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Season 2011
Responding to more viewer questions, the Sixty Symbols experts reveal their scientific heroes.
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Responding to more viewer questions, the Sixty Symbols experts reveal their scientific heroes.
See our other YouTube channel dedicated to favourite scientists at http://www.youtube.com/favscientist
What is the cosmological constant? Ed Copeland and Mike Merrifield.
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What is the cosmological constant? Ed Copeland and Mike Merrifield.
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Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap.
PS MESSAGE FROM PROF MORIARTY: "I misspoke for the last sentence of the video.
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Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap.
PS MESSAGE FROM PROF MORIARTY: "I misspoke for the last sentence of the video. What I meant to say is that the photons don't have enough energy to excite electrons across the energy gap and therefore light is transmitted. What I said was precisely the opposite, contradicting everything else in the video. Apologies for any confusion caused."
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In this discussion about right ascension and declination, astronomer Professor Merrifield also discusses a possible flaw in astrology.
About the book on his shelf...
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In this discussion about right ascension and declination, astronomer Professor Merrifield also discusses a possible flaw in astrology.
About the book on his shelf... http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2011/02/atlas-of-creation.html
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We discuss the four fundamental forces - gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong.
Extra footage from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9FCfZOJLk
More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
We discuss the four fundamental forces - gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong.
Extra footage from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9FCfZOJLk
More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
A viewer asks our team of physicists and astronomers what part of science they find most confusing?
More viewer questions at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/questions/index.html
A viewer asks our team of physicists and astronomers what part of science they find most confusing?
More viewer questions at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/questions/index.html
The twins paradox, muons and special relativity are among the issues in this video about the symbol gamma, which can represent the Lorentz factor.
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The twins paradox, muons and special relativity are among the issues in this video about the symbol gamma, which can represent the Lorentz factor.
More symbols discussed at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
How scientists can create toggle switches made from just two atoms. Extended version of this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHLyrc-uoIk
How scientists can create toggle switches made from just two atoms. Extended version of this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHLyrc-uoIk
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.
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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.
More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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
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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 science in this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_yNwUXIY0c
Alpher Bethe Gamow
The planck time is discussed in this answer to a viewer question.
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The planck time is discussed in this answer to a viewer question.
More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, we look at some of the science behind an orbit.
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As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, we look at some of the science behind an orbit.
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We take a very close look at a very small speck of gold.
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We take a very close look at a very small speck of gold.
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We're uploading a series of "eggsperiments" to mark Easter, starting with these crash tests from the Biomechancal lab.
Facts and figures about this video at
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We're uploading a series of "eggsperiments" to mark Easter, starting with these crash tests from the Biomechancal lab.
Facts and figures about this video at http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2011/04/egg-crash-test-stats.html
More physics and engineering at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
Coupled Oscillators, or pendulums, are demonstrated by Professor Roger Bowley as part of little Easter series. He's using creme eggs, of course.
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Coupled Oscillators, or pendulums, are demonstrated by Professor Roger Bowley as part of little Easter series. He's using creme eggs, of course.
More eggsperiemnts at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/eggs/
Continuing a week of egg-themed physics (for Easter 2011), Professor Egg Copeland discusses a theory which relates to the cosmological constant. More egg physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/eggs/
Continuing a week of egg-themed physics (for Easter 2011), Professor Egg Copeland discusses a theory which relates to the cosmological constant. More egg physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/eggs/
Cadbury Creme Eggs and real eggs are MRI scanned for this special Easter video.
Sir Peter Mansfield developed a lot of MRI technology at The University of Nottingham, where Sixty
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Cadbury Creme Eggs and real eggs are MRI scanned for this special Easter video.
Sir Peter Mansfield developed a lot of MRI technology at The University of Nottingham, where Sixty Symbols is filmed. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work.
Professor Richard Bowtell explains the technology in this video.
More Easter Egg science at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/eggs/
We discuss wormholes and the new computer game called Portal 2.
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We discuss wormholes and the new computer game called Portal 2.
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The strange world of de Broglie waves and particles.
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The strange world of de Broglie waves and particles.
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A shorter version of a film with 1999 Tetris World Champion James Clewett. Full-length version is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jA53IkHZJg
A shorter version of a film with 1999 Tetris World Champion James Clewett. Full-length version is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jA53IkHZJg
Watching paint dry isn't boring when you do it with a microscope.
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Watching paint dry isn't boring when you do it with a microscope.
More physics and astronomy at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
Tidal forces don't just affect the ocean... They can affect entire galaxies.
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Thanks for Dave Hockey for Fundy Bay tide footage... http://fundytides.ca/
Tidal forces don't just affect the ocean... They can affect entire galaxies.
More physics and astronomy at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
Thanks for Dave Hockey for Fundy Bay tide footage... http://fundytides.ca/
Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means.
Extra footage from this interview can be
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Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means.
Extra footage from this interview can be found on our nottinghamscience channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5DFRr6UaXA
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Summer solstice, equinox, Stonehenge and strange movements of the sun.
Sixty Symbols tracks the sun's passage through the sky.
More physics and astronomy at
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Summer solstice, equinox, Stonehenge and strange movements of the sun.
Sixty Symbols tracks the sun's passage through the sky.
More physics and astronomy at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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A galaxy dubbed NGC 6744 is being hailed at the Milky Way's galactic twin... Find out why?
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In anticipation of people
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A galaxy dubbed NGC 6744 is being hailed at the Milky Way's galactic twin... Find out why?
More physics and astronomy at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
In anticipation of people asking, more about Professor Merrifield's "sculptures" can be found at http://www.crystalnebulae.co.uk/ --- And I'm at pains to point out The Professor did not ask me to mention the site... I asked him about the sculptures because it was a case of an astronomer's hobby (which I knew about) giving a personal perspective to this "news" about NGC 6744.
