Culture Night: Physics of Northern Lights, Magnetic Levitation, Superconductors and the Lego of Life
- Date: 9 September 2023, 16:00–18:45
- Location: University Main Building
- Type: Cultural event
- Organiser: Division of X-ray Photon Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Contact person: Henry Nameirakpam, Tomas André
We'll cover northern lights, magnetic levitation, superconductors, and explore their connections, along with a hands-on introduction to building blocks of life.
How are northern lights formed? How does magnetic levitation works? What are superconductors and how do they behave when kept close to magnets? By experiments we will demonstrate this and show how they are connected.
You can also build your own amino acids with molecular models and get to know in which foods they are found and what they do in the human body and the importance of proteins and amino acids.
You can also see molecular dynamics simulations and try to change some parameters to see how the simulation changed.