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I prepared this summary to introduce you to the topic:
The Higgs boson is the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A particle’s mass determines how much it resists changing its speed or position when it encounters a force.
In the Higgs boson’s case, the field came first. The Higgs field was proposed in 1964 as a new kind of field that fills the entire Universe and gives mass to all elementary particles. The Higgs boson is a wave in that field. Its discovery confirms the existence of the Higgs field.
The Higgs boson underpins the whole Standard Model like a jigsaw piece, spurring on our curiosity and creating a more accurate picture of the universe around us. Since the beginning of humanity, curiosity has fuelled the advancement of science.
The key distinguishing feature of Higgs’s contribution was that, as an afterthought, he predicted the existence of a new massive particle left over from the process he had worked out in the Highlands. This particle would later bear his name: the Higgs boson.
The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.
The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism introduced a new quantum field that today we call the Higgs field, whose quantum manifestation is the Higgs boson. Only particles that interact with the Higgs field acquire mass. “It is exactly this mechanism,” Cerutti adds, “that creates all the complexity of the Standard Model.”
There was not yet any direct evidence that the Higgs field existed, but even without direct proof, the accuracy of its predictions led scientists to believe the theory might be true.
What did Stephen Hawking say about Higgs boson?
Quote/What Hawking said in 2013 when the discovery of the Higgs boson was confirmed: “physics would be far more interesting if [the Higgs boson] had not been found”.
When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible. “I hope you’ll make black holes,” Stephen said with a broad smile.
The elusive ‘God particle’ discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned. According to Hawking, at very high energy levels the Higgs boson, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could become unstable. This, he said, could cause a “catastrophic vacuum decay” that would lead space and time to collapse.
Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
7 Apr 2024
In this shocking video, a CERN scientist claims they have opened a portal to another dimension. Watch now for the mind-blowing details!
Does quantum entanglement make faster-than-light communication possible? What is NOT random? http://bit.ly/NOTrandoVe
First, I know this video is not easy to understand. Thank you for taking the time to attempt to understand it. I’ve been working on this for over six months over which time my understanding has improved. Quantum entanglement and spooky action at a distance are still debated by professors of quantum physics (I know because I discussed this topic with two of them).
Does hidden information (called hidden variables by physicists) exist? If it does, the experiment violating Bell inequalities indicates that hidden variables must update faster than light – they would be considered ‘non-local’. On the other hand if you don’t consider the spins before you make the measurement then you could simply say hidden variables don’t exist and whenever you measure spins in the same direction you always get opposite results, which makes sense since angular momentum must be conserved in the universe.
Everyone agrees that quantum entanglement does not allow information to be transmitted faster that light. There is no action either detector operator could take to signal the other one – regardless of the choice of measurement direction, the measured spins are random with 50/50 probability of up/down.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. Chad Orzel navigates this complex concept of quantum physics.
11 Jul 2023
The race between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Werner Heisenberg during World War II to develop the atomic bomb is a fascinating chapter in the history of science and warfare.
Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist, led the Manhattan Project, the United States’ secret endeavour to develop the first nuclear weapons. He was instrumental in bringing together a diverse group of top scientists, including many European refugees, to work on this project at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Under Oppenheimer’s leadership, the team successfully developed and tested the world’s first atomic bomb in July 1945.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Werner Heisenberg, a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics, was leading Nazi Germany’s nuclear weapon project. However, Heisenberg’s efforts were not as successful. There are many theories as to why Germany’s atomic bomb project failed, ranging from lack of resources and Allied bombing campaigns to Heisenberg’s possible moral qualms about creating such a devastating weapon.
In the end, the race was decisively won by Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. The atomic bombs they developed were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II. The legacy of this race, however, has had profound and lasting impacts on global politics, ethics, and the scientific community.
25 Nov 2020
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says that if we know everything about where a particle is located, we know nothing about its momentum. Conversely, if we know everything about its momentum, then we know nothing about where the particle is located. In other words, this principle means that we cannot measure the position and momentum of a particle with absolute precision or certainty.
