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  2. Doorway effect - Wikipedia

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    2011, Gabriel A. Radvansky, Sabine A. Krawietz, and Andrea K. Tamplin from the Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame [1] Experiment 1 aimed to understand how reducing the level of immersion impacts the location-updating effect. If this effect requires high immersion because event updating demands direct experience and structural ...

  3. Huygens–Fresnel principle - Wikipedia

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    A simple example of the operation of the principle can be seen when an open doorway connects two rooms and a sound is produced in a remote corner of one of them. A person in the other room will hear the sound as if it originated at the doorway. As far as the second room is concerned, the vibrating air in the doorway is the source of the sound.

  4. Knocking on Heaven's Door (book) - Wikipedia

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    The resulting book is valuable and engaging; like its predecessor, it is a tour de force of popularization. The good part about its wider ambition emerges in Randall’s clarification of the exact purport and scope of scientific work.

  5. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Spin Hall effect (condensed matter physics) (Hall effect) (physics) (spintronics) Spoiler effect (psephology) (voting theory) Stack effect; Stark effect (atomic physics) (foundational quantum physics) (physical phenomena) Stars (shader effect) (3D computer graphics) (computer graphics) (demo effects) Status effect (video game gameplay)

  6. Maxwell's demon - Wikipedia

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    Adams interpreted history as a process moving towards "equilibrium", but he saw militaristic nations (he felt Germany pre-eminent in this class) as tending to reverse this process, a Maxwell's demon of history. Adams made many attempts to respond to the criticism of his formulation from his scientific colleagues, but the work remained ...

  7. Physics of the Impossible - Wikipedia

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    This made the object appear invisible in the red and blue green light range at the microscopic level. [1] Teleportation is a class I impossibility, in that it does not violate the laws of physics, and could possibly exist on the time scale of a century. In 1988, researchers first teleported information at the quantum level. [8]

  8. 30 Fascinating Historical Photos That Offer A New Perspective ...

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    Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...

  9. Copenhagen interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Notable results from this period include Max Planck's calculation of the blackbody radiation spectrum, Albert Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect, Einstein and Peter Debye's work on the specific heat of solids, Niels Bohr and Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen's proof that classical physics cannot account for diamagnetism, Bohr's model ...