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What is the Higgs Boson?

(12:45) Recent results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) show tantalising hints that the Higgs Boson does indeed exist. Until that is confirmed, physicists are not absolutely sure their best understanding of the basic building blocks of everything, as described by a theory called "The Standard Model", is correct.

94%VideoPosted Dec 2011

Sixty Symbols - What quantum mechanics really means

(14:07) Cosmologist Sean Carroll exposes an embarrassing lack of consensus among experts over the question of what quantum mechanics really means.

94%VideoPosted Jan 2013

Sixty Symbols - Balls, magnets and momentum

(5:20) You are probably familiar with Newton's Cradle, the executive toy with clicking balls. But what happens when a powerful neodymium magnet is introduced?

92%VideoPosted Jun 2012

Sixty Symbols - The solstice and the equinox

(11:49) Trick question: where does the sun rise? Astronomer Meghan Gray from Nottingham University tracks the Sun's passage through the sky and explains the relationship between the Sun and the Earth in a surprisingly gripping and informative 11 minutes.

92%VideoPosted Jun 2011

Sixty Symbols - How 3D glasses work

(10:26) Professor Phil Moriarty from Nottingham University explains how 3D films give us the perception of depth. The technology is deceptively simple and makes clever use of the properties of light.

91%VideoPosted Jan 2012

Sixty Symbols - Inside the Large Hadron Collider

(11:10) Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham goes to the mighty ATLAS detector that, among other things, is searching for the Higgs Boson.

89%VideoPosted Jun 2012

Why is glass transparent?

Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses the transparency of glass and the so-called energy gap. A demonstration of why you need imagination to understand reality.

88%VideoPosted Feb 2011

Sixty Symbols - How is data computed at LHC

(5:16) The data that comes from the LHC is so huge - it's about a petabyte a second, way too much to store - so scientists have come up with some clever ways to manage it.

88%VideoPosted May 2012

The Philosophy of Time

(9:35) Time philosophy expert Jonathan Tallant, from the University of Nottingham,talks about different ways of thinking about time. From Philosophy File, a series about philosophy from the creators of Sixty Symbols at Nottingham University.

87%VideoPosted Aug 2011

Sixty Symbols - Water in space

(6:02) Astronomer Mike Merrifield discusses the recent evidence for water on Mars and in space.

87%VideoPosted Aug 2011

Sixty Symbols - Seriously big numbers

(9:33) Big numbers become more familiar everyday. When discussing the US deficit, the talk is of trillions, whereas only a few years ago, it was billions. A trillion is a thousand billions - 1,000,000,000,000 - and even with just 12 zeros, it is almost beyond human comprehension. Sixty Symbols professors explain numbers that make trillions look tiny.

87%VideoPosted Aug 2011

Brian Cox - Everything is connected to everything else

(1:42) Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox explains the Pauli exclusion principle, in the simplest of ways of course.

87%VideoPosted Mar 2012

Sixty Symbols - Why is Stephen Hawking a big deal?

(9:30) Stephen Hawking awarded $3 million physics prize.

86%VideoPosted Dec 2012

Physicists discuss the four forces of attraction for Valentine's Day

Sixty Symbols physicists describe the four fundamental forces, electromagnetic, weak, strong and gravity - the fundamental forces of nature that hold everything together. This is what physicists do for that romantic day of the year known as Valentine's Day.

86%VideoPosted Feb 2011

Sixty Symbols - Chaos and the Butterfly Effect

(11:54) How two simple and predictable systems, when combined, can create chaos. Two physicists from Nottingham University talk about chaos and the butterfly effect.

86%VideoPosted Jul 2011

Sixty Symbols - How volcanic ash effects jet engines

With UK airspace closed due to a plume of volcanic ash, Sixty Symbols asks jet engine expert Colin Foord what the fuss is all about

86%VideoPosted Apr 2010

Hot science! Temperature and Ultra-Cold Atoms

Measuring the speed of molecules www.sixtysymbols.com

85%VideoPosted Nov 2009

Drinking Bird, perpetual motion toy

Find out why this toy is a 'wonderful piece of physics'. Even Einstein couldn't work it out. More at www.sixtysymbols.com

85%VideoPosted Sep 2009

Sixty Symbols - Coupled pendulums

Easter excuse for a bit of science. Professor Roger Bowley explains the phenomenon of coupled oscillators (pendulums). More eggsperiments at: www.sixtysymbols.com/eggs

83%VideoPosted Apr 2011

Sixty Symbols - Have they found the Higgs boson?

(8:39) Professor Ed Copeland and Brady tune in live to watch the big announcement from CERN - that scientists were sure to a probability of 1 in 3 million, that the Higgs boson has been discovered.

82%VideoPosted Jul 2012

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