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12 votes
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Results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment indicate new physics with 4.2 sigma confidence, stronger than previous measurements
23 votes -
Ketchup is not just a condiment: It is also a non-Newtonian fluid
10 votes -
Why your pee looks like a chain
10 votes -
Imaginary numbers may be essential for describing reality
5 votes -
Quantum cooling to near-absolute zero
6 votes -
Decades-long quest reveals details of the proton’s inner antimatter
6 votes -
Laser + mirror + sound — Visualizing sound waves with a laser
6 votes -
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float
27 votes -
Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
8 votes -
Discoveries at the edge of the Periodic Table: First ever measurements of Einsteinium
8 votes -
Reusable handwarmers that get hot by freezing
8 votes -
Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass'
7 votes -
‘Milestone’ evidence for anyons, a third kingdom of particles
14 votes -
New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely: The design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time
13 votes -
Korean fusion project sets the new world record of twenty second long operation at 100 million degrees
14 votes -
Cameras and lenses
6 votes -
Is it possible to make a laser out of wood?
9 votes -
What is a particle?
4 votes -
Lava lamp centrifuge
8 votes -
Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math
11 votes -
Elliptic Orbits explained by Albert Baez
4 votes -
The self-levitating Kingsbury aerodynamic bearing
9 votes -
The incredible physics behind N95 masks
9 votes -
Meet Oklo, the Earth’s two-billion-year-old only known natural nuclear reactor
17 votes -
507 movements
8 votes -
What is a great book to learn high-school level physics?
That's a requirement for a test I'm going to take. I tend to learn better with well designed, reasonably comprehensive books that don't treat me like a dumbass (not as a genius either!). Please...
That's a requirement for a test I'm going to take. I tend to learn better with well designed, reasonably comprehensive books that don't treat me like a dumbass (not as a genius either!).
Please notice that I'm not asking for websites, interactive platforms, videos, or whatever, but about books, preferably ones that I can study on my Kindle (so PDFs are not ideal). I know all the major websites but I just can't follow them.
I can pay very small amounts but I'm pretty much unemployed in a third world country so free is always better.
If there are requirements to understand such books, kindly inform!
I finished school more than 20 years ago and I was not a good student. But I'm kind of a decent learner now that I have a diagnostics (ADHD).
Thanks a bunch!
EDIT: guys, I am actually a beginner in the sense that I literally know little to nothing about the subject! I'm also not a math wizard. Advanced suggestions are appreciated but also entirely useless. This is also for a test, so, beyond a very brief introduction, general understandings on the Neil DeGrasse Tyson level is also of little use for me. I don't need to understand the beauty of the cosmos, I need to pass a test. Thanks!
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LIGO/Virgo’s newest black hole merger defies mass expectations
5 votes -
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
11 votes -
CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs decay to two muons
5 votes -
What's the color of an atom?
2 votes -
Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
7 votes -
Hadrons are much more than the familiar protons and neutrons
3 votes -
ThorCon's thorium converter reactor
9 votes -
Lights and shadows
4 votes -
How weed eaters work (at 62,000 frames per second)
5 votes -
A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics
4 votes -
CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider
12 votes -
Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer
8 votes -
Marie Curie's PhD thesis
8 votes -
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
6 votes -
Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
7 votes -
Electrons may very well be conscious
12 votes -
Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds
4 votes -
A new type of chemical bond: The charge-shift bond
5 votes -
Inside curved spaces
5 votes -
Ask a cosmology PhD student (almost) anything!
Hi all, I am a PhD student focusing in cosmology. I wanted to up the science content here on Tildes, and I thought that one way to do so is to have an informal little Q&A session. As such, feel...
Hi all,
I am a PhD student focusing in cosmology. I wanted to up the science content here on Tildes, and I thought that one way to do so is to have an informal little Q&A session. As such, feel free to use this post to ask any questions you might have about cosmology specifically, and physics in general.
This may not be as exciting as some other science AMAs given that I am a rather early graduate student, so there may be a lot of questions I don't know the answer to. However, I'm willing to try my best and answer over the next few days, and to let you know I don't know if I don't!
A bit about myself: I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago where I studied physics and mathematics, and then I was a student researcher in a computational cosmology group at a national lab. I subsequently enrolled at UC Davis to continue studying cosmology. Ask me anything about physics, cosmology, or high performance computing!
I also invite anyone else with expertise to chime in as well!
23 votes -
Richard Feynman: Making the extraordinary look easy
5 votes -
Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
5 votes -
Finally we may have a path to the fundamental theory of physics… and it’s beautiful
28 votes