Name: TED】ヘレン・ツェルスキー：日常生活の魅力的な物理学 (日常生活の魅力的な物理学｜ヘレン・ツェルスキー) (【TED】Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life (The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:30:53.000Z
Duration: 15 min 58 s
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And I think the way we talk about physics needs a little modification.

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I am from just down the road here; I don't live here anymore.

But coming from round here means that I have a northern nana,

And Nana is very bright; she hasn't had much formal education,

And when I was a second-year undergraduate studying physics at Cambridge,

I remember spending an afternoon at Nana's house in Urmston

And I had these folders open in front of me

with this, you know, hieroglyphics -- let's be honest.

And Nana came along, and she looked at this folder,

And I tried to explain something about what was on the page.

It was to do with the nucleus and Einstein A and B coefficients.

I think I said something about computers,

because it was all I could think of at the time.

But you can broaden that question out, because it's a very good question --

"What can you do when you know that?" when "that" is physics?

And I've come to realize that when we talk about physics in society

we don't include the things that we can do when we know that.

Our perception of what physics is needs a bit of a shift.

but sharing this different perspective matters for our society,

and I'm not just saying that because I'm a physicist and I'm biased

and I think we're the most important people in the world.

So, the image of physics -- we've got an image problem, let's be honest --

This is a very famous photograph that's from the Solvay Conference in 1927.

This is when the great minds of physics were grappling

and what it means only to have a probability

And you'll notice they're all very stern-looking men in suits.

Marie Curie -- I keep maybe saying, "Marie Antoinette,"

which would be a turn-up for the books --

Marie Curie, third from the left on the bottom there,

she was allowed in, but had to dress like everybody else.

So, this is what physics is like -- there's all these kinds of hieroglyphics,

these are to do with waves and particles.

That is an artist's impression of two black holes colliding,

which makes it look worth watching, to be honest.

I'm glad I didn't have to write the risk assessment

The point is: this is the image of physics, right?

done by slightly strange people dressed in a slightly strange way.

And the problem with that is that I'm a physicist,

I study the interface between the atmosphere and the ocean.

The atmosphere is massive, the ocean is massive,

and the thin layer that joins them together

because that's where things go from one huge reservoir to the other.

You can see that the sea surface -- that was me who took this video --

the average height of those waves by the way, was 10 meters.

So this is definitely physics happening here --

there's lots of things -- this is definitely physics.

And yet it's not included in our cultural perception of physics,

So what is included in our cultural perception of physics?

Because I'm a physicist, there has to be a graph, right?

We've got time along the bottom here, from very fast things there,

to things that take a long time over here.

Small things at the bottom, big things up there.

So, our current cultural image of physics looks like this.

There's quantum mechanics down in that corner,

and it's a long way down in the general ...

on the scale of anything that matters for everyday life.

And then there's cosmology, which is up there;

like black holes in the beginning of the universe,

we know that these are frontiers in physics, right?

There's lots of work being done to discover new physics

But the thing is, you will notice there's a very large gap in the middle.

There are planets and toasts and volcanoes and clouds

TED】ヘレン・ツェルスキー：日常生活の魅力的な物理学 (日常生活の魅力的な物理学｜ヘレン・ツェルスキー) (【TED】Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life (The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski))

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TED】ヘレン・ツェルスキー：日常生活の魅力的な物理学 (日常生活の魅力的な物理学｜ヘレン・ツェルスキー) (【TED】Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life (The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski))

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