Physics: Unveiling the Illusions

Mike Hassaballa
2 min readApr 9, 2024

Tthink you understand physics? you know, gravity, space, all that stuff? well, things can get a little weird when you dig deeper. sometimes, the simple explanations we love just don’t cut it. this is where things get interesting, but also where it’s easy to get tripped up with the wrong ideas. let’s break down some of those physics traps, mon!

the trouble with easy answers, from how objects fall to the crazy stuff happening in quantum physics, the universe is full of complex rules. we humans love shortcuts, though. take gravity — seems simple on the surface, but einstein showed us it’s actually about bending spacetime… whoa! the lesson here? don’t get too comfy with those simple explanations.

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the quantum world is… weird. ever heard of that double-slit experiment? it’s where particles act like waves and particles at the same time. it messes with our whole idea of how things “should” work. this is the world of probabilities, not certainties. it reminds us that the universe doesn’t always follow our neat little rules.

the dark side of the universe, turns out, most of the universe is stuff we can’t even see — dark matter and dark energy. we know something’s out there based on how galaxies spin, but what it actually is? still a huge mystery. this is why physicists gotta keep their minds open, even when the answers don’t fit our current…

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Mike Hassaballa

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