Freshman Scientific Journalism - Physics

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The discussion centers around finding engaging physics topics suitable for a PowerPoint presentation aimed at freshman engineering students. Suggestions include concepts like Entropy Death, Carbon Nanotubing, and Time Travel, emphasizing the need for topics that can be explored in-depth with about six to seven hours of research. The goal is to select phenomena or theories that will captivate an audience with a moderate interest in physics, avoiding overly complex subjects like string theory that may not resonate with non-mathematics majors. Additionally, the poster shares a resource link to their Google page, which aggregates interesting articles from sources like PhysOrg and PopSci for further exploration of potential topics.
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I need some topic ideas within the realm of physics that might captivate the interest of fellow Freshman engineers when presented as a powerpoint. Something along the lines of Entropy Death, Carbon Nanotubing, Time Travel and causality, etc within two weeks. Some links to articles would be appreciated :)
 
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Sorry about the frontness and ambiguity in my post, my original intention posting this here was to ask if anyone knew of a phenomenon or theory of interest that I could slap onto a power point presentation with roughly 6 or 7 hours' worth of research that would be sufficient to explain the topic deeply enough, and would be of interest to colleagues with a moderate interest in Physics. Topics such as string theory would bore most of the non-mathematics majors in this course and would definitely earn quite a few scoffs >.>
 
If you're interested, I maintain my Google page with RSS feeds from PhysOrg in a few different areas plus PopSci and I pick out the most interesting ones to me to share. There are lots of different things that I think are cool, so I think rather than listing them you can see here and you can read the articles to see if it's something you'd like to pursue further.

http://www.google.com/profiles/hadsed
 
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