Higgs Boson explained: http://vimeo.com/41038445
Watch the video here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fabric-of-cosmos.html#fabric-space
What questions do you have about the episode? What questions does the episode raise for you about physics and physical science?
Here's a video by Michio Kaku "The Universe in a Nutshell"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk
After watching the cosmos video today I learned about how space is so controversial in science. I did not know all the investigations that went into the space and what it is. It left me leaving class today wondering more about what I walk in everyday. Also Albert Einstein is literally the most influential man in science. His use of pictures to make things simple definitely helped me gain a bigger respect for him. He never accepted a single theory always looking to find something new to research. One question I do have from the video is Where do you stop asking what is space? Additionally I was left wondering, How far does space go and where does it end? Begin? That may be the next big science exploration one day.
ReplyDeleteI found this video very interesting! It really opened my mind to questions I've never thought about AND it really makes me want to start looking deeper into the sciences. After watching this video and reading 'Einstein in a Nutshell', I must say, this guy is a genius. The discoveries he made puts me in awe. I really liked how he looks at such complex ideas in such simple terms. It made things very easy for me to understand. One question I have for the video is how do they measure they the speed of light? Also, if we can't prove Hick Fields theory, how are we supposed to believe it? How can space not be nothing, but instead something? What is that something? And what exactly is dark energy? I think I got a bit confused on what space vs. dark energy was.
ReplyDeleteThe point I found most interesting today was that empty space has the ability to shape the world around us, with gravity being the warping and curvature of space. Another idea I found interesting was Einstein's theory the universe is expanding, not static. With this being said, when does the universe stop expanding? Why is it expanding? The last idea I found was significant is that even if you remove all objects, down to all the atomic particles, you'd find that empty space still isn't empty. So what exactly does this mean? If there are no atomic particles or anything else, what is left? Space is such a large concept, with many theorists and discoveries yet to come.
ReplyDeleteToday's video was really interesting I learned a lot about things I never would have considered to be science. When Brian introduce the topic what is space in the beginning of the movie I thought he meant outer space but as the topic got into more depth he actually was talking about empty space . I never actually took the time to think about empty space but finding out the empty space isn't really empty space was really a eye opener. The example about the ice skater and the empire state building really put things into perspective for me.
ReplyDeleteThe video we watched today was very interesting to me. Usually I would struggle to keep my eyes open through a video we are made to watch in an educational setting but this video really had my interest. I thought I would take one or two notes to but ended up with a half of page of interesting facts I wanted to make sure I remembered. I thought it was interesting that speed of light never changes and it was compared to mass and weight. I wish the video would have put the speed of light at 671 million miles per hour more in perspective for us, maybe comparing it to a modern day item so it would be easier for us, well me at least, to wrap our heads around just how fast that is. Over all the information we learned was very cool especially about space, gravity, and the black holes. The scientists that came up with these theories and hypotheses were the beginning of an age of discovery and I find it absolutely fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI thought the empty space was cool and how empty space still has things to it.
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