Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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Started reading February 26, 2021
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The best place to watch a storm is a vast open plain.
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It’s more that “cooler fluid sinks as it wins the gravitational battle.” But no one thanks you for pointing that out.
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if you don’t know there’s anything there, why would you go looking for it?
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there’s plenty of room at the bottom.
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Something that’s impossible for a human might be an essential life skill for a flea.
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rise so slowly that they might as well not bother.§
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When you change the timescale of what you’re doing, you often change the outcome.
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time only flows one way.
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We don’t create energy and we don’t destroy it. We just move the goalposts and divert it.