What's it like to be pals with a genius? Onstage at TEDxCaltech, physicist Leonard Susskind spins a few stories about his friendship with the legendary Richard Feynman, discussing his unconventional approach to problems both serious and ... less so.
Showing posts with label Leonard Susskind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonard Susskind. Show all posts
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model - The Standard Model Lecture 6 (February 15, 2010)
Professor Leonard Susskind delivers the sixth lecture for the course New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model.
Fermion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion
Symmetry group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_group
Generation (or family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_(particle_physics)
Coupling constant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant
Meson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson
Propagator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagator
W and Z Bosons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons
Amplitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude
Alpha particle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle
Planck mass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_mass
Scattering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering
Fourier transform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
Ferromagnetism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetism
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking
Explicit symmetry breaking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_symmetry_breaking
Domain wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_wall
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Leonard Susskind: New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model - The Standard Model Lecture 5 (February 8, 2010)
Professor Leonard Susskind discusses gauge theories.
Leonard Susskind
What is Gauge theory?
Gauge theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics
Maxwell's equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations
Gauss's law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss's_law
Special unitary group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_unitary_group
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model - The Standard Model Lecture 4 (February 1, 2010)
Professor Leonard Susskind continues his discussion of group theory.
Generators of the group
Singlet
Baryon
Meson
Glueball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball
Dynamics
Flux tube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube
Gauge theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory
Dynamics
Flux tube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube
Gauge theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory
Monday, March 12, 2012
New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model > The Standard Model Lecture 1 (January 11, 2010)
Leonard Susskind, discusses the origin of covalent bonds, Coulomb's Law, and the names and properties of particles.
New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model > The Standard Model Lecture 2 (January 18, 2010)
Professor Leonard Susskind discusses quantum chromodynamics, the theory of quarks, gluons, and hadrons.
New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model > The Standard Model Lecture 3 (January 25, 2010)
Leonard Susskind, discusses the rotation of space.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)