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Schrödinger's Theatre - Sixty Symbols
A lecture theatre at Trinity College, Dublin, is named in honour of Erwin Schrödinger.
It was in Dublin that the physicist gave his famous lecture...
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Water in Space - Sixty Symbols
Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.
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Chaos and Butterfly Effect - Sixty Symbols
The butterfly effect is associated with the unpredictable world of chaos... Two of our physicists have a chat about it.
They are Laurence Eaves an...
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Guinness Science - Sixty Symbols
Strange bubbles and foam are part of the allure of Guinness - at least when you discuss it with an Irish physicist.
Sixty Symbols is in Dublin dis...
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Hammer and Spark - Sixty Symbols
We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues.
One of those colleagues, Iggy...
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Physics Nobel Prize 2011 - Sixty Symbols
Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Sau...
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Neutrinos faster than light - Sixty Symbols
Discussing recent results suggesting neutrinos may be traveling "faster than light".
Read the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
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Spy Satellites (from Deep Sky Videos)
The new channel will be http://www.youtube.com/Deep...
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Southern Skies and Southern Cross - Sixty Symbols
We're in Australia discussing the view of the night sky from down south.
Talking with amateur astronomer Paul Haese, based in South Australia, and...
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The Cavendish Experiment - Sixty Symbols
Henry Cavendish was an unusual man but also one of the first great scientists. Many of his discoveries remained hidden in his notebooks, but his na...
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Spiral Galaxies - Sixty Symbols
What makes spiral arms in some galaxies - and what is "pattern speed'? Professor Mike Merrifield explains.
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Granular Dynamics - Sixty Symbols
Shaking grains and interesting physics.
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Vortex Nitron - Sixty Symbols
Just a bit of fun for Christmas - we "physics review" one of this year's hot Christmas gifts.
No product endorsement (in fact it looks a bit "naff...
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Fab Four and Vacuum Energy - Sixty Symbols
The Beatles and cosmology - what is this all about?
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Higgs Boson - Sixty Symbols
Our slightly belated video about the Higgs Boson.
A (very much) extended version of these interviews has been posted at our nottinghamscience chan...
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Wobbly Earth - Sixty Symbols
Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield....
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Milky Way's Twin - Sixty Symbols
A galaxy dubbed NGC 6744 is being hailed at the Milky Way's galactic twin... Find out why?
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Witches in Space - Sixty Symbols
Image credits below... For Halloween we look at a couple of "witch" objects in space.
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Capturing Saturn - Sixty Symbols
We meet Australian astronomy photographer Paul Haese at Clayton Bay, near Adelaide. See Paul's work at http://paulhaese.net/
He was recently named...
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Ghost Particles (for Halloween) - Sixty Symbols
More mind-mending particle physics from the guys at the University of Nottingham. Happy Halloween?
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Far Side of the Moon - Sixty Symbols
A dramatic collision of two moons may explain why our Moon is very much two-sided.
Professor Mike Merrifield briefly discusses a recent paper in N...
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Parsec - Sixty Symbols
Why do astronomers use parsecs instead of light-years? And what is parallax? More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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Millisieverts and Radiation - Sixty Symbols
With the term "millisieverts" being used in relation to the Japanese nuclear crisis, we explain how radiation is measured and show you some radiati...
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Laser Cooling - Sixty Symbols
Learn how lasers can be used to cool atoms to temperatures approaching absolute zero. More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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Spherical Electron - Sixty Symbols
Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means.
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Scientist Shoot-Out (Jabulani) - Sixty Symbols
Out scientists field test the official World Cup football with an impromptu penalty shoot-out. See our main video about the Jabulani at http://www....
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Physics and Astronomy questions - Sixty Symbols
We'd like to answer some of your questions in our upcoming "100th symbol" video. Please leave a question on this video page or email us via the Six...
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Who's your favourite scientist?
Responding to more viewer questions, the Sixty Symbols experts reveal their scientific heroes.
See our other YouTube channel dedicated to favourit...
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de Broglie Waves - Sixty Symbols
The strange world of de Broglie waves and particles.
More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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What is the shortest possible time?
The planck time is discussed in this answer to a viewer question.
More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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Cosmological Constant - Sixty Symbols
What is the cosmological constant?
More videos at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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Solstice and Equinox - Sixty Symbols
Summer solstice, equinox, Stonehenge and strange movements of the sun.
Sixty Symbols tracks the sun's passage through the sky.
More physics and a...
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 - Sixty Symbols
We discuss Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov's winning of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics from work on graphene. More physics at http://www.sixty...
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Star Classification - Sixty Symbols
The Sun is designated as a "G2V" star. What does that mean?
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Wormholes & Portal 2 - Sixty Symbols
We discuss wormholes and the new computer game called Portal 2.
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Tides - Sixty Symbols
Tidal forces don't just affect the ocean... They can affect entire galaxies.
More physics and astronomy at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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The Shrinking Proton - Sixty Symbols
The proton may be smaller than we thought. Our experts explain why this could be a really big deal for physics. More videos at http://www.sixtysymb...
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Coupled Pendulums - Sixty Symbols
Coupled Oscillators, or pendulums, are demonstrated by Professor Roger Bowley as part of little Easter series. He's using creme eggs, of course.
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Antihydrogen - Sixty Symbols
News about antihydrogen being "trapped" at CERN has prompted this video into the topic. More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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Answers (Part One) - Sixty Symbols
We answer viewer questions about string theory, gravity, magnetism and the speed of light - and more. See more videos at http://www.sixtysymbols.co...
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Four Forces - Sixty Symbols for Valentine's Day
We discuss the four fundamental forces - gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong.
Extra footage from this video http://www.youtube.com/watc......
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Time Dilation - Sixty Symbols
The twins paradox, muons and special relativity are among the issues in this video about the symbol gamma, which can represent the Lorentz factor.
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Early stages of Lunar Eclipse (21 December 2010)
Early stages of lunar eclipse on day of winter solstice. No sound. With thanks to Sean Riley.
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Vacuum Cannon - Sixty Symbols
We discuss vacuums, pascals and show you a special vacuum cannon, which fires ping pong balls at 400 miles per hour. More physics at http://www.six...
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The Sixth Dimension - Sixty Symbols
Continuing a week of egg-themed physics (for Easter 2011), Professor Egg Copeland discusses a theory which relates to the cosmological constant. Mo...
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Jabulani Football Physics - Sixty Symbols
We discuss the Jabulani (official World Cup football) which has caused so much debate - and a few of our scientists take it for some field testing!...
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Asteroids - Sixty Symbols
Find out why astronomers no longer use symbols for asteroids. More astronomy and physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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Planck Length - Sixty Symbols
The planck length is unimaginably small. More physics videos at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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The Alpha Beta Gamma Paper - Sixty Symbols
It was a crucial paper in the history of cosmology and described events after the Big Bang - yet it's perhaps better known for a bad joke and an au...
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Why is glass transparent?
Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap.
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