Some of the best science fiction revolves around the notion of a parallel universe: where things are slightly different from the universe you are used to. Popular on Star Trek, a surprising number of scientists have recently become convinced that the theory is grounded in hard science.
What is the Higgs Boson? In July, 2012, scientists announced that they are very, very close to proving the ‘God Particle.” The God Particle is the building block that explains how the universe functions. To understand that, we need to look at the Higgs Boson.
“So, the universe is absolutely huge. Imagine yourself driving down a road…” Thus starts this playful and information-packed four minute journey through the universe. Created by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Spectacularly illustrated.
The Theory of Special Relativity as part of the educational process: not for the sake of understanding the theory itself, but in using Einstein’s particular discovery as a case study to demonstrate and walk people through real human thinking.
WIRED is famous for their magazine and website, sadly. They have also produced some fantastic documentaries. In Physics and Chemistry: Ball Busters, WIRED looks at how science is in America’s favorite pastimes. WIRED looks at baseball, cars, bar b q equipment, etc. This rare film is chock full of science and smart reporting.
Meet Spirit and Opportunity. They look like WALL-E. They are exploring Mars – something that people in 1969 thought we would have done by now in person. Welcome to Mars.
Horizon reveals how CERN is searching for the Higgs particle and why it is so significant.
There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.
This excellent documentary does very well to convey the basics of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity in an easy-to-understand manner, as well as to acquaint viewers with Prof Stephen Hawking’s extraordinary life, mission and character.
In clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein’s notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like a perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems.
Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, ‘What time is it?’
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, its speed is an ultimate barrier, nothing can go faster. But is it the final answer ?
Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and Einstein failed to completely solve it. Dr Brian Cox investigates.
Dr Brian Cox takes us on a scientific journey from the discovery of the electron and the birth of particle physics, via the discovery of quarks, to the building of the LHC at CERN.
Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe – in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them.
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