There are people who can do truly amazing and fascinating experiments, and luckily for you, we created a list of 10 simple physics experiments with everyday materials to learn and impress your friends ...

Everyone needs some “go to” demos. Personally, I like this one. It’s not too difficult to build and it’s easy to use. Take a large block of wood (it needs to have a good mass). I used a left over ...

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Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze. Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the room, even that is practically too complicated. After it leaves your hand, the ball ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. I spent several days in California last week (thus the lack of blogging ...

Physicists once treated Einstein’s picture of a clockwork universe as the gold standard for what “reality” should look like, ...