Physics
The Story Telling of Science
Part I Part II The Origins Project at ASU presents the final night in the Origins Stories weekend, focusing on the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science. The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and award-winning writers including well-known science educator Bill Nye, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary [...]
Momentum and Portal – Sixty Symbols
Professor Moriarty requested that we re-visit one aspect of physics in the game Portal 2 – humour him!
Caught in the Cosmic Web – Dark Matter Structure Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope
Caught in the Cosmic Web – Dark Matter Structure Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope.
First Tests For Fusion-Powered Spaceship Propulsion Successful
First Tests For Fusion-Powered Spaceship Propulsion Successful.
Water Droplets Orbiting a Knitting Needle in Space
Astronaut Dan Burbank had the idea before leaving the earth, so decided to pack appropriately. For the experiment with the three different knitting needles being performed by the same man, check the video. It’s really quite amazing.
“The World in 2030″ by Dr. Michio Kaku
“The World in 2030: How Science will Affect Computers, Medicine, Jobs, Our Lifestyles and the Wealth of our Nations” Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and the Henry Semat Professor at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he [...]
Creating a Fireball – Pouring Water on an Oil Fire
Watch Peter Wothers deliver the 2012 Christmas Lectures: http://richannel.org/christmas-lectur… Most people know the advice about never putting water on an oil fire. We joined Dr Peter Wothers on the roof of the Ri building in London to show exactly why. Above the famous Lecture Theatre, the team set up a clear protective shield around a [...]
Chris Hadfield’s Top 5 Videos from Space
Chris Hadfield all dressed up for another day in space. Credit: Chris Hadfield (Twitter)
Chris Hadfield — the ever-tweeting, always charming Canadian running the space station these days — has had an eventful few months in space. If he’s not chatting with Captain Kirk, he’s playing guitar or, as it turns out, making very watchable videos.
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Professor Ed Copeland on the latest news to come from the Planck project – talking about the Big Bang and the resulting microwave radiation.
Anti Matter
Anti matter is the concept that anti particles exist in a mirror of particles that make up normal matter. Since electrons have a negative charge and protons have a positive charge, it only seems obvious that antielectrons should be positively charged and antiprotons should hold a negative charge. Based on that, antiwater could be formed from two antihydrogen molecules forming with an antioxygen molecule. Each process that forms normal matter can conceivably form in the antimatter world. The mixing of matter and antimatter would lead to the elimination of both in the same way that mixing antiparticles and particles does, thus giving rise to high-energy gamma rays or other particle/antiparticle pairs.
