We Need to Talk About Physics - with Helen Czerski
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- Helen Czerski explores the everyday oddities that shed light on some of the most important science of our time.
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When we hear about physics, we often hear about the weirdness of the tiny quantum world or the bewildering vastness of the cosmos. But there's a lot in the middle, and it's time someone starting talking about it. Helen Czerski will take us through some of the little everyday oddities that shed light on some of the most important science and technology of our time. Once the patterns are visible, a new perspective on the world beckons.
Helen Czerski is a Lecturer in the department of Mechanical Engineering at UCL. She is the author of "Storm in a Teacup", a new popular science book exploring the physics of everyday life.
This lecture was recorded at the Royal Institution on 15 February 2017.
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This lecture turned out to be must better than i expected by the title. I’m glad I watched it and the Q & A video after this.
"Look it up, read about it later" is why my both browsers have over 600tabs. Each.
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" the frontiers of science are not inaccessible as most of human history just incomprehensible when you get there "... amazing words
Why apologize for the equation?
As long as most people are scared from equations, most people won't think about becoming a physicist.
Any equation is a sign of victory, only if you have the equation can you properly predict and test. And start building things.
Equations FTW!
Well said!
My Biggest Strength as a Computer programmer - wasn't needing to know physics and other things - but mathematical and mechanical ways to master moving information around and making the machine calculate and make logic decisions etc... was key. This is how I could take anything from science journals, Newtonian Math Physics, geolocation math based on zipcode databases and things - calculating distances before Google earh and Mapquest were even really a thing... it was all in the formulas - and the important thing to me with a formula - is I can become a sort of master of it - even when I don't fully comprehend it all - because functions and math algorithms follow a logic that scales in any direction meaning - once you know how to make the wheel turn - you can make a spinning electron or a car or a plane ... kind of similar....
In fact, it's usually the combinaton of many smaller maths working together to make a bigger "phenomenon" that almost seems unrelated manefest before your eyes - and there I just described the JOY of when you have a created a 3D world and the Physics and the animated "beings in the world" take on what seems to be life - all the while obeying the laws that surround them - Then I think of God - the Ultimate Game Designer Ever - We are literally in an invisible machine that is following invisible rules (Quantum Unified Field Theory anyone?) Life is truly stranger than fiction! :) Quantum Physics points to this reality - the Universe even does a technique in video games called "Culling" - when you aren't looking at it - The system doesn't process "exact positions" digitally - its all wave - all analog - UNTIL WE ASK the SYSTEM the SPEED or LOCATION - it then converts the energy into a PARTICLE long enough for your observation, which is not analog - time is proving to have a resolution - like the second hand on a watch... we click through time like a movie - not a smooth flow - if someone could stop the projector - we'd never know. Our conscience appears to be a series of snapshots all bleeding together as one "experience" - its crazy stuff man! : )
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Equations FTW!
The absence of data makes the equation useless. Throw an equation without its proper context and the motioning towards the equation will be considered an aggressive manoeuvre to bafflegab their audience. Her special care for what an equation is is definitely appreciated.
I've got amused by simple yet so deep words and thoughts. No equation needed this time to enjoy the flight. There must be sooo much going on into that brain. Thanks.
🙂 I love the way she sees everything it’s like she explains the way my tangled brain works or as my mother used to call it my world translated by George carlin
Awesome energy, very fun talk, and thank you for reminding me of how I got to be myself. Patterns are everywhere and it's and it's very satisfying to get to apply two seemingly unrelated concepts. People thinking that you're super smart is just a bonus.
What I took away from this amazing talk: Physics is all about finding patterns in nature. There are only a limited number of patterns out there. You find those patterns and then just keep applying those limited number of patterns over and over again in totally different scenarios and get the kick out of making the right connections.
Good talk (Everyday Physics 2017) :), worth repeating.
Finally this has been uploaded ,,,, i was there,,, feb 2017,, seems like it was years ago. Thank you for finally uploading this, it was a great talk, and i actually got to meet Helen after the talk.
Helen requested we delay putting this video out and we were happy to oblige. Usually we try to be a little faster when possible!
I am so glad Helen allowed this talk to be uploaded, thank you all for a great evening.
brilliant.
Btw. to solve the spilling tea problem. While walking make random slow movements with the arm holding the cup of tea. This will mess up any resonance buildup
Nice Video! Really helped me alot with physics Thank you so much!
Wondeful! I am inspired!
