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"Work to rebuild the buckled sections of the skyscraper won’t delay the construction project scheduled to be completed next year," I...

Maybe place the shaft on top of the best ruler you have and take a picture with your phone as perpendicular to the ruler as possible...

An equivalent way to see it: the sea level rise is the same as the water rise you'd observe when placing one tennis ball in a...

Thinking about the data is what feels important to me. Lag is small at first because the separation changes slowly at first. Daily lag...

Let the period be 2 days and take measurements for half a year. In that time Jupiter moved roughly 1/24 an orbit so in the half year we...

Maybe it would be helpful to produce an imaginary data set. Let Io make one complete orbit in a nice round number, say 1 day or one week...

There's also a factor of 7/8 that comes into play: Ignoring internal states, the energy density of a relativistic species of fermions...

Well, what happens in that sort of situation is that the entire system is thermalized: when you have temperatures far above the rest...