GriffinScience

Fascinating… Heaviest Particle of Antimatter Found | Big Bang & Antihelium | LiveScience: “At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) – a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory — the nuclei of gold atoms collide, head-on, at near the speed of light. This simulates the conditions just after the Big [...]

The mystery deepens… neutrinos can shift from muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos (or change form)… Slashdot Science Story | Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed: “While closing a chapter on understanding the nature of neutrinos, the observation of neutrino oscillations is strong evidence for new physics. The Standard Model of fundamental particles posits no mass for [...]

Full of Awesomeness (watch via Vimeo if you’re at school since YouTube is blocked): 8th Grade Students at Spartanburg Day School tackle the ideas and implications of string theory… 1 minute at a time. YouTube Link

Here are a few video highlights from today’s session… enjoy!

Here is your homework for Thursday Nov 19 to Tuesday Nov 24: Homework 9 Please read and take notes. We’ll be discussing the reading in class on Monday and Tuesday next week. You can get a preview of what we’ll be discussing and watching by checking out these vids. Fun material!