Portal:Physics/Did you know/Archive

This list an archive of Did you know entries from Portal:Physics.

Did you know...

...that on November 30, 2009, CERN's Large Hadron Collider became the world's highest energy particle accelerator?
...that Isaac Newton originally defined force as the rate of change of momentum with respect to time?
...that while Albert Einstein is most famous for his Theory of Relativity, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect?
...that if you ever saw Jupiter's magnetic field from Earth, it would appear five times larger than the full moon?
...that Max Planck created a system of measurement based solely on natural units?
...that 2005 was endorsed by the United Nations as the World Year of Physics?
...that gravitational tidal accelerations are the result of the curvature of spacetime?
...that the impact of a raindrop would be fatal if not for the property of fluid flow known as terminal velocity?
...that a moonbow, or night-time rainbow, can be seen on strongly-moonlit nights?
...that transits of Venus occur in a 243-year cycle?
...that the blue glow of the Cherenkov effect is due to electrons moving faster than the speed of light in water?

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