D-PHYS News

Visitors at this year's ETH Information Days learned what it means to study physics through conversations with current students and lectures given by members of the department.

Physicists Andreas Eggenberger and Marius Simon demonstrated some exciting experiments during this year's Long Night of the Zurich Museums at focusTerra: they debunked the colour of gold, created a rainbow in the middle of the night and let a green laser beam take a balloon to its breaking point.

On 2 and 3 September up to 30,000 visitors sought answers to the question: what holds the world together?

Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich and Technorama, visitors to the Science Centre can see with their naked eye very small objects that behave according to the unfamiliar laws of quantum mechanics – single atoms.