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Lectures in the Math and Physics category
Sean Carroll on the arrow of time ( Part 2 )
Release Date: Jan 09, 2010 Category: Math and Physics Lectures In Part 2 of his lecture at the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean Carroll continues his entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before... |
Marcus du Sautoy : Symmetry, reality's riddle
Release Date: Oct 29, 2009 Category: Math and Physics Lectures The world turns on symmetry — from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse... |
Steven Strogatz on sync
Release Date: Dec 15, 2008 Category: Math and Physics Lectures Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm ... |
Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics
Release Date: Dec 12, 2008 Category: Math and Physics Lectures Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right tha... |
Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything
Release Date: Oct 03, 2008 Category: Math and Physics Lectures Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementa... |
Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
Release Date: Aug 10, 2008 Category: Math and Physics Lectures Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is... |
Brian Greene on string theory
Release Date: Apr 26, 2008 Category: Math and Physics Lectures Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.... |