimer."

It's #funphysicsfriday! In honor of school starting back up and all those physics undergrad and grad students out there ... voilà! Don't say it's not true.... #physics #nerdalert #brainiac

It's #funphysicsfriday! See below for how measuring household ionizing radiation using this cool Geiger counter relates to what Elie and William got up to in SCATTERED! amazon.com/Scattered-Kath…

#funphysicsfriday ... space x body edition! I 🩷 how Riddle's WINTER WORLD (it's tragic if too long) and Corey's LEVIATHAN WAKES (the body adapts) treat living in space on the human body. But look what really happens to our chromosomes' telomeres! More: bit.ly/3WmHdm5

#funphysicsfriday! Thanks to Hubble, astronomers noticed a clear trend: a jet of plasma from a supermassive black hole at the core of the huge M87 galaxy seems to cause nearby stars to erupt along its trajectory. 2x the rate as the rest of the galaxy! Sciencedaily.com

#funphysicsfriday! Per Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, you can't accurately measure a particle's velocity and position at the same time (momentum=velocity*mass). But will we soon? This "squeezer" tech might help us detect axions (in dark matter)! phys.org/news/2024-05-w…

Looking at polarization of light on this week’s #funphysicsfriday #demotime #quantumphysics #iteachphysics #LibertyLearns #RedhawkScience

#funphysicsfriday! Rather than condense a long science-y post on gamma rays, here's a screenshot of my FB post, including how William Hertz in 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 (bit.ly/3OZ00Pl) got work on the VERITAS gamma ray telescope array while at McGill U. Pardon my nerdiness!