Physics+With+A+Bang!!

I went to something called Physics with a bang at the University of Chicago. Professors [|Heinrich Jaeger] and [|Sidney Nagel] and their team showed us why and how things happen. They popped a balloon with fire, they made an aluminum boat float in air and then they sank the boat with more air, they collapsed an industrial metal garbage can by sucking the air out of it, and broke a glass with sound, and used a fire extinguisher to propel a stool across the room. After the demonstration we took a tour of the labs and talked about ice cream and liquid nitrogen.