• 2013
The Science Asylum

Summary In the Science Asylum physics concepts are presented by a slightly schizophrenic Nick Lucid and his alter ego with enthusiasm, amazement and skepticism in a way that makes these strange concepts feel natural without all the mathematical baggage scientists usually deal with. View more details

  • 2013

The Science Asylum

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Written : Unknown

Stars : Nick Lucid Em Lucid

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 26, 2013

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Nebula

Summary In the Science Asylum physics concepts are presented by a slightly schizophrenic Nick Lucid and his alter ego with enthusiasm, amazement and skepticism in a way that makes these strange concepts feel natural without all the mathematical baggage scientists usually deal with. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 26, 2013

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Nebula

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Nick Lucid in The Science Asylum (2013)

Episodes

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Nov 14, 2015
Bonds Do Not Have Energy!
Nov 14, 2015
What Exactly is a Bond?
Oct 26, 2016
Nuclear Fusion Explained
Here's a quick survey of the most important types of nuclear fusion reactions occurring in the universe.
Nov 06, 2016
The Truth about Orders of Magnitude (100th video)
Orders of magnitude make it practical to compare really large numbers to smaller numbers. But rounding to the nearest magnitude is a little weird.
Mar 17, 2017
What is the Universe expanding into?
Jun 17, 2017
Can Magnets Do Work?
Magnets can't do work? I certainly looks like thy do. What the heck is work anyway?
Dec 18, 2017
What the Heck is a Photon?!
Normal definitions of photon are very helpful so Nick digs into the details of how photons are different from everything else.
Nov 20, 2018
What the HECK are Magnets? (Electrodynamics)
Scientists have know for two hundred years that moving electric charges create an electromagnet. But how does that explain permanent magnets?
Dec 04, 2018
The Craziest Solar System Model Ever!
Nick gives modeling the solar system his unique spin.
Sep 26, 2019
Quantum Wave Functions: What's Actually Waving?
Nic explores the quantum wave function one word at a time before putting it all together to explain what it's good for.
Nov 11, 2019
You Don't Know How Mirrors Work
Mirrors seem simple enough. What we see in them is turned around backwards but other than that, simple. except mirrors aren't flat sheets or glass. They're sheet of molecules. And light isn't a slender beam but a wave. That means we have to consider quantum theory. And quantum theory says mirrors behave in a bunch of strange ways if you look in the right way.
Feb 14, 2020
Why are there no Purple Stars? or Green Stars?
Nick explains how stars get their color and what their colors mean.
Feb 23, 2020
The Sun can't work without Quantum Tunneling
Scientists and Engineers trying to fuse protons into Helium on Earth have found they need temperatures far beyond the temperature in the sun's core. Yet the sun has no trouble doing it. Its secret is an extremely low probability event called quantum tunneling. Forturately the sun has so many protons the tunneling occurs constantly.
May 30, 2020
Are Orbits like this even Possible?!
We're used to thinking about orbits as neat little circles. Or if we're a little more ambitious, ellipses or parabolas. And as long as we're talking about two distant objects that works pretty well. But, of, course, there are many more objects in space that tug on each other which can lead to some complex orbits. Here are some examples.
Jun 12, 2020
The Real Source of Gravity Might Surprise You...
About a hundred years ago scientists gave up the idea that gravity is a force. Now it is thought of as the curvature of space time. And here in the Science Asylum it caused specifically by the curvature of time. That is because a large mass causes time dilation that causes the near and far parts of an object to move at different rates which tilts its motion toward that mass.
Nov 07, 2020
Atomic Orbitals, Visualized Dynamically
Jan 15, 2021
The Sun Will Turn into a Red Giant Twice!
A billion or three years from now the core of the sun, then comprised of helium, will shrink as it no longer has hydrogen to burn. As it collapses the surrounding hydrogen collapse with it reigniting nuclear fusion and causing the sun to expand in to a red giant. As more helium builds up the core will become hot enough to start helium fusion. But once again the core will run out of helium causing the core to collapse again. Outer layers will again fall inward reigniting nuclear fusion causing the sun to expand into an even larger red giant.
Jun 27, 2021
Scales do NOT measure Weight!
What is weight? Don't worry this is high school physics so you can handle it. Professor Lucid addresses all your questions complete with demonstrations (and a devil's advocate). Along the way you may learn what an orbit really is and see astronauts at play on the International Space Station.
Mar 28, 2022
The Speed of Light is Infinite... Kind Of.
With a change in perspective and mathematics light is infinite and time dilation disappears.
Apr 13, 2022
How Entanglement Breaks the Universe
How physicists developed and demonstrated the existence to quantum entanglement.
Dec 15, 2022
The Solar System looks like a Spirograph from Earth!
When you walk outside at night and look at the universe (sky) or something closer, like a car going by, you quite naturally view it from your own frame of reference and think it is moving. But that perspective is a bit awkward when analyzing planetary orbits.
Feb 26, 2023
Brown Dwarfs Challenge our View of the Universe. Here's How.
Brown dwarfs are astronomical objects that form like stars but aren't massive enough to fuse hydrogen. But some may fuse deuterium for awhile. Curiously, although they are 13 to 80 times the mass of Juptier they are all about the same size as Jupiter with different densities.
Mar 31, 2023
Here are 3 Ways a Multiverse could Exist.
Philosophers have been discussing multiple universes for thousands of years like it was a simple inevitability. About a hundred years ago physicists realized they are not so simple.
Apr 30, 2023
What Are Particles? Do They Actually Exist?!
Nick explains quantum field theory to his wife who has a knack for asking him insightful, challenging questions.
Mar 28, 2024
Not all your Atoms are Stardust
Nick describes the several different processes that produce the elements in and around us.
Jul 07, 2024
The Star That Keeps Getting Weirder
The Surius binary star, brightest in Earth's sky, was quite the puzzler to astronomers over the years as they gradually came to grips with the diversity of stars and how they evolve.
Sep 05, 2024
We Discovered this Matter by Accident
Gases cooled to near absolute zero and the cores of white dwarfs have something in common; degenerate matter, a state where quantum effects surpass thermal effects.
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