Tag: general relativity

  • Anti-Gravity Cone?! – EXPLAINED!

    Anti-Gravity Cone?! – EXPLAINED!

    Using a record player, four treadmills, and a beach ball, this video explains how a ball can defy gravity. 

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  • Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime

    Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime

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    Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them?

    Sources and further reading:
    https://authors.library.caltech.edu/9262/1/MORprl88.pdf
    http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/refael/league/thorne-morris.pdf

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    Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime

  • What Is Dark Energy?

    What Is Dark Energy?

    Galaxies have been flying apart faster and faster since the early universe. Astronomers say the culprit is dark energy. But what is dark energy?

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  • 3 Ways Black Holes Could Break Physics

    3 Ways Black Holes Could Break Physics

    What if the Earth were swallowed by a black hole? Would humanity’s legacy be gone forever? Or could you somehow get back that information from behind the event horizon?

    There are three possible answers to this question…but they all break physics as we know it!

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    Learn more in NOVA’s two-hour special, “Black Hole Apocalypse”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/black-hole-apocalypse.html

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    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
    Research: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin, and Peter Chang
    Writing: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin
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    Filming, Editing, and Animation: Greg Kestin and Samia Bouzid
    Scientific Consultants: Joe Polchinski, Netta Engelhardt, Steve Giddings
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  • 360° Dive into a BLACK HOLE

    360° Dive into a BLACK HOLE

    You just jumped into a black hole! Here’s what you’ll see as you hurtle toward the event horizon.

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    Learn more in NOVA’s two-hour special, “Black Hole Apocalypse”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/black-hole-apocalypse.html

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    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
    Researchers: Samia Bouzid, Peter Chang
    Writers: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin
    Scientific Consultants: Joe Polchinski, Andrew Hamilton, Netta Engelhardt, Steve Giddings, Ethan Siegel, Janna Levin
    Editorial Input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel
    Filming and Editing: Greg Kestin
    Animation: Greg Kestin and Francesco Castelnovo
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  • BLACK HOLE Choose Your Own Adventure

    BLACK HOLE Choose Your Own Adventure

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fall into a black hole? Take a 360° adventure to find out!
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    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
    Researchers: Samia Bouzid, Peter Chang
    Writers: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin
    Scientific Consultants: Joe Polchinski, Andrew Hamilton, Netta Engelhardt, Steve Giddings, Ethan Siegel, Janna Levin
    Editorial Input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel
    Filming and Editing: Greg Kestin
    Animation: Greg Kestin and Francesco Castelnovo
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    Links to unlisted videos along this adventure:
    Push Greg into Black Hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpgw0oWLzS8
    Jump into Black Hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRPpwUA6nQA
    Quantum Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiutiEXlS60
    Gravity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsRZ0nNYcs
    Greg Quantum Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEEtfkclPDw
    Greg Gravity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0VdQTkc-78

  • 5 Unbelievable Facts: FAKE? or PHYSICS?

    5 Unbelievable Facts: FAKE? or PHYSICS?

    Test yourself with our April Fools’ Day game: Fake or physics?
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    More details:
    #1. Speed of sound: Unlike light, sound needs a medium to travel through, and its speed depends on characteristics of that medium like density and temperature. In the extreme environment of a neutron star’s core, sound can travel extremely fast. But knowing that sound can’t surpass the speed of light, physicists can narrow down their models of neutron stars to include only those where “extremely fast” is less than light speed.

    For more: http://www.phys.utk.edu/news/archives/2015/speed-of-sound.pdf

    #2. Invisibility: The invisibility lens pictured in the video was developed at the University of Rochester. For more on how it works: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/watch-rochester-cloak-uses-ordinary-lenses-to-hide-objects-across-continuous-range-of-angles-70592/

    A more recent attempt at invisibility: https://www.ft.com/content/c6864c76-de7d-11e7-a0d4-0944c5f49e46

    #3. Relativity rainbows: A team at MIT created a game called “A Slower Speed of Light” that lets you see the world as you would at near-light speeds. Their trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7jA8EHi_0

    #4. Acoustic levitation: A demo from Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpNbyfxxkWE

    #5: Quantum cloning: A video from MinutePhysics on why quantum mechanics doesn’t allow cloning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPC60Ue0BE

    CREDITS:
    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
    Researchers: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
    Writers: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin
    Editorial Input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel
    Filming: Greg Kestin
    Editing: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
    Media: Hubble, NASA
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    Funding provided by FQXi
    Ultrasonic Levitation video footage courtesy Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
    Ultrasonic Levitation still courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory
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  • Stephen Hawking – His Wisdom, Wit, and Work

    Stephen Hawking – His Wisdom, Wit, and Work

    “The past tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity.” —Stephen Hawking

    Today we’re remembering Stephen Hawking, who shone light on the darkest places in the universe.

    Video about information paradox: https://youtu.be/jyFAsbBvZ70

    Credits
    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
    Researchers: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
    Writers: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin
    Editorial Input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel
    Black Hole Animations: Edgeworx
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  • Do Parallel Universes Exist?

    Do Parallel Universes Exist?

    Could we be living in one of many parallel universes? Find out why some physicists think we might.
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    *learn more about electron volts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt

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    Researchers: Samia Bouzid, Drew Gannon, Peter Chang
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  • What is Dark Matter? A New Clue!

    What is Dark Matter? A New Clue!

    Scientists may have found clues to the nature of dark matter in a signal from the universe’s first stars.
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    Here is the research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25792
    Authors: Judd D. Bowman, Alan E. E. Rogers, Raul A. Monsalve, Thomas J. Mozdzen & Nivedita Mahesh

    This evidence seems to suggest that the dark matter is particles that are less than four times the mass of a proton and are moving at non-relativistic speeds. This is consistent with dark matter particles being so-called WIMPs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_particles.

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    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
    Researchers: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
    Writers: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
    Scientific Consultant: Douglas Finkbeiner
    Editorial input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel
    Filming: Greg Kestin
    Animation and Editing: Greg Kestin
    Special thanks: Avi Loeb, entire NOVA team
    Media Courtesy of: NASA, ESO, and CERN
    Dark matter halo footage courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada.
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  • The Biggest Puzzle in Physics: Quantum 💔 General Relativity

    The Biggest Puzzle in Physics: Quantum 💔 General Relativity

    If Quantum and Gravity were in a relationship…worst Valentine’s day in the Universe!

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    CREDITS:

    Host, Producer: Greg Kestin

    Researcher: Samia Bouzid

    Writers: Samia Bouzid, Greg Kestin

    Scientific Consultants: Sabine Hossenfelder, Dave Goldberg

    Editorial Input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel, David Condon

    Filming: Greg Kestin, Peter Chang, Samia Bouzid

    Animation and Editing: Greg Kestin

    Special thanks: Entire NOVA team

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