But waves, as you know, don’t exist in one specific place. However, you can certainly identify and measure specific characteristics of a wave pattern as a whole, most notably, its wavelength, which is the distance between two consecutive crests or troughs. Particles that are as small or even smaller than atoms have large enough wavelengths to be detected, and can therefore be measured in experiments.
Thus, if we have a wave whose wavelength and momentum can be measured accurately, then it’s impossible to measure its specific position. Conversely, if we know the position of a particle with high certainty, then we cannot accurately determine its momentum. This is what Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is all about.
29 Jun 2020
In 1939, Werner Heisenberg joined the “Uranium Club” to try to make a nuclear bomb for Hitler. Why? He didn’t love the Nazis and he had plenty of opportunities to leave. This is the story of the moral failings of a brilliant man.
14 Jan 2013
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle tells us that it is impossible to simultaneously measure the position and momentum of a particle with infinite precision. In our everyday lives we virtually never come up against this limit, hence why it seems peculiar. In this experiment a laser is shone through a narrow slit onto a screen. As the slit is made narrower, the spot on the screen also becomes narrower. But at a certain point, the spot starts becoming wider. This is because the photons of light have been so localised at the slit that their horizontal momentum must become less well defined in order to satisfy Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
27 Sept 2017
Hungarian-American physicist, Edward Teller (1908-2003), helped to develop the atomic bomb and provided the theoretical framework for the hydrogen bomb. He remained a staunch advocate of nuclear power, calling for the development of advanced thermonuclear weapons. [Listener: John H. Nuckolls]
TRANSCRIPT: I would like to finish my story about Bohr and, in a way, about Heisenberg, by telling you of a very sad fact. When the Nazis came, when Hitler occupied Denmark, Bohr was in danger of his life. He had a Jewish grandfather, I think, at least. He was to escape. Shortly before that, Heisenberg listened- came to him. Bohr came out to America and told us that Heisenberg is working on the atomic bomb for the Nazis. Heisenberg and Bohr have been good friends. Bohr did enormous damage to Heisenberg’s reputation. I heard him say that, I even heard him say that in a one-to-one conversation. I never quite believed it. I went back to Germany, found out – in more ways than in a short time I can tell you – but found out what actually happened. Heisenberg went to visit Bohr, he had to talk with him. He talked with him in his home, the Carlsberg Castle, the, the beer producing Carlsberg people or- I don’t know whether it was beer, but they gave it to Bohr. And when they were talking indoors and Heisenberg was afraid that there might be- that the Nazis might have put in listening apparatus, he said things- I am working for my government and it’s good to work for my country. That is what Bohr quoted. Then they went out into the garden and Heisenberg was no longer afraid. And then he added- I am with a group working on the atomic bomb. I hope we won’t succeed. I hope the Americans won’t succeed either. I cannot do otherwise than give an ab- abbreviated version of all this but here is one point, one generalization which I would like to make. My years in Germany, about which I want to talk a little more later, have been at a wonderful constructive period of science. Hitler destroyed it. You were not allowed to talk about Einstein. A Jewish lie, relativity. Heisenberg resisted it. I have many detailed indications that Heisenberg, if he did not directly sabotage the work on the atomic bomb, he never seriously worked on it. After war he and maybe ten other people were taken to a place in England and kept there and now the British did listen by secret apparatus to what they were saying to each other. I couldn’t get that record until two years ago when it was published. And Heisenberg said about atomic bombs some of things which clearly prove that he did not think about the subject. They were told in August 1945 that we’d dropped an atomic bomb and the Germans didn’t believe it. And then Heisenberg told them- Perhaps they did, and explained to them how the atomic bomb worked, wrongly so. A point about which I am very proud because the mistake that Heisenberg then made, I made a few years earlier when I was starting to think about it – and found out within a few months that it was wrong. That Heisenberg should make the same mistake gives me pleasure. But it shows, in the case of the excellent intelligence of Heisenberg, that he never seriously tried to work on the subject.
