If you have ever been fascinated by popular science and longed to explore physics on a deeper level but found text books dull and impenetrable? Have you ever listened time and again to how "all physicists agree" and thought to yourself, no wonder we are in trouble if they all agree to that! Then this is maybe for you. Having grown bored of the religious dogma that often passes for physics these days, Dr Bry decided to take a look for himself, his battle cry "Nullius in Verba", On the word of no one. Allow Dr Bry to be your guide as you embark on an exciting journey of discovery into the wonders of our amazing universe.
This week a Covid ridden Dr Bry tries to give you some idea of why he thinks his latest discovery is something truly amazing.
Our man Clifford gets another mention, surviving the pandemic, Lorentz, imaginary numbers and the answer to everything.
A load of head-scratching thanks to our friend the neutron.
This is a bit of a departure from the planned post, but I came across something funny and thought I'd share it with you. Hope you enjoy it.
Some more about our amazing mathematician, William Kingdon Clifford
Was Einstein actually the unluckiest of people who ever lived?It dawned on me a while back that he might have been. In this one I go on a bit about hammers and screws, actually, I go on far longer than I should probably have, but what are you going to do? Join me to see if I am right about our man Albert.
In this one I start off talking about the moon program and then move onto one of the true wonders of physics, the creation, or rather, the discovery of things that don't exist anywhere else in the entire universe!
This week I am covering something that I find truly mind blowing. I'll be honest, I am one of those people that when I start to think about anything to do with the world, I end up sitting their in pure wonder and awe. I am lucky that sometimes I get things, I understand the incredible beauty of something. the other day for example, my cat managed to catch, kill and eat a bird. I know this because it left a bird leg and wing in the living room. I was a bit upset at first, I'm a big fan of birds and the thought that my cat had scoffed one was a bit disconcerting, but when I actually stopped and took a look at the wing and the leg of the bird, you can't help but wonder at how clever it all is, it's just incredibly intricate. Which brings me to this weeks subject which has nothing whatsoever to do with birds or flight for that matter. It is though wonderous in the extreme, it is so fantastic that even telling you makes me wonder if it is not just some weird flight of fancy, but here goes, get on this...
today we are going to start were we left off last week, were we were talking about nuclear fusion. Joining hydrogen atoms together to create helium and in doing so, releasing an absolute shed load of energy. ...then I'm going to mention the rather odd story of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponsthere is also a physics joke in there, though you will be excused if you miss it.
Godzilla, Rutherford, the age of the earth, nuclear reactors and other things
Liverpool's recovery, changing lead into gold, transmutation no less. Goldfinger, thorium, and Chris Hemsworth get a mention, so does Bruce Banner come to think of it.Pound Rebka and Mossbauer are all featured in this all singing all dancing episode. Enjoy.
The difference between how people think it is and how it really is!
This one is about Cosmology and the story of Halton Arpnow and again I like to do the odd post about people in science. Most of the time we tend to stick with the firm favourites, Einstein, Newton, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, maybe Steven Hawking and so on. These are the people that are the mega stars of the business.There are loads of others, many people that most of us have never heard off. A dude I know recently went to a University to study physics, during his application interview he didn't realise that the guy interviewing him was actually a Nobel prize winning physicist. What made it funnier was they guy actually asked him "do you know who I am?" and he replied "no, sorry, I have no idea!" Despite this faux par he still got a place. My point is that there are lots of famous physics people who are actually only famous to those in the specific sub field within physics, outside of it, not one has heard of them and this is true of any profession. One such person is a guy called Halton Arp who died back in 2013.
This one is about Cosmology and the story of Halton Arp now and again I like to do the odd post about people in science. Most of the time we tend to stick with the firm favourites, Einstein, Newton, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, maybe Steven Hawking and so on. These are the people that are the mega stars of the business. There are loads of others, many people that most of us have never heard off. A dude I know recently went to a University to study physics, during his application interview he didn't realise that the guy interviewing him was actually a Nobel prize winning physicist. What made it funnier was they guy actually asked him "do you know who I am?" and he replied "no, sorry, I have no idea!" Despite this faux par he still got a place. My point is that there are lots of famous physics people who are actually only famous to those in the specific sub field within physics, outside of it, not one has heard of them and this is true of any profession. One such person is a guy called Halton Arp who died back in 2013.
Have you ever been hit by static electricity? or seen a cat covered in packing peanuts? this one is about that.
Have you ever been hit by static electricity? or seen a cat covered in packing peanuts? this one is about that.
Me telling you just how cool lasers are, as if you didn't know. This is part 1, I had to do it in two parts because it is just to cool to be covered in 1 session.
Me telling you just how cool lasers are, as if you didn't know. This is part 1, I had to do it in two parts because it is just to cool to be covered in 1 session.
This is were we meet the miracle of superconductivity, an Irish bloke called Jack Traynor and a Dutch fella who makes fantastic fridges.
This is were we meet the miracle of superconductivity, an Irish bloke called Jack Traynor and a Dutch fella who makes fantastic fridges.
More on magnets, except we don't really know what they are
More on magnets, except we don't really know what they are
Today we are working on the idea that there was a big bang about 13 billions years ago, and the universe has been expanding from this big bang, ever since. Recent experiments seem to show that the universe is actually expanding faster than we initially thought. In fact the universe is actually accelerating in its expansion. There are some people who doubt these results and think they may be wrong, but for now we are working on the idea that the interpretation of the results is correct and we really are in a universe which has an accelerating expansion. Cool.This causes a bit of a problem though. In a previous post I mentioned Newton's second law. This law basically says that to accelerate something you have to be giving it a shove, thre has to be a force. So the question then arises as to what is actually giving the universe a shove? If it is accelerating then some force must be in play.
Today we are working on the idea that there was a big bang about 13 billions years ago, and the universe has been expanding from this big bang, ever since. Recent experiments seem to show that the universe is actually expanding faster than we initially thought. In fact the universe is actually accelerating in its expansion. There are some people who doubt these results and think they may be wrong, but for now we are working on the idea that the interpretation of the results is correct and we really are in a universe which has an accelerating expansion. Cool.This causes a bit of a problem though. In a previous post I mentioned Newton's second law. This law basically says that to accelerate something you have to be giving it a shove, thre has to be a force. So the question then arises as to what is actually giving the universe a shove? If it is accelerating then some force must be in play.
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