Modern

TOE

theory of everything

http://xkcd.com/171/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVO0HgMi6Lc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uh5mTxRQcg

http://physics.info/beyond/

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/string-theory-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html

for much much more

http://www.superstringtheory.com/basics/index.html

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First off lets watch a movie,

find

Richard_Wolfson_-_01_Time_Travel,_Tunneling,_Tennis_And_Tea.[sharethefiles.com]

and watch that for a very good overview of modern physics in 30 mins

another good Movie to watch would be Einstein and Eddington, especially if you are

http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/bohrh.htm

There is much learned in the last 100 years.

One of the things people ued to believe in an Ether, it was what the world was spinning in and was the

Anyway two men, Michelson and Morley went off to carry out experiment on this ether,

and because it wasn't there, it is perhaps considered the failed experiment.

heres a demo of the experiment quite clever really

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/mmexpt6.htm

Chaos

Basic 101 on chaos and a description of the feignbaums constant

Quantum

Relativity

The twins paradox

http://vnatsci.ltu.edu/s_schneider/physlets/main/twinparadox.shtml

Uncertainty

position and time

imagine we went on a seek and destroy mission with other life forms,

as soon as we saw them we shot a killer laser pulse to obliterate all intelligent life there

If we just saw the planet and shot at it would we hit it

there is a minimum time for which we must watch the planet to determine its position but more importantly be able to predict its location at various times in the future.