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HONOBONO PHYSICS KEYWORD DICTIONARY" Video Distribution Starts!
Tetsu Miyashita (Department of Physics / Project Associate Professor, Trans-scale Quantum Science Institutes)
Masamitsu Hayashi (Department of Physics / Associate Professor, Trans-scale Quantum Science Institutes)
Satoru Nakatsuji (Department of Physics / Professor, Trans-scale Quantum Science Collaborative Research Organizations)
It has been a long time since the topic of young people's disillusionment with science and physics has become a hot topic these days. The keywords that we think are interesting are too specialized! The reason may be that the keywords that we think are interesting are too specialized and difficult to grasp. The idea was the "Heartwarming Physics Keyword Dictionary," which was launched on April 18, 2022 on the YouTube channel of The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Science and School of Science. With the unprecedented concept of "healing underwater creatures" x "difficult physics terms" x "popular voice actors," the aim was to make physics more accessible to junior high and high school students and the general public who have never paid attention to science or physics before. In addition, the videos were planned to be as short as possible so that they could be watched to the end, with each video being approximately 3 minutes long. Thirteen videos on 13 cutting-edge physics topics, including "String Theory" and "Topological Matter," were shown four times.
Thumbnail of "String Theory," which received more than 2,000 views on the first day of the opening.
Behind the cutting-edge physics keywords are the dramas of research and surprising discoveries, and it is miso to make them correct and accessible. Thanks to the many faculty members who took time out of their busy schedules to agree to such an unusual project and supervised it with great enthusiasm and detail, I feel that the content of the book is very solid. I would like to express my gratitude to them. The simultaneous press release by the University, JSR Corporation, and NHK Enterprises, Inc. was probably effective, as some of the videos were viewed more than 2,000 times on the first day of release, and many people "tweeted" about them on social networking services.
The "peculiar" narration by voice actor Hiroki Kaji has been attracting a lot of attention, but we hope you will enjoy watching the video, paying attention to the fact that it compactly packs the fun and unexplained aspects of each theme in a short, exciting, 3-minute time span. We would be grateful if you could show this video to your family members and send us your impressions.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to JSR Corporation for their financial support and NHK Enterprises, Inc. for the production of this video.
Published in the July 2022 issue of Faculty of Science News