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Michael Dominik
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Michael Dominik writes Physics Rediscovered, a personal blog at michaeldominik.substack.com about science and history. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this physics writing, including a post from its 'Physics Rediscovered' series arguing that the trebuchet is a gravity weapon. One commenter cites it for that point.
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A historical journey to learn how we know what we know about physics.
Most-linked posts?
- Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of that article[0] that says the trebuchet is a gravity weapon . That's because it's the gravity that does both the launching and the dropping. With some interesting consequences that sort of justify calling it that. -- [0] - https://michaeldominik.substack.com/p/physics-rediscovered-i...
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on “In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appears driven by gravity waves”Submitted Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Electromagnetic Waves Real? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours as a story · 1 points
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