The Physics of Your Senses
Like Duolingo, but for The Physics of Your Senses. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Translating the Universe and The Physical Self. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in The Physics of Your Senses
- Color is a subjective label created by the brain
- Radio waves are much longer than visible light
- Different organisms perceive different wavelengths as different colors
- Visible light sits between infrared and ultraviolet
- Light waves have physical properties like frequency, but 'color' is a biological response
- X-rays represent much higher energy and shorter wavelengths than visible light
- The understanding that color is a mental interpretation of light frequency
- The ability to place visible light within the broader context of the electromagnetic spectrum
- Shadows provide data about light sources
- The brain uses the gap to judge height
- Color is a mental interpretation
- Shadows define 3D contours
- The brain identifies the tint of the light source
- Visible light in the spectrum
- The brain subtracts ambient light color
- Color perception is relative to the environment
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Physics of Your Senses the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Compared to the light we can see with our eyes, how do radio waves behave?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where The Physics of Your Senses takes you
Discover how your brain translates the raw forces of the universe—like light waves and gravity—into the world you actually experience.
- 1
Translating the Universe
- Light and the Illusion of Color
- Sound, Vibration, and the Mind's Ear
- 2
The Physical Self
- Gravity and the Sense of Balance
- Time: Physics vs. Feeling
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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