It's that time of year, when a new season of Physics Bytes ! is about to start. Yay, joy, youpi ...

Ok, ok, hold on to your own horses, this is just a brief trailer for the upcoming season, but listen to find out all the goodies that we have in store for you in the coming months!

Enjoy !

So having overcome many of the obstacles so far, reachign the moon, building a habitat, finding ways to produce water oxygen and food, we are in good shape, right?

But we have to find a way of producing energy to feed all these needs! Flore, Domitille and Clara are going to tell us what our options are.

Don't be surprised if you hear the word "regolith" yet again in this episode!

Reaching the Moon? Check

Building a habitat on the Moon? Check

Now what ? Well for one thing, it'd be nice to be able to actually stay alive up there! We will need water, we will need food, we will need oxygen...!!

Thankfully Suzanne, Victoria, Roxane and Theodora are here to tell us how we will manage that!

In one of our most information-rich presentation these four grade eleven student will blow your mind away explaining how we will manage to do all that, and on the way there find a few hundred billion litres of water in Lunar Dust!

You can't miss this episode!

So, let's assume that we've managed to solve the problem of getting to the moon and back, as we talked about in the last episode. Now we need to find a way of building a human habitat and a base on the moon.

That is the task that three new students Edgar, Gaspard and Louis accepted, and here are some of the solutions they found, as they disucss the pros and cons of everything from a big Biodome to building 'tents' in empty Lunar Lava Caves!

Listen, learn and enjoy!

We are finally here, our grade 11 project : Destination Moon !

In this, the first episode of the 5-part series, we talk about the first and maybe the biggest issue of all : how to get to the moon as well as how to come back.

They talk about a lot of different technologies, everythign from a Slingshot to the moon, to a Space Elevator!

I personally learned a lot and I hope you do too.

And stay tuned for the next episodes in this series, coming very soon !

In this, our final episode of the season for our senior (grade 12) students, Louane and Pierre follow up on their wonderful presentation on "Artificial Intellgience" with a long interview, goign through the history of AI, how deep learning neural networks function, to answering philosophical questions about intelligence and the future of humanity and AI.

Enjoy !

In the penultimate episode with our Senior students, we have three, Celeste and brothers Oscar & Anatole, talk to us about the interdisciplinary field of Biophysics!

It's not easy but they do a great job of giving us a few examples of physics has managed to help the world of biology, with examples like Protein Folding, study of cardiovascular flow, to name a few.

Enjoy !

It's been 20 years that we've started to discover and observe planets outside of our own Solar System. Well, Jospehine and Gabriel are here to talk to us about how we've managed to discover the thousands of exoplanets that we've managed to catalogue over that time period, and along the way other questions come up such as, is there life on these planets ... ?

Listen to find out!

Antone and Marc-Alexandre talk to us about the field of "Cosmology", what it is, what it tells us about the universe, how it began, how it might end, and what's the big deal with blackholes and wormholes !

It's time to talk about James Maxwell, the father of mondern theory of electromagnetism. Antoine and Jean-Paul did a lot of research into the life of this great 19th century physicist, who in some ways set us on the path of unification when he brought together theories of electricity and magnetism and showed them to be part of one more vast theory. 

As an added bonus, I had Marine as my co-host today, which you probably heared earlier, on her topic in grade 12 about Einstein's theory of relatvity.