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The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

AdultsPhysicsTechnology
A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples.

Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?

AdultsPhysicsScience
Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it!

Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

AdultsPhysicsScience
Silicone oil droplets provide a physical realization of pilot wave theories.

The Walking Water Mystery Solved!

AdultsFilmScience...
Solving a 5 yr old personal mystery about "Why Water Walks on Water".

1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship

AdultsPhysicsSports
Check out the Czech Dynamic 4 Way team "MAD RAVENS" performing their free routine at the 1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship 2015 in Prague.

The Twins Paradox Primer

AdultsPhysicsScience...
How can time be slower and faster at the same time?

Interactive Dynamic Video

AdultsFilmPhysics...
Image-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video" ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015) by Abe Davis, Justin Chen, Fredo Durand

Why the metric system matters

AdultsHistoryPhysics...
For the majority of recorded human history, units like the weight of a grain or the length of a hand weren't exact and varied from place to place.

Black Hole Comparison

AdultsPhysicsSpace
This Crazy Black Hole Comparison Will Definitely Blow Your Mind

What Is Something?

AdultsPhysicsSpace
What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?

How Long To Fall Through The Earth?

AdultsPhysicsWorld
Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!

How do we separate the inseparable?

AdultsPhysicsScience...
Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.

What If The Earth Stopped Spinning?

AdultsPhysicsWorld
What if the Earth stopped spinning? What would happen to you?

Smarter Every Day

AdultsTechnologyTransportation...
Can You Land A Helicopter Without Engine Power?

The invisible motion of still objects

AdultsPhysicsScience
Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you'll see a world in constant flux - with stretching, contracting, springing, jittering, drifting atoms everywhere.

Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets

AdultsPhysicsScience
Brace yourselves for some exciting new technology - "Polymagnets"!

Do These Liquids Look Alive?

AdultsFoodPhysics
Why do droplets of food coloring attract, repel, and chase each other?

Transporters and Quantum Teleportation

AdultsPhysicsTransportation
How Transporters and Quantum Teleportation Work

Random couscous snaps into beautiful patterns

AdultsMathPhysics
What is this? Some kind of witchcraft?!

Colorful Collapsing Magnets

AdultsInternet CulturePhysics
So that was epic! These Magination magnets are way too much fun! Links below to find out more. Let me know what you guys think about this new format for Tidbits of Awesome. I'm hoping to post these more often in between my bigger releases.

Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?

AdultsPhysicsTransportation...
If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?