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Uploaded by on Aug 9, 2009

Margins of error, the psychology of science and the centre of our galaxy.

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  • No , you can't say it : )

    Awesome video as usual , but i hated how you didn't let prof. Moriarty finish what he was talking about in the last video ,it was just about to get thrilling ,and cutting it in the last second was as annoying as the "ceasium in water trailer" video : ) , But seriously , you should make a video about the entanglement in quantum mechanics !

  • @solomsolomol: Sorry, but cutting Prof Moriarty off wasn't my fault.... The point of the video (not one of our usual films) was giving him 10 minutes without me doing any editing. Not my fault he raised a new concept at the end.... Entanglement will come up again if we get to do "another sixty"!

    Regarding Caesium, well that was my fault. Just having fun! Promise tomorrow I'll post a nice caesium vid (@ periodicvideos) plus some of the usual bonus footage (@ nottinghamscience).

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  • First! Plus or minus 1....

  • I learn more math in the summer than in school..

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  • @BinaryEggRoll Ok, my impression was that they were used to denote the precision of your measurements. oh well.

  • This makes me want a video about significant figures. It's come up in secondary school frequently and I wonder if physicists actually use them.

  • aero bar?

  • @eggman1600 So give me negative one million dollars. :)

  • I don't know why, but that bit at the end with the "sufficiently dodgy measurement" made me laugh.

  • It was Donald Rumsfield that first said "known unknowns." His new book has something to the effect in the title. Zizek has a great take on that quote. Anywho, I like your videos and will sub.

  • these ARE ALL CONFUSING YOU GUYS.. NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ARE JUST WORDS WE USE... IN REALITY AND IN THE UNIVERSE THERE ARE NO WORDS.. WHAT YOU SAY IS NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE IS ACTUALLY THE SAME THING

  • +/- is expressed in programming a lot, you often want thing to happen when within or outside a range..

  • First: comment.

  • I do not know, but why this video reminds me of Donald Ramsfield? I know that I do not know...

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