I've seen that documentary. I can't remember it though. I need to watch it again.
This talk sorta makes me feel like there's a macroscopic version of mesoscopic physics.
Enjoyed that very much (especially the bit about your Nan). Thank you.
Thanks! I bought a hardccover of her book. What a lovely specimen of human kind.
Thank you, we're so glad you enjoyed the talk. We are very impressed that you have seen over a hundred of our lectures!
Thank you Helen Czerski !!! Another confirmation that I'm a physicist (& other titles 😂🤓😛) by nature. Well to play is be a physicist so we all are physicist and some of us never actually grow up. A storm in a tea cup! ❤🤓👌🏽
She has warmed up at 5:10 and is being herself! Great and thanks for sharing Helen! I mean it!
She seems to go all over the place - but it all comes nicely together.
So passionate and intertaining.
Love her videos on Fully Charged RUclips chanel.
A great communicator.
7:00 - Well, coming up with the patterns that apply in lots and lots of places *is* brilliant.
Thank You.
I am 51yr old and American. When I was a kid I was told all the time too that if you cracked your knuckles you’d get Arthritis. But I didn’t think about testing it out.
I wish I had met a woman like this 20 years ago instead of my ex-wife. I could listen to this level of enthusiasm about physics forever.
hell I wish I had met any other woman other than my ex-wife
Ross Betts being easy on the eyes and that short skirt doesnt hurt! lol
it's funny and sad at the same time
If you're boiling urine (at any time of day) you need to pop down to the chemistry department at UCL and have a word with Professor Andrea Sella... just sayin'
My question is; is the toast dry or do you put butter on it before you push it off the table?
good talk!!!
An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory Good show, old chap!
that honey 'stick' seems to most commonly be called a honey 'dipper'. also a honey 'wand' or honey 'spoon'.
Helen, your brilliance is absolutely beautiful!
This is my favorite RI speech so far, and I must have seen over a hundred. I never get it advertised to me anywhere, which makes me very sad that other people are also not seeing it. Almost like it's actively being blocked from being seen. That is an extreme disappointment. Kudos to Helen, this was sublime.
Walking faster than the osculation resonance speed would work too. Also that is how diamonds come it takes a long time to shape and polish them till they look like in a shape and form of a gemstone
Her lecture in TED is truly *identical* to this one!!!
Its called a honey dipper :)
Tameem Moaleji thanks😊
I was just going to link here www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/comments/28orv8/what_is_that_honey_scepter_thing_for_what_is_it/
Had nobody else replied w/ the answer, but you did so I'll just drop it here - just contains a bit more info and probably entertaining discussion b/c reddit.
Brilliant. Funny. Engaging. Adorable. I could listen to her talk all day. Great lecture!
This isn't important, its precious.
The kitchen is my favourite lab. = ) Someone said that the difference between a kitchen and a chemistry lab is that in the chemistry lab you don't put the spoon in your mouth. hehehe... Interdisciplinary data is totally related to cosmological studies. Was in this department when in 1998 I came up with the idea that all craters we see on the surface of the Moon, Venus, Mars, etc... including Arizona's Crater are the product of bubble bursting or bubbles trapped under the crust of the surfaces. This idea also lead me to rethink about the Big Bang and brought me a new question: if the planets had bursting bubbles on the surface, this is a sign that suggests planets were, at some point, droplets of fluid matter experiencing basic principles of thermodynamics, if the planets were droplets of fluid matter, then the Big Bang wasn't a Bang but a high-pressure spray breaking condensed gas into droplets like in the atomizing effect at the other end of a supermassive black hole. I called it the BIG SNEEZE.
I was so excited of these findings, the same way as you are while presenting your ideas in this video, that on the 6th of May 2006 I sent my brainstorm and research backed up with experimental work to ESA, at the 1st International Conference of Impact Craters. Also, I shared my work with The University of Sussex, Astrophysics dep. trying to seek advice on how to produce and publish an academic paper and get approved by peers but I am not a theorist and my mathematics was so basic that I would not have succeeded to complete a PhD.
