Posts about physics, chemistry and mathematics
Impossible paradoxes: The twin paradox
Mike Munay
How is it possible that two twins age at different rates depending on the speed at which they move?
Impossible paradoxes: The twin paradox
Mike Munay
How is it possible that two twins age at different rates depending on the speed at which they move?
Impossible paradoxes: The Monty Hall paradox
Mike Munay
Did you know that changing doors in a contest increases your chances of winning?
Impossible paradoxes: The Monty Hall paradox
Mike Munay
Did you know that changing doors in a contest increases your chances of winning?
Impossible paradoxes: The birthday paradox
Mike Munay
Did you know that the probability of finding 2 people who have the same birthday is much higher than you think?
Impossible paradoxes: The birthday paradox
Mike Munay
Did you know that the probability of finding 2 people who have the same birthday is much higher than you think?
Impossible paradoxes: The Hilbert Hotel paradox
Mike Munay
What would happen if you arrived at a hotel that had infinite rooms and was fully booked? Would you go in or not?
Impossible paradoxes: The Hilbert Hotel paradox
Mike Munay
What would happen if you arrived at a hotel that had infinite rooms and was fully booked? Would you go in or not?
Impossible paradoxes: Schrödinger's cat
Mike Munay
Many people know this famous paradox of the cat being both alive and dead at the same time, but few understand it correctly. Discover its true meaning.
Impossible paradoxes: Schrödinger's cat
Mike Munay
Many people know this famous paradox of the cat being both alive and dead at the same time, but few understand it correctly. Discover its true meaning.
What is the Fibonacci spiral?
Mike Munay
The Fibonacci sequence is much more than a mathematical formula, since it allows the most perfect forms of nature to be mathematically determined.
What is the Fibonacci spiral?
Mike Munay
The Fibonacci sequence is much more than a mathematical formula, since it allows the most perfect forms of nature to be mathematically determined.
Electromagnetic waves: What are and how to understand them?
Mike Munay
Electromagnetic waves are vibrations of electric and magnetic fields that carry energy through space, including light, radio, and X-rays.
Electromagnetic waves: What are and how to understand them?
Mike Munay
Electromagnetic waves are vibrations of electric and magnetic fields that carry energy through space, including light, radio, and X-rays.
Why is carbon so special?
Mike Munay
There is only one element in nature that makes the difference between the organic and the inorganic, the living and the inert. The heart of life. Discover carbon.
Why is carbon so special?
Mike Munay
There is only one element in nature that makes the difference between the organic and the inorganic, the living and the inert. The heart of life. Discover carbon.