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Science writer. Editor at @cantor_paradise | Tweets about Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Books | Curator @PhysInHistory 🇳🇵

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A brief history of Physics
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When refractive index of liquid equals to the refractive index of the container. There's nothing magic in the world. Just physics.
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Quantum Physics! 🐈
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Wanna Learn Nuclear and Particle Physics for free? A Thread 👇
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nothing can beat this one
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QOTD: What is your favourite opening line of a book? 🤔📚
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Wanna excel at Calculus for free? A Mathematical Thread 👇
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Maxwell's Equations outside the university of Warsaw, Poland.
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Some of the best Physics and Mathematics books that you must read (with free download links) These books are freely available online and can be downloaded in pdf format. A Thread 👇
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Wanna Learn Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for free? A Thread 👇
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Nothing is as sexy as a Physics Professor writing equations on a chalk board. Here are 20 iconic photographs of theoretical physicists in front of their chalk boards. A Thread 👇
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Portrait of Nikola Tesla made up of electrical machines.
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Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman had an extraordinary ability to explain complicated concepts in physics and mathematics in extremely simple and understandable manner. A thread of some of the most amazing lectures by Feynman freely available online 👇
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Wanna Learn Programming (Python, Java, Swift, and C++) for free? Here are some of the best freely available online tutorials you can learn coding from. A Thread👇
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Quantum gravity is the most promising candidate for the ultimate 'theory of everything'. What is Quantum Gravity? Why is it needed? A Physics Thread 👇
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Wanna Learn Mathematics for free? Here are some of the Best freely available playlists from Linear Algebra to Number theory that you can use to excel at Mathematics. A Thread 👇
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The software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame:
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When refractive index of liquid equals to the refractive index of the container. There's nothing magic in the world. Just physics.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the most popular physics book ever written, are completely online. Read it here: Volume 1: Volume 2: Volume 3:
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Do you hate Math? Math encourages logical reasoning, critical thinking, creative thinking, abstract or spatial thinking, problem-solving ability, and even effective communication skills. Why is Mathematics so important for everyone? A Thread👇
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One of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century, a profound teacher and 1979 Physics Nobel Laureate, Steven Weinberg has passed away today. He had the ability to write and communicate physics with utmost clarity and elegance. He will be greatly missed.
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"Teachers who make physics class boring are criminals." - Prof. Walter Lewin
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The Mathematicians' Library! 📚 20 Best Mathematics Books that you can read to get you started and excel at Learning Math. A Books Thread 👇
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10 Brilliant Mathematics Books published in 2021/22 that you must read. A Mathematical Thread 👇
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Five Mind-Bending Paradoxes In Modern Physics. A Thread 👇
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This is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets. “Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.” - by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.
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Want to learn at Quantum Mechanics for free? A Thread 👇
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If you love watching biopics, here are the 17 best scientific biopics that you should add to your watch list. A thread 👇
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The audio recordings of the Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-64) are now publicly available:
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Maxwell's Equations outside the university of Warsaw, Poland.
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The Physicists' Library! 📚 20 Best Physics Books that you can read to get you started and excel at Learning Physics (Easy to Advanced) A Thread 👇
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This iconic photograph taken at the Fifth Solvay Conference shows the greatest gathering of intelligence ever. Physicists met in October 1927 in Brussels to discuss the then-new theory of quantum mechanics. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
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Scientific literacy is important, not just for the people in science community, but for everyone. It makes you look and understand the world from a different perspective. 🧠 Some of the best Science Books that everyone must read. A Thread 👇
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The audio recordings of the Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-64) are now publicly available:
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there're two types of people in this world: • ones who love physics • ones who don't understand it
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The shortest chapter ever in a Physics book. From "Why String Theory?" by Joseph Conlon, CRC Press.
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Wanna Learn String theory and M-theory for free? A Thread 👇
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Wanna Learn Astrophysics and Cosmology for free? A Thread 👇
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There’s so much to study that one life isn’t enough.
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1/n The Feynman Technique is a powerful method for learning and understanding complex concepts in physics and other fields. Named after physicist Richard Feynman, the technique helps to break down difficult concepts into simple, easy-to-understand language. A Thread 👇
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A brilliant visual representation of wave function for the hydrogen atom (by qbitlab)
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On this day in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), one of the most significant works in the history of science.
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Wanna Learn Quantum computation for free? A Thread 👇
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Modern Education
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No rational person would do this.
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Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) for absolute Laymen. A Thread 👇
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Richard Feynman sometimes used to practice for five hours in an empty classroom before delivering his lecture. It's true that when passion and hard work combine, it's a masterpiece.
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standard normal distribution church
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"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day." -- Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961)
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If you know, you know.
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Albert Einstein, in discussion with J. Robert Oppenheimer in Office at Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 1947. (by Alfred Eisenstaedt)
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For the movie Interstellar, a theoretical physicist helped create an accurate computer simulation of a wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole. The resulting visual effect provided new insights into the phenomena and led to the publication of three scientific papers.
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Wanna Learn Chemistry for free? ⚗️ Here are some of the Best Online Lectures on multiple disciplines of Chemical sciences that you can use to excel at the concepts of Chemistry. A Thread 👇
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The calculus of life:
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Mathematicians aren't the people who find maths easy. They're the people who enjoy how hard it is.
