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Good opportunity to again promote »The Theoretical Minimum« [1] by Leonard Susskind (born June 1940, director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
by danbruc 12y ago
Good opportunity to again promote »The Theoretical Minimum« [1] by Leonard Susskind (born June 1940, director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics with research interests in string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology). It is pretty accessible and a key takeaway is that there is a lot of misinformation in the wild and especially on the internet when it comes to (modern) physics as he tell his class not only once when someone asks about something he read somewhere.
[1] http://theoreticalminimum.com/ http://theoreticalminimum.com/
- paladin314159 12y agoThis is really cool. I took a (very) basic class on modern physics with Susskind; awesome guy and great at explaining things. Will have to read through this!
- danbruc 12y agoWatch, not read, these are video recordings of courses. About 20 courses with about 10 lectures each, usually about 2 hours.
- gus_massa 12y agoThe site looks interesting, but it's difficult to find the information that is related to the discussion. Does this site have a page that discusses specifically entanglement? EPR paradox? Bell inecuality? I'd like to see a link to the specific relevant page and not a link to the general site.
- danbruc 12y agoHere is the course on quantum entanglement [1] but depending on prior knowledge it may be wise to first go through the courses on classical [2] and quantum [3] mechanics. He tries to keep everything as self-contained as possible but does not go through the very basics things like Lagrangians and Hamiltonians every time. [1] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-entanglement/2006/fall http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-entanglement/2... [2] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/classical-mechanics/2011/fall http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/classical-mechanics/20... [3] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-mechanics/2012/winter http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-mechanics/2012...