The Beauty Of Science

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This is an excerpt of a lecture given by Alexei V. Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, for his class at UC Berkeley called "How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces" ("Introduction General Astronomy"):

• http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978460

Alex Filippenko's research accomplishments, documented in about 500 published papers, have been recognized by several major prizes, and he is one of the world's most highly cited astronomers. He has won the top teaching awards at Berkeley and has been voted the "Best Professor" on campus five times. In 2006, he was selected as the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year among doctoral institutions. He has produced three astronomy video courses with The Teaching Company and coauthored an award-winning textbook. He is an avid tennis player and hiker, enjoys world travel, and is addicted to experiencing total solar eclipses (8 and counting).

• http://astro.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/filippenko.html

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SPACE:

Want to know why we don't have to worry about our sun burning out? It's because long before that happens, the sun will expand so enormously that Earth will be cooked to a cinder. Take a tour through the solar system, learn about the event horizon of black holes and when our galaxy began.

1. Faster Than The Speed Of Light (1/2): The Universe - Created Out Of Nothing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNbXjBbzEo&fmt=18
2. Faster Than The Speed Of Light (2/2): The Expanding Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTNGmlOO2g&fmt=18

EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY:

Everything in the universe is traveling through space-time at the speed of light - the maximum speed possible. If you are sitting still in space, then you are traveling through time at the maximum speed. But if you begin traveling through space, then your progress through time slows down. Time Dilation and other relativistic phenomena await you in this interesting series, so hurry up and slow down!

1. Basics And Impact In Our Everyday Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j72bPmXsyvk&fmt=18
2. Time Dilation - Slowing Down Clocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRK6ojWdtU&fmt=18
3. The Famous Equation E=mc2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h7tyQlpda4&fmt=18
4. Gravity And Acceleration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHPqhTY6dh0&fmt=18
5. Black Holes, Event Horizon & Gravitational Waves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA53l7AG7Pg&fmt=18

CREDITS
Images/Videos: UC Berkeley, NASA, JPL, ESA, ESO, Hubblecast, BBC
Editing: http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker
Music: Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel

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[CommonSense90]

ffreethinker is one of my best subscriptions

[Mendelevium146]

plz,plz make more like this

[crawforj301]

Pause at 2:55!!! You can see zombies walking, the longer you look, the more faces you start to see. Its soo crazy, this has to be a fake photo

[LeLimeLine]

I think my soul just had an orgasm.

[trentmuch1]

Knowledge doesn't detract from anything.

Our own Solar System is so much more majestic for our understanding of it.

Jupiter, for example, is incomprehensible in its relative mass - But hey, it's still there! Weird as it may be, it's still a close neighbor. And thank anything for that.

[Grafight2]

When Alexei sees a double rainbow, he knows what it means.

[HermesvV]

I just made a video, science is beautiful, and it's no where's as good or as inspiring as this video. This video is amazing and very interesting. I really want to inspire the same sort of curiosity that this video conjure in me.

[2k0ol1]

this video makes my nipples hard

[Porkchop93]

DOUBLE RAINBOW LOL