Peter Hill Explains
573 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -You are welcome to listen in as I "explain things scientific". I have had great fun with lasers, robots and absorbing Quantum Physics. Now as a classroom teacher, laid low by heart surgery its time to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and give it all you've got. "And in the mean time keep on doing science"
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Theremin for Broken Hill
December 03, 2020 00:28This podcast gives the connecting background on what this instrument is, how it came up as a civic strategy option, and then a feel for the instrument, the vibe and the history. m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Fashion strategy for Broken Hill
November 27, 2020 10:26Glow in the dark pink Hi Vis for evening ware in a mining town. Corrugate iron doona covers and local artist on shirts and dresses. The possibilities are out there. m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Periodic table in Broken Hill while walking
November 27, 2020 10:24The 118 elements while walking down Oxide St at 38 C m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Dungeon Masters rule in Broken Hill
November 18, 2020 13:23When faced with Star Wars instillations in the outback town of Broken Hill, professional Dungeon Master gets the possibilities while Class room teachers are a little more sceptical. It is time to sort out who is irrationally rational and who is rationally irrational. Scientist have a higher level view of looking at the quality control of what is rational, and the directions we should travel. m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Heart Jump Start
November 15, 2020 06:11The real story of precision probing the hearts pumping and causing momentary heart attacts and the jumper wires they leave in you after they stitch you up. m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Broken Hill Big Strategy
November 15, 2020 06:10This remote outback mining town now finds itself as the pivot on Australia's axis of renewable energy. It is the obvious cradle for next generation Hydrogen fuel cells and autonomous vehicles that can manage kangaroos m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Giant Silver atom for Broken Hill
November 14, 2020 06:22An idea for an artistic representation of a silver atom, some went up and went down and the human race went quantum. MP4 recording m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Podimation the next generation2
November 13, 2020 13:36A second test on automated podcast publication MP4 recording m4a recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Test Periodic Table
November 13, 2020 04:46second broadcast test MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
What is really happening in Atoms
September 24, 2020 00:06Probably not a good attempt to explain quantum mechanics and get away from the crude concrete models of school. If I keep on trying in this area I might get better at it. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Ireland 2
September 23, 2020 05:47Drilling down to see how this country is now so wealthy MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Ireland
September 23, 2020 05:47Drilling down to see how this country is now so wealthy MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Ireland 3
September 23, 2020 05:46Drilling down to see how this country is now so wealthy MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
New Caledonia
September 22, 2020 07:40Wow the world's biggest lagoon, and biodiversity. Very interesting see the North and South and loyalty islands. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Dirac Spinors
September 20, 2020 08:13Honestly the worst podcast of the maths behind spin up and down, matter and antimatter. Part of crashing though understanding rather than faking it all. My appologies, so hard to think through. Dirac was bloody brillant, I am just getting to see what the group theory aspect of it all. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Protein Proxy for DNA
September 20, 2020 05:30When it is too old for DNA, a lot of information can be extracted from reverse engineering proteins as a proxy for DNA. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Proton and Neutron Spin
September 20, 2020 03:51I am absolutely shocked by how messy was the background of the fundemental feel of these composite particles. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Usefully limited
September 20, 2020 03:19I have beeon struck by how when new knowledge is made avaliable with Cern, Higgs, gravity waves society stays with the igorance that has become so familiar. It is like unlocking the cage doors at a zoo, and the animals within, have spent so many many generations inside they no longer think about what it would be like to be outside. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Quarks 2
September 12, 2020 07:56Truly fascinating wikipeada reading on Quarks, just amazing. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Quarks 1
September 12, 2020 07:55Truly fascinating Wikipedia reading on Quarks, just amazing. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Betelgeuse
September 12, 2020 06:37I was less than impressed by a Video on this star (the red supergiant in Orion). A basic understanding of plasma physics in Stars gives a deeper understanding. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Isospin
September 10, 2020 06:15A wikipeadia reading of isospin, this managing the ideas of up down and strange quarks coming from the SU(2) symmetry of the SU(6) symmetry of the standard model. U(1) x Su(2) x SU(3) MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Quickest Periodic Table Test
September 10, 2020 06:15Part of cognative Rehab is remembering the periodic table MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Things we don't comprehend
