Suggestions for an interesting physics topic which i can research/do project on

In summary, the conversation revolves around finding an interesting and moderately deep topic for a physics presentation. Suggestions include time travel, special relativity, time dilation, and the twin paradox. One person shares their experience with doing a similar project for an English term paper and the challenges of understanding and presenting complex concepts.
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hi, I am looking for any suggestions as to an interesting and relatively deep (but not too deep) topic to do a presentation on. This can be anything to do with physics e.g the collapse of the tacoma narrows bridge, particle physics, time travel, the doppler effect or any physics phenomena. Any help would be much appreciated, thanx.
 
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Time travel is a good. depenind on how good you are, you can talk about special relativity and its consequences on our traditional view of time as an absolute quantity.
There is always Time dilation to explain (quantitatively with eg if possible) as speed tend to speed of light. The traveling twins paradox is also a good one to mention
 
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I did a project like that for an English term paper. My teacher hated me after that, I think it was partly because she left it to read for last and so had to rush through it. It was a good paper though.
 
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yeah I've had a look at it, it does look interesting just i don't know whether id have the brains or the time to pull it off really...its pretty deep stuff...i mean I am no idiot but at the same time I am no stephen hawkins either :)
 

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