Of all of the videos I’ve seen of people visiting the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this one is the funniest by very far… yes… it’s John Oliver again:
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The probability discussion is just priceless…
…and John Ellis was really great!
-cvj
(It has an air date of April 30th 2009…. but it feels like it was made last year around this time when the black hole lawsuit was in the press…Was it a repeat? no?)
*Thanks LC!
Yeah, I love that. It is my favourite part!
-cvj
Yes, I loved this. “Either it will happen or it won’t… so that’s 50/50.” “I don’t think probability works that way.” 😀
There’s an article at wired (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/extremelaser/) about extreme ultraviolet light and the photoelectric effect. Interesting new results, especially the revelation that
“Light has been caught kicking electrons out of atoms since the 1830s.”
Only since the 1830s??!?!?!?!