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Lesson 3: 2015 Challenge — Physics- Special theory of relativity - 2015 Challenge Winner!
- A visualization of special relativity
- Chromatic aberration
- Orbital mechanics
- What is light?
- Special and general relativity
- The science of fireworks
- Quantum tunneling
- Antimatter
- Special Relativity
- What Einstein missed: The EPR paradox
- Virtual particles and gravity
- Interstellar and Hawking radiation
- All about superconductors
- Entropy and the direction of time
- Magnetism, light and the magneto optic Kerr effect
- The theory of everything
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Interstellar and Hawking radiation
By Hanna Kessler
Many of the more obscure physics concepts are incredibly interesting, but often take a technical mind and a lot of background to really wrap your head around. I chose Hawking Radiation in particular because it does not contain a lot of jargon or technical terms, but is still conceptually difficult.
Many of the more obscure physics concepts are incredibly interesting, but often take a technical mind and a lot of background to really wrap your head around. I chose Hawking Radiation in particular because it does not contain a lot of jargon or technical terms, but is still conceptually difficult.
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- Nicely done. What program/app are we seeing at the end of the video?(3 votes)
- powdertoy, it's a free download and tons of fun to play with(1 vote)
- how is a blackhole formed?(1 vote)
- A black hole is formed when a super massive star reaches iron in nuclear fusion the stars core is not hot enough to fuse iron so the star is not producing the radiation to fight against the gravity of the massive star then it collapses it is so dense that it shrinks to a huge a mount of mass over very little matter ,like less then an atom. Then it becomes so dense that at a certain point(horizon point, The Black stuff) Light can't even come back because there is so much gravity.(3 votes)
- i have a very absurd question (please reply):what happens to the particles exactly on the event horizon?(1 vote)
- All particles, objects, matter, and even light will appear to freeze directly at the event horizon. It will slowly redshift as the wavelengths of light from it that are returning to the observer get stretched, until it completely vanishes. Directly on and past the event horizon is when the effect of gravity is impossible to overcome.(1 vote)
- What happens when two black holes collide?(1 vote)
- when black holes collide, one of them gets bigger(1 vote)
- Where does the second event horizon come from towards the end of the video?(1 vote)
- This represents the event horizon for antiparticles.(0 votes)