All Physicists In Oppenheimer & Their Scientific Contributions
6 Aug 2023
In the crucible of World War II, amidst chaos and conflict, a clandestine assembly of brilliant minds, under the leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer, embarked on an unprecedented mission with far-reaching consequences. One of the key figures in this endeavour was Ernest Lawrence, portrayed by Josh Hartnett, who revolutionized cyclotrons and contributed to the discovery of elements through nuclear fission. Leo Szilard, played by Máté Haumann, was instrumental in initiating the project, urging President Roosevelt to develop atomic weapons and later advocating for a peaceful use of atomic energy. Niels Bohr, portrayed by Kenneth Branagh, provided valuable advice and continued to champion peaceful applications of atomic knowledge. Edward Teller, known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” played by While Safdie, played a pivotal role in the development of fusion-based weapons, despite differences with Oppenheimer.
Hans Bethe, portrayed by Gustaf Skarsgård, oversaw the crucial T (Theoretical) Division that calculated the power of the atomic bomb and later became an advocate for arms control. Isidor Isaac Rabi, played by David Krumholtz, brought scientific expertise and organizational skills to the project, supporting Oppenheimer during his hearings. David Hill, portrayed by Rami Malik, testified against unfair treatment of Oppenheimer during Strauss’s Senate confirmation hearing. Vannevar Bush, played by Matthew Modin, played a crucial administrative role in initiating and prioritizing the Manhattan Project. Robert Serber, played by Michael Angarano, provided essential lectures and theories vital to the atomic bomb’s design. Richard Feynman, portrayed by Jack Quaid, developed critical formulas and contributed to safety procedures. Albert Einstein, portrayed by Tom Conti, lent his support to the nuclear program after being convinced by Szilard.
Kenneth Bainbridge, played by Josh Peck, directed the Trinity test, and Enrico Fermi, portrayed by Danny Deferrari, led the creation of the first nuclear reactor. Seth Neddermeyer, played by Devon Bostick, supported the implosion technique, and Luis Walter Alvarez, portrayed by Alex Wolff, made crucial inventions for the bomb’s success. Klaus Fuchs, portrayed by Christopher Denham, infamously spied for the Soviet Union, and Werner Heisenberg, played by Matthias Schweighöfer, played a significant role in Germany’s atomic program. Together, these brilliant scientists’ collective genius gave birth to the most devastating weapon the world had ever seen, ending the greatest war in history.
11 Dec 2022
Max Born Biography, German Mathematician and Physicist’s Life and Contributions to Science Name Surname: Max Born Date of Birth: 11 December 1882 From: Poland Occupations: Physicist , Mathematician Death Date: 05 January 1970 Max Born , German mathematician and physicist who was influential in the development of quantum theory .
He also contributed to solid state physics and optics and supervised the work of important physicists in the 1920s-30s. Born received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his work “On researching the basis of quantum mechanics , especially on statistical interpretation of the wave function”
19 Jul 2023
Upon returning to Los Alamos in 1983 for the lab’s 40th anniversary, Rabi told CBS News he had “sorrow that the place still exists.”
29 Dec 2023
“Why do we have to do it this way?” “Wouldn’t it be better to do it another way?” Ask a lot of questions. A person who asks a lot of good questions can create something different from others. Because our brains are programmed to answer questions.
27 Sept 2017
Hungarian-American physicist, Edward Teller (1908-2003), helped to develop the atomic bomb and provided the theoretical framework for the hydrogen bomb. He remained a staunch advocate of nuclear power, calling for the development of advanced thermonuclear weapons. [Listener: John H. Nuckolls]
TRANSCRIPT: I would like to finish my story about Bohr and, in a way, about Heisenberg, by telling you of a very sad fact. When the Nazis came, when Hitler occupied Denmark, Bohr was in danger of his life. He had a Jewish grandfather, I think, at least. He was to escape. Shortly before that, Heisenberg listened- came to him. Bohr came out to America and told us that Heisenberg is working on the atomic bomb for the Nazis. Heisenberg and Bohr have been good friends. Bohr did enormous damage to Heisenberg‘s reputation.
