Ten Great Ideas: We are empty space
This must mean that we are almost completely empty space! |
Short video (1:15) from teachersdomain explaining this |
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| You’re 99.999999999999% empty space. Why can’t you walk through walls? | Link | Youtube From vimeo.com | |
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. |
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| 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 excerpt taken from his famous TED talk entitled "Queerer than we can suppose" | 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 | |
| Empty Space is NOT Empty | Link | From Veratasium. YouTube 5 mins | |
Why textbook depictions of the atom are wrong |
Youtube. 1:30. Pretty cool |
3 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. |
3 Star | |
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 | ||
| Why is glass transparent? | YouTube 4 mins via TED-Ed | ||
| Brownian Motion kit | Link | Order online | |