Quantum, Relativity & Forces Explained | Pixelated Physics

A massive star cut away into glowing onion-like fusion shells beside a supernova scattering heavy elements

How Do Stars Make Heavier Elements? The B²FH Pa...

The Big Bang left the universe almost entirely hydrogen and helium. Nearly everything else, the carbon in you and the iron in your blood, was forged in stars. In 1957...

How Do Stars Make Heavier Elements? The B²FH Pa...

The Big Bang left the universe almost entirely hydrogen and helium. Nearly everything else, the carbon in you and the iron in your blood, was forged in stars. In 1957...

A heavy glowing particle dragging through an abstract glowing field medium that bunches up around it

What Does the Higgs Field Actually Do?

The Higgs field is an invisible field that fills all of space with a non-zero value, about 246 GeV. Particles that interact with it gain mass: the W and Z...

What Does the Higgs Field Actually Do?

The Higgs field is an invisible field that fills all of space with a non-zero value, about 246 GeV. Particles that interact with it gain mass: the W and Z...

Magnet levitating above a cold superconductor with field lines bending around it

What Is the Meissner Effect, and Why Do Superco...

Cool certain materials far enough and two things happen at once: electrical resistance vanishes, and magnetic field is pushed out of the interior. That expulsion, found by Meissner and Ochsenfeld...

What Is the Meissner Effect, and Why Do Superco...

Cool certain materials far enough and two things happen at once: electrical resistance vanishes, and magnetic field is pushed out of the interior. That expulsion, found by Meissner and Ochsenfeld...

A beam of light passing through three polarizer panels at different angles, dimming after each

Why Does a Third Polarizer Let Light Through? T...

Cross two polarizing filters and the view goes black. Slide a third filter between them at 45° and light reappears, about one eighth of the original. Adding a filter lets...

Why Does a Third Polarizer Let Light Through? T...

Cross two polarizing filters and the view goes black. Slide a third filter between them at 45° and light reappears, about one eighth of the original. Adding a filter lets...

A black hole shadow ringed by a bright photon ring, with its glowing accretion disk lensed around it

What Is the Photon Sphere, and What Did the Eve...

Near a black hole there is a radius where gravity bends light into a circle: the photon sphere, at r = 3GM/c² for a non-spinning hole. It is unstable, so...

What Is the Photon Sphere, and What Did the Eve...

Near a black hole there is a radius where gravity bends light into a circle: the photon sphere, at r = 3GM/c² for a non-spinning hole. It is unstable, so...

One glowing orb per step on a staircase beside many identical orbs piling into one bright pool

Fermions vs Bosons: What Is the Difference?

Every particle in nature is either a fermion or a boson. Fermions, like electrons and quarks, have half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle. Bosons, like photons, have integer...

Fermions vs Bosons: What Is the Difference?

Every particle in nature is either a fermion or a boson. Fermions, like electrons and quarks, have half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle. Bosons, like photons, have integer...