September 10, 2020 04:38Now I try to get to the bottom of maths that is useful but does not make sense, we just cant fully imagine it but it is how the world works. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Hadrons
September 10, 2020 04:37Bayons and Mesons. Neutrons and Protons in everyday life. A wikipeadia reading. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Charlemagne 4
September 10, 2020 04:36Clovis into the Mergovian kings. Medieval Europe at its most extreme. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Gauge Theory
September 10, 2020 01:55This is the really deep part of Physics that gives how you manage symmetries, looks at symmetry breaking and bosons. I found out to my horror that there are 8 types of gluons. Oh well, I am at least throwing myself at this stuff. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Charlemagne 5c
September 09, 2020 07:42This is real game of thrones territory MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
A recipe for Quantum Mechanics a
September 09, 2020 07:42Basic kitchen experiance to find the U(1) nature of wavefunctions MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Charlemagne 3c
September 09, 2020 07:41Chapter 3 of this classic book - game of thrones in history MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Charlemagne 2
August 30, 2020 06:56We find out how the Barbarians fused with and modified the Roman Empire. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Charlemagne 1
August 29, 2020 07:17An old but beautifully coherent and thoughtful book. We here about the Franks, Romanization and an oversexed Childreic and this is only Chapter 1 MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Ross River Fever
August 29, 2020 02:58A wikipeadia reading of this kangroo borne, mosquito vector flying form of glandular fever. So when you wear bright, light coloured clothing you can tell your mates that it is to keep the mossies away MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
4 Types of Maths
August 29, 2020 00:40After a break I am getting back into Podcasting. We take a broad view of civilzations, putting Quantum monks to the sword, the profound Meaning - Significance - Importance question and a sketch of new areas of maths. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Barbie
August 13, 2020 02:59I was foolish enough to try to ban Barbie. What a fool I was. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Dirty Floors
August 13, 2020 02:27A few stories of a dirty floor and the boy responsible for them. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Gravitational Waves 4
July 30, 2020 06:36Final part looking at the latest discoveries. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Gravitational Waves 3
July 30, 2020 06:36Read through on the resonant bar detectors and the new generation of ultra clever ones, as well as analysis of the interferometer ones. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Gravitational Waves 2
July 29, 2020 06:05We look at how they are generated and what effect they have on space. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Gravitational Waves1
July 29, 2020 01:26This is a wikipeadia reading of what I think is one of Humanities ultragreat discoveries, and we are living in an incredible age of people not caring. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Venus 5
July 28, 2020 01:01Venus in culture, quite interesting as she visits in the evening and disappears to be seen in the morning. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Radio Test Penguin Latest
July 27, 2020 06:14Hear more information about this cute Penguin. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Giving up the Goat
July 25, 2020 01:11Captain Cook was loyal to his Goat, giving her a medal and a medow after his first voyage. Remebered as the first lady to circumnavigate the globe, but with Cook it was her second time around the planet. Was it her Goat like ways that convinced Cook to seed the Pacific with breading pairs of love goats in his next one and a half voyages? Listen then Google it to check out if you are being deceive yet again by the internet. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your...
Amazing Gravitational Waves
July 25, 2020 01:112012 the Higgs boson is found then 2015 Gravitational waves are found and yet the average person is somewhere between indifferent and hostile. The era of reputation being used the imprison to mind is drawing to a close even though people make their way around the market place of their lives as if nothing has changed. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Radioactive Test Penguin
July 22, 2020 13:47A join a Penguin's vers sciency quest for love. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Venus 1a
July 22, 2020 12:13This is such a well behaved planet with a mystery missing magnetic field. I think its rotation rate might account for that. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
rapid Periodic table while driving
July 22, 2020 07:26I still have a few letter symbols I forget for vanadium and thulmium, and what is the spoken form of Mn MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Venus 3
July 22, 2020 07:25Getting a bit in to orbital mechanics. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Venus 4
July 22, 2020 07:24We look at the many missions to Venus, but miss the delightful Soviet one that pops of its lens cap only to have it fall at the place it is going to take a soil probe. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Venus 2
July 22, 2020 02:09Really goes into the lack of plate tectonics and I feel falls apart on the lack of magnetic field. One hot place is Venus. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.