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Snowflakes, snorkelling and spacewalks: your holiday secrets revealed

04 Jan 2022 Robert P Crease
Taken from the January 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Your holiday secrets".

Robert P Crease reveals readers’ favourite holiday-physics problems – and outlines some new teasers too

Beautiful thoughts Snowflakes are just one of the natural wonders that keep physicists’ brains tur

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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