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Thanks to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics/ for sponsoring this video! Check out their black hole course at https://brilliant.org/minutephysicsblackhole Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole, (its “event horizon”), and how much mass and density is required to reach the point of no return where
How Einstein (& others) discovered Special Relativity. Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein’s Birthday! To celebrate, we’ll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining
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On Feb 11, 2016 Scientists at LIGO announced that they had detected gravitational waves for the first time. In the press conference heard round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that huge event in which two black holes merged 1.3 billion lightyears away, had created waves that passed by the LIGO detectors and
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Take a look at a bubble and you’ll see all the colors of the rainbow… right? WRONG. Bubbles are actually missing colors! Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/Bwsne4eMVyU My Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl If you liked this video, check out: Only some humans can see this type of light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSu0cV3fqi8 How rainbows with NO COLOR are
It’s leap year time… so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way? Mr. Grey, of course: http://www.youtube.com/cgpgrey Thanks to the UCLA Galactic Center: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/ Their images/animations were created by Prof. Andrea Ghez and her research team at UCLA and
What is perfect pitch, or absolute pitch? Can it be learned? How does timbre, or the type of instrument affect perfect pitch? Physics explains! If you liked this video check out these: Singing this Note is IMPOSSIBLE! How I broke a wine glass with my VOICE (using science!) phyphox app: http://phyphox.org Audio wave website: https://meettechniek.info/additional/additive-synthesis.html
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Dianna Cowern from Physics Girl and Simone Giertz take this viral bucket riddle to the real world with a physical test. Which tank will fill first? Subscribe to Physics Girl: http://youtube.com/physicsgirl Subscribe to Simone Giertz! http://youtube.com/simonegiertz Try 23andMe at https://www.23andme.com/physicsgirl If you liked this video check out these: I built an acoustic LEVITATOR! Making liquid
Go to https://curiositystream.com/minutephysics to check out MinuteBody, and for a free month of CuriosityStream PLUS Nebula! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about why words flip left & right (aka horizontally) in a mirror but not up & down (aka vertically). The answer has to do with specular
Spinning toys and tops have unusual behaviors. The famous tippe top flips itself over and spins on its stem. The PhiTOP stands up on its end, which you can also do with a hard-boiled egg. These behaviors all have to do with torque and angular momentum, like a bicycle wheel precessing around a rope due
Ever wonder how Einstein proved E=mc²? This is how. Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein’s Birthday! To celebrate, we’ll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic
This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/physicsgirl Black holes are not as black as we once thought. They are theorized to die a slow death by evaporation, emitting energy known as Hawking radiation. But the mechanism for evaporation is not well understood. Then again, no one has ever even directly detected a black
Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics This video is about why it’s harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there’s no atmosphere, you can do a powered descent in a flimsy tinfoil
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This video was made with the support of the Heising Simons Foundation. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about the Ozma problem of distinguishing the chirality (ie left-handedness or right-handedness) of matter using weak interaction processes like beta decay (for example in uranium), or neutral kaon/k-meson decay. This
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Get a free audiobook at http://www.audible.com/minutephysics and Thanks to the following Subbable.com supporters: Owain Blackwood @vicnice137 www.lightbow.net More about the Big Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3MWRvLndzs More about the Cosmic Background Radiation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZQ-5-KYHw And special thanks to Sean Carroll and Mark Trodden for their comments and discussion in the making of this video. Links to more info about
How does a touchscreen work? Why can you text with your finger, but not with a q-tip? The physics of smartphones is a complicated and amazing mixture of engineering, physics, electronics and computer science. Topics: Capacitive touch screen Binary language Unicode Subscribe to Physics Girl for more fun physics! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman Help us translate our videos!
Thanks to Brilliant.org for supporting MinutePhysics – the first 200 people to go to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics will get 20% off of a premium subscription to all of Brilliant’s courses and puzzles. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about the original cold fusion: μ muon-catalyzed cold fusion of deuterium, tritium,
This math brainteaser challenges you to find a simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex problem! Can you figure it out? There are two towns near a shore. They want to build a pier on the shoreline with a path connecting the pier to each town. They want to use as little material as possible,
Thanks to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! Check out their black hole course at http://brilliant.org/minutephysicsblackhole Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about how efficient various reactions are at converting mass to energy (as we know from the Einstein mass-energy equivalence of E=mc^2). Antimatter is very efficient but it
Try to sing the impossible note! Singers try to sing into a pipe, and find certain notes are impossible to sing, even for professionals. WHY?! You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/physicsgirl Surprise YouTube education guests: Grant Sanderson from 3blue1brown at 0:50 Derek Muller Veritasium at 1:19 This edition of the Physics Girl Everyday
GPS is just a big clock in space! (and it can detect nuclear explosions) Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works Tweet it – http://bit.ly/ufPyF7 Facebook it – http://on.fb.me/vBkxlV minutephysics is now on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic
This unique phenomenon can be easily reproduced in a pool on a sunny day. If you liked this video check out these: How to Make a SQUARE Vortex Ring! Why Hawaii’s volcano is so UNUSUAL Subscribe – http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook http://www.physicsgirl.org/ Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Many thanks to the Vlogbrothers for their
If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour… why can’t we fly west more easily? Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting MinutePhysics. Link to Patreon supporters here: www.minutephysics.com/supporters.html Music by Nathaniel Schroeder, http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder MinutePhysics is on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an
How do scientists mimic the physics of a hurricane on the surface of a bubble? What other types of crazy research are bubbles used for? Learn how to create colorful vortices on a bubble in your kitchen! instagram.com/thephysicsgirl facebook.com/thephysicsgirl twitter.com/thephysicsgirl physicsgirl.org Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Physics Girl has joined PBS Digital Studios! https://www.youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudios
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How is it possible that you can’t see 95% of the universe? The edge of our milky way defies known physics, so physicists are using the LHC at CERN to search for Dark Matter. Dianna Cowern from Physics Girl visited CERN and spoke to theoretical physicists about Dark Matter. Why this stuff costs $2700 Trillion
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A reply to CGP Grey’s video about teleportation, consciousness and Star Trek. CGP Grey’s Transporter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI REFERENCES Scott Aaronson on teleportation machines: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec18.html The original quantum teleportation paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.46.9405&rep=rep1&type=pdf Link to Patreon supporters here: www.minutephysics.com/supporters.html Music by Nathaniel Schroeder, http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder MinutePhysics is on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics
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The Higgs Boson. What more need be said? Two more Higgs videos coming soon. Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com Theory of Everything video – http://bit.ly/yEj0xG What is Matter video – http://bit.ly/ywH3tn minutephysics is now on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic
What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope at the darkest part of the sky for 10 consecutive days? Besides using up extremely valuable time, what would you find? Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook http://www.physicsgirl.org/ Music credit: Apple and YouTube
Thanks to Brilliant.org for supporting MinutePhysics! The first 200 people who go to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics will get 20% off a Premium Subscription to Brilliant. This video is about how terrestrial muons are part of our experimental proof of time dilation, length contraction, and special relativity in general. REFERENCES Cosmic Rays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray Terrestrial Cosmic Rays http://people.physics.tamu.edu/wwu/docs/P225/P225_Project_terrestrial%20cosmic%20rays.pdf Cosmic
Ever wanted to know how those vomit comet planes simulate weightlessness? Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook http://www.physicsgirl.org/ Interview with Emily Calandrelli here: http://youtu.be/BnLQTUnXMg8 Check out her website here: http://emilycalandrelli.com Vomit comet footage courtesy of NASA and Zero-G Experience® Music courtesy of Apple Thanks to Kyle for riding the roller coaster with me so I
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