Move over Einstein

Exhibition tour extended into 2006

This fascinating exhibition uses brilliant hands-on exhibits and takes you inside some of the latest projects Einstein’s successors are working on, which include:

• An electronic supernose that will sniff your breath and give early warning of illness
• Tiny robots which may soon navigate your bloodstream, targeting drugs to specific sites within your body
• Production of codes that even the greatest super-sleuth can't crack, making Internet shopping completely safe
• Using ‘wobbly stars’ which may lead us to discover alien life

Leading scientists are building on Einstein’s ideas and are racing to make them a reality…the future is closer than you think!

See for yourself by visiting Move Over Einstein – a free exhibition, with special appeal to 11-14 year olds.

What's in the exhibition?

Thinking Einstein: take a trip through Einstein’s mind and interact with a virtual landscape while riding a real bike.

Collider: this exhibit represents the Large Hadron Collider at CERN recreating the Higgs Particle by accelerating and colliding particles. Players are challenged to create a Big Bang event, and potentially the Higgs particle!

Design-a-bot: this 2-player computer exhibit allows visitors to design their own nanobot and then use it to heal a fictional patient by guiding it round the patient's bloodstream.

Planet Hunt: search a virtual night sky for wobbly stars in this computer exhibit. A wobble indicates that earth-like planets may orbit the star. On locating a wobbly star players can explore its solar system and make choices about whether they think it could harbour alien life.

Code breakers: players are challenged to break a coded message using a code wheel, working through a number of ‘keys’ against the clock to try and decode the message. 

Dark Matter Race: the exhibit demonstrates how scientists are hoping to detect dark matter by spotting the way it reacts, creating flashes of light, as it passes through their mine-based equipment. Like the scientists, players have to spot the occasional flashes caused by dark matter amongst other reactions.

Smelly Quiz: test the sensitivity of your nose by sniffing other people's breath! Players get to investigate a number of different aromas and have to guess what they've been up to.

If you're interested in visiting Move Over Einstein, why not view the tour schedule?  New dates have been added for 2006.

Teachers, parents and guardians may be interested in the Move Over Einstein learning resources - follow up your visit in the classroom with our worksheets and ideas for lessons (not just in physics!).


If you have any questions about Move Over Einstein, please email us!

Move over Einstein is generously supported by PPARC and EPSRC.