The first thing to abandon is the picture of a knot gradually working its way loose over the course of a walk, getting a little slacker with every step until…
The Light Is Not Being Carried, It Is Trapped
The intuitive picture of a fibre optic cable is a pipe with light shining down it, kept on course by a…
There Is No Lens, and There Cannot Be
Every camera works by bending light. A lens collects rays arriving from a point on an object and bends them back together…
The Belief Is Universal and It Is Backwards
Ask anybody how a microwave differs from a conventional oven and you will be told that it heats from the inside out.…
Thunder is usually described as the noise lightning makes, which suggests the bolt itself is loud in the way a bell or an engine is loud. It is not. Lightning…
The gas is dissolved, not bubbled, and it is all trying to leave. Here are fifteen.
1. There Are No Bubbles in a Sealed Bottle
The carbon dioxide is dissolved…