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What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?

Vsauce · 2 min read

Turning the Moon into a mirror-tiled disco ball would make it a spectacular but extremely rare source of sunlight flashes—not a steady...

Specular ReflectionTidal ForcesOrbital Geometry

What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides! | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Tides don’t come from the Moon “stretching” Earth’s oceans like taffy. The familiar gravity-differential picture is partly right in math but wrong in...

Tidal ForcesHydraulic Pump ModelNon-Inertial Frames

Is the Moon in Majora’s Mask a Black Hole?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

“Majora’s Mask” moon isn’t a moon at all—it’s a super-dense rocky shell wrapped around a miniature black hole. The claim hinges on a physics mistake...

Majora’s Mask PhysicsTidal ForcesBlack Holes