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What is the minimum pressure difference for your ears to pop?
I'm assuming the answer to this largely varies from person to person. Assuming you could instantly change the pressure around your head by amount $\Delta p$, what is the minimum $\Delta p$ for your ...
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Effects of a very large magnetic field on the human body
Ever since reading about the NHMFL I have always wondered about this and asked several people without getting a good satisfactory answer. My question is, considering the simplest case let's say a ...
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How and where is the information which constitutes memories stored in our brain? [closed]
I am wondering if the information was stored as in computers, with a sort of condensators system, but this would imply a certain discretization, and seems to be too restrictive.
Therefore, how the ...
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Human perception of distance
When we see things around us, distant objects look smaller to our eyes than nearby objects do.
Is there any physics-related reason why our eyes or brain perceive things like this?
Or if this is ...
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How can an an ant lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its weight?
According to many sites like this one, an ant can apparently lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its weight. Is it true?
Can it be proved using physics? Though most sites agree that an ...
