physics

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The Physics of a Zombie Attack

By Katie ⋅ September 29, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Physicist Davide Cassi at the Università di Parma in Italy recently studied how long something could hide (an immobile target) in a complex structure without being found by a random walker. To Mike Lucibella at livescience.com, “immobile targets” are humans hiding and “random walkers” are zombies.  Lucibella infers from Cassi’s study that if zombies were [...]

Get your physics on!

By Andy D. ⋅ May 13, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Somebody explain this to me. James Randi showcased this clip at the end of this week’s SWIFT. I don’t think it is Einstein’s special relativity because the motion isn’t uniform. Maybe it is general relativity with warped spacetime? My guess is we are seeing Newton’s third law in action which states [...]

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