Talk:3154: Physics Insight

Avrayter 9:55 am oct. 13 2025: okay, I assume you write these comments with html. can y'all please just implement the standing on the soldiers of giant joke into the first paragraph? Avrayter (talk) 13:56, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm reminded of science fiction like Star Trek where children learn "advanced" physics like quantum mechanics in high school. Barmar (talk) 14:44, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

There's something to this, tbh. To use just one example, there was a time in history when NEGATIVE NUMBERS were considered a bizarre innovation to the world of mathematics, boggling even expert mathematicians (since, how can you have -3 apples? A hole in the universe where three apples ought to be? It's quite an abstract concept when you think about it!) Yet nowadays, every high school graduate is expected to understand them intuitively and use them proficiently. I really do wonder what it's doing to us, where what was "advanced" in bygone years is considered "fundamentals" today. Our brains don't evolve THAT quickly. MeZimm (talk) 17:49, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Is the drawing of Cueball and White hat the exact same of 3148? 140.77.177.211 16:52, 13 October 2025 (UTC) divicarpe

No, the angle of Cueball's arms is slightly different... Caliban (talk) 18:20, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Cue ball drops two weights and injures several tourists? Impressive. Fephisto (talk) 19:03, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Maybe one of the tourists fell on someone else? Maybe people panicked and stampeded? 2600:4041:798b:a100:693e:f092:d39a:36fc (talk) 21:20, 13 October 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

You should never do just one interation of an experiment... It really needs several attempts. (Different hands for the different weights, etc.) 2.98.65.8 21:34, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Plus the results kept getting invalidated when the objects hit people of different heights, necessitating further runs of the experiment. 82.13.184.33 08:21, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

to clear up some confusion regarding "several", see 1070. raeb 10:09, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Did anyone else notice this comic about discovering came out on Columbus Day? 2405:9800:B560:E3E:5D49:405F:31F1:A98C 02:09, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

The person who no-one took seriously when he set out to reach asia. (And who didn't.) 2.98.65.8 13:19, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Well, he also kept incorrectly insisting that he had actually reached Asia, unlike Amerigo Vespucci who figured out there was actually a brand new continent there. --185.223.180.2 08:13, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

As it happens, I just found out it's not the first time Randall talks about Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment: it was the subject of a "What if?" back in March 2020 (the top illustration has Cueball dropping bobsleds off the tower while Ponytail's calling security). --185.223.180.2 08:13, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

When was anyone going to tell me about that site?! 128.4.83.81 13:34, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Well, I agree. At first I thought IP was joking, then I realized there's a whole bunch of What If's exclusive on NY Times! Not even mentioned on What_If_(disambiguation) or What_If?_chapters! (edit: I just found that there's a page on the wiki: New York Times: Good Question) BytEfLUSh (talk) 08:10, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

"I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot." (Vim Fuego in "Bad News") Jeremyp (talk) 10:41, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

"Double standards" introduces the idea of two standards which are literally two different frames of reference. These two frames of reference dictate how people measure the value of applying that transformation. Was this parallel to relativity intentional?115.186.228.9 21:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)