Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Carl Friedrich Gauss: One to One Million

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Gary Horowitz: The power of general relativity

Gary Horowitz

  • Black hole
  • Event horizon
  • String theory
  • General relativity
  • Superconductivity
  • Josephson effect
  • Room-temperature superconductor

Joseph Polchinski: Spacetime Versus the Quantum

Joseph Polchinski

  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • Holographic principle
  • Spacetime
  • Event horizon
  • Quantum mechanics
  • ER=EPR
  • Gary Horowitz
  • Juan Maldacena
  • Paul Dirac
  • Schrödinger equation
  • Dirac equation
  • Interstellar
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss
Special Relativity: very fast
General Relativity: very massive
Quantum Mechanics: very small


WIMPs: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles

Michael Faraday: Genius of Britain

Michael Faraday

  • James Dyson
  • Blacksmith
  • Bookbinder
  • Physical experiment
  • Mercury
  • Copper rod
  • Magnet
  • Electric motor
  • Electromagnetic induction (電磁誘導)
  • Electric light
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Wallace
  • Charles Darwin


Michael Faraday: Einstein's Big Idea

Michael Faraday
Part 1


Part 2

FKA twigs: Pendulum

FKA twigs

James Clerk Maxwell: The Greatest Victorian Mathematical Physicists

James Clerk Maxwell
Raymond Flood

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

James Clerk Maxwell: A Sense of Wonder

James Clerk Maxwell



  • Electromagnetism
  • Electromagnetic field
  • Electricity
  • Magnetism
  • Electromagnetic radiation
  • Colored photograph


Falling into Black Holes (NEWS) - Sixty Symbols

Spotlight Live: Falling into a Black Hole