Henry Cavendish was an unusual man but also one of the first great scientists. Many of his discoveries remained hidden in his notebooks, but his name is still attached to the the
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Henry Cavendish was an unusual man but also one of the first great scientists. Many of his discoveries remained hidden in his notebooks, but his name is still attached to the the extraordinary Cavendish Experiment.
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What makes spiral arms in some galaxies - and what is "pattern speed'? Professor Mike Merrifield explains.
Extra footage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsj0uODPW9I
Our thanks on
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What makes spiral arms in some galaxies - and what is "pattern speed'? Professor Mike Merrifield explains.
Extra footage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsj0uODPW9I
Our thanks on this video to R. Jay GaBany from http://www.cosmotography.com/
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The butterfly effect is associated with the unpredictable world of chaos... Two of our physicists have a chat about it.
They are Laurence Eaves and Mark Fromhold.
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The butterfly effect is associated with the unpredictable world of chaos... Two of our physicists have a chat about it.
They are Laurence Eaves and Mark Fromhold.
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Strange bubbles and foam are part of the allure of Guinness - at least when you discuss it with an Irish physicist.
Sixty Symbols is in Dublin discussing the nation's much-loved
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Strange bubbles and foam are part of the allure of Guinness - at least when you discuss it with an Irish physicist.
Sixty Symbols is in Dublin discussing the nation's much-loved beverage.
Link to the waves paper: http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/guinness/waves.pdf
Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.
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Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.
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Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.
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Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.
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A lecture theatre at Trinity College, Dublin, is named in honour of Erwin Schrödinger.
It was in Dublin that the physicist gave his famous lectures: "What is Life?"
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A lecture theatre at Trinity College, Dublin, is named in honour of Erwin Schrödinger.
It was in Dublin that the physicist gave his famous lectures: "What is Life?"
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Shaking grains and interesting physics.
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Shaking grains and interesting physics.
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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.
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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/v476/n7358/full/nature10289.html
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Discussing recent results suggesting neutrinos may be traveling "faster than light".
Read the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
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Discussing recent results suggesting neutrinos may be traveling "faster than light".
Read the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
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Supernovae and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics - Sixty Symbols
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Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam
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Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess.
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We meet Australian astronomy photographer Paul Haese at Clayton Bay, near Adelaide. See Paul's work at http://paulhaese.net/
He was recently named runner-up in the solar system
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We meet Australian astronomy photographer Paul Haese at Clayton Bay, near Adelaide. See Paul's work at http://paulhaese.net/
He was recently named runner-up in the solar system category of Astronomy Photographer of the Year for an image he captured of Saturn. You can also see the winner at http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/winners-2011/our-solar-system/
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The Beatles and cosmology - what is this all about?
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The Beatles and cosmology - what is this all about?
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Here's a link to the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2000
More mind-mending particle physics from the guys at the University of Nottingham. Happy Halloween?
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More mind-mending particle physics from the guys at the University of Nottingham. Happy Halloween?
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Image credits below... For Halloween we look at a couple of "witch" objects in space.
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Image credits below... For Halloween we look at a couple of "witch" objects in space.
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Images used with permission and our thanks
Philip Perkins
http://www.astrocruise.com/milky_way/ic2118.htm
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
http://blog.deepskycolors.com/archive/2009/11/16/witch-Head-Nebula-and-Rigel.html
Joaquin Ferreiros
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/joaquinferreiros/NGC6960.jpg
Radek Kyml
http://astrofoto.kyml.cz/ngc6960.htm
Michael Siniscalchi
http://helixgate.net/ngc6960-2.html
Michael Fulbright
http://msfastro.net/gallery2/v/msfastro/2010_pssg/NGC6960_20101004_PSSG.jpg.html
Bob and Janice Fera
http://www.feraphotography.com/ASA/Ngc6960ccd.html
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
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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 Hammer and Spark.
Video also features Sixty Symbols regular (and Irishman) Professor Phil Moriarty.
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We're in Australia discussing the view of the night sky from down south.
Talking with amateur astronomer Paul Haese, based in South Australia, and former Sixty Symbols regular Dr
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We're in Australia discussing the view of the night sky from down south.
Talking with amateur astronomer Paul Haese, based in South Australia, and former Sixty Symbols regular Dr Amanda Bauer, who is now working in Sydney. Extra interview footage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPnRHGJx60M
Our thanks to the following astrophotographers who allowed us to use their images:
Paul Haese
http://paulhaese.net/
Phil Hart
http://www.philhart.com/
Fred Espenak
http://www.mreclipse.com/
We discuss the southern cross (crux) and Magellanic Clouds, among other features.
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The new channel will be http://www.youtube.com/DeepSkyVideos
On Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deep-Sky-Videos/128564940579262
On Twitter at
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The new channel will be http://www.youtube.com/DeepSkyVideos
On Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deep-Sky-Videos/128564940579262
On Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/deepskyvideos
With thanks to Nik Szymanek... His images at ccdland.info
Just a bit of fun for Christmas - we "physics review" one of this year's hot Christmas gifts.
No product endorsement (in fact it looks a bit "naff" we reckon)... Just talking a bit of
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Just a bit of fun for Christmas - we "physics review" one of this year's hot Christmas gifts.
No product endorsement (in fact it looks a bit "naff" we reckon)... Just talking a bit of festive physics.
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Our slightly belated video about the Higgs Boson.
A (very much) extended version of these interviews has been posted at our nottinghamscience channel -
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Our slightly belated video about the Higgs Boson.
A (very much) extended version of these interviews has been posted at our nottinghamscience channel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pj3fiZGNE
This video features Ed Copeland, Roger Bowley and Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham.
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