Also, the National Geographic editorial told me that such idea needed to be validated by the peers. I just wanted to believe that collaboration between multidisciplinary subjects were possible. But it hasn't been the case for my personal experience. According to what my superhero Prof Brian Cox said in his super fun program The Infinite Monkey Cage, I fit in the category of a maverick. : '( hehe lol - I so wanted to attract smart people to my life but I was left in the dark as massive as a black hole of self-doubt. But your work reassures me. Must grateful!! Also, another event that reassured me is that New Scientist Magazine published on the weekly issue 17th of May an article "THE (wasn't) BIG (didn't) BANG" therefore "THE BIG BOIL" article, about a genius theorist physicist who feels is the fish out of the pond because he has come up with the equations that suggest the creation of the universe comes from the following sequence: gas))))black hole((((condensation-droplets-galaxies.
Soon after I shared my work with ESA in 2006, I learned that RI opened a permanent exhibition about bubbles sponsored by L'Oreal. I was thrilled with joy thinking that, after all, bubbles were a truly important element containing sufficient information we need to learn more about the Universe. I just wanted to be part of a collaborating thinking group but no one ever contacted me to participate. What a shame. Arts, Psychology (cognitive) and other humanistic studies together with other disciplines such as Geology, Meteorology, Chemistry, Material Engineering and Technology, all have valuable data to support cosmological studies. From 2006 I started noticing that Academic institutions were given huge importance to the participation of multiple disciplines into scientific lectures. That was a huge step into expanding our possibilities of finding new problems to solve in our world. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSPIRING VIDEO.
My recommendation to you on your pursuit of the studies of bubbles is to work with potters or ceramists and ask them about rejected pots with defective glazing surfaces due to bubbles trapped inside the clay or the glazing. Watch the bubbles produced during the strokes of a big brush when you paint the wall of your rooms and watch the effect on the surface when they dry. Work with material engineers students breaking their heads on working out how to eliminate bubbles that present a structural problem and therefore a defect in the components. I don't look at 'lemonade or soda' I look at the prosecco glass. lol
Surface binding between any two or three particles can’t give us enough information to determine angle of repose? I can see one grain not being enough. This is an ensemble process. It’s about relationships not definable from one unit. You can’t tell how someone will behave in a group by their behavior when alone alone.
Instead of wondering where are the things that would go on the line between big/slow and small/fast I was wondering where are the things that should go everywhere else, off the line, in the other two quadrants. I'm sure there must be something wrong with my me...
There are good and bad ways to talk about stuff, in this case physics. Check out Sean Carroll 's RI talks, he presents physics in a way more interesting and engaging style, you might not know what he's talking about but you wish he keeps talking about it and after his talks ended you would want to find out more on your own. This one however, you just want it to end.
I watched a TLC course series by Sean Carroll, and I loved it. I learned a TON of stuff that I never thought I'd be able to understand. His presentation style was pretty wooden though (reminded me a lot of Al Gore), but TLC lectures are filmed in an empty studio with no audience. He's on my list for RI videos to watch. So far my fave has been Harry Cliff.
Then you should definitely check out his RI talks, imo his Q&As are the best part, where he uses his quick wits to interact with audience and often produce more amazing results than his actual lecture.
Yup, I watched one of Sean's RI talks shortly after posting my above comment, and he comes alive in front of a live audience. I think he takes a few more chances with humor when he has a crowd to read. His clarity and his ability to build the big picture are superb.
"My mom programmed in ones and zeros." - Helen Czerski
Back in my day we didn't have ones and had to program with just zeros! That is really tough.
Robert Evans Imagine how tough it was for the Hindi, before they invented the zeros...
Zeros?? You were lucky! We lived with the 150 of us in a cardboard box in the middle of the road!
Luxury lad. I programmed computers in Unary in Yorkshire. We only ad a 1, so writing loops and branches were a bit of a palaver. If 1 then goto 1 else goto 1.... we were there all soddin day.
It weren't much better when it came to gettin it to print out either.
We ad non of your posh ASCII. Too poor for that - couldn't afford the 0, so we used Yorkshire nouse and cunning, and we invented YUCCS - t'Yorkshire Unary Code for Confusing Southerners.
In YUCCS, a is 1, b is 11, c is 111, d is 1111, e is 11111 .... and so on. Confused t' buggery out of anyone south of Bradford - bunch of Southern Jessies.
It were a bit long winded mind......I'll grant you that.
For example, t' official Yorkshire motto - 'Ow much?' codes in YUCCS to
111111111111111 11111111111111111111111 1111111111111 111111111111111111111 111 11111111
(we don't have a code for a question mark, reason bein as we are Yorkshiremen - we already know wots wot, so no point in asking some other bugger is there?).
Listen to you brag. I only wish we had a cardboard box on the side of a pathway.
