SCIENCE
MUSEUM LIVE
at
the Civic Theatre
24.02.12
"Do
you have a pacemaker?" ask the health-and-safety-conscious house
staff. No, but I do have O-level physics, so no trouble recalling the
neon-lit LIGHT, NUCLEAR, ELECTRICAL, KINETIC, POTENTIAL, HEAT, SOUND,
and CHEMICAL as types of energy. Our old science teacher enjoyed a
good explosion, but of course lacked the resources and the performing
skills to keep us hooked for a couple of hours …
Mark
and Mandy, from the Science Museum, started their spectacular show
with a giant pinball chain reaction, using the amazing stage set
which included a Tardis-style South Kensington portal. A golden
ticket, a puff of smoke and we were off on an experience which
included methane bubbles, air cannon, static electricity, frictional
phonebooks, a working hovercraft and lots of "loud and
dangerous" bangs.
I
liked the video link to Prince Albert, though there was perhaps a
little too much advertising for the Museum. Highlights of the live
show were Hooke and Newton slugging it out, the tee-shirt trebuchet,
the frozen flowers.
Good
to hear the hordes of kids shouting out "Isaac Newton", and
to see the audience so involved with the action. They were asked to
write invention ideas in Albert's book, and came up with, among many
others, the voice-box remote control, and the intriguing
pickled-onion converter.
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