Recent content by TheAnalogKid2

No, I've learned in auto shop classes and common sense that when you apply your brakes quickly that they wear out much quicker. I don't have any math or calculations or anything of the sort, but when you brake quickly, as said before, a lot of heat energy is created, and when two metal objects...

This video is so amazing i am simply awestruck by this phenomena, but i have a few questions. What makes it so that it can float and stay in the same position? Could you do this with any magnet or does t have to be the special saphire with gold coating for protection like in the video? And would...

Looking at the Standard model, I noticed that all the quarks and leptons have a spin of 1/2 and all of the gauge bosons have a spin of 1. Can someone give me a general definition of what "spin" is and the difference between a particle that has a spin of 1/2 and a particle that has a spin of 1?