Chris MM Gordon
I'm Chris MM Gordon, a starter, business and social entrepreneur. (I also go by Chris Gordon, but turns out there's a lot of them...!)
This is a collection of personal interests, videos, blog posts, music, a bit of design and things that make me go "Aahh."
I'm in Ireland and a lot of things interest me. The more I see of the world, the less I know. I hope to never stop exploring.
You'll find out more about me at my blog ChrisMMGordon.
My more professional profile can be found on LinkedIn.
I am the Founder of 222 Ireland (http://www.222.ie), the Chairman of the Irish Export Cooperative and owner of the Trophies Awards and Gifts Store.
I like social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, cooperatives, and new ways of thinking about life and business.
Try not to go without saying hi!
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Acumen Fund Fellows Reading List
As I just climbed through my parents attic to find my copy of Paul Collier’s, The Bottom Billion, I realized it may...
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Traditional Irish Music - Brogan’s Bar - Ennis, Ireland
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Arnensee Lake, Switzerland
The waters of Arnensee in Switzerland are so clear they cause boats such as the one in the picture to appear as...
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18 posts tagged physics
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Richard Feynman - A hero
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A simulated supersymmetry event from the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS experiment.
Listen to this and feel why we need to think big and beyond in the quest for science
Floating Water Bridge
Known as the water thread experiment, this phenomenon shown above seems to defy the intuitive laws of everyday physics. The experiment was first demonstrated in 1863 by British Engineer William Armstrong.
Two containers of deionized water, placed in some sort of insulator (glass beakers work fine), must be connected by a thin thread and exposed to a high-voltage charge (one beaker receives the positive charge, and the negative to the other.) At a critical voltage threshold, a water bridge forms between the two containers across the thread - which remains even when the containers are separated!
Typically, the diameter of this bridge is no more than 1-3 mm, but can remain intact as far as an 25mm! The surface temperature, due to the voltage, rises from about 20 °C (68 °F) up to 60 °C(140 °F)! The longest that the phenomenon has lasted is 45 minutes.
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Dr. Tara Shears covering particle physics theory and the LHC in Genevia.
She simplifies so well. I enjoyed this very much!
Brian Cox on entropy, in the first part of the series Wonders of the Universe.
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How Particles Quantum Tunnel Out of Black Holes
Black holes are the blackest things in the universe. Because of their enormous, space-bending gravity, everything that falls into them is instantly ripped apart and lost. Scientists have never seen a black hole, because nothing, not even light, can escape them.
Well, almost nothing.
Here on Earth, students of beginner’s-level quantum mechanics learn that in the subatomic world, no barrier is insurmountable. Elementary particles (such as photons and electrons) aren’t like bouncy balls that, when thrown at a wall, ricochet off it; they’re more like ghosts. Barriers encourage these ghostly particles to stay mostly within a given area, but occasionally the particles will pass right through them. This strange behavior is called “quantum tunneling,” and not even black holes are immune to it.
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My kinda poster. Keep calm and be a physicist
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