Commentary by cpressey on Physics works ======================================= ### The Trouble with Physics I read this a few years ago and it is not bad. It asks some hard questions about where physics is going. ### The God Particle I read this a long time ago. It's about the hunt for the Higgs particle. The viewpoint of an experimental (rather than theoretical) physicist is refreshing. ### The Museum of Unworkable Devices I'm impressed that this site is still around in 2024. It was a useful resource in the early Internet, where crackpots had more room to roam. It still is a useful resource for anyone who is, or who is needing to deal with, someone who hasn't developed enough "physics maturity" to understand why perpetual motion machines are implausible. ### The Sun is giving us a low entropy, not energy ### Why does sunlight have low entropy? ### Hans Grassmann - Contributions to physics ### Water at the scale of a cell should feel more like tar? ### Have researchers managed to \"reverse time\"? If so, what does that mean for physics? ### Can elementary particles be explained adequately by a wave-only model? ### What is happening when magnetic field lines snap or break? ### How do scientists know that distant parts of the universe obey the physical laws exactly as we observe around us? ### Why can so little digital information be stored on a cassette tape? ### Placed in equivalent freezers, would a liter of water or a liter of lava turn from liquid to solid first? (question from a 6 year old) ### Why do jet engines use kerosene rather than gasoline? ### Why do helicopters have skids? ### LHC machine challenges leading theory of physics - BBC News ### What wavelengths of light does a banana reflect? ### When will a wave function collapse if the observer was only a camera and the video was watched later in time? ### If we increased the frequency of HV-AC lines, could we get atmospheric air to excite and illuminate?