Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 More Guns Means Less Crime -- 3 AIDS Is Not Caused by HIV -- 4 Sun Exposure Is Beneficial -- 5 Low Doses of Nuclear Radiation Are Beneficial -- 6 The Solar System Has Two Suns -- 7 Oil, Coal, and Gas Have Abiogenic Origins -- 8 Time Travel Is Possible -- 9 Faster-than-Light Particles Exist -- 10 There Was No Big Bang -- 11 Epilogue -- Notes to the Chapters -- Bibliography -- Index.

Note: Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Complete List of Demonstrations -- A. Accelerated Motion and the Acceleration of Gravity -- B. Gravity and Curved Space-Time -- C. Newton's Laws -- D. Center of Mass, Stability, and Friction -- E. Energy and Linear Momentum Conservation -- F. Circular Motion and Angular Momentum -- G. Mechanical Oscillations and Resonance -- H. Fluids -- Pressure and Buoyancy -- Bernoulli's Principle -- Surface Tension -- I. Heat, Thermodynamics, and Kinetic Theory -- J. Waves -- Traveling Waves -- Standing Waves -- K. Doppler Effect and Beats -- L. Electricity -- M. Magnetism -- N. Induced EMF and Lenz's Law -- O. Polarization and Electromagnetic Waves -- P. Geometrical Optics -- Q. Interference and Diffraction -- General -- Acoustic -- Optical -- Appendix 1: Other Books of Physics Demonstrations -- Appendix 2: Equipment Suppliers Cited in This Book -- Index.

Note: Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is Homosexuality Primarily Innate? -- 3. Is Intelligent Design a Scientific Alternative to Evolution? -- 4. Are People Getting Smarter or Dumber? -- 5. Can We Influence Matter by Thought Alone? -- 6. Should You Worry about Global Warming? -- 7. Is Complex Life in the Universe Very Rare? -- 8. Can a Sugar Pill Cure You? -- 9. Should You Worry about Your Cholesterol? -- 10. Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 4. Theories of Everything and Anything -- Tachyons? "Sure, Why Not" -- The Standard Model of Particle Physics -- A Zoo of Hypothetical Particles and the Uniqueness of Tachyons -- Beyond the Standard Model -- What Monsters Might Be Lurking There? -- Replacing Particles by Vibrating Strings and Membranes -- Loop Quantum Gravity -- Gerald Feinberg: An Accidental Futurist -- Oliver Heaviside: An Accidental Time Traveler -- Pavel Cherenkov: An Accidental Nobel Laureate -- FTL Observers and Warp-Drive Spaceships -- Cosmic Inflation -- Dark Energy, Antigravity, and Tachyons -- The Evidence for Dark Energy and an Accelerated Expansion -- Mirror Universes -- Other Alternatives to the Standard Cosmology -- Entanglement: The Effect Einstein Found Spooky -- Superdeterminism and Bell's Theorem -- The Most Famous Failed Experiment in History -- Einstein's Ether -- Making Tachyonic Neutrinos Less Obnoxious -- Logical Inconsistency of Experimental Results -- Summary -- References -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- 1. Three Weird Entities: Tachyons, Neutrinos, and Me -- Hidden Unicorns -- How not to Reach FTL Speed -- E = mc2: The Most Famous Equation in the World -- "Meta" Relativity -- You are Now Traveling at the Speed of Light -- Phantom of the OPERA -- My Journey through Time -- Finding My Passion -- Maverick Jack Steinberger -- The Two-Neutrino Experiment -- Good and Evil Tachyons -- Seeing Things -- Black Swans -- The Neutrino as a Unicorn -- Models of the Three Neutrino Masses -- Other Tachyon Possibilities -- Using Ockham's Razor Can Be Dangerous -- Sending Messages Back in Time -- My Message from the Future -- Summary -- References -- 2. Faster than Light and Backwards in Time -- Tachyons in Fact and Fiction -- A Lazy Dog That Could Not Find an Academic Job. , The Block Universe and Its Worldlines -- Challenges to the Block Universe Concept -- Worldlines and the Light Cone -- The Lorentz Transformation -- Backward Time-Traveling Tachyons -- Chasing a Tachyon -- Searching for Tachyons -- Messengers from Space -- Locating the Sources of the Cosmic Rays -- The Mysterious Cygnus X-3 -- The Proton-Neutron Decay Chain -- An Unsettled Mystery -- A Failed Collaboration: Glupyy Amerikanets!! -- The Field of Cosmic Ray Physics: A Work in Progress -- Contacting Your Earlier Self -- A "More Feasible" Way to Contact the Past -- Fictional Examples -- Wormhole Time Machines -- Where Are the Time Travelers? -- Searching for Wormholes -- A Wormhole in the Solar System? -- Parallels between Wormholes and Tachyons -- Summary -- References -- 3. Supernova SN 1987A and Its Three Unicorns -- Supernovae -- The Threat from Exploding Stars -- The Birth, Life, and Death of Stars -- How to Detect Neutrinos -- The SN 1987A Neutrino Burst -- SN 1987A and the 3 + 3 Model of Neutrino Masses -- The Tachyonic Third Mass in the Model -- Balancing a Seesaw with Nothing on One Side -- Seeking Validation for the 3 + 3 Model -- Dark Matter Holds Galaxies Together -- First Confirmation of the 3 + 3 Model Masses -- Revisiting the Mont Blanc Neutrino Burst -- The Neutrino Detector That Failed to "Bark" -- Dark Matter in the Stellar Core and 8 MeV Neutrinos -- Support for the Z'-Mediated Reaction -- Challenges to the Z'-Mediated Reaction Model. -- Finding the Unicorn Hidden in the Background -- Reliability of the Background -- The 8 MeV Line Revealed -- Physics and the Nature of God -- Summary -- The Three Unicorns -- References -- 5. Weighing the Gravitophobic Neutrinos -- Introduction -- Weighing the Muon Neutrino -- A Scale for Measuring Imaginary Mass -- The Beta Decay Spectrum and the Electron Neutrino Mass -- How to Get a "Kinky" Spectrum. , The Beta Spectrum Shape for a Tachyon -- Neutrino Mass Experiments -- An Embarrassing Episode -- The KATRIN Experiment -- Measuring the Electron Energy in the Spectrometer -- Taking Data with Your Eyes Closed -- Dealing with Controversial Results -- My Overactive Imagination -- A Big Letdown -- Consistency of KATRIN Initial Data with 3 + 3 Model -- A Stay of Execution -- Hearing the Grim Reaper's Footsteps -- KATRIN and Tachyons - Six Possibilities -- Fitting an Elephant or a Whole Herd -- Hiding Elephants -- Summary -- References -- 6. Lessons Learned -- A Bright Spot in the Darkness -- A Third Approach to Physics Research -- Pros and Cons of Data Prospecting -- Negative Evidence and Reviews -- Fake or Predatory Journals -- Making as Many Mistakes as You Can -- Spotting Promising Anomalies -- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) -- Dyson Spheres -- Are We Alone?. -- Our Chances of Making It to a "Post-Human" Era -- Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? -- Guessing the Odds -- How Could We Tell?. -- My Belief That I Am Living in a Simulation -- Some Concluding Thoughts -- Summary -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. How to Design Simple Physics Demos -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Designing your own simple demos -- 1.3 Places to get ideas for designing demos -- 1.4 Starting points in designing a "new" demo -- 1.5 Desirable criteria for simple demos -- 1.6 Good pedagogy -- 1.7 Undesirable features -- 1.8 Getting the physics right -- 1.9 A case study in improving a demo -- 1.10 Importance of being quantitative -- 2. Newton's Laws -- 2.1 The missing circular arc -- 2.2 Estimating the net force on a moving book -- 2.3 Force, mass, and acceleration -- 2.4 Picking yourself up by your bootstraps -- 2.5 Deep knee bends on a bathroom scale -- 2.6 A "Monkey-Hunter" variation -- 2.7 Tearing a card into three pieces -- 2.8 Timing the fall of dropped objects -- 2.9 Recoil force on a bent straw -- 2.10 Magnet symmetry and Newton's third law -- 2.11 Weighing a swinging pendulum -- 2.12 Weighing an hourglass -- 2.13 Terminal velocity of falling coffee filters -- 