In the 1990s, engineer Adam Savage conducted an experiment on the show *MythBusters*: He placed 13 dominoes, the first weighing less than 1 gram and the last weighing 45 kilograms. After gently knocking over the first domino, they all fell backward until the last one collapsed with a "thud." If this arrangement continued, the 57th domino would be enough to topple an object the size of the Empire State Building. This is known as the "domino effec…
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In the 1990s, engineer Adam Savage conducted an experiment on the show *MythBusters*: He placed 13 dominoes, the first weighing less than 1 gram and the last weighing 45 kilograms. After gently knocking over the first domino, they all fell backward until the last one collapsed with a "thud." If this arrangement continued, the 57th domino would be enough to topple an object the size of the Empire State Building. This is known as the "domino effec…