Sixty Symbols

  • Premiered: Apr 2009
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Season 2012
2012x1
How Do 3D Glasses Work?
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Jan 23, 2012
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2012x1
How do 3D glasses work - Sixty Symbols
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Jan 23, 2012
A visit to the toilet is included in Professor Phil Moriarty's explanation of 3D glasses. How do 3D films give us that three dimensional effect? Visit our website at .. show full overview
2012x2
Five Sigma - Sixty Symbols
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Feb 10, 2012
With all this talk about "sigma" and certainty at the Large Hadron Collider, we attempt to explain what it's all about. Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on .. show full overview
2012x3
World's Smallest Magnetic Byte - Sixty Symbols
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Feb 18, 2012
Professor Moriarty enthuses over a recently published paper. Our thanks to the authors, especially Sebastian Loth, for permission to reproduce their images. Enthusiastic explanation .. show full overview
2012x4
Neutrinos slower than light - Sixty Symbols
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Feb 29, 2012
A slightly less exciting sequel to our video "Neutrinos faster than light". We happened to be at Cern, in Geneva, when the story broke. Here's our original video: .. show full overview
2012x5
Was Brian Cox wrong? - Sixty Symbols
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Mar 07, 2012
Brian Cox ruffled a few feathers with a TV lecture which touched upon the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Two of our Sixty Symbols regulars - Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla - try to explain .. show full overview
2012x6
High above the LHC - Sixty Symbols
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Mar 16, 2012
Before going inside, here is a visual and conversational "overview" of the Large Hadron Collider with Professor Ed Copeland. More from the LHC: http://bit.ly/LHCvideos Visit our .. show full overview
2012x7
Inside the Large Hadron Collider (CMS) - Sixty Symbols
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Mar 23, 2012
Professor Ed Copeland shows us inside the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider - will it find the elusive Higgs Boson? More from the LHC, including ATLAS: .. show full overview
2012x8
Type II Supernova - Sixty Symbols
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Mar 29, 2012
After last week's excitement (see our astronomy sister channel at http://www.youtube.com/DeepSkyVideos for more details), we turn our attention to types of supernova. Featuring .. show full overview
2012x9
Inside ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols
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Apr 07, 2012
The mighty ATLAS detector is searching for the Higgs Boson - one of a few experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. See our earlier video at the CMS Experiment: .. show full overview
2012x10
Hand back into the Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols
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May 02, 2012
A while back we pondered what would happen if your hand was hit by the Large Hadron Collider's proton beam - this time we're asking the people who work there! Our original video is at: .. show full overview
2012x11
Will the LHC destroy the world? - Sixty Symbols
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May 09, 2012
CERN's Large Hadron Collider will NOT destroy our planet. But many of you asked about it - and the "scenarios" are a good excuse to discuss some cool physics. Dr Tony Padilla .. show full overview
2012x12
Petabytes of data at Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols
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May 16, 2012
This question is posed on behalf of many Sixty Symbols viewers who asked about it. With thanks to David Barney and Steven Goldfarb, from CMS and ATLAS respectively. See more of our .. show full overview
2012x13
Momentum, Magnets & Metal Balls - Sixty Symbols
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May 26, 2012
Looking at momentum with the aid of steel balls and a neodymium magnet. Featuring Professor Roger Bowley. Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at .. show full overview
2012x14
Venus Transit - Sixty Symbols
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Jun 01, 2012
With a rare Venus transit imminent, Professor Mike Merrifield discusses a few items of interest. More spacey stuff from Mike at our new astronomy channel: .. show full overview
2012x15
What is CERN? - Sixty Symbols
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Jun 23, 2012
Professor Ed Copeland gives his own explanation and brief history of CERN - a Mecca for physicists and home of the Large Hadron Collider. CERN website: .. show full overview
2012x16
Making Minute Physics - Sixty Symbols
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Jun 28, 2012
We meet Henry Reich, the guy behind the amazing Minute Physics videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics Henry is based at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. We met him at the brainSTEM unconference hosted there.
2012x17
Is it the Higgs Boson? - Sixty Symbols
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Jul 04, 2012
Professor Ed Copeland and Brady tune in live to watch "the big announcement" from CERN - but what has been discovered? More videos from our visit to the Large Hadron Collider at .. show full overview
2012x18
Falling into Black Holes - Sixty Symbols
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Jul 18, 2012
Two new scientific papers look like changing the way we think about event horizons and what happens when you cross one - as Dr Tony Padilla explains. The papers are at .. show full overview
2012x19
Science YouTubers - Sixty Symbols
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Aug 01, 2012
Brady meets some of the people who make science videos for YouTube - and in true Sixty Symbols fashion asks them about their symbols. Featuring ViHart, Smarter Every Day, CGPGrey, .. show full overview
2012x20
Gargamelle and Neutral Currents - Sixty Symbols
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Aug 08, 2012
Gathering dust (and beer cans) under a tree at CERN - it's Gargamelle. This experiment played a key role in Nobel Prize-winning research into the weak force. It's now on public display. .. show full overview
2012x21
Current and Magnets - Sixty Symbols
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Aug 22, 2012
Professor Roger Bowley uses fuse wire, magnets and electrical current for a quick demonstration. Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at .. show full overview
2012x22
Double Vision - Sixty Symbols
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Aug 31, 2012
A huge crystal of calcite is used to demonstrate birefringence, a side-effect of light's refraction through certain materials. Featuring Professor Mike Merrifield. Visit our .. show full overview
2012x23
Spinning Magnet - Sixty Symbols
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Sep 24, 2012
We've let Professor Bowley loose with the magnets again! More of our magnet-themed videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNwSaBpVEWXk774OzczwW-v Thanks to Dave .. show full overview
2012x24
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics - Sixty Symbols
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Oct 09, 2012
More Physics Nobel videos: http://bit.ly/SSNobel Nobel Prize days always create a great buzz in university science departments - I hope this video shows some of that. The 2012 Nobel .. show full overview
2012x25
Rainbows and Double Rainbows - Sixty Symbols
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Oct 26, 2012
The physics of rainbows with Professor Mike Merrifield. Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at .. show full overview
2012x26
More Magnets - Sixty Symbols
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Nov 06, 2012
SUB to Brady's NEW psychology channel - http://bit.ly/WuBYhG See Veritasium's video on the same topic: http://bit.ly/QkEyUF Professor Bowley is talking magnets again - this time with .. show full overview
2012x27
Problems with High School Physics - Sixty Symbols
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Nov 11, 2012
Minute Physics video at: http://youtu.be/BGL22PTIOAM More from Ed, Phil and Tony's interviews at: http://bit.ly/SO4Hrh Sixty Symbols regulars Ed Copeland, Tony Padilla and Phil .. show full overview
2012x28
Northern Lights Flight - Sixty Symbols
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Nov 27, 2012
For something a bit different, we jump in plane from Nottingham in search of the Northern Lights. With thanks to Aurora Flights/Omega Holidays who let us tag along - you can book .. show full overview
2012x29
Weird Surface Tension - Sixty Symbols
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Dec 02, 2012
Sixty Symbols regulars Roger and James are part of a team investigating surface tension in granular systems. Their new paper is published at .. show full overview
2012x30
Why is Stephen Hawking a big deal? - Sixty Symbols
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Dec 11, 2012
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 most .. show full overview
2012x32 Season finale
Why is Stephen Hawking a Big Deal?
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Dec 11, 2012
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