Understanding Climate Change: All the natural and human causes.
Ray's talk assesses the impact of long term geological processes, asteroid impacts, Earth's orbital change behaviour, volcanic gas and ash emissions, biological processes, oceanographic and atmospheric circulation processes and how the moving continents affect these, as well as the impacts of anthropogenic gases over the last 250 years relative to the effects of normal/natural greenhouse gases (and how we know this).
Professor Dave explains
Star and Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe
The Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
The Formation of the Solar System and the Structure of the Sun
Kant and Laplace:
Nebular Hypothesis - Origin of the Earth Solar system
Andrew Prentice
from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University:
Modern Laplacian theory of Solar System origin
The Moon and Tides
Tidal Locking: Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?
Ocean Tides Explained
Spring and Neap Tides
Philip Ball Science writer and presenter and for over twenty years the editor of the journal
Nature
At the Royal Institution (RI)
An Introduction to Quantum Biology
Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different
Understanding Quantum Entanglement
On Aeon either read or listen to
Life with Purpose
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her supervisor
A short video
Jocelyn Bell Burnell describes how she discovered pulsars
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell's Institue of Physics Webinar on Transient Astronomy
Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night.
Paul Lasky's Monash Webinar
What can a proposed high frequency gravitational wave detector tell us about neutron stars?.
Fine Structure
Fine Structure Constant Explained in 60 Seconds
Fine Structure Constant
Closer To Truth hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Eugene Wigner's question
Why the "Unreasonable Effectiveness" of Mathematics?
Sir Roger Penrose
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Why did our Universe begin?
Gravity, Hawking Points and Twistor Theory
The Big Bang was not the begining
Mathematics & What Exists
Quantum mechanics and consciousness
His Orch OR theory of consciousness. His
Mind-Bending Theory of Reality
Stephen Wolfram, Seth Lloyd, Lee Smolin, Francis Collins, and Frank Wilczek:
Complexity from Simplicity?
Lee Smolin:
How Can Space and Time be the Same Thing?
Is the Universe fine-tuned for life and mind?
Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
Michael Shermer
Fallacies in Proving God Exists
What's beyond Physics?
Paul Davies:
What is the Origin of the Laws of Nature?
Paul Davies:
Are the Laws of Nature constant?
David Chalmers:
What are Observers?.
Paul Davies:
Where do the laws of physics come from?
What are the laws of physics?
Michio Kaku:
The Universe in a Nutshell
There are 2 types of god. Only one is within the boundary of science.
Francis Collins
Asks
Is religion a threat to science?
and makes the distinction between deism and theism.
Here he explains
Why he became a Christian
and, in the first half, gives a very good explanation as to why we should not dismiss deism, then, in the second half gives less than convincing reasons as to why we should embrace theism.
Nobel Prize winner, Brian Schmidt, discribes
The Accelerating Universe
The Mathmatics of
Tipping Points by Thomas Bury.
Bryan Magee on the
Philosophy of Science one has to admire Magee's clarity of expression.
Kirk Sorensen on Thorium reactors:
LFTRs in 5 minutes.
and LFTR vs nuclear waste. - Plutonium, americium, curium (transuranics) can be fissioned ie. consumed.
and the latest news Chinese molten-salt reactor cleared for start up
.
Sabine Hossenfelder
Hydrogen Will Not Save Us. Here's Why.
Is Nuclear Power Green?.
Rainforest Carbon Offsets Ineffective, New Investigation Reveals.
Nuclear Fusion: Who Will be the first to make it work?
Renewable Energy Storage
Is nuclear power really that slow and expensive as they say?
Carbon dioxide and the
Greenhouse Effect
Life might be more common in the universe than we thought
I Think Faster Than Light Travel is Possible. Here's Why
Climate Change
Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science and Methodology
The Truth about Hydrogen
A brilliant series of short films
The Energy Transition Crisis
outlining the problems with wind and solar and pointing the way forward.
Sergio Pellegrino
Space Solar Power: A New Beginning.
David Eagleman
David Eagleman's TED talk
Can we create new senses for humans?
in which he makes reference to the pioneering work of
Paul Bach-y-Rita.
David Eagleman asks
Brain over mind?.
David Eagleman makes a plea for humility in science in this somewhat misnames TED talk God vs No God.
Andrei Linde on
Universe or Multiverse.
NOTE: The first 14 minutes are welcome speeches. if you switch on the sub-titles, you will notice that they are computer generated and hence have some very curious spelling!
Derek Muller from
Veritasium the element of truth.
Black Hole: How Scientists Took This Impossible Space Photo
How One Supernova Measured The Universe
How Trees Bend the Laws of Physics
Why the Fahrenheit scale is so wierd
The Magnus Effect
Backspin Basketball Flies Off Dam.
The design of the
Mars Helicopter
Spooky Action at a Distance the best explanation I have ever seen of
John Bell's inequality.
Half the universe was missing... until now
Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays
The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
The Baysian Trap Everyone should watch this, it is so interesting because it is counter intuative
Everything That Happens Has Already Been Determined.
The Big Misconception About Electricity
The wind powered car, 'Blackbird', and
The $10,000 bet
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
What Actually Expands In An Expanding Universe?
How UV Causes Cancer and Aging
Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson
How to make a Quantum Qbit
Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?
The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
Genetics
Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Immunity Explained
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to two young ladies who invented
CRISPR
TED talk by Nobel winner
Jennifer Doudna
TED talk by Ellen Jorgensen
What you need to know about CRISPR
bozeman science.com presents
What is CRISPR?
Spooky Action at a Distance:
The Universe Isn't Real - Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Bell's inequality.
