User:Reversedragon/sci1

antiparticle 20-21 opposite directions across some field?

balance of nature 30 a mature forest contains aging trees and grows slowly

black holes 45-47 basically unconnected to universe 45 teeny black holes 10^-33 cm 47

black-body radiation 48-49 can a perfectly absorbing body store infinite energy?? 48 nope - atoms can't absorb or emit all wavelengths, causing some to leak out 49

quantum leap 51 discrete change in orbitals

boltzmann constant 54 statistical mechanics; (1/2)mv^2 = kT point this to the search for 137 oh yeah boltzmann gave up and died by suicide 54

brewster's law 58 light takes the shape of electro-magnetic fields; polarization is the way the electric field points

brownian motion 59 showed there really are countable atoms

degeneracy pressure of electrons 69 stops white dwarfs from collapsing if they are below Chandrasekhar limit

Cherenkov radiation 77 when you outrun light inside glass you create a light boom

competitive exclusion principle 85 differential resource utilization 121 natural resources are slotted; extirpation appears to depend on the question of successfully finding a slot competitive exclusion of species, due to amount or slotting, doesn't occur because they form niches this is not necessarily an ironclad physical law but the pattern keeps recurring

determinism 116 planets move Mercury; emergence is hard

deterministic chaos 118

diffraction 122

dispersion 123