I heard him say that, I even heard him say that in a one-to-one conversation. I never quite believed it. I went back to Germany, found out – in more ways than in a short time I can tell you – but found out what actually happened. Heisenberg went to visit Bohr, he had to talk with him. He talked with him in his home, the Carlsberg Castle, the, the beer producing Carlsberg people or- I don’t know whether it was beer, but they gave it to Bohr. And when they were talking indoors and Heisenberg was afraid that there might be- that the Nazis might have put in listening apparatus, he said things- I am working for my government and it’s good to work for my country.
That is what Bohr quoted. Then they went out into the garden and Heisenberg was no longer afraid. And then he added- I am with a group working on the atomic bomb. I hope we won’t succeed. I hope the Americans won’t succeed either. I cannot do otherwise than give an ab- abbreviated version of all this but here is one point, one generalization which I would like to make. My years in Germany, about which I want to talk a little more later, have been at a wonderful constructive period of science. Hitler destroyed it. You were not allowed to talk about Einstein. A Jewish lie, relativity. Heisenberg resisted it. I have many detailed indications that Heisenberg, if he did not directly sabotage the work on the atomic bomb, he never seriously worked on it.
After war he and maybe ten other people were taken to a place in England and kept there and now the British did listen by secret apparatus to what they were saying to each other. I couldn’t get that record until two years ago when it was published. And Heisenberg said about atomic bombs some of things which clearly prove that he did not think about the subject. They were told in August 1945 that we’d dropped an atomic bomb and the Germans didn’t believe it. And then Heisenberg told them- Perhaps they did, and explained to them how the atomic bomb worked, wrongly so.
A point about which I am very proud because the mistake that Heisenberg then made, I made a few years earlier when I was starting to think about it – and found out within a few months that it was wrong. That Heisenberg should make the same mistake gives me pleasure. But it shows, in the case of the excellent intelligence of Heisenberg, that he never seriously tried to work on the subject.
8 Apr 2019
Top 20 Quotes of Isidor Isaac Rabi: ■ I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ■ My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist. ■ If you decide you don’t have to get A’s, you can learn an enormous amount in college. ■ [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. ■ As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness. ■ Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, ‘Will it bring you nearer to God?’ ■ There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind. ■ The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savour, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman. ■ Physics is an other-world thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction… These faculties die off somehow when you grow up… profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race… Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, “I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.”. ■ You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos. ■ Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way … Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science. ■ It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the inside cylindrical surface of the bore while inside an MRI (magnetic-resonance-imaging) machine-a device made possible by his early physical researches on nuclear magnetic resonance (1938). ■ We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. ■ To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics. ■ There isn’t a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization. ■ Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious. ■ My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation … Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. … Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today? ■ Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds. ■ It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. ■ We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids?
6 Oct 2020
Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging.
In this short clip, Best-selling author and physicist Safi Bahcall explains the one reason that Rabi gave as to how we won the Nobel Prize.
Like Alice in Wonderland … everything is upside down … even time !
22 Oct 2022
Space time travelling using worm holes changes our traditional human-understanding of time.
I’m surprised Sabine did not cite the foremost authority on retro-causality – the White Queen: ‘I don’t understand you,’ said Alice, ‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’ ‘That’s the effect of living backwards,’ the Queen said kindly: ‘it always makes one a little giddy at first — but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both ways’
The Standard Model of particle physics is the most successful scientific theory of all time. It describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather special particle called the Higgs boson. It’s the pinnacle of 400 years of science and gives the correct answer to hundreds of thousands of experiments. In this explainer, Cambridge University physicist David Tong recreates the model, piece by piece, to provide some intuition for how the fundamental building blocks of our universe fit together. At the end of the video, he also points out what’s missing from the model and what work is left to do in order to complete the Theory of Everything.