Quit your uppitiness and bragging about having a paper bag and living in a proper septic tank. We eventually got to move into a basement suite of an outhouse and were glad when they used paper up top that we could cover parts of us. At work, we only got 5 zeros per day to use for programming and were glad of it. That makes 35 zeros a week.
I got a bit stunned when you had to explain to the audience where Rhode Island is!
Why? I'd bet many people in the states don't know where Scotland or Wales is. Heck there are videos here on RUclips where they literally unable to name or locate ANY country on a map.. which " I got a bit *stunned* " too. 😂
Well, at least Baldrick didn't make you his "coffee" ;-)
I love British humor! It really is so subtle.
Even trivial everyday physical occurrences hold the potential to understand the greatest challenges. Saved you an hour.
I think they should consider putting foam on top of the buildings, then...
At 11:20 I think I get the honey stick thing. She is suggesting that we don't need to know the names of everything to do physics yes? Anyway you are probably fed up with all my comments now. The start was terrible but I hung on in there for the honey!
I got confused when we dropped out of physics and then started in with witch testing. Astronomy, chemistry, physical science, where's the physics?
Even just watching her ramble on is so endearing haha
Hold the cup at the top
I agree with The speaker. It is also obvious that there is something very wrong with education in the UK as we (I was a teacher) are being forced away from physicality and playing with real materials and physical objects towards abstraction and simulation.
When I was at school we did metalwork and woodwork and in science we played with big half horse power motors and used real experimental set ups and real measuring instruments. Today if I should wander into a science department, I find plastic "microscopes" which look at fake printed pictures, the physics department is full of plastic toys and chemistry, well they can't use a bunsen till year 10.
Instead the pupils spend term after term learning about controlled experiments and how to be a scientist, which is all very good, but they don't seem to learn any actual science.
I'd love to meet this woman. :)
minute 18. I had to get up, go to the kitchen, grab an egg and spin it. I knew what it would have happened before she demonstrated it, I knew where she was going to... but I had to see it with my eyes anyways.
15:58 " A straw that's about 2 1/2 meters long. That's a little less then the width of this, um, er, thingy. not sure what it's called." ........ It's a desk Helen it's called a desk LOL
lids ( deckel in German) help with spills and smells and pollution and cooling too fast
but regarding climate change today 28082020 co2 levels are about 400 ppm
if i calculate that is about 1g on 2000 g off air by mass i like to know what this fact has to do with climate change you know warming etc
Exactly, my bird bath is frozen. OREGON 3/26/2021
Reminds me of a character in the animation film, Finding Nemo. Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...
I think foams are seriously underused in industry.
HONEY DIPPER 🍯
Uri Nation how could she but know how Google works
The last 20 minutes are worth it. But the rest is fluff. Also I disagree with us losing touch. We never needed to know how things work to get on in life. Ignorance is bliss.
You went to Cambridge and you can't divide 250cm by 30 to get just over 8 foot? 😕
8 centimetres?
@@johnpik6554 that's right. 8cm 🤦
What does she mean "one of those people who boils eggs and puts them back in the refrigerator?"
Are you not supposed to do that?
I always do that, I'm having one on my sandwich right now :-)
Lmao I thought the same thing and if it is bad oh well I’ve been doing it all my life
At 7:30 she gives an excellent reason for why physics is interesting. Totally traditional, which is good. Just like all those men in the picture at the beginning. Although the photo was grey, just like her picture of the sea, they do NOT deserve to be gas-lit after all! But no funding in that for Helen, clearly, oops I'm getting negative, I mean, even if Helen gets swept up by the narrative she DOES have something to say!
3 laptops in the lab? Don't she ever run any sims on more powerful desktops with gpu's or her work has dedicated servers/clusters for that? That would be interesting to know :)
Phyrst😤💥✨💫...c what I did there😜😂😂😂
Edit: where are my manners, thanks again...luv this stuph.
Phyrst😤💥✨💫...c what I did there😜😂😂😂
Edit: where are my manners, thanks again...luv this stuph.
Bravo👏👏👏👏👏👏
I c what you did there😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"She's still dressed in black and white like everyone else" but the photograph is in black and white!
It's called a honey dipper
Q&A - ruclips.net/video/nAWHJViVfcU/видео.html
Not enough physics content
Unfortunately it's name is quite prosaic, it's called a 'honey dipper.'
RUclips Rule 1:
There are millions of videos to choose from on RUclips, so you'd better get to the point fast.
