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The Physics Behind Sports and Everyday Play

Physics is a natural science that, compared to others, is less popular among the general population, both adults & children. However, awareness of the presence of physics in every corner of our ...
Time, in everyday life, only moves in one direction. Drop a mug and it shatters—you don’t expect the shards to leap back into your hand. But in the strange world of quantum physics, the rules are a ...
Abstract: Distractions in mixed reality (MR) environments can significantly influence user experience, affecting key factors such as presence, reaction time, cognitive load, and Break in Presence (BIP ...
DALLAS (WKRC) - A man allegedly shot his teenage cousin to death, claiming that he was attempting to "test his reaction time." Officers with the Dallas police responded to a report of a shooting at a ...
A man accused of shooting his cousin to death in Texas allegedly said the incident occurred because he wanted to test his family member's reaction time. Jose Magareno, 21, is in the Dallas County ...
When humans think about time, most imagine a steady flow of seconds ticking into minutes and minutes into hours which carry us from past to present to future. But in the science of quantum physics, ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...
The West Virginia Wesleyan College community is mourning the sudden loss of Dr. George Albert “Bert” Popson Jr., Department of Physics and Engineering chair and long-time professor for nearly 36 years ...
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Reconciling space and time has been one of the most profound challenges in physics. One of the thorniest is how to stitch together the rules that steer subatomic particles and the rules that sculpt ...
Have you ever stopped to wonder how time really works—how we move from one moment to the next, living life as a steady stream of “now” after “now”? This has been an unanswered question for centuries.