Physics

Stories filed under Physics in the Weird Science History archive — 19 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The Superheavy Element That Only Existed in One Scientist's Data
• The Warship That Never Actually Teleported to Norfolk
• The Park Ranger Struck by Lightning Seven Times
• N-Rays: The Radiation 300 Scientists Saw That Was Never There
• The Schoolboy Whose Hot Ice Cream Froze Faster — and Baffled Physicists for 60 Years
• The Scientist Who Weighed the Earth but Couldn't Speak to His Housekeeper
• The Shoe-Store X-Ray Machine That Kids Begged to Use
• The Slinky: The Walking Spring That Fell Off a Navy Workbench
• The Glow Across the Room That Let Us See Inside the Body
• The Horses That Battled an Army of Electric Eels
• The Motor That Ran for Twenty-Six Years on a Secret Room Full of Compressed Air
• The Bathtub That Took 24 Hours to Drain to Test a Myth
• The Cat Who Co-Authored a Physics Paper Because His Owner Used the Word 'We'
• The Cylinder in a Paris Vault That Defined the Kilogram — Until It Started Losing Weight
• The 'Demon Core': The Plutonium Sphere That Killed Two Scientists
• The Ether-Hunting Machine That Found Nothing — and Broke Physics
• The Experiment So Slow Its Keeper Watched for 52 Years and Never Saw a Single Drop Fall
• Cold Fusion: The Breakthrough That Wasn't
• Nikola Tesla and the Pigeon He Loved

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