RUclips Rule 2:
See Rule 1.
I agree ..she's talking all over the place ..scatter brained ..get to the point for f sakes ..too boring ..I had to go find a better presenter
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7:37 All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford, although I heard it from Brian Cox
Did he not try ballistic gelatin?
I was going to suggest custard…
Ballistic gelatin is literally made for that!
I'll bet custard tastes better ;-)
@24:00 Can't understand your reaction and surprise, Helen, to the way Baldrick tried to curry favour with you... C'mon... Too many different series of Blackadder for him to remain unaffected...
Dr Helen Czerski is one of my favourite science lecturers. P.s. Matter is just a bubble in time space.....
Too lengthy stories
See my comment below. You can see from her body language (bless her!) that she knows that she is being infantile spiritually! She sort of has this frown which says "I know I'm being a naughty childish rebel from my creator, and I know I should be in AWE of Him who created everything and my SOUL knows it, but I need to do this for my own imperfect motivations which I need to present as being perfect, and don't you DARE call me a narcissist! You might think my OPINION is sexist, but it is not. I even know that I have such imperfections myself, who knew?
curie temperature moon physics 😧
19:38 What the hell is up with her pronunciation of "blueberries" in that part of the talk? Where did that poor "ɛ" go before the "r"? Is this really standard pronunciation in any remote, little-known dialect? I was expecting the comment section to be flooded with indignant posts about this, but... nothing! Have I been saying this word wrong all this time? Help, my phonetic view of the world is crumbling!
(Apart from that: nice talk :)
Well done R I. another talk by a real scientist. talk about her work. Thank you.
first picture. two side of science. Top left. show real scientist having to seat together with fiction writer and con artist who derailed science of space and matter from reality to fiction. Top right a computer graphic. bottom left output of laser. result of trial and error. Bottom right the work of forgetful lazy men to remind them what they were talking abut and impress ignorant audience.
The time and size picture as whole is the unifying understanding of physical world when man comprehend structure of matter and Gravity showing evolution of matter to become the universe encompassing everything. MG1
She's super smart and cool and all but the talk was very underwhelming. Boring to me as an adult and I'm affraid to show it to my kid because I'll lose their trust. Who is this for?
This is physics - right?
Carry the tea mug by the rim, no problem. Need heavy plastic gloves, though
Yes I googled her and she is indeed an atheist, which explains why she can't actually SOAR although she wants to, which makes sense because she has been created by the Creator. Will say a prayer for her. Of course man "invents" God. But God also reveals himself to man. Try to see the patterns you tend not to see, not JUST the ones you are pre-disposed to seeing. That is the artist, rather than the scientist, but both are needed to be CREATIVE.
little bit all over the place..i never knew if she speaks of another irrelevant and some times quite dorky personal matter, or is trying to set up one of her science related stories^^
and she is at some times really ignorant, maybe a attempt at funny?. for example the uv kamera marketing for gohsts....just because she doesnt understand there is a market for customers who believe in ghosts who maybe are only visible in the uv spektrum, doesnt mean the whole company believes it too. they just want to state for this sort of customer that if
there are gohsts who are only visible in the uv spektrum they will definetly be seen with their product^^ meaning: give me your money and shut up!^^ thats just one example of many...to be an great science educator you need to restrict your personal opinion and dampen the nerdiness^^ just speak of the things you are abosutly sure and make sure your "funny" personal storries are really just that and do not come across as some ignorant personal opinion.....and thats just one point of many who makes it hard to listen to her for streched periods of time....
but overall interesting physiks and topics she talks about....and i definetly see her as a woman of science who has to offer a lot of interesting and new perspektives all over the field and beyond
At 3:52 she realises that the point she is making is not that profound. Anyway I promise to only put positive comments from now on. Let's see what good emerges after the pretentiousness is passed over. By the way, if you read this Helen, there is no charge, and I hope anyway that you have someone in your life that is as honest as me to you. Hat off though for putting this up, I DO appreciate it, and hope that you learn to appreciate your God both privately and publicly :)
the patterns are not physics, they're maths.
Bo-Bo-Boooring.
Physicist are fundamental lazy 😂😂 so trueee 🙌
Adderol much ?
Asperin much ?
Much adrenaline....
That's just a common London high-strung speaking pace.
