If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.
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The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
Physicist Erwin Schrodinger’s thought experiment, “Schrödinger’s cat,” has become a way for people to understand quantum mechanics. However, Schrodinger intended the experiment as a critique, to highlight the absurdity of thinking behind the theory.
The very first Thanksgiving was held by the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. For Thanksgiving they ate lobster, chestnuts, rabbit and fish among other things. Sadly, for them, there was no mashed potato or pumpkin pie!
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The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
Physicist Erwin Schrodinger’s thought experiment, “Schrödinger’s cat,” has become a way for people to understand quantum mechanics. However, Schrodinger intended the experiment as a critique, to highlight the absurdity of thinking behind the theory.
The very first Thanksgiving was held by the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. For Thanksgiving they ate lobster, chestnuts, rabbit and fish among other things. Sadly, for them, there was no mashed potato or pumpkin pie!
2022 marks the year scientists released footage of a black hole for the second time. What was unique about this image is that this showed the black hole at the center of our galaxy. To capture the image, scientists combined telescopes from around the planet.