View full lesson: Space is where things happen. Time is when things happen. And sometimes, in order to really look at the universe, you need to take those two concepts and mash them together. In this first lesson of a three-part series on space-time, hilarious hosts Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie go through the basics […]
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Theory of Everything (intro)
A brief intro to the current theory of (almost) everything – the Standard Model of particle physics. It’s like cake, only universal. minutephysics is now on Google+ – And facebook – And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute! […]
The beginning of the universe, for beginners – Tom Whyntie
View full lesson: How did the universe begin — and how is it expanding? CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang. Lesson by Tom Whyntie, animation by Hornet […]