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ITT:

Post the last thing you learned that completely changed the way you understood physics/something that never ceases to amaze you every time you see it.

>> No.1666597

matter is made of a field just like a gravitation field or electromagnetic field. the boson field

>> No.1666605

the golden ratio

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1666616

Everything is composed of tiny waves that sometimes interact like particles, and all waves are tiny fluctuations in the fields.

MIND = BLOWN

But seriously now the above is probably 96% bullshit unless I somehow got quantum physics right.

>> No.1666618

ghosts are really higher-dimension beings

>> No.1666629

space and time are really two ways of describing the same thing.
same goes for matter and energy.

seriously, whaddafuck...

>> No.1666635

>>1666629
No. Idiot.

>> No.1666650

>>1666629
just b/c matter and energy can be changed between each other doesnt mean it the same thing. space and time are two different things also. they are just connected

>> No.1666678

>>1666650
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

>> No.1666688

Some infinities are "bigger" than others.

>> No.1666692

>>1666678
fuck you for wasting my time. good song though

>> No.1666693

The electric field above an infinite plane is constant

>> No.1666706

Flip-flops changed my life

>> No.1666710

>>1666706
oh lol

>> No.1666734

Oh man... there's a lot stuff that I've learned that always blew my mind. One of those things is that empty space is always full of particles that exist for so short and are so small that they can be barely said to have happened at all. And Jesus Christ when I found out how the eleven detentions worked, I flipped a fuck.

>> No.1666748

>>1666734

eleven detentions?

>> No.1666755

>>1666748

think he mean dimensions (or it was a play on words and hamlet is back is on this forum)

>> No.1666757

quantum physic blows my mind...
btw, interesting stuff - http://www.bureau42.com/view/category/b42-teaches/summer-school

>> No.1666761

Abiogenesis

>> No.1666765

the E8

>> No.1666771
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Flying saucers and telepathy.

It's gon' happen any time now.

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>mfw photons are just like all electromagnetic radio waves. they're not particles like electrons but a subproduct, way to troll an entire electronics classroom.
more recently:
advanced potentials with electromagnetism. (again) a friend told me about that, and i never imagined that field of applications.

>> No.1667192

When it was proven that the universe is infinitely expanding.
My mind exploded.

>> No.1667195

That smoking half of a small reefer will cause me to trip balls.
And that smoking a whole one causes me to spazz out and dribble a lot.

Fuck yeah.

>> No.1667204

>>1666618

sometimes theyre frightening...

>> No.1667210

That 'nothing' accounts for most of the mass in the universe

>> No.1667215

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessin_d'enfant

>> No.1667217

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topos

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>>1666618
according to what we know now, i'm sure science will find out what ghosts are, faster than religions ever did.

anyways i'm sure we will dislike the answer, because again we want to be in an universe that makes sense. 'cept it's all fucked.

>> No.1667429

Carl Sagan

>> No.1667539

Maxwell's equations