***Correction: At 13’50”, the photon should be included with the three fundamental forces. The animation here is incorrect, while the narration is correct.
ESL Activity: training your listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension, language and grammar. Designed for Upper Intermediate or Advanced level of English.
– Listen to this video, dividing it into chunks of about 15 to 20 minutes. Then, listen to that part again, maybe two or three more times. Try doing the activity for that chunk. Once you think you have finished or done your best, use the key to correct your-self.
* ESL activity flexibility: You can make this activity more difficult or challenging by just listening without reading the subtitles, or make it easier by reading them.
– Activity 1 – Answer these questions:
1- What is the consequence of backward rationalization?
2- What does the brain try to justify?
3- What are our experiences constantly changing?
4- What are brain waves?
5- What frequencies can you mention?
6- What does each frequency correspond to ?
7- What is cognitive dissonance?
8- What are mirror neurons for?
9- What are superorganismal features?
10- What do selfish-genes promote?
11- What have we learnt about the current nature of the brain?
– Activity 2 – listen and complete this transcript: (pause the video frequently, short chunks, so as to have time to write and remember what you have understood, but not to read the subtitles or to copy what is on screen, the goal is to train for listening skills. What is important is to acquire and develop the abilities of listening, understanding and writing at the same time to gain brain attention, memory, focus and agility)
– empathy neurons
– memory consolidation and reconsolidation
– backward rationalization: it can leave ________ __________unresolved and ready to be triggered at any time
– the brain tries to justify _______ we behave _______ (with no control over our ____________, and the __________that originate those ______________)
– in consequence (of backward rationalization and brain justification), schizophrenic ____________ behaviour because of different ____________distributed systems around our brain
– emotional resilence
– rational resilence
– our experiences are constantly changing our ________ ___________, altering the parallel systems that are our consciousness
– consciousness: the convergence of neural interaction
– where is consciousness? on the right hemisphere? on the left hemisphere? in both?
– each neuron has a _________, reaching a certain voltage they fire _________signals to another ___________, forming waves
– these _______ ________underpin almost everything in our minds: memory, intelligence, attention, etc
– these brain waves _______at different _________ : alpha, ________ and __________, each corresponding to different __________
– brain cells are tuned to these frequencies depending on the tast to be performed (similarly to how a radio at home catches the waves to tune or pick up the different radio stations)
– transfering information: the pass of information from one _________to another happens when they are ___________(cognitive dissonance: confusion when receiving two _________ideas, for example with the anthropological questions: the purpose of human existance when humans are so insignificant or meaningless in the huge vast universe)
– evolution: nature tries to adapt or ___________-with its environment
– as science fails or is slow to provide answers to existential questions, humans seek for spiritual or religious guidance, it is very difficult to leave un-answered questions or to accept we do not know, we tend to prefer tales and stories, even when fictional, to calm our need for answers.
– mirror neurons: used to construct our _________, allowing us to __________with others (other person’s neurons, neurons in the environment around us). Allowing to __________ourselves through others.
– neural synergy: produce our oscillating _________, the result of 2 hemispheres acting _____________, and also, our senses connecting our neurons to other neurons in the ____________–
– super organismal features: our __________as primates depended on our ___________ abilities
– neocortical regions have __________to permit the modulation and control over ___________instincts and hedonistic impulses for the benefit of the ____________.
– selfish-genes (theory of evolution by biologist Richard Dawkins): selfish genes __________ ___________ social _________in superorganismal structures (discarding the notion of “survival of the ____________”)
– neuronal resonance coherence: is obtained when there is no __________between the _______and _______(more primitive) areas of the brain
– self-serving behaviour for the scientific view (or selfish tendencies for the flawed paradigm of identity): is a ________expression of an ever- changing unity with no centre. The ____________consequences of this as an objective belief system allow self-____________without attachement to the imagined self, causing mental __________, social conscience, self-regulation, and “being in the moment”.
