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Simon told me about strong force and what happens to a quark inside a nucleon if a high energy photon hits it and pushes it outside the nucleon: a new … Continue reading More quantum physics: quarks hit by photons and what does a z boson do?
Learned via the Fermilab channel.
Simon has just graphed this to show how the Lorentz factor or gamma ( on the y axis) is dependent on the speed of the object (the x axis). The … Continue reading The Lorentz factor
Simon shows three false proofs. Can you find the mistake in each proof? Simon reveals the answers to the first two. Try to give your answer to the third one. … Continue reading False Proofs: Can you figure out what’s wrong?
Simon walks you through several special relativity paradoxes and a brief proof of why nothing can move faster than light. He shows the working out of the distance formula. Based … Continue reading The math behind why we can’t travel faster than light
Simon explains why the proof that root 4 is irrational is false and shows a couple more related theorems (he came up with) generalizing the relationship between the exponent and … Continue reading Simon’s findings about the relationship between the exponent and the factor of a number
Simon found the z for sin(z) = 2 once again, to show the solution to his math tutor. He only consulted his old notes once during the whole process. He … Continue reading The sin(z) = 2 problem revisited
We were reading “17 Equations that Changed the World” late last night, the chapter about the wave equation. Simon got all excited about timbres (shapes of sound waves), that are … Continue reading Fundamental Frequency
Simon explains: “Induction is a mathematical term, type of mathematical proof, if you have a couple of base cases (n base cases), then the inductive hypothesis implies that for the … Continue reading Induction as mathematical proof
This is a behind the scenes video (Simon wasn’t even aware of me filming at first, but he always talks to himself when working out a proof, so that helps). … Continue reading Behind the scenes
Geeks out of the box 