Author: Vihaan Nagar
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The Beautiful Dead: How Anatomical Studies Evolved Arts and Science
As one goes through life in the Americas, they have a non-zero chance of interacting with at least one of the great pieces of art eternalized in western pop culture, many representing either a concept or emotion, mythical or historical. A recognition of great past minds in The School of Athens by Raphael, portrayal of…
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Shoot a Bullet at the Speed of Light! Or Not. – Special Relativity and Its Effects
Imagine you are watching a person travel at 99% the speed of light in a vacuum (c), and they shoot a bullet in front of them which is going at 10% of c. Classical physics and intuition tells us that the bullet would surely be travelling faster than light, and it’s extremely hard to get…
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Holler for a Spark: Energy through Sound!
The creation of sound has always been a factor in human development, with the first signs of music being in human culture as early as 40 000 years ago (National Museum of Natural History 2024). The application of sounds in the daily life of a person seems psychologically beneficial but resourcefully useless; that is unless…
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Name Something Brighter than a Black Hole!
What is the biggest, brightest thing in the universe? Is it a star? A nebula? Surely, it’s not a black hole – it cannot be bright! That is technically correct, but the darkest things in the universe ironically also make for the brightest things in existence. Quasars are cores present in active galaxies that existed…
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Particles of the Fourth Dimension: Real or Imaginary?
In our universe, there are two types of particles that exist: the bradyons, particles that travel slower than light, and the luxons, particles that travel at the speed of light. However, scientists have been trying to prove the existence of another type: the tachyon, traveling faster than the speed of light (Asenjo et al. 2009;…