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SPACE MESSENGERS VIDEO RESOURCE: Vimeo Channel
Video production and animation by OMAi Space Messengers is a ‘mixed reality’ installation that explores the impact of science and technologies on our societies, our planet and our universe. In a choreographed site specific large-scale projection, ‘space’ messages and voices of the youth are displayed along with their body silhouettes on to buildings. Animated earth/space…
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Video: What’s The Smallest Thing In The Universe?
“If you were to take a coffee cup, and break it in half, then in half again, and keep carrying on, where would you end up? Could you keep on going forever? Or would you eventually find a set of indivisible building blocks out of which everything is made? Jonathan Butterworth explains the Standard Model…
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Video: What Are Gravitational Waves?
“In September 2015, scientists witnessed something never seen before: two black holes colliding. Both about 30 times as big as our Sun, they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. A fraction of a second before the crash, they sent a vibration across the universe at the speed of light that was picked…
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Video: We Are Star Stuff- Cosmic Poetry
From the History’s Channel “The Universe” series, season one; “Beyond The Big Bang”. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the connections we all have, with Sagan-like poetry.
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Video: The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
“Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, ‘When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.’ As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how…
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Video: The Basics of the Higgs Boson
“In 2012, scientists at CERN discovered evidence of the Higgs boson. The what? The Higgs boson is one of two types of fundamental particles and is a particular game-changer in the field of particle physics, proving how particles gain mass. Using the Socratic method, CERN scientists Dave Barney and Steve Goldfarb explain the exciting implications…
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Video: Should We Be Looking For Life Elsewhere in the Universe?
“As the number of “potentially habitable” planets that astronomers find continues to rise, we seem ever closer to answering the question, “Are we alone in the universe?” But should we be looking for life elsewhere? If we were to find life in one of these worlds, should we try to contact any beings who may…
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Video: Powers of Ten (1977)
“Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of…
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Video: Nuetron Star Collision Observed for First Time
“On August 17, researchers around the world detected the signals from a neutron star collision that took place 130 million years ago. Georgia Tech Professor Laura Cadonati explains what happened, how it was seen, and what researchers have learned.”
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Video: Is There Life On Other Planets?
Could there be life on other planets? Did life come to Earth from space? Have we already found evidence that aliens exist?