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"Teachers who make physics class boring are criminals." - Prof. Walter Lewin
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Here are 10 Best Books on Scientific Philosophy. A Thread 👇
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After winning the Nobel Prize in 1979, Dr. Abdus Salam had requested the Indian government to find Professor Anilendra Ganguly, who had taught him mathematics in the pre-partition era at the Sanatan Dharma College in Lahore.
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20 Great Lessons that we all can Learn from the Life and Works of Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943). A Thread 👇
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Schrödinger and his cat at a beach, circa 1939.
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You solve one of these problems, you win 1 Million dollars.💰 The six (out of seven) millennium prize problems in mathematics stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute. A Thread 👇
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I love and hate quantum mechanics at the same time.
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Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything. -- Ed Witten
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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded jointly to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi for their groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems. A Thread 👇
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The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using punch cards and hand plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Lumient in 1978.
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Happy 178th birthday to physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who is considered to be the pioneer of statistical mechanics. He discovered why the second law of thermodynamics is ‘the law of disorder’ or entropy and had significant contributions to physics and philosophy.
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Embracing contradictory ideas may actually be the secret to creativity and leadership. The purpose of a paradox is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought. Here are 15 most thought-provoking Paradoxes in Physics and Cosmology. A Thread 👇
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NASA before Powerpoint, 1961.
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A Compilation of some of My Best Threads on Free online resources of Multiple disciplines from Cosmology to Quantum Mechanics. A Thread 👇
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Five Productivity FEYNMAN strategies: • See every problem as an opportunity. • Understanding is more important than memorization. • Embrace uncertanties and doubts. • Think constantly and Focus deeply. • Learn from your mistakes and start over again
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How can a cat be simultaneously alive and dead? 🐈 Schrödinger's cat thought experiment (a thread): 👇
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mood
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7) Lisa Randall Prof. Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter.
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Quantum Mechanics:
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There’s no such thing as miracles. Everything is physics.
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3) Richard Feynman Considered to be one of the greatest explainers of all time, Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger for their works in Quantum electrodynamics.
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19) C.V. Raman He was the first Asian to receive a Nobel prize in science, following the discovery of a light scattering effect called "Rama effect" that has since become a key characterization tool in materials science.
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Reasons why Nikola Tesla was way ahead of his time. A Thread 👇
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The 'H' in Mathematics stands for happiness.
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The shortest chapter ever in a Physics book. From "Why String Theory?" by @JosephPConlon , CRC Press.
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What is Black hole information paradox? A Thread 👇
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (a thread): In Feb 23, 1927, physicist Werner Heisenberg outlined his new principle in a 14-page letter to Wolfgang Pauli. In March, he submitted his paper for publication. Niels Bohr pointed out some errors, but agreed that the principle..
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Richard Feynman (1918-1988) one of the most celebrated and revered scientists of modern times, 1965 Nobel Laureate for his works on QED, was born #OTD . Happy 102nd birth anniversary Richard Feynman.
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The more a person studies beyond classical physics the less sense it all makes. The more you study it, the more you ask yourself, "what the fuck is going on?!"
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Memorial stone for Prof. Stephen Hawking at Westminster Abbey, designed with a rotating and accreting black hole. It also depicts the eqn for the Hawking temperature T of a black hole with mass M, demonstrating that it will eventually evaporate through thermal radiation.
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2) Paul Dirac One of the pioneers of modern quantum theory and 1933 Nobel Prize Winner (with Erwin Schrödinger), Paul Dirac is considered to be one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. His equation predicted the existence of dark matter.
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Some of the Best online tools that you can use to learn Physics and Mathematics for free. A Thread 👇
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9) Albert Einstein Cited as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, A. Einstein (1879 - 1955) developed the theories of general and special relativity, and the photoelectric phenomena (that won him the 1921 Nobel Prize).
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The beauty of mathematics: 13 circles used to construct @Twitter logo.
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In 2002 Grigori Perelman solved the the Poincaré Conjecture. Mathematicians had been struggling with this problem for over a century. It took mathematicians several years to verify his proof. He was offered the prestigious Fields medal and $1,000,000. He declined both.
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Maxwell said... 1)∇.D = ρ 2)∇.B = 0 3)∇xE = -∂B/∂t 4)∇xH = J +∂D/∂t and then there was Light
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How to STUDY Mathematics :- • Practice, Practice & More Practice. • Review Errors. • Master the Key Concepts. • Understand your Doubts. • Create a Distraction Free Study Environment. • Create a Mathematical Dictionary. • Apply Math to Real World Problems.
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1000 likes and I will post my entire science books collection!
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Thank you so much for reading. If you enjoyed this thread, subscribe my weekly newsletter and become a member of the Physics community to receive resources, journals, articles, and other publications of multiple disciplines of physics and mathematics
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Richard Feynman deserves his own separate biopic
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10) John Wheeler Wheeler worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. He is best known for coining the terms "black hole", "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit", and for hypothesizing the "one-electron universe".
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1) Seldon Glashow Sheldon Glashow received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 along with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force.
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Schrödinger's Cat 🐱
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There's so much to read that one life isn't enough. #WorldBooksDay
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