COMPETITIONS

60 Second Science - Sponsored by technetix

For Secondary School students, you or your team have up to one minute to explain a scientific idea, using only household equipment to help you.

The competition will be judged on Sun 24th Feb during the White Heat family day. For further detail go to Setpoint Sussex and then contact the Festival office on 01273 777628 or e-mail richard(at)brightonscience.com

30 Second Science Theories

30 Second Theories is a book Ivy Press are researching. Could you help us write it at the Catalyst Club on Wednesday 27th February?

Just give us your tilt on a well-known scientific theory in half a minute.

Anyone can do it; a relatively short summary of relativity, a vague notion of the uncertainty principle, a light-weight review of gravity or a wild stab at chaos theory.

All you have to do is come prepared with your theory and stand up on the night, if the judges deem it a Snappy Summary then you'll walk away with some cash and great new books.

You could pick one of those below or choose your own:

Big Bang, Steady State, Big Bounce, Multiverse/Bubble universe, Flat Earth, Global warming, Snowball Earth, Continental Drift, Catastrophe / Giant impact.

Evolution, Lamarkism, Panspermia, Out of Africa, Selfish Gene, Memes, Aquatic Ape, Intelligent design.

Psychoanalytics, Behaviourism, Gestalt, Game Theory, Cognitive Dissonance, Displacement.

Gravitation, Atomic Theory, Chaos, Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, Electromagnetic, Wave Mechanics, Particle Theory, String Theory, Grand Unified Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Schrodinger’s Cat.

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Relativity, Dark Matter/Dark Energy, Moore’s law.

Morphic Resonance, Luminiferous Ether, Phlogiston.

Germs, Balance of Nature, Maturation, Eugenics, Telegony, Acupuncture.