Schrodinger’s Cat – the video is now live!

Many of you have heard me play this song live, and I’ve been planning to make a video for it.  The question was, how? Enter Wasabi the WonderCat, who offered to star in the video, some gentle impulse from Dr Kip Stewart, and I had inspiration.

Finally after 10 months of hard work teaching myself to animate, here it is!

The song was born as I wondered about how Schrodinger’s cat felt about being in a box for more than 80 years. You see, he was first put there to prove a point.

The originators of the Copenhagen Interpretation, Niels Bohr and Werner
Heisenberg proposed that reality as we knew it didn’t exist, things were
blurred across multiple states, until a measurement was made.

On the other hand, Einstein and Schrodinger found this preposterous, and
to illustrate came up with the idea of the cat in the box. 

While the fame of Schrodinger’s Cat’s has spread, it didn’t really settle the debate.

I want to know, what does the cat think, being in the box for nearly a century? Surely, it’s the dogs’ turn now!

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Oh When the Science!

A science version of Oh When the Saints! I’m singing the hopes and dreams of every scientist. They dream of getting published, winning grants, tenure and a Nobel Prize! In my experience, to have success in science you need to clone yourself – twice. And then a bit of prayer could be handy…

More of Phil and co is at the Dramatis Scientificae website. I created the Oh When the Science video for AIP Physics in the Cloud, October 2021. Want more songs? Try a Chemistry love song about sodium chloride, or Pluto!

Apologies to Brian Schmidt, who was the original VC cited in this song (and whose name scanned better) but as this was a NSW-based show I had to switch to a selection of Sydney-based vice-chancellors. I apologiese also to Attila Brungs – whose name I eliminated due to bad scansion.

I thank the generation of musicians who brought the song into being around 100 years ago – there seems to be no single original composer, although a few have tried to claim it.

This is part of the 2021 Physics in the Pub (-Cloud, thanks to lockdown 2021) which Phil brings you in partnership with the Australian Institute of Physics NSW Branch.

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Oh When the Science!

It was a laugh creating this video. But I drove my partner crazy – listening to me lip sync the song a thousand times… badly as you can see. I need a camera operator!!

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Adelaide Fringe shows!

Excited to be in Adelaide in 2019 for my first Fringe!  Doing seven shows in six days, all at the Rob Roy Hotel, 106 Halifax St South Adelaide.

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Tuesday 12th March: Physics in the Pub  (booked out)

 

 

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Wednesday 13 March – Solo Show

The Most Amazing Planet in the Universe – an Astronomer’s Ode to Earth

 

 

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Thursday 14th March – Sunday 17th March

The Poet’s Guide to Science – a hilarious play of modern dilemmas, featuring working scientists

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A Song of Sustainability

A highlight of my shows is singing the wonderful words of Katie Goodman from Broad Comedy. Here I am doing it in Sustainable Stand Up, Canberra, August 2017. Language warning folks!

It seems to inspire,  touch the crowd’s hearts and set them singing. Will it change the world?

Let’s all be unfuckers!

Original by Katie is here:

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The Most Amazing Planet – Dr Phil on Tour

Tickets on sale now for shows in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe.  Melbourne earlybird tickets on sale until the Friday 11 January – snap them up!

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An Astronomers Ode to Earth

We like to think we are special and we live on the only planet. But astronomers have recently discovered thousands of weird and wonderful planets orbiting other stars – there may be billions more.

But Earth is still the most amazing planet – the reasons why will surprise you.

If an alien were to visit, they would be astounded. Earth is shrouded in a corrosive and unstable gas, oxygen. Water regularly falls from the sky in liquid and even solid form (rocks falling from the sky?!).

And there are bizarre organisms covering the land that are green: logically, plants should be purple!

Dr Phil’s songs and stories will take you on a trip around the cosmos and reveal the surprising things that make our world special.

An uplifting show that will thrill you, entertain you and wow you.

Dr Phil is a physicist, entertainer, pianist and singer. He’s performed shows in Science shows and festivals around the world including Glasgow, Sydney, and London. By day he’s a science writer for Cosmos Magazine, New Scientist, Australian Geographic and more, and was selected for the 2018 Anthology of Best Australian Science Writing.

Catch the show in

Canberra: 29 January 2019, Smiths Alternative

Melbourne: 4 – 9 February 2019, The Butterfly Club

Adelaide Fringe: 13 March 2019, Rob Roy Hotel

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Workin’ like a gherkin

PhilQuickly updated my Dr Phil Live page, and realised I have a busy few months across four cities!

COMING UP…

Wednesday May 9: Colliding Stars, Quantum Particles and Hawking’s Black Hole Legacy (Physics in the Pub) – Smiths Alternative, Canberra

Friday May 11: Colliding Black Holes, Quasiparticles and a low energy future (Physics in the Pub) – Beer Deluxe, Hawthorn, Melbourne

Monday May 14: MC, Collaborate, Innovate – CRCs Conference Drinks, UTS, Sydney.

Wednesday June 13: Chemistry in the Pub – Smiths Alternative, Canberra

Tuesday June 19: Sustainable Stand Up – Smiths Alternative, Canberra

Wednesday July 11: Health and Medical in the Pub – Smiths Alternative, Canberra

Wednesday August 15: Pub Cabaret, Dr Phil & Tom Gordon – Sydney

Thursday August 16: Physics in the Pub – Orient Hotel, Sydney

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