Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.
Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...
Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...
What if the bridge between our worlds isn’t language at all, but physics? In a recent episode of SETI Live, theoretical physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson, co-author of Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other ...
Can physics predict the future? This video explores the concept of predictability in the universe, starting with the ...
Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
"These single atoms are like the smallest slits you could possibly build." For over 100 years, quantum physics has taught us that light is both a wave and a particle. Now, researchers at the ...