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How much does our shadow weigh?

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  In the world of the ephemeral, there are few elements that accompany us wherever we go, every day of our life, in almost any circumstance. Something we barely notice is our shadow.  Shadow is nothing more than the absence of a light that was expected, but that does not reach its destination because it was blocked by an object. Explaining what light is is not so easy. In a simplified way, we can say that it is made up of photons, elementary particles without mass but with energy and with "moment". This "moment" is the ability of physical objects to push each other. When the photons that make up a ray of light illuminate an object, they push it, exerting a slight pressure on it that we call "re Radiation Pressure". When we get in the sun, our body feels this pressure, while the area we overshadow, where the photons do not reach, does not feel it. We can quantify this difference in pressure with weight, which is the force we exert on the ground, or on a sca...

This is how they caught the girl stalker.

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 An elusive hacker humiliated a group of high school girls. They joined a police investigator with a lot of determination to set a digital trap for it. BELMONT, NEW Hampshire  (7,200 inhabitants) is an old industrial town in the northeastern United States surrounded by lakes and forests. A hardware store and a hairdresser are all that the main street has to offer. At the local police headquarters, there is a box full of bills and bills that the neighbors have donated to support Vito, the boss's dog. "We don't have many people swimming in abundance," says Raechel Molton.  For a long time, Molton, 42, was the only police investigator in the city . He grew up about 35 km away, in Concord. She was a bold girl who resolutely approached the uniformed police officers to ask them what they were wearing on their belts. When he was in fifth grade, an officer went to his school to conduct a drug awareness course. That's when  he decided that he was going to be a policeman . ...