– culturally (from the past to the present) we have needed a narrative: a ________view on our life to establish moral values.
– currently (today) we have learnt about the _________ and ___________ nature of the brain and that a more scientific view without attachments to our identity or story, generates a more accurate, meaningful and ethical paradigm than our anecdotal values.
– practical labeling: all forms of interactions in our life
– psychological labeling: the self is considered internal and the environment is considered external, constrains our chemical processes experiencing a deluded disconnection.
– happiness: is reached when we are not labeled in our interactions
– we may have many different views, and disagree with one another in practical terms
– neuropsychological catalysts: interactions without ____________, to wire our brains to acknowledge others and verify other belief systems without disonance, aliviating the need for ____________or entertainment. And generating _____________behaviour in our environment.
– chain-reaction: we are a ________of neuro-____________ reactions, acceptance and acknowledgment sustained by our daily ___________ in our interactions, so chain-reaction will define our collective ability to overcome ________________differences.
Joseph E. LeDoux, Neuroscientist, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, and professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University.
John Cacioppo Professor, John Terrence Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Psychology. Distinguished Service Professor Director, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Director, Social Psychology Doctoral Program Director, Social Neuroscience Laboratory
Glossary:
Synapsis/sɪˈnapsɪs/, noun, BIOLOGY, the fusion of chromosome pairs at the start of meiosis. matching-up of homologous pairs prior to their segregation, and possible chromosomal crossover between them. Synapsis takes place during prophase I of meiosis.
Culture, /ˈkʌltʃə/, noun (culturally: adverb)
1.the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.”20th century popular culture”
2.the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.”Afro-Caribbean culture”
diachronic/ˌdʌɪəˈkrɒnɪk/adjective: concerned with the way in which something, especially language, has developed and evolved through time.
moral/ˈmɒr(ə)l/ adjective, concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour. Standards of behaviour; principles of right and wrong. Holding or manifesting high principles for proper conduct.
ESL Activity: training your listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension, language and grammar. Designed for Upper Intermediate or Advanced level of English.
– Listen to this video, dividing it into chunks of about 15 to 20 minutes. Then, listen to that part again, maybe two or three more times. Try doing the activity for that chunk. Once you think you have finished or done your best, use the key to correct your-self.
* ESL activity flexibility: You can make this activity more difficult or challenging by just listening without reading the subtitles, or make it easier by reading them.
– Activity 1 – Answer these questions:
1- What things are interconnected and cannot exist without each other?
2- Who revised Einstein’s theory of relativity? Mention two.
3- What does quantum physics help us for?
4- What travels faster than speed of light?
5- What is quantum physics?
6- What is a quantum?
7- Mention a difference between quantum physics and classical physics.
8-Mention some Quantum Physics discoveries and interpretations.
– Activity 2 – listen and complete this transcript: (pause the video frequently, short chunks, so as to have time to write and remember what you have understood, but not to read the subtitles or to copy what is on screen, the goal is to train for listening skills. What is important is to acquire and develop the abilities of listening, understanding and writing at the same time to gain brain attention, memory, focus and agility)
– Einstein’s theory of __________: ________and __________are the same fabric, they are __________and cannot exist without each ____________.
– theory of relativity revised by Niel Bohr: _______physics helps us ____________the building blocks of __________
– Louis De Broglie: all __________(not just photons or electrons), has a ____________wave-particle ____________
– ________ ________: it should be taken into account when applying Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example moving clocks run _________
– length _______: objects in motion decrease in _________
– ___________: it is impossible to say whether two events occur in the ________time, if ____________by space
– ___________travels faster than the _________of light
– quantum physics: _______ description of the wave-particle duality, and the interactions of ________ and _________. Departing from _________physics, at __________and sub-______ scales. The mathematical calculations are abstract and its application non-________.
