Here’s another nice TEDx talk on particle physics by Garrett Lisi. For those who forgot, Dr. Lisi became famous for offering “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything”. In this new talk he talks about the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, his views on particle physics and the role of spacetime geometry in all of this. TEDx | More videos
So recently the list of free science books was posted on I Fucking Love Science Facebook page (thanks for that guys), which unfortunately caused a huge traffic “spike” and crashed our servers. But no worries — the tech. support guys are sorting this out and the website should be fully working in about 24 hours. Meanwhile, for those, who can access this post, but not the list of free books, try using this cached...
For those with not enough time on their hands, here’s a short overview of the top physics news with links to original articles. As always, if you would like to receive these weekly news straight to your email, register to our email newsletter here. 1. A New Planet Hunter by NASA (April 8) One of the most successful NASA’s planet hunting telescopes — the Kepler space telescope — will have a colleague called TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). TESS will...
In the best-selling biography titled “Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution” John Gribbin tells the story of one of the frontmen and leaders of the quantum revolution — Erwin Schrodinger. Schrodinger was not only an ingenious physicist, but also a serial seducer entwined in countless affairs, stories of which make this book one of the most controversial biographies in physics. So let’s have a closer look. Author: John Gribbin Paperback: 336 Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (2013) ISBN-10: 1118299264 ISBN-13: 978-1118299265...
This course of 20 lectures is mostly on the introduction of physics and the relations between physics and other disciplines. In particular, the links between physics and biology are discussed in the finale of the course. The professor of this course is Carlos Bustamante, who puts great effort to explain the links between biology to physics, putting emphasis on his own research. UCBerkeley|More lectures
In this set of 24 lectures Michael DeWeese introduces students to the basics of university level physics. Throughout the lectures the main subjects introduced are: Newton’s laws, 2-d motion, circular motion, conservation of energy and momentum, waves and more. The lectures can also be downloaded in MP4 format here. UCBerkeley|More lectures
In this video from UCtelevision two Nobel prize laureates, George Smoot and Saul Perlmutter, discuss the beginning and the end of the universe and what cosmology tells us about it. The host of the talk was Michael Krasny. As always, for more videos visit our video section. UCtelevision|More videos
It’s strange to think that one of the most famous experiments in physics — the double slit experiment — can be easily performed at home. With just a cheap laser and some imagination one can do this experiment without much hassle. So the famous experiment that gave evidence for the wave-like behavior of light was demonstrated by Thomas Young back in 1801. The interesting fact is that, in his famous speech in front of the audience at the...
So recently, while browsing around the internet archive, I found this cool video from 1960. It is an instructional film on nuclear weapons, their transportation and safety for U.S. Air Force personnel. This film includes an explanation of nuclear physics, footage of atmospheric and underground testing, and a bomber making a crash landing. P.S. you gotta love that old-school narrator voice and the music, which sounds like something from Hitchcock’s movies More videos
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