Join UCSD Physicist Kim Griest as he takes you on an exploration of two of the major unsolved questions in the physical sciences: What might be the fate of the universe and what is the nature of the dark matter which ultimately decides this fate? Series: “UCSD Millennium Lectures” [2/2000] [Science] [Show ID: 4661]
Duration : 0:57:54
The History Channel
Australia & New Zealand
The Universe : 1/14
Beyond The Big Bang : 1/7
Copernicus
Learn about Copernicus’ theories of a sun-centered universe.
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It all began inside a violent, blinding explosion that threw everything into chaos. Ever since, our greatest thinkers have peered into that chaos in search of order, logic & the answers to where we began.
As earlier generations learned to decipher the cosmic clues of how we came to be, we stepped from revelation to revelation; epiphany to epiphany.
Aristotle told us the world was round. Ptolemy conceived of a system of planets, stars & sun.
Copernicus placed the sun at the center of this system.
Galileo confirmed it.
Newton explained what held it all together. Einstein offered insight into what fueled it.
Hubble proposed it started with a “Big Bang”.
Our search for answers has shaped how we have evolved as thinking creatures.
The Big Bang is the history of why & how we think about who & what we are.
We’ll contemplate how various cultures believe the world began & how it will all end…& what comes after.
& for the first time, we’ll be able to see what it might have all looked like, sitting in God’s front row seats.
Using unprecedented cutting edge animation, The Big Bang will recreate that amazing moment when everything started.
With interviews from the world’s leading physicists, engineers & historians we will employ every storytelling tool to make complex & confusing ideas clear, exciting & dramatic.
Recreations, visual metaphors & first-person accounts will explain concepts like: the formation of galaxies, the existence of other dimensions & the idea of a parallel universe.
The Big Bang will pose one of history’s greatest questions, Where do we begin?
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Duration : 0:4:22
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Duration : 0:2:11
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about the axis for every two orbits. The perihelion of Mercury’s orbit precesses around the Sun at an excess of 43 arcseconds per century; a phenomenon that was explained in the 20th century by Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.Mercury is bright when viewed from Earth, ranging from −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen as its greatest angular separation from the Sun is only 28.3°. Since Mercury is normally lost in the glare of the Sun, unless there is a solar eclipse, Mercury can only be viewed in morning or evening twilight.
Duration : 0:7:43
Horizon: Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong? (2010)
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6RjTgyLr0
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5q8WVyNVI
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPDd3Umv06c
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-N4_zfGJI
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ElbuzKrTkk
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rv9BqTWzI
Runtime: 00:58:56
There’s something very odd going on in space, something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a gigantic and invisible celestial vacuum cleaner.
Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery,’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find.’ The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies but threatens to overturn our current understanding of the birth and evolution of the universe.
Does dark flow herald a new era of cosmological understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?
Another brilliant documentary from the BBC’s ‘Horizon’ series.
Duration : 0:9:56
16 January 2008
Astronomy writer James Mullaney discussed his book Edgar Cayce and the Cosmos, which examines the “Sleeping Prophet’s” readings about the universe. As a scientist, he was initially skeptical about
the Cayce material (which was delivered in a trance state), but upon study, he was won over by its accuracy and insights.
Some highlights he presented from Cayce’s readings:
# Someone in antiquity had a telescope, but it was found rather than built by that person’s civilization.
# There is no life like ours in the solar system, but there are other beings/civilizations elsewhere in the universe.
# The stars and planets do not govern our future.
# In a sense, sunspots are caused by the turmoil of the human race.
Cayce, who died in 1945 and often spoke of past lives in his readings, may have reincarnated on another world, Mullaney suggested. Cayce’s entire 14,306 readings are available on a searchable
CD-ROM, which Mullaney said he used in his research.
Duration : 0:10:1
See the SGU trailer that premiered at Comic-Con!
SGU follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Faced with meeting the most basic needs of food, water and air, the group must unlock the secrets of the ships Stargate to survive. The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them.
Duration : 0:2:48
No religious preachers. When you preach your religion every 5-10 mins in course of a scientific discussion, it basically reflects on your lack of confidence and esteem. It means you cannot even handle an information stream without bringing your own scriptures to the table and getting all defensive!
This video-series talks about the various fources in our universe and the attempts made by Physicists to bring them all under one umbrella, under a [Theory of Everything]. It tries to [illustrate] some of the [physics-centered] problems we face about this universe.
Click here for a more detailed description : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/about.html
P.S. This is a really dumbed down video, if you are interested in the book of the same title, which makes a more technical read – Be sure to order one from
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+elegant+universe&x=0&y=0
Duration : 0:9:8
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NO, I AM NOT SAYING THESE LYRICS ARE 100% CORRECT. I do realize that there might be (and probably are) mistakes.
LYRICS:
Angely i demony kruzhili nado mnoj
Rassykhali ternii i vechnye puti
Ne znaet schast’je tol’ko tot,
Kto ego zova ponyat’ ne smog…
Naljubuites’, naljubuites’
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
I am Calling Calling now, Spirits rise and falling
Soboj ostat’sya dol’she…
Calling Calling, in the depths of longing
Soboj ostat’sya dol’she…
Stand alone… Where was life when it had a meaning…
Stand alone… Nothing’s real anymore and…
…Beskonechnyj beg…
Poka zhiva ya mogu starat’sya na letu ne upast’,
Ne razuchit’sya mechtat’…lyubit’…
…Beskonechnyj beg…
Calling Calling, For the place of knowing
There’s more that what can be linked
Calling Calling, Never will I look away
For what life has left for me
Yearning Yearning, for what’s left of loving
Soboj ostat’sya dol’she…
Calling Calling now, Spirits rise and falling
Soboj ostat’sya dol’she…
Calling Calling, in the depth of longing
Soboj ostat’sya dol’she…
English:
Angels and demons were circling above me
through the thorns to the stars
The only one who doesn’t know happiness
is the one who couldn’t understand its call
I am Calling Calling now, Spirits rise and falling
To stay myself longer…
Calling Calling, in the depth of longing
To stay myself longer…
Stand alone… Where was life when it had a meaning…
Stand alone… Nothing’s real anymore and…
…Endless run…
While I’m alive, I can try not to fall while flying,
Not to forget how to dream… how to love
…Endless run…
Calling Calling, For the place of knowing
There’s more that what can be linked
Calling Calling, Never will I look away
For what life has left for me
Yearning Yearning, for what’s left of loving
To stay myself longer…
Calling Calling now, Spirits rise and falling
To stay myself longer…
Calling Calling, in the depth of longing
To stay myself longer…
Duration : 0:4:54
Laibach – Across the