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Date: Thursday 8 August 2024
Time: 13:00
Title: We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Location: Hall 1
Speaker: Professor Martin Hendry

To find this item go to https://guide.glasgow2024.org/ and search for Hendry.

#GravitationalWaves #LordKelvin #Kelvin #GlasgowUniversity #WorldCon #Glasgow2024

Heute vor 200 Jahren wurde William #Thomson geboren. Er entdeckte die nach ihm benannte Schwingkreisformel. Er ist auch als Lord #Kelvin bekannt, Die absolute Temperatur-Skala wurde nach ihm benannt.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1._Baron_Kelvin

#WilliamThomson #LordKelvin

"[In 1687] Isaac Newton explained how the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon caused [the tides]. Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations. And a century after that, Thomson used that concept to design the first machine for predicting them."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tide-predictions

#LordKelvin #WilliamThomson #Tides #AnalogComputers #Engineering #Technology #Calculations

Wednesday, 26 June at 6 pm – Sir Charles Wilson Theatre, University of Glasgow

Public lecture by Dr Daniel Mitchell from the IEEE History Center followed by a reception in the Hunterian

'Speaking of Numbers: Measurement, Quantification and the Kelvin Dictum'

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/900512064827?aff=oddtdtcreator

#Glasgow #GlasgowUniversity
#LordKelvin
#GravitationalWaves
#Astrodon
#PublicLecture

Tuesday, 25 June at 6 pm – Sir Charles Wilson Theatre, University of Glasgow

Public lecture by Nobel Laureate Takaaki Kajita in the Sir Charles Wilson Theatre followed by a reception in foyer.

'Unveiling the secrets of the Universe with neutrinos & gravitational waves'

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/895352041057?aff=oddtdtcreator

#Glasgow #GlasgowUniversity #LordKelvin #GravitationalWaves #Astrodon #neutrinos #PublicLecture

This past year I have been pondering what is ‘#ScientificUnderstanding’. Stumbled on this quote by #LordKelvin where ‘understanding’ is connected to the ability to build causal #models “It seems to me that the test of ‘Do we or not understand a particular subject in physics?’ is, ‘Can we make a mechanical model of it?’ " https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-005-5000-4

Lord Kelvin’s Contraption Turns Drips into Sparks - It’s easy to think that devices which generate thousands of volts of electricity m... - https://hackaday.com/2021/07/22/lord-kelvins-contraption-turns-drips-into-sparks/ #plasmachannel #highvoltage #lordkelvin #science #water