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The boulder is easily 8-10m across that puts its weight around 1500-3000 metric tons ( ~ 2600 kg/m³ for typical Himalayan rock density) to move such a massive object the estimated drag force on that boulder could easily be of the order of 5 million to 20 million newtons for comparison, Falcon Heavy first stage rocket produces a force of 23 Million newtons!!!
पानीको वाहाव यति शक्तिशाली हुन्छ भन्ने मैले जिवन मा कल्पना समेत गरेको थिइन! #Staysafe #nepal #flood
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The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias in which people with limited knowledge or competence in a specific area greatly overestimate their own abilities. Conversely, highly skilled individuals often underestimate their relative competence, assuming tasks that are easy for them are similarly easy for others.
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Einstein believed quantum mechanics was incomplete, as per him if two particles were entangled, they must carry a hidden variables which is pre-determined instruction sets that tell them how to behave when measured. Coming to 1964, John Bell devised a mathematical way to test this. He showed that if Einstein were right (if local hidden variables existed), there would be a strict limit on how correlated the measurements of two distant particles could be. This limit is known as Bell’s inequality. Quantum mechanics predicted that entangled particles would be more strongly correlated than any local theory could allow, thus violating Bell’s inequality. Starting with John Clauser in 1972 and followed by Alain Aspect in 1982, experiments have consistently shown that nature violates Bell’s inequality. This experimental confirmation led to the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger.
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One of the main reasons the Gangetic belt is so densely populated is because it’s home to the world’s most fertile plains.
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Charles Goodyear was struggling in his experiments for years of trying to turn rubber into something useful that wouldn't freeze rock hard or melt in the hot sun. He invested everything he owned in rubber research, but hadn't been able to create a commercially viable product, and his family was starving. But soon things started to take a turn. He poured some nitric acid onto some rubber that had been coloured gold to remove the colour. It turned black, so he threw it out, but removed it from the trash when he realised that it had become hard on the outside, and was smoother and drier than any previous rubber. But it still melted in high heat. He started using sulphur in his experiments, and here's where things get a little murky. As the story goes, in a fit of excitement, he tossed some rubber that had been treated with sulphur up in the air, and it landed on a stove. But instead of melting, it charred, creating an almost leathery, heat-resistant waterproof substance. After further experimentation, he realised he could get the most effective results by using steam to heat up the mixture of rubber and sulphur he'd created. Finally, he found success. Goodyear vehemently disagreed with those who label this finding an accident, since he's the one who followed through with it all.
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The Catalan numbers form a sequence of natural numbers that appear in dozens of counting problems in combinatorics, often involving recursive structures, the sequence goes like: 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4862, ... so on These numbers count exactly how many permutations of 1, 2, …, n can be sorted using a single stack.
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Quantum teleportation, a process by which the quantum state of a particle are transferred to a distant particle using entanglement and classical communication. It does not involve the physical movement of matter or energy across space but instead, the information is recreated at the destination while the original state is destroyed at the source. To understand how this works, lets take an example of Alice and Bob. > Alice and Bob share a pair of entangled particles, where Alice keeps one, and Bob takes the other to a distant location. > Alice takes a third particle containing the quantum state she wants to send. She performs a joint measurement, called a Bell state measurement, on her half of the entangled pair and the data particle. > This measurement results in two bits of regular, classical information. Alice sends these bits to Bob via standard means (like a digital signal), which are limited by the speed of light. >Based on Alice's classical bits, Bob performs a specific unitary operation on his particle. This transforms his particle's state into an exact replica of Alice's original state. > Because Bob must wait for Alice's classical message to know how to "decode" the state, quantum teleportation cannot be used to send information faster than the speed of light. > In quantum mechanics, you cannot copy a state exactly. Teleportation obeys this because the original state is destroyed during Alice's measurement, it is moved, not duplicated. > Our current technology teleports the states of single particles like photons or atoms. Teleporting complex objects like humans remains purely science fiction due to the astronomical amount of information and atoms involved. Researchers have successfully teleported quantum states over 1,400 km using the Micius satellite.
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Expansion formula for e^x
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Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku✍️ Dive deep into the world of Phasers, teleportation and time Travel with lucid explanations of Prof. Michio Kaku
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The Ancient Mayan Civilization, once flourished in the Central America from about 2600 BC, they prospered and become one of the most sophisticated civilization with a population of about 20 million people at its peak. By the 700 BC, the Mayans had already devised their own way of writing system which they used to create their own solar calendars carved on the stones. Their writing was the only fully developed, native American written system that existed before European contact, featuring a complex logo-syllabic script. It combined over 1,000 unique logograms (representing whole words) and phonetic symbols (representing syllables) to represent spoken words, similar to Japanese writing. And according to the Mayan, the word was created on August 11, 3114 BC and it was supposed to end on December 21, 2012. The Mayan civilization collapsed by the 8th Century due to the abandonment of major cities, the end of divine kingship, and a shift toward northern Yucatan settlements. Major drivers included severe, prolonged drought, deforestation, overpopulation, intensive warfare, and the disruption of trade routes.