Helen Czerski
The Science of Bubbles
Yet another Physicst with a Mancunian accent. Both interesting and entertaining.
The Incredible Science of Temperature
1 Frozen Solid
2 A Temperature for Life
3 Playing with Fire
Suzanne Simard: TED talk
How trees talk to each other
Iain Stewart: Scotland's Einstein:
James Clerk Maxwell The Man Who Changed the World.
Richard Feynman: Way of Thinking
The Cosmological Reality
Allan Duffy ANZAAS lecture
Dark Matter
BBC: The Sky at Night:
The Real Star of Bethlehem A Christmas Special.
Engineering
Millau Viaduct: World's Tallest Bridge
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Intelligent Design
Tantamount to
"God of the Gaps": a theological concept that emerged in the 19th century and revolves around the idea that gaps in scientific understanding are regarded as indications of the existence of God.
Well known historical candidates: Newton - aspects of the solar system, the complexity of the eye.
These days the main candidates are complex molecular machines and the values of the fundamental constants. The history of science tells us that, in time, these 'gaps' will be filled. Notwithstanding, the God of the Gaps argument continues to thrive, as George Santayana put it, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
DNA Replication: Is it evidence for Intelligent Design?
By all means watch these four guys getting excited about things we do not yet uhderstand
Darwin DEBUNKED: Using Modern Science wait and see.
The Paradigm Project: Intelligent Design
Stephen C. Meyer Senior Fellow and Director for the Center for Science and Culture in the Discovery Institute puts
The case for Intelligent Design
An example of poor design
The stupidest nerve in the mammalian body the Laryngeal Nerve and especially in the Giraffe.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the most popular physics book ever written, are completely online:
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
University of Central Florida
clear and comprehensive Course on
Astronomy
Right Ascension & Declination: Celestial Coordinates for Beginners
Australian National University
Library of Resources
ANU TV
Planck Units
well, what are they
Find out here
Stellarium the best astronomical software we know:
a
Download
Stellarium for Windows. (a free download - I think!)
or
Download
Stellarium for an Apple Mac. (a free download - I think!)
or
Download
the Stellarium App for an iPad. (Not free $14.99 well spent)
An advantage of having the iPad version is that is has a setting whereby one can hold the iPad up at arms length and see, on tbe screen, the stars in the sky in that direction - with their names.
Stellar Photography
A good friend who has moved to the outback is taking great pictures having followed this Youtube course:
Nightscape images .
Stellar Magnitude
What is stellar magnitude? Ancient to modern .
If you are an iPad owner we can strongly recommend the following Astronomical Apos:
SunSeeker also available for Android users
Sundial
People on Quora who answer some tricky questions:
John Mark Fernee
Victor T Toth
Dr Becky's astrophysics Youtube Channel
John Maddox was to the BBC what
Robyn Williams is to our ABC. The
John Maddox Prize recognises the work of individuals who promote science and evidence, advancing the public discussion around difficult topics despite challenges or hostility. See the list of
Previous Prize Winners.
Astronomy at
Swinburn University.
Click to see which Planets are
visible from Melbourne today.
Do visit the
MorningtonPeninsula Astronomical Society, they have monthly open evenings, the first Friday in the month.
To see videos of some of their lectures go to the
Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society YouTube site.
The Institue of Physics (UK)
YouTube Channel. Interesting things to do on the kitchen bench
The Royal Institution (UK)
YouTube Channel
a huge number of splendid videos.
Christmas Lectures in which eminent scientists present their field of study to a young audience. Suitablle for children of all ages.
Dr Derek Muller's splendid short videos from
Veritasium
Sean Carroll presents a series of informal videos talking about the biggest ideas we've come up with to describe our natural world.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
What every Cosmologist needs
a Pocket Sundial. And, yes, they tell me it works in both hemispheres.
An on-line
Calculator for the real nerd.
Look in detail at the surface of another planet; a great film taken by the
Mars Rovers.
Read about the making of this film
here.
If you are interested in a scientific view of Comlimentary or Alternative Medicine, and a host of otber things, visit
The James Randi Foundation.
Find more medical good sense here:
Friends of Science in Medicine.
Since it is becoming increasing obvious that very few countries will achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions without the inclusion of nuclear energy within the mix, it behoves us to keep abreast of what is going on in the outside world. I recommend signing up for a weekly, free, email copy of
World Nuclear News
Did you know:
In our galaxy of a hundred billion stars, only three supernovas have been recorded by astronomers: in 1054, in 1572, and in 1604.
If you have grandchildren or young friends who are looking for a different party idea, how about a Cosmology Party.
Look at:
Stones, Bones and Stars
The children will get to handle crystals, a meteorite, dinosaur teeth and to see rock from the moon.
And a very clear definition: Scientific Theory
An interlocking and consistent system of empirical observations and testable hypotheses that has never failed scrutiny.
And a homage to science from Bertrand Russell
It is science that has destroyed the belief in witchcraft, magic and sorcery. It is science that has made the old creeds and the old superstitions impossible for intelligent men to accept. It is science that has made it laughable to suppose the earth the center of the universe and man the supreme purpose of the creation. It is science that is showing the falsehood of the old dualisms of soul and body, mind and matter, which have their origin in religion. It is science that is beginning to make us understand ourselves, and to enable us, up to a point, to see ourselves from without as curious mechanisms. It is science that has taught us the way to substitute tentative truth for cocksure error.
Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing (1968), Essay One, The Art of Rational Conjecture (1942), p. 11
Arguments for atheism
Russell's Cosmic Teapot.
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