Gray Beard or Chinese . those folks talk half million miles.......kilometers per hour. But she's frantic and not in a nervous to be here kinda way . her motions say she into a pretty decent dose . and weight ....... Go ahead and say shes just a slim person who ...blah blah blah. I know what I'm seeing. Shes a great example of modern biochem.
...Ado about nothing?
0 content
The fretful cut microbiologically comb because scarecrow happily trouble like a sophisticated cause. afraid, wacky chain
So much talk about chemistry. Where is the physics?
Robert Evans watch the rest
Pretty interesting. It's too bad the ideology kept creeping in and spoiling the enjoyment.
This is just one big long ramble. I'm getting bored even at 2x speed. The story with the blueberries... didn't go anywhere interesting.
Considering how simplistic and classical her presentation was, I am a little annoyed to see her denigrating the history of the field of physics in general - simply because Albert Einstein et al were mostly white males. Obviously enough, mostly-white males were the ones to have access to all the equipment, resources and study in the early 20th-century. Very easy group to target, especially without refuting a single thing they did - like beginning to welcome females and diversity into physics. And with such an intro, I expected an equally devastating re-interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. I was disappointed. Merit matters in science, be it white, black, male, female or in between. So therefore be prepared to congratulate a bunch of erudite white males (or a poor black guy working in a basement with no money) for their achievements instead of grade them by their independent levels of 'uniqueness'. i.e. don't take a tenure in Scandinavia or you will have to blame most people most of the time.
Physics needs more females. Just not ones who have a huge chip on their shoulder who pretend the history of modern physics is some kind of...invention?
Edit: Yes, I only watched without interruption to 31mins, then started skimming for some substance til nearer to the end.
You clearly spent more time writing than watching mate.
Interesting deduction. I wonder how long you thought it took me, or how long it did take you? I am sorry - I was under-impressed - as are most of the comments here.
"Heres some important looking men doing physics. You can also do physics even if you're not like that, here I'll show you"
And you call for a re-interpretation of quantum mechanics for the right to.. say that?
Clearly, that is a strawman. It is not what I said, or what she said. Also, this is the Royal Institute, not physics for kindergarten. Sorry - not interested.
Not a talk about physics, or really even a talk about talking about physics; more a long rambly story about how the beaches in Cornwall are cold, srsly, they were cold guys, and harvesting blueberries, and something about her childhood.
The actual content could have been covered in 15 minutes.
She might be a specialist in her field but she definitely not a good presenter ..constantly getting sidetracked ..never getting the point ..I listened for a boring mind numbing 15 minutes , heard nothing brilliant so I had to find a better presentation
Here are the results of the youtube jury:
Content: 3/10 - nothing new, nothing useful, just some random blah blah.
Presentation: 2/10 - very chaotic, very clumsy
Final verdict: below standards, not worthy of The Royal Institution!
Your sample size is to small for your findings to be of any value.
Basically agree that this is 'dumbed down', but she has produced lots of great documentaries for the BBC.
I think you're looking at this from the wrong perspective. RI has become a lot more popular recently. Getting a young female physicist on here to teach average people that science is something that they see everyday in the world around them; this is a fantastic move. She talks "like" a young person "like, y'know". RI can become a great platform to teach more people about science and how to question things with critical thinking instead of believing old fashion hocus pocus and tradition. More power to her for showing that she enjoys doing this type of work.
Right - so you are overtly advocating for the dumbing-down of science as per the Royal Institute. Congratulations on your deductive reasoning, after careful observation. Spare me.
Agreed and validated.
Oh dear, what a mess of a presentation.
Storm in a teacup for sure. 60 minutes of nothing
So you've got the point! It is all about "nothing"s (seemingly insignificant things!) surrounding us that are actually all about everything.
And that's the way you get to saying: "This wikipedia page on Quantum Mechanics is useless...Okay, who wrote an affordable textbook with good reviews that's available to buy on Kindle?"
Awesome lecture. Very fun and makes some really great points too. That critical thinking and asking questions isn't just fun but honestly, it's really important on a human level. We need to inquire and ask questions about what we're told, whether it's just to find out more about a topic or to figure out if there's something problematic we should investigate.
Nowadays so many people just use tiny bits and pieces of information to substantiate their beliefs, opinion and trust in a topic, even just assuming their position is correct without learning the basics - particularly with science. In fact, scientists get ignored but politicians and PR machines are trusted blindly? People ignore evidence that they're wrong or believe popular rumours over science? This kind of cultural stupidity is very dangerous.