Street Corner Science: with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon Lederman

ScienCentral takes science to the people... literally, with its first installment of "Street Corner Science": a radical yet simple concept in which a film crew and a renowned scientist are plunked down on a busy city street corner, and an impromptu question/answer session with the public ensues.
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Pedestrians are given the chance to sit down with a world-class scientist and ask him/her any question they like about science, life, the universe, or anything else on their minds. In this episode, Nobel-Prize-winning Physicist Dr. Leon Lederman graciously answers a varied and surprisingly astute array of questions from some lucky passersby. This video is part 1 of 2 "Street corner Science with Dr. Lederman", so be sure to check back with ScienCentral for more.

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[haltrman93]

I went to the one in Chicago and it was amazing. Good thing my dad reads the newspaper or else I wouldn't have gotten to meet him. There weren't many kids my age (17) down there, haha.

[ForgottenCavalry]

such a cool idea

[JarfJam]

dunno must be god lol

let's not waste our time trying to figure it out

[mazrel2]

Thats a great idea. What yould he say if we ask : What is time?

[Mert9800]

it's either complicated or not known .yet :P

[Mert9800]

physics explain loooooooots of stuff. every engineering and science related stuff( all technology ,computer etc) is explained by physics. yet there are always questions you can't answer , chemistry is about the realtions of elements, microchips are about incredibly small circuits , phyics is about all of them

[Thehamez]

continuing from that, gravitational attraction is a force measured in newtons. (when you solve for force mass and distance cancel out leaving Newtons) Basically you are trying to relate two things that don't relate. gravity isn't something that itself can be attracted to anything. So simply it like saying 0=1. It just a relation that is impossible. You either agree or disagree but i hope i shed some light on it. If you know something I don't please tell.

[Thehamez]

you're thinking about it completely wrong. gravity is not a physical being. gravity is NOT attracted to anything. gravity IS the attraction between things. Force of is present between every object in the universe. At this moment you are attracted to your keyboard, and your keyboard attracted to you. Gravity is the force of attraction BETWEEN TWO objects. the attraction is given by F= (Gm1m2)/r^2 G is a constant and m1/m2 is the mass of the each objects.

[kfarrick]

that was awesome, i'll make a list of questions just in case i pass a physicist on the corner.

[dnvlgm1]

well guess what, he's going to be my professor!