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  2. Doorway effect - Wikipedia

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    The doorway effect or location updating effect is a replicable psychological ... and there was clear evidence that moving through a doorway made highly available ...

  3. Nikodem Popławski - Wikipedia

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    Nikodem Janusz Popławski (born March 1, 1975) is a Polish theoretical physicist, most widely noted for the hypothesis that every black hole could be a doorway to another universe and that the universe was formed within a black hole which itself exists in a larger universe. [1]

  4. The Doors of Perception - Wikipedia

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    The experience started in Huxley's study before the party made a seven block trip to The Owl Drug store, known as World's Biggest Drugstore, at the corner of Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards. Huxley was particularly fond of the shop and the large variety of products available there (in stark contrast to the much smaller selection in English ...

  5. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Edison effect (atomic physics) (electricity) (Thomas Edison) (vacuum tubes) Efimov effect (physics) Einstein effect (disambiguation), several different effects in physics; Einstein–de Haas effect (science) Electro-optic effect (nonlinear optics) Electrocaloric effect (cooling technology) (heat pumps) Electron-cloud effect (particle ...

  6. Whispering gallery - Wikipedia

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    The sound is carried by waves, known as whispering-gallery waves, that travel around the circumference clinging to the walls, an effect that was discovered in the whispering gallery of St Paul's Cathedral in London. [1] The extent to which the sound travels at St Paul's can also be judged by clapping in the gallery, which produces four echoes. [2]

  7. Maxwell's demon - Wikipedia

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    In the thought experiment, a demon controls a door between two chambers containing gas. As individual gas molecules (or atoms) approach the door, the demon quickly opens and closes the door to allow only fast-moving molecules to pass through in one direction, and only slow-moving molecules to pass through in the other.

  8. Chain fountain - Wikipedia

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    The chain fountain phenomenon, also known as the self-siphoning beads, Mould effect, or Newton beads is a physical phenomenon observed with a chain placed inside a jar. One end of the chain is pulled from the jar and is allowed to fall under the influence of gravity .

  9. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Wikipedia

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    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance.