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I know many weird facts about strange things... yet I'm looking for more.

Kids used to play with soap bubbles; now they have computers and solve their PDEs numerically.


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Common false beliefs in Physics
15
Why does holding something up cost energy while no work is being done?
13
Where do magnets get the energy to repel?
12
Are human eyes the best possible camera?
11
How about an exact solution for the position of a planet as a function of time?
11
Is it safe to use any wireless device during a lightning storm?
11
What is the fallacy in this infinite motion machine?
10
What physical forces pull/press water upwards in vegetation?
9
Ice skating, how does it really work?
9
Why does breaking one bulb on a string of Christmas Lights cause all the rest to break in some lights?
9
How were inert gases discovered?
8
Why quantum entanglement is considered to be active link between particles?
8
How are the northern lights produced?
7
Will an air-filled tire normally gravitate toward being nitrogen-filled just by refilling with air?
7
Buckyballs in vacuum
7
Why were the SI base quantities chosen as such?
7
What is the most counter-intuitive result in physics?
6
$E=mc^2$ why is it $c^2$ and not just $c$?
6
Is temperature in vacuum zero?
6
Why doesn't air freeze?
6
Satellite Power
6
Explanation: Simple Harmonic Motion
6
Why do those dolphin bubble rings I saw in a video behave the way they do?
5
Why is there independent motion of Earth's magnetic poles?
5
The Many Body problem
5
How do 2 magnets spin by themselves if positioned precisely?
4
How does ATP transfer energy to a reaction?
4
Dangers of using liquid nitrogen
4
Why do rockets have multiple stages?
4
Why do lightbulbs continue to glow after the light is turned off?
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