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The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong

Veritasium · 3 min read

A single SAT math question from 1982 became infamous because every student who took it was marked wrong—yet the correct answer wasn’t even among the...

Rolling CirclesCoin Rotation ParadoxSAT Error

The Portal Paradox

minutephysics · 3 min read

Portal’s “portal paradox” boils down to a simple question with a physics-sized headache: if an object enters one portal end and exits the other with...

Portal ParadoxReference FramesWormholes

How Earth REALLY Moves Through the Galaxy

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Earth’s “real” motion through space is less a single helix and more a stack of reference frames—each useful for a different question. The common...

Reference FramesSolar System BarycenterLocal Standard of Rest

The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

minutephysics · 2 min read

The Moon’s path isn’t the spiral people often picture. From Earth, it looks like the Moon orbits our planet, but the geometry of the combined...

Moon Orbit GeometryChebotarev RadiusHill Radius