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Pin by Riikka on Ihmiset in 2025 | History jokes, Fun facts, Women in history

Here, we see a high-speed bullet being obliterated upon impact with a tungsten block—one of the hardest and densest metals on the planet. Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal (3,422°C) and remarkable hardness, making it perfect for withstanding extreme impacts. Despite its terrifying velocity, the bullet is no match for the near-indestructible resistance of this metal. #Science #Experiment #Physics

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What Happens When a Bullet Collides with Tungsten?

Here, we see a high-speed bullet being obliterated upon impact with a tungsten block—one of the hardest and densest metals on the planet. Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal (3,422°C) and remarkable hardness, making it perfect for withstanding extreme impacts. Despite its terrifying velocity, the bullet is no match for the near-indestructible resistance of this metal. #Science #Experiment #Physics

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Finding Pi

I remember Chris Zeeman explaining the Probability one to me as I was driving him across London to a lecture.

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Galton Board with Pascal's Triangle: 6000 steel balls (and one gold bead)

Galton Board with Pascal's Triangle: 6000 steel balls (and one gold bead) fall through 14 levels of branching paths and always end up matching a bell curve distribution. Each ball has a 50/50 chance of going left or right at each branch such that the balls are distributed at the bottom by the mathematical binomial distribution. In addition the number of balls in each bin can be predicted by Pascal's triangle, where the number on each hexagonal branch point represents the number of possible paths to reach that point from the top. See if your eyes can follow the path of the gold bead (representing a single random path) in the 240fps slow motion segment of the video. This extraordinary design by Philip Poissant is a modern version of the Galton Board, invented by Sir Francis Galton (1894)