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FQXi FORUM: Show Me the Physics! Video Contest (2014)

February 22, 2020

Show Me the Physics!

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Robert Shaw, Chris Shaw "Mathematical Model of the Heart"	Mitchell Porter "Three topics for future physics"	Nidahl Haddad, Madeleine Richter "Piezoelectricity: A Love Story"
Andrea Ivonne Garza, Pamela Garza "Having fun no matter what"	Jonathan Jay Dickau "Can the Mandelbrot Set help us understand the Cosmos?"	Henri Vonn De Roule, Patrick Stephens "Pop for Physics"
Hans-Ulrich Wolter, H. Knümann, H. Lorenz "The new explanation of the major relationships in space"	Emily Jane Spencer "What is the Fourth Dimension?"	Stephane Durand, Pierre-Marc Gauvin "Could the Universe have 10 dimensions?"
Daegene Song "Physics Resolution to the P vs NP problem"	Kevin H Knuth "Finding Planets with Physics"	Adam Washington, Michelle Washington, Andrew Washington "The Escape - Physics and Fairytales"
Al Schneider "Is the Big Bang a Hoax"	Al Schneider "Entropy is Conserved"	zaya benazzo, maurizio benazzo "The Entanglement of Life "
Richard Lighthouse "Time Travel: An Approximate Mathematical Solution"	Teresa Mendes "Physics Needs A Paradigm Shift"	Matthew Welcome Marsden "Does Time exist? How 'Time travel Paradoxes' can't happen without "the past". "
Matt Welcome Marsden "Time travel, Worm hole, billiard ball' paradox, Timelessly. (re Paul Davies- New scientist article) "	matt welcome marsden "Time Travel,Timeless Answers to Prof Brian Cox's Science of Dr WHO "	Richard Lighthouse "The First Periodic Table for Elementary Particles-2"
Steven Ericsson-Zenith "On The Origin Of Experience, The Shaping Of Sense And The Complex World"	Amrit Srecko Sorli "The Physics of NOW"	Julien Clinton Sprott "Physics of the Wisconsin Idea"
Julien Clinton Sprott "The Wonders of Physics - 25th Season Celebration"	Julien Clinton Sprott "The Wonders of Physics - 30th Season Celebration"	Lucina Melesio Friedman "The All-There-Is"
Erick Sandoval "Physics made simple"	David Hamilton "The Cool Physics of Refrigeration"	Schatzie Dudee, Neena Dudee, Serena Dudee "The white hole, a banana smoothie and cosmic inflation walk into ..."
Robert L Bender "The AIR PRESSURE Test!"	Stephen Wilmoth, Dugan Hammock, Gene Bohlmann "Morphohedron: Perfect geometry is the analogue for the perfect st..."	Yutaka Shikano, Kyoko Kamo "72 hours ~featuring theoretical physicists ~"
Raghottam Manoj Sattigeri "Physics- The Odyssey "	Bimo Santoso "Vantablack Retro"	Jacob Rose "The Fundamental Forces Underlying Our Collective Experience"
michael W muteru "THE ‘ M’ IN M-THEORY"	Luke Adam Keltner, Amanda Yoho "The Multiverse in 2:27"	Adam Katcher, Pedro Lisbão , Gino Knodel "Quantum Harmonies of Gravity"
Colin Hunter, Craig Hennessey, Matthew Johnson "Putting The Multiverse To The Test"	Monica Audinna Halim, Tanya Gandhi, Ferren Rachiel "Time Travel: Is It Possible?"	ronald p gruber, richard a block "The Flow of Time is a Stubborn Illusion (Experiments to Prove it)"
Andrzej Dragan "Quantum particles"	Andrzej Dragan "Time dilation"	Andrzej Dragan "Hierarchy Lost"
Spyridon Michalakis, John Preskill, Jorge Cham "Quantum Computers Animated"	Jorge Cham, Jonathan Kaufman, Glovebox Science "Cosmic Inflation Explained"	Jorge Cham, Oskar Painter, Amir Safavi-Naeini "Doing the Impossible"
Jorge Cham, Jeff Kimble, Chen-Lung Hung "A Quantum Entanglement"	Norman D. Cook "Quantum Nucleodynamics"	Vad Bobrovskiy, Isabelle Strobel "Three body problem and Nonlocal Statistical Distribution Function"
David Atai, Daniel Bannit "Creating A MAGNET"	Owen Arliawan, Marvin Setiadi Tanumiharja, John Malt "How Humpty Dumpty Fell"	James Lyons Walsh, Erica Watson "Never Bored"
