Peter Hill Explains

Peter Hill Explains

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  • New Scientist 15 Sep _1
    Looking the Large Hadron Collider in Cern Switzerland and how the 10 anniversary of its open is a bit low key given its significance. There are general reports on Florence the Hurricane and I data dump some facts on how theses weather events are powered. It was a really interesting read on Schrodinger and how we set out in general terms an intelligent rational hypothesis of DNA as an a periodic crystal. I felt that the Tsunami article was a bit headline grabbing as it was more about a wave in a Fjord than your classic continent slammer. I felt the article on the homo sapien art was revealing in the way they used the ochre deposits to infer the direction of stroke and tool used. It was then sobering to find that there was prehuman art from 500 000 years ago which chips away at the significance threshold of the entire discovery. The article interviewing the woman who discovered the first pulsar (little green man) was touching. It says something in that if you have an engagement ring you were chucked out the lab as married women don't work. My feeling is that we are just touching the surface of what I call "culture waste" in which opportunity is sacrificed to get some inane element of politics or beliefs right. I am typing a longer blog post to sharpen these cognitive skills and track typing speed and accuracy. Some of the other training involves just writing out entire pages from random books. I can say the last thing is sailing very close to my idea of totally not fun. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    1 hr 11 min
  • Vagus Nerve
    Join me in my journey from ignorance about the nervous system. There are Cranal nerves that stick straight to the brain. The brain is a layered affair going from the thinking cap or cerebral cortex all the way down to the lowly brains stem or knobby part of the spinal call. This nerve links body and mind and there might just be something Yoga. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    40 min
  • MRI wiki reading 5
    After backing up and considering the entire field of wave science we slowly move forward into k space the home of quantum mechanics and solid state physics. Now we see the spatial field gradients used to encode spacial information in the frequency signal picked up. Almost as a by line we hear there is all important demodulation. It was timely to review the wave science here. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Voltaire_1
    To be honest I knew very little of this guy and after some reflection I must own the arrogance of the Anglophiles. But no more! Writing plays and fictions about Newton that get burnt by the Royal hangman. Living in sin with a married countess. If it were a Hollywood block buster it would flop because it would not be credible, the only problem is that is all true. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    51 min
  • MRI wiki reading 6
    The secret of the magnets is revealed. Good old Bessel function shimm magnets are explained. The teachnique is well on the way to being just totally outstanding. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    36 min
  • Voltaire_2
    Well it was all looking sweet as he moved to Berlin, but he got stuck into Leibniz and you'll have to listen to Fredrick the Great's take on it all. Then setting up a rebel chateau on the Swiss boarder. He was the bloke who put the philosophy into revolution even if he thought the average punter needed a king to do the thinking for them. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    55 min
  • Teaching Waves
    This is from the heart, and in 5 goes over 24 hrs it might be a bit jumbled and repetitive, but Huston we've got a problem. (An aside: I cant remember if I have there is a bug with apostrophes so I am playing it safe and will check this out in good time.) There is a real problem of a low background understanding of Wave Physics. I get it a sense that this small thing has big consequences when played out over a society as a whole and over generations. It has a feeling of poor cultural nutrition diets, leading to poor exercise and contributing to general mental decline. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    1 hr 30 min
  • Periodic table Dubnium
    Named after a Soviet science Grad, there is so much intrigue in this name. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    27 min
  • MRI wiki reading 5
    You have to have some experience in cranking the handle with Fourier transforms to understand what is going on. Magnetic field gradients in time seem to be the trick in encoding spatical information on the frequency wave form so the antenna is told where the signal is coming from. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.
    40 min

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You are welcome to listen in as I "explain things scientific". I have had great fun with lasers, robots and absorbing Quantum Physics. Now as a classroom teacher, laid low by heart surgery its time…