Physics

The Portal Dilemma: The Case Of The Teleporting Cube

Published on September 15, 2024 by Hemanth

Portal Dilemma - There is an entrance portal on the face of a moving piston that leads to an exit portal on the face of an inclined surface. As the piston moves fast downward, it moves toward a flat platform with a cube. You could imagine that as the piston moves downward with the entrance portal on its surface, the cube gets teleported out of the exit portal on the inclined surface. Given this setting, the question is if the cube comes out with zero velocity or with the velocity of the piston.

"PLOP" or "WHOOSH"?

Science Fiction Has Lost Its Way

Published on July 19, 2024 by Hemanth

Stick figures depicting other generes seem to be preoccupied with a rock on the ground, while a stick figure depicting science fiction seems to be flying above them using a jet pack while wearing a crown. The science fiction stick figure says "Hey Y'all, check out my fancy jet pack!"

Science lovers deserve better than this!

My Journey From Hating To Loving Chemistry

Published on July 5, 2024 by Hemanth

A pie-chart titled "Things I learned in organic chemistry", showing the following four legends: Blue: "Interesting compounds", black: "The secrets of the universe", green: "powerful reactions", and pink: "How to draw hexgons". The pie chart ironically contains only pink hinting that the author only learned how to draw hexagons from organic chemistry.

I never understood why chemical reactions occur - until now!

How Did The Moon Come To Be?

Published on April 20, 2024 by Hemanth

An investigation into the formative years of the Earth and the Moon!

The Fascinating Story Of The Three-Body Problem

Published on April 7, 2024 by Hemanth

A journey through centuries of scientific progress!

What Makes Clocks And Cats Different?

Published on February 18, 2024 by Hemanth

Exploring the fundamentals of life!

On The Role Of Nuclear Force In Powering Life

Published on February 3, 2024 by Hemanth

Gravity and entropy give rise to nuclear force, which gives rise to the sub (all of this is comically hand-drawn). The sun then gives rise to life which is represented comically by a hand-drawn planet Earth with one over-sized sheep standing on top of the Earth.

Nuclear force deserves more mainstream credit!

A Tale Of Romance Between Entropy And Gravity

Published on January 28, 2024 by Hemanth

The word "Gravity" on the left and the word "entropy" on the right. Both these words combine to form the sun

The story of how a star is born!

The Relationship Between Life, Stars, and Entropy

Published on January 19, 2024 by Hemanth

Exploring the most fundamental forces of nature!

A Tale of Entropy and the Big Bang

Published on January 12, 2024 by Hemanth

Where did our universe come from?

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