First Excited State

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Extremely cool things we can know about the Universe with a bit of physics and/or mathematics already in the bank.

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About Tad Thurston

Professor of Physics and Astronomy for 19+ years at a CC, previously a 3D software engineer.

Writes about physics and astronomy topics that are crazy interesting to me and maybe 9 other people. :)

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