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I'd suggest anyone with a passing knowledge of calculus, complex numbers, and vectors to sit through Leonard Suskind's lectures on quantum gravity. This one was
by ianai 4y ago
I'd suggest anyone with a passing knowledge of calculus, complex numbers, and vectors to sit through Leonard Suskind's lectures on quantum gravity. This one was good and wouldn't need the calc/math background, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OkwGDKoY0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OkwGDKoY0o . But YT is full of actual physics lectures and sitting in on them is pretty approachable with that calc/math background. I think they give an interesting comparison to these popular pieces on particle physics. You might not understand everything the way a physics college student should, and that's ok because you aren't one. But I bet you walk away knowing quite a bit more than you suspect and you can always replay them.
Pop-sci pieces tend to portray the universe as just a bunch of particles interacting in odd/spooky ways. It's a little reductive and sort of enshrines entanglement and similar concepts as unknowable at times. I skimmed this and it seems to spend a lot of time on spin 0 particles. Who knows, maybe that's a constraint from ER=EPR? But I didn't feel like it really conveys much about Higgs.
(Which would serve a purpose - "oh you can't know it so please come back for next installment in my series of 10 books describing it." I don't think any authors actually set out with that as a goal, explicitly, but they could do a better pointing out where to go for further, more complicated edification. That sort of thing could shoehorn new talent into science.)
- dools 4y agoI watched every single one of the 163 lectures in that series. They're all amazing, and surprisingly addictive. As one YouTube commenter put it so aptly, I always looked forward to "snack time with Lenny".
- abecedarius 4y agoWhere is this series? The youtube link above seems to be to a standalone lecture. Trying the search terms from this discussion found two other standalone lectures. Is there some UI element on youtube that I'm missing that should make this obvious?
- danbruc 4y agoThe Theoretical Minimum [1] [1] https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
- abecedarius 4y agoThank you!
- hansvm 4y agoSearching for "leonard susskind lectures" returns a playlist as the first result for me (desktop web). There's also a UI element at the top to filter results to just playlists.
- abecedarius 4y agoThe comment starting this thread referenced it as "his lectures on quantum gravity". Thanks for pointing out the youtube playlist-only search option -- that should be handy.
- dools 4y agoHere you go, also it’s 136 not 163 :) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aSwXJvxOqO6o5e https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aSwXJv...
- andreareina 4y agoAlso a good series bot focusing more on the higher level (but without dissolving into woo) is Sean Carroll's Biggest Ideas in the Universe series https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3jyjUUrJlnoyzX https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3jyj...
- dustingetz 4y agoHow do y'all organize your youtube queue, is there third party software? Looking to streamline this to make it "netflix easy" as I am inevitably feeling tired when allocating leisure time to this. I have a couch laptop, chromecast and iphone
- ajari_ 4y agoIt is not as simple as Netflix but my strategy is to add interesting videos into the "watch later" playlist. Then, during leisure time I do a quick scan and pick something. If I find myself watching a lot of the same genre I create a "watch later" for that subject.
- legrande 4y ago> Pop-sci pieces tend to portray the universe as just a bunch of particles interacting in odd/spooky ways 'Spooky action at a distance'[0] [0] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2015/11/nist-team-proves-spooky-action-distance-really-real https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2015/11/nist-team-prov...
- mhh__ 4y agoSusskind really is the man. My journey with "serious" physics starts with his lectures (I was curious what I needed to know to be able to render my own black holes like in interstellar).
- parton 4y agoThese are what originally got me into physics. For physics enthusiasts who have exhausted most pop physics content but aren't looking to get a full degree, there isn't much better than Susskind's lectures.