Cristinel Stoica " Can a black hole keep a secret?"	Lauren Lange "The Story Of Count Volta"	David Goehring, Matt Austin "Tons of Fun (Physics rap)"
Stephane Durand "What is Space-Time?"	William De Rocco, Katie Colford "What is Supersymmetry?"	Mike Blackston, Dan Chase, Max Bright, Simon Gonzalez "Moment of Inertia, Tumbling Tennis Rackets, and Rotating Rockets"
Al Schneider "Quantum Mechanics A to Z without the XS Nonsense"	Marc Séguin "Physics Into Darkness (This Is Physics, part 3)"	Marc Séguin "Forces Are Not Enough (This Is Physics, part 2)"
Marc Séguin "One Physics To Rule Them All (This Is Physics, part 1)"	Tim Blais "Eminemium - Choose Yourself! (A Capella Science)"	Tim Blais "A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity!"
eva mcclean, Elspeth Bartlet, James Bryant "Making a difference: physics careers in medicine"	Dagomir Marcin Kaszlikowski "Seeing Without Looking"	Ian C Harris, Grant Karolich "Explained: Centripetal Force"
Saad M Sarwana "Standup Physicist "	Saad M Sarwana "3 Year old discovers bernoulli principle"	Ramona Leigh Taylor "Air Is Matter"
Robert Fickler, Mario Krenn, Anton Zeilinger "Real-Time Imaging of Quantum Entanglement "	Maria Violaris "The Standard Model!"	Cristinel Stoica "The puzzle of quantum reality"
Daegene Song "Can a Machine Take Over a Human?"	Shlomo Yao Dunyo, Shlomo Dunyo, Achim Kempf "What if we could move the sun? \| Solar Energy \|"	Vad S Bobrovskiy, Isabelle Strobel "The Civilization of the Ruler, the Weight, the Protractor and Sand Glass"
Paul Kwiat "Physical Revue 2013: Univ. of Illinois Physics Phollies"	Evan Campbell, Chris Moskowec "Physics' Big Break"	Victor Andrei Stoica "A universe in a cup of water "
Shlomo Yao Dunyo "Mysteries of the Universe \| Calculating Shape from Sound \|"	Victor Lindsay Stepanow "Do Dice Play God with the Universe"	Karl Coryat "How Gravity Makes Things Fall"
Daegene Song "Does the Moon exist only when someone is looking at it?"	Sabine Hossenfelder "I saw the future"	Tejinder Singh "Does Nature Play Dice?"
Victor Lindsay Stepanow "Fluid Dynamics"	Schatzie Dudee "Cosmic Inflation & Doubling with Pinto Beans"	Seth Dacio "Physics of the nerf gun #FQXiVideoContest2014"
Alexander Roth "Special Relativity --- Just Simple Geometry"	Joe Fisher, Christine Murphy, Amaris Fisher "JOE FISHER'S THEOREM OF INERT LIGHT THE MUSICAL"	Turil Sweden Cronburg "Physics for Philosophers, and maybe Fish"
Andrej Rehak "the geometry of spacetime"	Andrej Rehak "regression of lunar nodes"	Andrej Rehak "acceleration"
Joe Fisher, Christine Murphy, Amaris Fisher "JOE FISHER'S THEOREM OF INERT LIGHT"	Garrett Lisi, Katie McMillan, Sara Tekula "The Geometry of Particle Physics"	Pieter Thyssen "Quantum Immortality"
Pieter Thyssen "Beam me up, Scotty! How to build a quantum teleportation device"	Pekka Luodeslampi "How to measure your max punch force."	Franklin Hu "How do magnets work?"
Victor Lindsay Stepanow "Out of the Darkness"	Neil Sardesai "Physics - What Will You Discover?"	Franklin Hu "The Cubic Atomic Model - Could Rutherford be wrong?"
Franklin Hu "Experiment to demonstrate conservation of angular momentum"	Xiangjun Shi "Why Do I Study Physics?"	Xiangjun Shi, Ana Kim, Sarah Schade, Adam Scherlis "Penguin Physics?"
Andrew King, Kamna Pruvost "The Qubit Lab - Photon Codes"	Andrew King, Kamna Pruvost "The Qubit Lab - Optomechanics"	Andrew King, Kamna Pruvost "The Qubit Lab - Quantum Magnetometry"
Mark Prince "CONVECTION? HEAT TRANSFER? WHO CARES???"	Mark Prince "REDSHIFT AND THE BIG BANG!!!"

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