In this edition of the SciShow’s Great Minds series, Hank Green salutes Richard Feynman, the eccentric American physicist who could work out the most complex of scientific problems while playing bongo drums at a strip club.
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minutephysics often tackles the big scientific issues. This episode tackles perhaps the biggest question out there — What is the Universe?
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If immovable object meets unstoppable force, which wins? minutephysics crunches the variables and predicts a startling outcome.
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Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about 23 percent of the known universe. The only problem is that no one really knows what it is. Hank Green delves into the mysterious, unquantifiable substance in this SciShow.
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What if you thought the earth was flat? And then you found out it isn’t? More from MinutePhysics.
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People love eating pizza, but every style of pie has a different consistency. If “New York-style”–thin, flat, and large–is your texture of choice, then you’ve probably eaten a slice that was as messy as it was delicious. Colm Kelleher outlines the scientific and mathematical properties that make folding a slice the long way the best alternative…to wearing a bib.
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Michio Kaku, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at City University of New York, gives a colorful Big Think talk that ties together everything from Flash Gordon to Albert Einstein, and from microwaves to MRIs. The title of his talk: “The Universe in a Nutshell: The Physics of Everything.” It’s 42 minutes long, but quite breezy and flies by quickly. Check it out and you’ll be hooked.
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In this episode of the SciShow, Hank Green tells us about the three physics experiments that changed how we see the world.
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The concepts of work and power help us unlock and understand many of the physical laws that govern our universe. In this animated lesson, Wisconsin high school physics teacher Peter Bohacek explores the interplay of each concept when applied to two common objects—a lightbulb and a grandfather clock. H/T TEDed
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All the stars in a spiral galaxy rotate around a center — but to astronomers, the speed that each star travels wasn’t making sense. Why didn’t stars slow down toward the edges as expected? Don Lincoln explains how a mysterious force called dark matter is (possibly) the answer — and why the search for an answer matters. Lincoln is a particle physics researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and adjunct physics professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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