When you hold your smartphone in your hand, the incredible wonders of physics are on display for you, right there in front of you. It’s almost like an impromptu lesson in the way the universe works. Your screen shows off the photoelectric effect, employing tiny organic compounds that emit light when electricity passes through them. When you run your finger over your screen, there’s a tiny grid of wires under the glass with a constant current, creating an
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan
“The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.” ― Werner Heisenberg
Great one! It's good to change perspective and see the world through different lenses - I think it felt much better to read it specifically on the phone.
I think I got it: While I'm here, thinking I'm holding the phone with my own hands, it's actually thousands of microscopic workers employed by an international megacorporation holding my phone for me? I feel like a king!
Another article that makes me think. Still, I always get 'whao' moments with phones. I never thought anything could make me lessen my usage of desktops, but phones did. The incredible wonders of physics are right before me at any moment I hold a phone. It's incredible! It's amazing. It's fantastic!
This reminds me of the two quotes:
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan
“The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.” ― Werner Heisenberg
Oh man, I had to hold back a lot not to let this become a piece on QM. Tempting!
There is only one essential force in the universe, and that force is called "whoa!"
Finally, somebody who gets it.
Great one! It's good to change perspective and see the world through different lenses - I think it felt much better to read it specifically on the phone.
Agreed 👍
100% appropriate.
It is magic in so many ways ✨️
Whoa
I think I got it: While I'm here, thinking I'm holding the phone with my own hands, it's actually thousands of microscopic workers employed by an international megacorporation holding my phone for me? I feel like a king!
Another article that makes me think. Still, I always get 'whao' moments with phones. I never thought anything could make me lessen my usage of desktops, but phones did. The incredible wonders of physics are right before me at any moment I hold a phone. It's incredible! It's amazing. It's fantastic!
It seems like magic, doesn't it?
Definitely.