
History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 10, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The Strange Phenomenon of Sonic Booms
Sonic booms travel through the air quite long distances and people will end up hearing them in places where it's like there's no supersonic plane going nearby. Ball lightning is a phenomenon where you can get this kind of ball of glowing ball that forms and lasts for a few minutes and maybe bounces around a room, which happens sometimes in thunderstorms. There are probably plenty of things like that but I wouldn't have ever guessed it would exist without having seen one so there areprobably plenty of thingsLike that um there's a question here about other notable phenomena that people thought they've observed that were not proven to have scientific validity example alchemy.
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