From Sixty Symbols. Professor Meghan Gray discusses the 4m ​International ​Liquid Mirror ​Telescope in India – and does a demo. More links below ↓ ↓ ↓ More at: https://www.aries.res.in/facilities/astronomical-telescopes/ilmt Or: http://www.ilmt.ulg.ac.be/home/ Professor Gray at the University of Nottingham: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/meghan.gray With thanks to Paul Munday for setting up the demo. More videos with Professor Gray: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBORQN625NgO3c4T82M6w2st…

From Sixty Symbols. Professor Mike Merrifield discusses a recent paper about biosignatures and the search for extraterrestrial life. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature? – https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2023.0042 Professor Merrifield: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri More videos with Professor Merrifield: https://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist Dr Emma Chapman’s recent video on SETI and the Drake…

From Sixty Symbols. Astronomer Dr Emma Chapman discusses SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), the Drake Equation, and other stuff about the hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Biosignature video as promised – https://youtu.be/BwMPwsV_mXQ Dr Chapman: https://dr-emma-chapman.com Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Previous…

From Sixty Symbols. Dr Emma Chapman discusses Earendel (WHL0137-LS) – a distant star discovered by sheer luck, More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Dr Emma Chapman: https://dr-emma-chapman.com First Light by Dr Chapman (Amazon link): https://amzn.to/41RH7Ec The University of Nottingham physics and astronomy: http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Deep Sky Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/deepskyvideos JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely…

From Sixty Symbols. Oliver Gould & Swagat Mishra discuss groundbreaking findings in the field of gravitational waves. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Collaboration: https://nanograv.org Oliver Gould and Swagat Mishar are physicists at the University of Nottingham. More about the School of Physics and…

From Sixty Symbols. We discuss a campaign to stop scientists being called "boffins". More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Featuring University of Nottingham scientists Phil Moriarty, Martyn Poliakoff, Emma Chapman, and Oliver Gould. Here is the Institute of Physics "Bin the Boffin" campaign – https://www.iop.org/strategy/limit-less/bin-the-boffin And the Daily Star’s response: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/eggheads-want-term-boffin-banned-29574611 Brady’s other…

From Sixty Symbols. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter". More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Discussing the prize in this video is Ed Copeland, Mark Fromhold and…

From Sixty Symbols. Robert Oppenheimer did a lot of interesting physics before the Manhattan Project and atomic bombs. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Featuring Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla More Sixty Symbols videos with Tony: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBPJmX64Jay51cdZTKMz4ACs More Numberphile videos with Tony: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWL8KAJKO3WfHhJcWrJfjgfU Tony’s author page on Amazon: https://amzn.to/45AK4JK Check…

From Sixty Symbols. Professor Philip Moriarty takes issue with a paper by scientists claiming to achieve room temperature superconductivity. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008 Phil’s own retraction: https://pubpeer.com/publications/DBC836E90EFB5926817D2B2A98B55C More videos with Phil: https://bit.ly/Prof_Moriarty Phil Moriarty is a professor at the University of Nottingham: https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/ Visit our…

From Sixty Symbols. Behind the Scenes creating Shut Up and Calculate with Professor Philip Moriarty. Joined by David Domminney Fowler and other guests. Phil’s blog about this at: https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2023/06/06/quantum-mechanix/ Phil Moriarty video playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBMluNZrpoiFc-5buqD74JNs Golden Ratio metal song: https://youtu.be/nBgQPSUTWVM Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We’re on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols This project…

From Sixty Symbols. Physics Professor Phil Moriarty joins some friends to produce a "Quantum Metal" song – go deep behind the scenes at https://youtu.be/6cyOGRkqcQ4 — And Phil’s blog post at: https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2023/06/06/quantum-mechanix/ Phil Moriarty video playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBMluNZrpoiFc-5buqD74JNs Golden Ratio metal song: https://youtu.be/nBgQPSUTWVM Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We’re on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols…

From Sixty Symbols. Professor Mike Merrifield on a new paper about Red Galaxies – and why that may cause a rethink about galaxy formation. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ The paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05786-2 And on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12446 Professor Merrifield is an astronomer at The University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Mike Merrifield Playlist:…

From Sixty Symbols. We discuss the idea with one of the paper’s co-authors, Dr James Unwin… plus black hole enthusiast Dr Becky Smethurst. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ More Black Hole videos: https://bit.ly/Black_Hole_Videos What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (Jakub Scholtz, James Unwin): https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090 Dr James Unwin: https://jamesunwin.github.io A…

From Sixty Symbols. Featuring Professor Ed Copeland with a look at dimensional analysis and how it can be used on black holes, among other things… More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Biographical podcast with Ed: https://youtu.be/J1gBpcwAmNg Long interviews with Ed: http://bit.ly/CopelandGoesLong More videos with Ed: http://bit.ly/EdCopeland Ed’s University of Nottingham page: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/ed.copeland Visit…

From Sixty Symbols. We put chatbot ChatGPT to the test with some physics questions. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Featuring Professor Philip Moriarty… His blog on this topic can be found at: https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2023/01/23/chatgpt-transforming-physics-education/ ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/auth/login More videos with Professor Moriarty: http://bit.ly/Prof_Moriarty See our computer science sister channel Computerphile: http://bit.ly/XqEDYi Visit our website…