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I want to pursue Anti-gravity research now
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>The Anti-Gravity propulsion researcher Amy Eskridge claimed that antigravity has been discovered 4 different times, and each time it was shut down and dismantled. >She was warned THREE times by officials to stop her anti-gravity research. >Shortly after this interview in 2022, she was found dead at 34 with a 'Self-inflicted gunshot wound.'
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Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger at Stockholm train station, December 1933.
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Nobody has flown humans past low Earth orbit since December 1972. That's 53 years. Four people are about to change that on April 1st. Artemis II carries NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch alongside Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day free-return trajectory around the Moon. The window opens at 6:24 PM EDT. Glover becomes the first person of color to visit the Moon's vicinity. Koch becomes the first woman. Hansen becomes the first Canadian — and it's his first time in space at all. Spectrum News Apollo 13 set the human distance record from Earth in 1970 at 248,655 miles. Artemis II will break it on day six. Spectrum News The crew will travel 4,600 miles beyond the far side of the Moon and lose all communication with Earth for 30 to 50 minutes. Two spacecraft, 53 years apart, both chasing the same number. This mission was originally scheduled to launch in September 2024. It slipped because the heat shield on the uncrewed Artemis I shed material in chunks during reentry instead of burning away cleanly. That single anomaly cost two years, forced a complete heat shield redesign, and triggered two hydrogen fuel leaks and a helium flow issue during countdown rehearsals in early 2026. The 322-foot SLS rocket has now rolled out to Pad 39B twice. Yahoo! The part people miss is what this flight is actually testing. This is the first time Orion's life support systems have ever run with humans aboard. NASA There is no safety net 250,000 miles from Earth. If the scrubbers fail or the thermal regulation breaks, the crew loses communication at exactly that moment. Every Apollo analog tells you the systems you test on the second mission are the ones that kill you on the third. Rocket stacking for this mission started November 2024. The crew was announced April 2023. Jeremy Hansen has waited three years to go to space for the first time, and his first time is the Moon. Fifty-three years of waiting ends in 4 days. The gap between Apollo 17 and Artemis II is longer than the entire Apollo program was old when it flew.
We are returning to the Moon for the first time in 54 years on April 1, and no one is talking about it. NASA will provide real-time coverage throughout the mission on YouTube, along with a separate live stream from Orion whenever bandwidth allows. NASA will also hold daily mission briefings from Johnson Space Center in Houston starting Thursday, April 2, except on April 6 during lunar flyby operations.
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Riemann invariant is a scalar quantity that remains constant along a characteristic curve of a system of quasilinear hyperbolic equations. By transforming physical variables (e.g pressure and density) into Riemann invariants, complex coupled systems become easier to solve because each invariant evolves independently along its own path. For a 1D flow, Riemann invariants are defined such that they do not change as you move at the local wave speed They are frequently used in computational fluid dynamics to define far-field boundary conditions, as they correctly account for information entering or leaving a simulation domain.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier born on March 21, 1768, His works in mathematics and physics has profoundly impacted how we analyze heat transfer, vibrations, and modern signal processing. In 1822, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, a French mathematician and physicist, published his seminal work, "Théorie analytique de la chaleur (The Analytical Theory of Heat)" introducing the Fourier series and transform to analyze complex signals into simpler components
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Prince Rupert's drops can withstand bullet impacts, shattering the bullet due to extreme surface compression (~50tons/ sq inch) on the head, often leaving only a mark. However, the drop is fragile if the tail is damaged, and higher-caliber rounds or direct tail hits can destroy them 📸YT/Smarter Every Day
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Yuval Noah Harari in his book *Sapiens* argues that the Agricultural Revolution was actually a "trap." Instead of us taming the grass, the grass manipulated us into serving its needs. Human bodies evolved for hunting and gathering, not for the back-breaking labor of rice farming. The transition to agriculture led to a surge in physical ailments like slipped discs, arthritis, and hernias because humans spent all day weeding, clearing fields, and carrying water. To grow it successfully, humans had to abandon nomadic lives and form settled, densely populated villages. This led to the first urban centers, complex social hierarchies, and centralized governments to manage massive irrigation systems. While hunter-gatherers had a varied and nutritious diet, early rice farmers often became dependent on a single staple crop, which led to a narrower, less healthy diet and the rise of epidemics in crowded settlements. Humans have spent millennia "serving" rice by leveling mountains into terraced paddies and building complex hydraulic systems (canals and sluices) purely to keep the plant happy and hydrated.
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The Lorenz attractor is a famous strange attractor in chaos theory, discovered by Edward Lorenz in 1963. It is the complex, butterfly-shaped pattern traced by solutions to the Lorenz system—a set of three nonlinear differential equations modeling atmospheric convection—With parameters σ = 10, ρ = 28, and β = 8/3, trajectories never repeat or settle but loop chaotically within this bounded structure.
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