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This whole space fascinates me, but I do not have the maths/time/intelligence to understand the nitty gritty. For anyone who really wants to dig deeper but sti

This whole space fascinates me, but I do not have the maths/time/intelligence to understand the nitty gritty. For anyone who really wants to dig deeper but still get 'noob' explanations, PBS Space Time on youtube[0] is my goto. Black holes was where I started and boy did I get sucked in. [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

darepublic 6y ago
I did enjoy watching the spacetime videos although I also could not understand most of it. But I feel like the content and topics jumped around a lot and they would present string theory more or less as fact. It was a grabbag of cool ideas but it would be more fruitful I think to build upon layers of knowledge
- irjustin 6y ago
  I'm right there with you - I've watched their videos for better part of 2 years. Each video I've seen most likely twice while some of them I need to watch 4-5 times to understand. At times, I'll think I understand it. Come back 6 months later having a bit more understanding of related topics only to realize I understood absolutely none of the original video and am just beginning to get it =/. Seemingly innocuous sentences carry insane amounts of information (i.e. Do anything to a blackhole and the surface area never decreases except in Hawking Radiation) The topics do appear jump around a lot, but there's method to the madness. Topics such as Blackhole/Thermodynamic entropy require foundations that appear unrelated at first. Sure, they have video lists[0] to help but I've rewatched this one so many times. > they would present string theory more or less as fact To be fair, they have a why ST is right[1] and wrong[2]. As you can tell, I'm a SpaceTime fanboy. [0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyAcRJ8gluQtOJR https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyA... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTa9YcTe1k&list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyAcRJ8gluQtOJR&index=8&t=534s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTa9YcTe1k&list=PLsPUh22kYm... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpGdumLRqs&list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyAcRJ8gluQtOJR&index=9&t=53s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpGdumLRqs&list=PLsPUh22kYm...
- torbital 6y ago
  I've been watching PBS Space Time since they started years ago. A lot of their videos build on previous videos, so to fully understand a concept you might need to go down some rabbit-holes. But it is worth it. I'd much rather have channels like this that welcome actually getting into the details a bit, rather than the hundreds of channels that have broad, surface-level facts of a subject lazily combined with some stock-footage.
andreareina 6y ago
Sean Carroll's Biggest Ideas in the Universe is a nicely-structured survey of the field. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3jyjUUrJlnoyzX https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3j...
pa7x1 6y ago
As a physicist, I can confirm, they are absolutely top quality.

darepublic 6y ago

I did enjoy watching the spacetime videos although I also could not understand most of it. But I feel like the content and topics jumped around a lot and they would present string theory more or less as fact. It was a grabbag of cool ideas but it would be more fruitful I think to build upon layers of knowledge

irjustin 6y ago
I'm right there with you - I've watched their videos for better part of 2 years. Each video I've seen most likely twice while some of them I need to watch 4-5 times to understand. At times, I'll think I understand it. Come back 6 months later having a bit more understanding of related topics only to realize I understood absolutely none of the original video and am just beginning to get it =/. Seemingly innocuous sentences carry insane amounts of information (i.e. Do anything to a blackhole and the surface area never decreases except in Hawking Radiation) The topics do appear jump around a lot, but there's method to the madness. Topics such as Blackhole/Thermodynamic entropy require foundations that appear unrelated at first. Sure, they have video lists[0] to help but I've rewatched this one so many times. > they would present string theory more or less as fact To be fair, they have a why ST is right[1] and wrong[2]. As you can tell, I'm a SpaceTime fanboy. [0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyAcRJ8gluQtOJR https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyA... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTa9YcTe1k&list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyAcRJ8gluQtOJR&index=8&t=534s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTa9YcTe1k&list=PLsPUh22kYm... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpGdumLRqs&list=PLsPUh22kYmNCHVpiXDJyAcRJ8gluQtOJR&index=9&t=53s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpGdumLRqs&list=PLsPUh22kYm...
torbital 6y ago
I've been watching PBS Space Time since they started years ago. A lot of their videos build on previous videos, so to fully understand a concept you might need to go down some rabbit-holes. But it is worth it. I'd much rather have channels like this that welcome actually getting into the details a bit, rather than the hundreds of channels that have broad, surface-level facts of a subject lazily combined with some stock-footage.

andreareina 6y ago

Sean Carroll's Biggest Ideas in the Universe is a nicely-structured survey of the field. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3jyjUUrJlnoyzX https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3j...

pa7x1 6y ago

As a physicist, I can confirm, they are absolutely top quality.