From YouTube: Please excuse the simple math and spelling errors. You shouldn't believe anything I say without double-checking even at the best of times.
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Researcher Ceri Brenner uses the Vulcan laser, a Petawatt Laser at the STFC's Central Laser Facility to create tiny balls of plasma for physics research. Relax and enjoy an education in laser based physics... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,299 views • 5:39Professor Merrifield, one of the regularly featured guests of the Sixty Symbols videos discusses why he has an Atlas of Creation on his bookshelf. Apparently the book is the cause of lots of comments with... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,620 views • 1:34Professor Merrifield discusses right ascension and declination, axial precession and how those topics came up in the shift in Astrology.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,130 views • 7:55From YT: Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 6,814 views • 5:56Thomas Young is best known to us today for the double slit experiment that showed light behaves like a wave. He also did some important, if a bit "was he insane?!" experiments about how the eye works... ... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 5 months ago • 1,876 views • 6:23A clever 'n' cute little love story told on a Möbius strip by Vi Hart, of "Doodling in Math Class" fame.
posted by FlowersInHisHair 1 decade 3 years 5 months 1 week ago • 4,761 views • 7:15Sixty Symbols talks about one of their symbols, Λ (lambda), the Cosmological Constant.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,147 views • 7:01Vi Hart returns with some "sick number games"
posted by Hive13 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,466 views • 5:28News about antihydrogen being "trapped" at CERN has prompted this video into the topic.~YT
posted by geo321 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,464 views • 6:14Pachelbel's Canon in D, arranged for Music Box! Three music boxes play the same strip of paper in sequence to create the canon, while the basso continuo is played by a fourth music box playing a loop.... continue reading
posted by Nicki Hansen (gwiz665) 1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,460 viewsPleasant ideas to keep your brain from going idle in class.
posted by GDGD 1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 7,610 views • 4:25The Sixty Symbols team takes in some snow and writes Merry Christmas on one of the flakes.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,290 viewsSixty Symbols talks about Tycho Brahe, one of the more interesting scientists they have talked about. The story goes that he got a bladder infection by not going to the toilet in time, but he also had... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months ago • 1,987 viewsNeutrinos - Sixty Symbols
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 990 viewsAnother in the My Favourite Scientist series by the guy who does the Sixty Symbols videos. Rob Morris from Nottingham Trent Universit talks about his favorite scientist, Michael Faraday and about a lot... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,792 viewsThe Sixty Symbols team talks about what happens when black holes collide. Then they discuss sunsets and if they enjoy it just for the beauty of it, or if they are thinking about the science of it when... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 2,248 viewsThe film-maker who makes the Sixty Symbols videos, the Periodic Table of Videos among others, has another series about Nottingham's favorite scientists. The scientist featured this time up is Richard Feynman.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 2,203 viewsFrom YT: It's the most famous science equation in history... but E=mc² is not technically correct.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 5,254 viewsOk, I admit it. Nerd crush on Prof Moriarty.
posted by berticus 1 decade 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 879 views