James Boffin

09/03/2024

09/03/2024

A Sticky Explosion

08/11/2023

SANTA DOES SCIENCE by James Boffin, Secret Science Agent UU7
This year Santa will be performing huge festive fun science wherever he’s invited to. In your home, at school, in a club or care home, at a party, at a Xmas market or a Xmas fayre, or in a grotto somewhere else instead. In any event where children (ages from 3 to 103) would love to see SANTA LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE. Limited dates available. Full details will be ready soon. To get them first REGISTER YOUR INTEREST NOW! To get near the top of the list message James Boffin. Or call.

18/10/2023

HARRY POTTER FANS PARTY as a 'SnapeClass'! Science with a wizard twist.
The Subtle Science and Exact Art of potions, plasma, flying, WOW dry ice and goo.
Lots of lesson options here https://64cb7d0741cfe.site123.me
"There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class"

06/10/2023

The evil megalomaniac, Dr. Puss, takes advantage of the New York floods to reconnoitre the city as a possible target for a terrorist attack by his Swordfish Army.

06/10/2023

Science Party?
Nobody Does It Better!
UU7 parties are huge fun parties using science experiments to entertain. Grown-ups and children alike are amused (and educated!) seeing and joining in with all these quick-fire experiments.

01/06/2023

If you’ve ever seen a bolt of lightning streak across the sky, you’ve already had a sneak peek of the untapped power that is hidden in ambient air.
Now scientists have invented a device that can be made of almost any material, which can continuously generate electricity from thin air.
It runs on the ambient humidity that surrounds all of us.

Scientists making the "Air-gen" device have discovered that any material can be used to generate electricity from the air.

12/01/2023

With Boffin Girl Helena at Hanslope Primary School

11/10/2022

UU7's latest mission was in aid of Rainbows Hospice. If you feel able to support then please do so here https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/James-Boffin-Secret-Science-Agent-UU7

28/09/2022

This animated video shows our vision of a future in which the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - three times the size of France and containing up to 100,000,000 k...

28/09/2022

Impressive science and creativity.

This animated video shows our vision of a future in which the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - three times the size of France and containing up to 100,000,000 k...

26/09/2022

Don't know what possessed me to accept this mission but I'm going to see it through. Help! How to help? Please go to my JustGiving page and pledge a few pounds to help Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People.

Help James Boffin raise money to support Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People

20/09/2022

UU7's first Hen Party/Ladies' Night event! For Boffin Girl Lauren. And given a great review. Must do more.

Thank you so much James Boffin for our cocktail making experience with an extra Harry Potter theme. All the girls loved it and it was a great day. You

20/08/2022

Lois L. Kersey's answer: Yes ! Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is so big that about 1300 Earths can fit inside this planet. Jupiter is 2.5 times more massive than all the other planets in our solar system! This our small Earth compared to Jupiter: Jupiter is so large that...

07/08/2022

Mathew P. Vanderburg's answer: Amazingly, gravity itself is the reason the flame rises up. Look at the image below: An elongated flame is observed when the candle burns in the presence of gravity. This is what we observe in everyday life, right? A spherical flame is observed in microgravity or ...

07/07/2022

"The best day of my life" said one of the boys at this School.

Hi James,
We just wanted to thank you for a truly wonderful Science day. Our children were captivated by you and your workshops and went home buzzing about the day. We loved the storyline that linked in with the learning, your behaviour management, how you interacted with the children and explained tricky concepts in child-friendly tongue and the messages you taught about never giving up. Thank you UU7 for a really memorable and fun day!

Hanslope Primary School

06/04/2022

Why does light with different frequencies have the same velocity in a vacuum but different in glasses?

(With thanks to Eugenio Peraza on Quora)

Basically it is due to Quantum Viscosity.

Also the term “velocity" is used to describe how fast Quanta can ramp up to it's speed.

The final speed is not it's velocity.

Quantum Viscosity is like a density, it can slow down Quanta travelling through it.

When all the light waves slow down sufficiently in glass due to Quantum Viscosity.

You can then see where each wavelength starts, and finishes, such as in the refractive rainbow produced.

And different Light wavelengths do not travel at the same speed anywhere.

If they did, there would be no different colours, or different wavelengths, and there would only be one color, or no colour.

Quantum Viscosity is generally caused by Quantum Gravity.

The atoms in the glass have Quantum Mass therefore they exhibit Quantum Gravity.

It is the light waves and/or particles that have to travel through such Quantum Gravity.

The result is that the Quantum Gravity generates Quantum Viscosity.