An animation showing how gold ion collisions at near-light speed recreate conditions of the early universe - where matter appears to be a near-perfect liquid.

posted by eric3579 1 decade 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 386 views

Carl Sagan discusses the structure of the human brain and its immense complexity and potential.

posted by jonny 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 2,915 views

I thought this might be timely as rumors are flying everywhere that D-zero at the Tevatron has discovered a 5 sigma statistically significant resonance at 180 GeV of a multi bottom quark decay of the Higgs... continue reading

posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 4,270 views

'In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different... continue reading

In this four-program series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time. He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our... continue reading

Charlie Rose discusses theoretical physics with Harvard professor Lisa Randall. A great trip through space, time, the nature of gravity and quantum mechanics among other things. Her recent book is "Warped... continue reading

posted by drattus 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 6,088 views

A lecture on high energy particle physics and the nature of the universe that ISN'T dumbed down to the point of being useless and insulting (ie. NOVA/Horizon), yet remains accessible to the layman. I don't... continue reading

posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 3,067 views

User gluonium recently turned us on to the interview shown at the start of this excellent Horizon special. Here's the whole thing. From Wikipedia: Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist... continue reading

posted by wazant 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 7,408 views • 49:37