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What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips

AdultsPhysicsScienceChemistry
There's a concept that's crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy, and it's notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.

Meet the Man Who Strapped Himself to a Rocket, For Science

AdultsHealthPhysicsTechnology...
One man's quest to test the human limits of gravity on the human body.

The Beginning of Everything -- The Big Bang

AdultsHistoryPhysicsSpace...
How did everything get started? Has the universe a beginning or was it here since forever? Well, evidence suggests that there was indeed a starting point to this universe we are part of right now. But how can this be? How can something come from nothing? And what about time? We don't have all the answers yet so let's talk about what we know.

Earth's Magnetic Field Is Going To Flip, Here's How We Know

AdultsFuturePhysicsWorld...
Scientists are using clues from ancient artifacts to help them predict the future of the magnetic field.

Why Earth Is A Prison and How To Escape It

AdultsPhysicsSpaceWorld...
We are trapped on earth. Controlled by an ancient debt to the universe...

Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter

AdultsPhysicsTechnologyEngineering...
Spinning magnets near copper sheets create levitation!

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

AdultsPhysicsTechnologyScience
A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples.

Crazy Lake Experiment

AdultsNatureSciencePhysics...
1 tablespoon of olive oil destroys half an acre of waves on this lake. What The Physics?!

Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

AdultsPhysicsScience
Silicone oil droplets provide a physical realization of pilot wave theories.

The Walking Water Mystery Solved!

AdultsFilmSciencePhysics...
Solving a 5 yr old personal mystery about "Why Water Walks on Water".

1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship

AdultsPhysicsSportsEntertainment
Check out the Czech Dynamic 4 Way team "MAD RAVENS" performing their free routine at the 1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship 2015 in Prague.

The Twins Paradox Primer

AdultsPhysicsScienceSpace
How can time be slower and faster at the same time?

Why the metric system matters

AdultsHistoryPhysicsPolitics...
For the majority of recorded human history, units like the weight of a grain or the length of a hand weren't exact and varied from place to place.

Black Hole Comparison

AdultsPhysicsSpaceScience
This Crazy Black Hole Comparison Will Definitely Blow Your Mind

What Is Something?

AdultsPhysicsSpacePhilosophy...
What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?

How Long To Fall Through The Earth?

AdultsPhysicsWorldScience
Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!

How do we separate the inseparable?

AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnology
Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.