Physics bytes !

You've heard of "the butterfly effect" ... right ?

Did you ever wonder where that comes from (and what it means? )

Well wonder no more because Carla and Jeanne, two new senior level students of ours, are here to explain it to you as clearly as you can hope for.

On the way there you will learn all about "Chaos Theory" (and much better than Jeff Goldblum it in Jurassic Park), and you'll learn about how it helps explains, and model all sorts of phenomenon from predicting the weather to predicting financial markets, about how it explains various medical conditions from cardiovascular problems to epilepsy

Enjoy !

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Intro Music :

"Feelin Good" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Episode Music :

"Mirage" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Oh boy, are you in for a heck of an episode !

Vadim and Alexandre take us on a journey, where they talk to us about blinkers, guns, crabs, turing-complete machines and so on ! If you're wondering, like we were at teh beginning what those words mean then listen all the way to the end.

The Game of Life, the brainchild of mathematician John Conway, is, i suppose, what would happen if mathematics met biology met computer science met Minecraft!

In one of the more original episodes of the season, two of our senior students take you on a wild journey, that we hope you will enjoy.

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Intro Music :

"Feelin Good" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Episode Music :

"Mirage" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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So it's rays like radiation, and cosmic like the cosmos ?!

Yes, pretty much : this is radiation is coming from outer space, full of energy, dangerous and yet, as Luca and Noe will tell us, they can also be one of the most important factors that lead to the appearance and evolution of life on Earth!

Listen to the episode to learn about one of the most ubiquitous phenomena in the universe.

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Intro Music :

"Feelin Good" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Episode Music :

"Mirage" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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We take a break this week from the ethereal, esoteric and theoretical world of pure physics to look at something much more down to earth : The physics of crime solving.

Lola and Pauline take a brief look at how physics, applied through various techniques and technologies allows to solve the most enigmatic of crimes, and even reconstruct a crime scene and its perpetrators usign techniques borrowed from Archaelogy!

Enjoy !

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Intro Music :

"Feelin Good" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Episode Music :

"Mirage" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Laura & Emma take on one of the biggest question that humanity will potentially face as our civilization evolves and advances to a more technologically advanced stage : Is there life outside of earth?

What forms can it take? how would we be able to detect it? will we be able to communicate with it?

Listen and find as my two students go through all the possibilities and make an attempt at one of the most profound questions humanity has asked itself.

No biggie this episode, just THE END OF THE UNIVERSE !!

Mathis and Marguerite take us on a journey from the start of the universe to the end.

They tell us about how physicists and cosmologist think about the problem, how they use the concept of entropy to give time a direction.

And then they go through all the various possible outcomes we have come up with so far : from the heat death of the universe (eek!), to the big crunch, the big bounce, and so on.

Enjoy the listen and leave us a comment or question !!!

Have you heard of Biophysics?

It's a relatively modern and new domain of physics, wherein physics tries to deal with unsolved problems in biology.

Anastasia & Sebastian are going to start off our 4th season with an in-depth look at this newest branch of physics, and go into some details about some applications of it, particularly in biomedical physics.

Enjoy and dont forget to send us your comments or questions if you have any!

That's right, we're about to start our 4th season of Physics Bytes !

My junior and senior students have given it their all for a series of fantastic episodes.

Come and learn about Biophysics, forensic science, Nuclear technology, among many other topics ... including .. The End of the Universe !

And then our juniors had a year long project and research on our "New Energies" project, and they'll give all you need to know about the new forms of energy, renewable and clean, that we are going to need in our fight agaisnt climate change.

So subscribe to the podcast, put on an alert to be notified of each new episodes ... and enjoy seaon 4!

As long as things have been falling to the ground, humans have asked "why?"

We take a voyage this week through history, from the time of the Greeks, to the post-renaissance era of Kepler, and Galileo and Newton, only to land in the 20th century where Einstein et al. turned the physics world on its head.

And we finish up with some wild and woolly theories describing the universe as being made up of strings or better yet space and time itself made up of tiny loops!

Don't miss this episode, leave a comment and mostly importantly, Enjoy!