The Physics of the World About Us

by Tony Heyes BSc (Physics), PhD (Physics), PhD (Psychology)

For the past few years I have presented a series of talks designed to inform and excite about that subject we so often felt was either boring or just too hard! As I put in the U3A handbook.......

A number of stand alone Science topics, mainly Physics but including some Philosophy and some Medicine. The course is designed to entertain and to inform. Whereas no prior knowledge is expected, post knowledge is guaranteed!

If you are unsure about my style and what you might be in for you might like to listen to me do the odd Radio Interview:

I have recorded a number of interviews for Beyond Infinity, the science program broadcast by Radio Port Philip (RPP FM)

In 2016
The life of a Scientist

Our Plastic Brains.

In 2017 he recorded a two part lecture entitled "Our Changing View of Reality"
Our Changing View of Reality: Part One

Our Changing View of Reality: Part Two.

In 2019 he was invited back to the studio to take part in a number of unscripted ultracrepidarian discussions:

The 150 year anniversary of the Periodic Table

How to image a Black Hole

Looks Like The Universe's Rate Of Expansion Is Variable

On Stephen Hawking's Epitaph

And yet more lectures:
Sir Fred Hoyle; why he did not get a Nobel Prize. Part One

Sir Fred Hoyle; why he did not get a Nobel Prize. Part Two

Our Restless Earth. Part One

Our Restlass Earth. Part Two

How to really lose weight

Then again, you might like to look at my short cv.

For more information contact:      Tony Heyes

The following topics may, or may not be on the list for presentation!

Measuring the Universe

Our Changing View of Science

Measuring the Speed of Light and the Doppler Effect

The History and Future of Nuclear Power

Dating - carbon and dendrochonology

Fred Hoyle: why he did not get a Nobel Prize

Towards the Bionic Eye

Radiation: the good and the bad

Plate Techtonics and Ice Ages

A History of Evidence Based Medicine

Medical Imagery

Alternative Medicine: Trick or Treatment

Black Holes

 

 

Various useful links

 

A useful link if one wishes to check the rise and set times for the Sun, Moon and Major Planets -
  no use looking for them if they are not above the horizon:     Click here

 

Do visit the   Mornington Peninsula 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.

 

I have long had a facination for sundials and made several. They are orimental AND they tell you much more than just time. I have searched long and hard to find a sundial design which would enable the dial to be adjusted to cope with the change to, and from, Daylight Saving Time; now I have found it.
This simple, cheap dial is the 'bees knees'. I wrote to the inventor and quoted what Thomas Huxley said to Charles Darwin, "Why didn't I think of that"?
To see the dial click here or here.

 

Some good videos .......

 

   The Double Slit Experiment by Jim Al-Khalili at the Royal Instition

 

   Spooky Action at a Distance the best explanation I have ever seen of John Bell's inequality

 

The films on the liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) were by Kirk Sorenson of Flibe Energy and may be found on YouTube for example
   LFTR in 5 Minutes but Google "LFTR Youtube" to get more.

 

Thermodynamics by Jim Al-Khalili.

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Tony may be contacted by email: Tony.Heyes@physics.org

His Wikipedia User entry is here.

Tony's web page is named after his travel aid for the blind ie.      www.SonicPathfinder.org

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