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Is Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstopper truly a never-ending confection, or simply a finite treat?
No full textThis paper aims to explore the feasibility of producing a real-life version of Roald Dahl’s fictional Everlasting Gobstopper. By identifying the fictional properties of the Everlasting Gobstopper this paper analyses the potential and the challenges of creating such a confection which defies conventional limitations. Through analysis of molecular gastronomy techniques, this study aims to bridge the gap between fiction and reality
Editorial
No full textFocusing on international interdisciplinary collaborations, this special edition of the LIAS working paper series showcases a series of reflections, articles and poems from participants at the 2023 University of West Indies–University of Leicester International Summer School, held at the University of Leicester and hosted by the School of Criminology. In the first week of June 2023, Dr Sonjah Stanley Niaah (University of West Indies, Mona) and Professor Michael A. Bucknor (University of Alberta) joined Leicester academics Dr Tammy Ayres, Dr Lucy Evans and Professor Martin Halliwell to co-deliver an intensive week-long cross-disciplinary programme, with an emphasis on both interdisciplinary exploration and professional development
A2 3 Ice to Melt You: Ice Cube Solutions to Global Warming
No full textWe set out to determine the amount of ice needed to cool the oceans to pre-Industrial Revolution levels from the perspective of Earth in 2100, where oceans have warmed by 1.2◦C, using the method outlined in the Futurama episode “Crimes of the Hot”. We determined it would require 5.366 × 1017 kg of ice to cool the oceans, approximately 2% of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This ice melting would cool the oceans, but also raise sea levels by 1.5 metres, flooding many low-lying cities, proving catastrophic for humanity
A5 6 Winds of Arrakis
No full textIn the book series ’Dune’, the planet Arrakis is home to major sandstorms that are amplified bythe planet’s rotational motion, these being referred to as ’Coriolis storms’. We investigated themagnitude of the Coriolis force and hence the total vertical pressure gradient force necessary toproduce storms of this magnitude. It was found that a total Coriolis force of Fc ≈ 0.02 ms-2, and hence a vertical pressure gradient force of ≈ -0.026 ms-2 was required to produce wind speedsthat facilitate these weather conditions
P5 5 Nuclear Fusion: A Finite Resource?
No full textThe studies in this paper explore the limits of nuclear fusion, specifically looking at deuteriumand tritium fusion, the primary fuels used in nuclear fusion reactors. The calculations within thispaper find that on Earth, the abundance of lithium-6 is the limiting factor in this reaction and theocean reserves would be able to fuel anthropogenic activities on Earth for 7.1 million years giventhe total energy usage on Earth from 2023
Cataloging minerals, part 1: The categories of colonialism and extraction
No full textMineral wealth has motivated and funded extractionist empires, often at the expense of local communities, labor, environments, and public health. Yet those connections are not recorded in traditional mineral catalogs, which treat specimens as divorced from context. This essay examines the roots of those omissions, and situates mineral cataloging in the larger body of literature on knowledge organization systems and power. We examine how colonial ideologies of land and people become entrenched in mineral cataloging practices, and how this reinforces the ways geologists think about their work. We argue that revising mineral cataloging practices is a necessary first step – both practically and epistemically – toward addressing histories of violence in our mineral collections and the science of geology as a whole.
P2 4 Can We Get Much Higher?
No full textIn this paper, we discuss the minimum height a 10-year-old child would have to jump on apolypropylene trampoline in order to break the trampoline mat and fall through it. This height iscalculated to be approximately 3.72 km, which would be fatal if attempted
P1 6 Excalibur: Sword of Promised Victory
No full textIn this paper, we discuss the energy and intensity of the beam of light emitted by the sword Excalibur in Kinoko Nasu’s Fate series of works. The energy of the beam of light was found to be 9.4 ×1015 J and therefore the intensity of the light on perfectly absorptive surfaces is 1.1 ×1025 W m-2
P2 5 Sandy Spectrum
No full textIn this paper we investigate the velocities required for an hourglass containing yellow sand to appeareach colour in a rainbow to a stationary observer. Additionally, we calculated the difference induration the hourglass would appear to have if it were travelling at that velocity
Quantum mechanics with 2 particles
No full textA change of co-ordinates can often be used to simplify the analytic solution of the few-particleSchrodinger equation. Examples are given for the case of 2 interacting particles