– a quantum: is the _______ _________ of any physical entity involved in an ________. Elementary ________are the building blocks of the universe, they are the particles that all other particles are made of. In classical physics we can _______ things into _________units, in quanta this is __________. That is why, many times classical physics laws cannot be applied in quantum physics.
– quantum physics discoveries and interpretations of our quantized world: the _______ interpretation, the ________-worlds interpretation, holographic universe, consistent histories, Ensemble interpretation, de Broglie-Bohm theory, relational quantum mechanics, transactional interpretation, Stochastic mechanics, etc
* self correction, you can check your answers at: at: https://bestofmvm.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/science-behind-the-law-of-attraction-part-2-esl-activity-listening-skills-answer-key/
* Bachir “Chiren” Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), widely referred to by his online pseudonym Athene, is a Belgian YouTube personality and social activist. In May 2014, Boumaaza’s YouTube channel, “AtheneWins”, had over 720,000 subscribers and had accumulated 430,841,675 views. Boumaaza’s YouTube channel frequently offers videos discussing scientific topics (in addition to a video series titled “Serious Science”), often featuring one of Boumaaza’s acquaintances, Frederik, who is a graduate student in particle physics.
* Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics
* Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
* Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie was a French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties.
Glossary:
Quantum mechanics (QM — also known as quantum physics, orquantum theory) is a branch of physics which deals with physical phenomena at nanoscopic scales where the action is on the order of the Planck constant. It departs from classical mechanicsprimarily at thequantum realm of atomic and subatomic length scales.
Science Explains How Law Of Attraction Works – Human Brain And Quantum Physics HD
Part 2: 21:10 – 25:48
(part 1 key is at: https://bestofmvm.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/science-behind-the-law-of-attraction-esl-activity-listening-skills-answer-key/)
– Einstein’s theory of relativity: time and space are the same fabric, they are interconnected and cannot exist without each other.
– theory of relativity revised by Niel Bohr: quantum physics helps us understand the building blocks of matter
– Louis De Broglie: all matter (not just photons or electrons), has a quantized wave-particle duality
– time dilation: it should be taken into account when applying Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example moving clocks run slower
– length contraction: objects in motion decrease in length
– simultaneity: it is impossible to say whether two events occur in the same time, if separated by space
– nothing travels faster than the speed of light
– quantum physics: mathematical description of the wave-particle duality, and the interactions of energy and matter. Departing from classical physics, at atomic and sub-atomic scales. The mathematical calculations are abstract and its application non-intuitive.
– a quantum: is the minimum unit of any physical entity involved in an interaction. Elementary particles are the building blocks of the universe, they are the particles that all other particles are made of. In classical physics we can split things into smaller units, in quanta this is impossible. That is why, many times classical physics laws cannot be applied in quantum physics.
– quantum physics discoveries and interpretations of our quantized world: the Copenhagen interpretation, the multi-worlds interpretation, holographic universe, consistent histories, Ensemble interpretation, de Broglie-Bohm theory, relational quantum mechanics, transactional interpretation, Stochastic mechanics, etc
* Bachir “Chiren” Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), widely referred to by his online pseudonym Athene, is a Belgian YouTube personality and social activist. In May 2014, Boumaaza’s YouTube channel, “AtheneWins”, had over 720,000 subscribers and had accumulated 430,841,675 views. Boumaaza’s YouTube channel frequently offers videos discussing scientific topics (in addition to a video series titled “Serious Science”), often featuring one of Boumaaza’s acquaintances, Frederik, who is a graduate student in particle physics.
* Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics
* Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
* Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie was a French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties.
Glossary:
Quantum mechanics (QM — also known as quantum physics, orquantum theory) is a branch of physics which deals with physical phenomena at nanoscopic scales where the action is on the order of the Planck constant. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at thequantum realm of atomic and subatomic length scales.
John Cacioppo Professor, John Terrence Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Psychology. Distinguished Service Professor Director, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Director, Social Psychology Doctoral Program Director, Social Neuroscience Laboratory.png)
* Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics
* Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
* Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie was a French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties.
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