Recent content by Tom Minogue Hastings

Net Neutrality is being overturned as ISP telecoms claim they need to throttle bandwidth and speed as too many customers want to stream HD videos and play HD online games. EM waves are fast and unlimited, so is Tiered Premium Billing absurd? ISP telecom expenses include transmitters...

Wikipedia Antenna article has these 2 ani.gifs which are helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(radio) Still no great ani.gifs to picture EM Waves in nature but these are better than any static drawings. Missing are FM Frequency Modulations or AM Amplitude Modifications of these radio...

If you were trying to explain to kids how EM Waves really look in nature, what would you show? None of these common graphics below are perfect. If you wanted to show comprehensive depiction of transverse EM Waves from the sun, from a laser pointer, from a radio / wifi transmission tower, how...

When you close your eyes and visualize E=mc2 in nature without math, what images do you see? I always saw the Hiroshima mushroom cloud, but after reading your posts, I agree bombs are not the right image when introducing concept to kids. 1. I now see star core nuclear fusion of hydrogen into...

Thanks for explaining C has nothing to do with light or photons. Scary thing about Google omnipotence: Google read your post to me so when I opened youtube, it offered a video called "speed of light is not about light." Google knows all. It then offered this useful video on Sun energy even...

Been lurking on these threads looking for easy explanations of E=mc2 as it relates to nuclear fission weapons. Shame, SHAME, to yall advanced physicists who dismiss and disrespect and flame amateurs on other threads asking for easy examples for kids. I'm a humanities teacher teaching...