Transport yourself with physics – new brain teasers on Irish public transport

While sitting on the bus or train on your morning commute you would hardly expect to have your sense of scale or time questioned, but this is exactly what users of public transport across Ireland can expect from 8 November.

The Institute of Physics in Ireland (IOP Ireland) is launching a poster campaign that sees a range of brain teaser physics questions displayed on public transport with the aim to highlight the physics behind our every day world. 

The four different posters, each with a physics question and three possible multiple choice answers, will be displayed on buses in various counties throughout Ireland – North and South – as well as the DART and Arrow trains serving Dublin.

People are able to text to find out whether they’ve worked out the right answer and are encouraged to go to www.iopireland.org/questioncards to discover more links between the world around us and cutting-edge physics research.

Alison Hackett, National Officer IOP Irleland said “Physics is all about asking questions and being curious about the world around us. The posters grab people’s attention before challenging their idea of physics.”