Sixty Symbols covers "the strange world of de Broglie waves and particles."
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The Sixty Symbols team takes on Portal 2.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 3,901 views • 10:42Part of their Easter series, the professor talks a bit about 6 dimensions and how the eggs helps model it... I will freely admit more of this one went over my head than usual.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 943 views • 6:11A very quick fun demonstration of THE SCIENCE
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,160 views • 1:42From YT: We're uploading a series of "eggsperiments" to mark Easter, starting with these crash tests from the Biomechancal lab.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,574 views • 1:56You tube : We take a very close look at a very small speck of gold.
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 3,280 views • 6:23Sixty Symbols celebrates 50 years of maned space exploration with a video about Yuri and Orbital mathematics.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 7:13The Planck time (10^-43 seconds) is discussed in this answer to a viewer question.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 3,283 views • 2:26From YT: It was a crucial paper in the history of cosmology and described events after the Big Bang - yet it's perhaps better known for a bad joke and an author who wrote nothing. Extra footage about the... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 months ago • 1,383 views • 7:23The guy who does the Sixty Symbols videos goes behind the scenes of the KMOS sensor array that will be added to the VLT (Very Large Telescope) array in Chile. The KMOS is being made in Scotland. Lots of... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,383 views • 6:57From YT: With the term "millisieverts" being used in relation to the Japanese nuclear crisis, we explain how radiation is measured and show you some radiation in action.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,260 views • 9:55A longer version of the sixtysymbols film about an atomic toggle switch, found here: http://videosift.com/video/Sixty-Symbols-Atomic-Switch-moving-individual-atoms
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,907 views • 15:07Sixty Symbols explains how scientists can create toggle switches made from just two atoms. Best YT comment: Archimedes shouted "Eureka!" Prof Moriarty shouted "Yes! Flipped. F**k!"
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,457 views • 4:58Researcher 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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,299 views • 5:39The twins paradox, muons and special relativity are among the issues in this video about the symbol gamma, which can represent the Lorentz factor.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,704 views • 5:35The Sixty Symbols group are asked what confuses them.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 2,039 views • 3:38The 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 2 weeks 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 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 3 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 3 months 3 weeks ago • 6,814 views • 5:56