Add To Favorites | Make Your Homepage | Online Watchers: 143

stevibd1

Join: Aug 6, 2007

Name: stevebd1

Gender: Male

Hometown: York

Location: GB

Videos Watched: 0

Subscribers: 4754

Channel Views: 125632

Books: Iain M banks Culture novels ('Consider Phlebas' a personal favourite), science ('Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines' by Jim Al-Khalili, 'The Magic Furnace' by Marcus Chown, 'Parallel Worlds' by Michio Kaku, 'The Extravagant Universe' by Robert Kirshner). Previous recommendations include- 'Chaos' by James Gleick, 'E=mc2' by David Bodanis, 'The Search For El Dorado' by John Hemming, 'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat' by John Gribbin. Reference- 'Nature's Building Blocks' by John Emsley, 'Particle Astrophysics' by Donald Perkins, 'Fusion: Energy of the Universe' by Garry McCracken and Peter Stott. Currently reading 'In Search of Superstrings' by John Gribbin.

Various lectures/interviews- 'Tick, Tick Pulsating Star: How we wonder what you are', supernovae, neutron stars and pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Open University 1997- http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/69 'Atoms to X-rays: The Mystery of Empty Space: Higgs Bosons, Vacuum Energy and Extra Dimensions', UCSD physicist Kim Griest, May 23th 2001- http://www.ucsd.tv/library-test.asp?showID=5551 Dr. Kim Griest discusses dark matter and dark energy with Dr. David Lemberg/Sam Kephart on Science & Society radio, April 19th 2006- http://www.scienceandsociety.net/podcasts/archives/2006/04/dr_kim_griest_p.html 'The Hunt for WIMPs', Fermilab Long Range Planning sessions Dan Bauer, Oct 14th 2003- http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/LongRangePlanning/031014Bauer/ 'Supernova, dark energy and the expanding universe- what's next?', Fermilab Colloquium Lectures S. Perlmutter, May 30th 2001- http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/colloquium/Perlmutter/ Various websites- 'What Will the LHC find?' by Sean Carroll- http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/ 'Cosmic Anarchists', Hazel Muir investigates the wild world of Q-balls- http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko/new_sci_qballs.html 'Black Holes FAQ', a list by Ted Bunn- http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html 'Ripples at the Heart of Physics', the Higgs mechanism by Simon hands, Cern- http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy400w/particle/higgs5.htm

Videos (1669)

Date- 21st May 12 Source- svs.gsfc.nasa.gov 'This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet. This wavelength shows plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona, that is around 600000 Kelvin. The loops represent plasma held in place by magnetic fields. They are concentrated in

Incandescent Sun

Date- 21st May 12 Source- www.spitzer.caltech.edu 'Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has now provided the best view yet of what we now know is one of the largest single areas of star formation in our Milky Way galaxy.'

Spitzer: Cygnus X...

Date- 18th May 12 Source- www.nasa.gov 'International Space Station Expedition 31 astronaut Don Pettit uses his computer speakers to test the behavior of non-newtonian fluids in the weightless environment aboard the station. Through a partnership between NASA and the American Physical Society you can participate in Pettit's physics challenge and view future experiments here: www.physicscentral.com

Science off the...

Date- 17th May 12 Source- chandra.harvard.edu 'Why are some supernovas much more powerful than others? Astronomers are still trying to figure that out, but one new discovery may help answer the question.'

SN 2010jl

Date- 15th May 12 Source- multimedia.esa.int 'Small is beautiful: this could be the motto for ESA's PROBA satellites. Not only are they small and cheap to produce, but they have the dual function of testing technological developments and also offer an opportunity for scientists to send experimental and new scientific missions into space. It has been more than ten years since the first PROBA was launched and the concept continues with more missions ahead and more demonstrations in several domains.'

Proba: Fruitful...

Date- 7th May 12 Source- www.nasa.gov 'International Space Station Expedition 30 astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates water oscillations on a speaker in microgravity, and ZZ Top rocks the boat 250 miles above Earth for 'Science off the Sphere.' Through a partnership between NASA and the American Physical Society you can participate in Pettit's physics challenge and view future experiments here: www.physicscentral.com

Science off the...

Favorites (121)

Insane Downhill Bike Race In Chile valparaiso polc 2011

I have seen insanity and it happens on the streets of Valparaiso, Chile. The Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Race is a legendary urban bike race and is more extreme than skydiving. The rider must brave jumps, stray dogs, and flights of stairs along the steep downhill path. The first person perspective...