It’s a household name – the wheelchair-bound genius physicist, the man pushing the boundaries of science. Tonight, I saw Stephen Hawking in Sydney.
Tag: physics
The physics of peeling garlic | Day 223
Garlic peeling is one of the worst chores in the kitchen – unless you have a silicone tube garlic peeler, operating on extremely simple physics.
Surface tension | Day 209
Surface tension is a concept that crops up in conversation from time to time. So what is it exactly, and what does soap have to do with it?
Pertinent question about time | Day 206
We perceive time as unidirectional, without knowing whether any laws of physics dictate it to be so. Here begins a history of science tale from BBC Earth.