Between Two Nerds

Athena & Raafae, aged 11, joins the nerds to have a little chat about relativity!Are space and time absolute? What is the theory of special relativity? And general relativity? How did Einstein come up with it? What is Length Contraction? What is Time Dilation? How come we don't observe all the strangeness of relativity? Can we test relativity?Another great mind-bending chat with Athena & Raafae during the lockdown!If you would like to see what the nerds look like, check us out on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/c/BetweenTwoNerdsAnd for more information about Curiosity Lab, how we make kids fall in love with science, check out:https://www.curiositylab.ae

Athena & Raafae join one of the nerds to have a chat about one of the most mysterious areas in physics... quantum mechanics!This chat was really an overview of the major ideas in the field. Quanta and photons. Wave particle duality. Matter as a wave. The Uncertainty Principle. Schrodinger's  Equation & the Wave function. The measurement problem & the Copenhagen Interpretation. Entanglement & Bell's Theorem. Hidden Variables and Many Worlds.It is near impossible for us to explore all of the mysteries of Quantum Mechanics in one sitting! But if you would like us to do more in-depth chats about more specific topics, let us know!If you would like to see what the nerds look like, check us out on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/c/BetweenTwoNerdsAnd for more information about Curiosity Lab, how we make kids fall in love with science, check out:https://www.curiositylab.ae

The nerds debate the possibility of finding complex alien life somewhere else in the universe.We discuss the probabilities of finding extraterrestrial life elsewhere and the probability of it evolving into "intelligent life" by looking at from two viewpoints; an astrophysicist's and a biologist's.Due to the lockdown, this episode had to recorded remotely, and without our customary small human being. :(If you would like to see what the nerds look like, check us out on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/c/BetweenTwoNerdsAnd for more information about Curiosity Lab, how we make kids fall in love with science, check out:https://www.curiositylab.ae

Raafae & Athena, both aged 11,  join the nerds remotely while we are all social distancing during the COVID 19 outbreak to talk about aliens!(Apologies for the uneven sound quality. It's the best we can do under the circumstances.)Are we alone in the universe? If no, where are the aliens? Why haven't we heard from them? What's the Fermi paradox? What type of aliens should we expect to find? Where would we find them? What's the goldilocks zone? How probable is it for intelligent life to arise on other planets?This was a stimulating discussion of all things to do with extraterrestrial life to take our mind off the uncertainty in the world at this unprecedented time.If you would like to see what the nerds look like, check us out on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/c/BetweenTwoNerdsAnd for more information about Curiosity Lab, how we make kids fall in love with science, check out:https://www.curiositylab.ae

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.If you would like to see what the nerds look like, check us out on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/c/BetweenTwoNerdsAnd for more information about Curiosity Lab, how we make kids fall in love with science, check out:https://www.curiositylab.ae