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    Photo Contest - World Culture 1-Norway (8/28-9/2)

    Beautiful
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    Is It Too Late to Pursue Physics as a Passion in Your Forties?

    Thank you. I've been enjoying surfing through the threads. Instead of overwhelming it's actually thrilling.
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    High School Explaining vector & scalar quantities to a layman

    I like a bowling description. The bowling ball has a set weight. When you choose the ball you automatically start doing simple vectors in your head. You do a test swing imagining how hard to slide, how to angle your body, your point of reference lining up the ball. It can be described with...
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    Is It Too Late to Pursue Physics as a Passion in Your Forties?

    I'm nearly fourty; not a time when most people start I have always loved physics and math but gave up in high school when teachers always complained I ask too many questions. I always want to know the how's and why's. Questions I asked thoughts I had were called stupid but now are actually main...