YouTube Description: Firing a (very old) musket and filming with a (very new) high-speed camera. With thanks to Jim Gamble. Also discussed by Professor Martyn Poliakoff. Ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221185953... continue reading
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It's an important distinction, since the discussion going on is about Assault Rifles.
posted by Nicki Hansen (gwiz665) 1 decade 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 237 views • 6:57YouTube Description: Stephen Hawking just scooped a $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize. Our very own Dr Tony Padilla (who missed out on a prize this year) discusses three of Professor Hawking's... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 5 months 1 week ago • 362 views • 9:30Deep Sky Videos celebrates Father's Day by discussing the Herschel family.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 838 views • 7:58A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude. Watch with caution. See also our video about the Googol and... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 2 years ago • 3,048 views • 9:16From YT: We discuss the number 16 - a perfect square - and how sitting at table 16 led to something bigger for Matt Parker. In this video is Dr Ria Symonds from the University of Nottingham. And... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,059 views • 5:35From YT: We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues. One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,481 views • 9:27From YT: A dramatic collision of two moons may explain why our Moon is very much two-sided. Professor Mike Merrifield briefly discusses a recent paper in Nature. Check it out at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,102 views • 4:24Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,607 views • 6:02From YT: Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 651 views • 9:48The Planck time (10^-43 seconds) is discussed in this answer to a viewer question.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 3,283 views • 2:26The scientists of Sixty Symbols discuss the four fundamental forces - gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong - for Valentine's Day.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 months ago • 1,697 views • 8:17Professor 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 3 months 1 week 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 3 months 1 week 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 3 months 2 weeks ago • 6,814 views • 5:56The 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
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