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Ten Great Ideas: We are empty space
This must mean that we are almost completely empty space! |
Short video (1:15) trying to explain this |
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Rutherford's Experiment |
Youtube. 3:30. Includes a clip of the great man himself. Note that it took Rutherford TWO YEARS to make sense of his results |
5 Star | |
. It kinda freaked him out |
Audio link. 1:30. But it's worth it to hear how much it freightened Rutherford. |
5 Star | |
| So why don't we fall through the floor? | 10 min Youtube clip; we are just interested in the first few minutes. Excerpt from The Elegant Universe | 5 Star | |
| Why can't we walk through walls? | Alice and Bob ponder this in a one minute cartoon. | 4 Star | |
| Richard Dawkins reads about the same idea | An excerp taken from his famous TED talk entitled "Queerer than we can suppose" | 4 Star | |
| The film | An excerpt taken from the trailer to the film "Men who stare at goats" | 4 Star | |
| Major General Albert Stubblebine actually exists | Major General Stubblebine created Remote Viewing for the purpose of Army intelligence gathering. I tell ya you couldn't make this stuff up -wikipedia link | 3 Star | |
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The atom - to scale |
Web-page with electron and proton to scale. Scroll over to the extreme right to see the electron. |
4 Star | |
Why textbook depictions of the atom are wrong |
Youtube. 1:30. Pretty cool |
5 Star | |
Simulations |
Basic simulation of Rutherford's experiment to determine the structure of the atom. Remember Rutherford didn't know then what we know now. |
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This is a variation on the above |
3 Star | ||
Nice simulation |
4 Star | ||
| Nice animation from absorblearning.com | 4 Star | ||
| Rutherford's model of a lithium atom. From absorblearning.com | 4 Star | ||
A nice revision video, including reference to the limitations of the Bohr model |
Video from howstuffworks. 1:30 | 4 Star | |
Another video which looks at the issues in a little more detail |
Video from howstuffworks. 2 mins | 4 Star | |
Link |