#Photons

O'Foghlu

rayofoghlu

Why are some new leaves red?Thread on anthocyaninsThere are two red pigments found in trees, caretonoids (red/orange)and less well known anthocyanins (purple/red) Caretonoids primary function is to absorb energy from

ASAS-SN

SuperASASSN

Have you seen "Star Trek Generations" movie from 1984?A key plot device in a movie is that the bad guy launches a "trilithium" probe at a star. The probe stops

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PetahJane

At any moment we are going to be experiencing the light that is anticipated from the Great Flash, or solar event that is triggered as the Earth moves around into

Alex | Haruspis

haruspis

Writing up a piece on mental health and it's got me feeling a lot about Halo 4 again, so... thread.Halo 4 is a story that's fascinated with prisons - not

Goddess

MazvitaJames

Disclosure is a human right- A simple, quick breakdown of these shows in order: • Stargate SG-1 • Star Trek • Star Wars • a thread https://twitter.com/MazvitaJames/status/1271209921997144064 1. Stargate

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MorlockP

1/Ehh...Heinlein was a quote "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose starts", but that's kinda smooth brained baby libertarianism, bc it outsources the entire hard part, which

Martin Rowson

MartinRowson

Well, he's only got a matter of hours left in office before he either flounces off to Florida to play golf or presses the Omega Button and we blip into

Chrysanthe

2Expi

[THREAD] : Le Condensat de Bose-Einstein, et le Marocain Kamal Oudrhiri Bose-Einstein Condensate, and the Moroccan Kamal Oudrhiri Nous avons tous été informés, depuis notre plus jeune âge, qu'il

Fidel Ca$hflow$ 🔨🔨💰💰

rafaqazi

It’s Monday and I am bored so for all you $VLDR $LAZR & $CFAC junkies here’s a technical thread on how LIDAR works and why $CFAC's Aeye tech *could* be

Cory Schmitz ⭐ PhotographingSpace.com

TheAstroShake

1/nHow ISO can affect your astro photos: a thread and discussion using images and real data...GO!Starting with these two #MilkyWay photos, ISO 12800 and 800, identically processed (minimally), with an

⭐Nereide🪐

Nereide

Thread 1/15Can you explain what #QuantumMechanics is to a 13-,14- year-old boy?A really arduous undertaking, I would say almost a challenge.I tried to do it through an imaginary dialogue with

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BoliqueAna

Radiation is energy radiated in the form of rays, waves or particles. Either ionizing radiation or non ionizing or indirect ionizing. Ionizing is strong enough to remove electrons from orbiting

Kwasi Kwakwa (@RealSci_Nano)

RealSci_Nano

Now we can move on to talking about microscopes proper. For people who don't work with them for a living, you probably haven't seen once since school and you remember

Laura Baudis

lbaudis

Some background information on the "g-2" value of the muon: The muon is an elementary particle, ~206 times heavier than the electron. Like the electron, the muon has an internal

Nick Almond

DrNickA

Ok, this comes up a lot and it’s an obviously valid point to question the sustainability of #Bitcoin but very few people properly grasp what happens when you play

Dan Kaszeta

DanKaszeta

A bit of debunking here. People are using this radiation reading from Sicily as some sort of evidence that the Beirut explosion was a nuclear bomb. This is dishonest fuckwittery

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