Rubber band Model of Universe : Winner of 2008 Stanford Innovation Tournament.
March 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about the Stanford Innovation Tournament on the BizOrigin Blog. Every year, Stanford sponsors a tournament where the participants are asked to “add value” to a common, everyday item. This year, the item chosen was a rubber band.
I had my simple and complex ways of adding value to a rubber band. But despite my involvement in the “Talk Like a Physicist” campaign, I did not think about using the rubber band to demonstrate a physics concept! 
One of the winning entries is by Michael Fisher, demonstrating a rubber band model of the Einstein’s Theory of special relativity. As a true business school major and a marketer, he titled it as ” a model of the Universe”, let’s not quibble about that.
In a few years, we will have our own contest of demonstrating most physics using a household object. Stay tuned!
Do you know that you can measure the speed of light using a rubber band in your microwave oven? What other physics can you demonstrate with a rubber band?
March 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Very interesting blog with Phunny Phyumor !
This is what you can expect form a PhD (Doctor of Physics) !
May 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Cool.. Is there anything rubber bands can’t do?