TFW the silliest stories go better than you want…
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The flame tornado
Every and then you strike gold at a garage sale. When I found a lazy susan, I knew it was flame tornado time! So good to have a mate like Eduardo to help me build it.
Exploding yoghurt – the original
Just realised I have never posted the Exploding Yoghurt video, back where it all began. Such nice camera work David Wong!
Juggling the ingredients for fusion
News from the UK today that new tokamak ST-40 has been turned on, so I thought I’d post a little explainer about how fusion works.
Living in the fifth dimension
Dr Ayana Arce is part of a team that does experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, looking for evidence for the fifth dimension.
How twisting a belt explains the Universe
Quantum physics is all about the simplest things in the universe. Matter – electrons and quarks (which make up neutrons and protons), and interactions – photons, forces etc.
The difference between the two is a simple rotation. It’s secret quantum mechanics knowledge, says head of ANU Dept of Quantum Physics, Professor Craig Savage.
Here he is proving it:
Filmed at Physics in the Pub ACT, 2016, August 17 at Smiths Alternative Bookshop
CSI Space -Physics in the Pub
It’s a peaceful starry night, but Pete Kuzma has found the remains of a grisly murder in the sky – a dismembered dwarf. galaxy.
Part of the Physics in the Pub 2016 with Australian Institute of Physics ACT branch, supported by a National Science Week seed grant.
Filming by Jon and Liam from Crus Productions.
Smashing things… for the good of humanity
It’s amazing how liquid nitrogen affects rubber. Turns it from bendy and stretchy into a brittle solid that you can smash into a thousand pieces – a trick that lots of science shows do.
BUT, not so many people know that there is a heartwarming story of community benefit from this seemingly mindless destruction.
Veritasium’s made of cathode rays
One from the archives. I’d give it a hell of an edit these days
There are gravitational waves in my bed
Amazing news that gravitational waves have been detected, but they were there in you bedroom and your kitchen all along…
