#21 | Special Relativity With James, Aged 7

03/21/20 • 18 min

James, aged 7, asks the nerds about the speed of light.
He wants to know why light is the fastest thing in the universe and we tell him all about the weirdness revealed by Albert Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity. Objects get heavier. Space shrinks. And time slows down!
James also throws in a question about hair growth at the end. He has been wondering why hair grows in strange places as we get older. Oh dear.
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#20 | Big Bang & Astronomy With Muhammad, Aged 8

Muhammad, aged 8, is curious about the big bang and wants to know who discovered the Big Bang.
As we discuss the contributions of Georges Lemaître and Edwin Hubble and how they discovered the evidence for the Big Bang theory, we end up having a great chat about astronomy in general.
What can we observe through telescopes from Earth? Can we see any galaxies? What's the Hubble Space Telescope?
We seem to have blown Muhammad's mind with a few of our facts too!
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#22 | Rainbows with Oscar, Aged 6

Oscar Blue, aged 6, returns to ask the nerds all about rainbows.
How on earth do light and rain make a rainbow?! What's refraction? Can you catch a rainbow? Why are there only 7 colours in the spectrum? Can we make our own rainbows?
This is a simple explanation of the physics of this beautiful phenomenon.
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