Posts Tagged ‘matter’
Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!)
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.
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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks
Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople’s terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?
Brian Greene: The universe on a string
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Conceptual, Science, TED talks, life
Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. It is considered [...]
The search for dark energy and dark matter
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can’t be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
