Tag: Physics
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The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schön
I rarely ever watch documentaries on YouTube. Even rarely a science documentary. Never a documentary about…falsifying data and research?! Sounds boring right? Wrong. I just spent nearly two hours watching these. This is the story of how Jan Hendrik Schön became a Physics superstar, on the way maybe to a Nobel prize…until it all came…
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The Fluid Dynamics of Van Gogh
Vincent had a turbulent life, but it seems he depicted a reality of the universe that no-one could see with fluid turbulence, later described by mathematics and physics. Spook! Art leads science shocker. (via Jez Biggs)
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Levitate liquid with sound
Amazing, and edumacational! “powerful acoustic field to float a liquid droplet in the air, and by changing the frequency they were able to make it star-shaped.” (via Stan)
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Solar roadways
At last! Someone invents something which feels like THE FUTURE. No jetpacks, no hovercars, plenty of stupid watches that don’t even have teleporters or TV or even a friggin’ phone yet – but roads that light up, self heat and generate electricity? I’m down with that. BRING. IT. ON.
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Hubble 3D Deep Space Field
Amazing and humbling stuff…Hubble has over the last few decades pointed into what seems dark and uninhabited space and picked up 10,0000 new points of light. Each of these isn’t a star, but a galaxy like our own made up of many stars – all from areas in the sky previously thought to be empty.…