3. Statics, Equilibrium, and Accelerometers -- 3.1 Your back to the wall -- 3.2 Avalanches in a sand pile -- 3.3 Vibrating electric razor on an inclined plane -- 3.4 A simple accelerometer for use on the OHP -- 3.5 A second accelerometer for the OHP -- 3.6 A vibrating ruler accelerometer -- 3.7 Static equilibrium of a suspended slinky -- 3.8 A row of magnetic marbles on an incline -- 3.9 A 1000 g accelerometer -- 3.10 High friction Atwood's machine -- 3.11 Ladder against the wall -- 4. Orbital Motion and Angular Momentum -- 4.1 Effect of many sideways impacts -- 4.2 Tangential speed at the top of a wheel -- 4.3 Pulling a spool with a thread -- 4.4 Colliding magnetic marbles -- 4.5 A precessing orbit -- 4.6 Ball on a rotating turntable -- 4.7 Hero's engine made from a soda can. , 4.8 Inverse lawn sprinklers or anti-Hero engine -- 4.9 Spinning a penny -- 4.10 A fan of angular momentum conservation -- 4.11 The matchbook and the keys -- 4.12 Jelly-side down -- 4.13 String unwinding from a pole -- 5. Conservation of Momentum and Energy -- 5.1 Momentum conservation on a ruler -- 5.2 Walking the boat -- 5.3 Colliding coins and transverse momentum -- 5.4 Projectile trajectory on an incline -- 5.5 Ballpoint pen test of energy conservatio -- 5.6 Inelastic collisions using "Newton's Cradle -- 5.7 Coefficient of restitution -- 5.8 The interrupted pendulum -- 5.9 Dropping two rolls of toilet paper -- 6. Fluids -- 6.1 Volume is not conserved -- 6.2 Floating ice cubes -- 6.3 Buoyant force on your finger -- 6.4 Four sucking problems -- 6.5 Egg in a water stream -- 6.6 Maximum height of a siphon -- 6.7 Narrowing of a descending water stream -- 6.8 Bobbing cylinder -- 6.9 Propeller on a stick -- 6.10 Weighing a balloon when filled and empty -- 7. Thermodynamics -- 7.1 When to add the cream to your coffee -- 7.2 Heating black and silvered bodies -- 7.3 Heating by convection versus conduction -- 8. Mechanical Oscillations and Waves -- 8.1 "Yes/no" pendulums -- 8.2 Swinging your arms while walking -- 8.3 Period of a physical pendulum -- 8.4 Oscillations of a ruler on a cylinder -- 8.5 The partial ring pendulum -- 8.6 Rotating waves -- 8.7 Resonant vibrations of a ruler -- 8.8 Resonant rings -- 8.9 Ball in a parabolic potential well -- 8.10 Ball in an asymmetric potential well -- 8.11 Ball in a rotating single well potential -- 8.12 Stability of an inverted pendulum -- 8.13 Finding the mass of air inside a balloon -- 8.14 Speed of sound -- 8.15 Doppler effect and shock waves -- 8.16 Beats using a tuning fork -- 8.17 Three-cent shock waves -- 8.18 Burning the candle at both ends -- 9. Electricity and Magnetism -- 9.1 Coulomb's law. , 9.2 A 3-4-5 triangle of resistance -- 9.3 Induced currents using LEDs -- 9.4 A generator and a capacitor -- 9.5 Magnetic field of a dipole -- 9.6 Pushing disk magnets on the OHP -- 9.7 A magnetic oscillator -- 10. Optics -- 10.1 Soot-covered ball underwater -- 10.2 Finding n using a pencil in a glass of water -- 10.3 Seeing double in a square container -- 10.4 Partially blocking a converging lens -- 10.5 A water lens -- 10.6 A rotating water lens -- 10.7 Invisibility using equal indices of refraction -- 10.8 Mirage formation -- 10.9 An oil spot light meter -- 10.10 Pinhole imaging -- 10.11 The negative pinhole image -- 11. Interference and Diffraction -- 11.1 Speaker in a board -- 11.2 Measuring the wavelength of light by ruler -- 11.3 Colorful soap bubbles -- 11.4 Poisson's bright spot -- 12. Modern Physics -- 12.1 Chain reaction simulation -- 12.2 Nuclear fusion simulation -- 12.3 Quantum mechanical tunneling analogy -- 12.4 Weightlessness -- 12.5 Tippy tops and spinning electrons -- 12.6 Time dilation simulation -- 12.7 The "tachyon telephone -- 12.8 Michelson-Mo rley experiment simulation -- 12.9 Expansion of the universe -- 12.10 Pole in the garage paradox -- Bibliography -- Index.