Brian Greene: The universe on a string
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http://www.ted.com In clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. (This mind-bending theo... Read more
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- -: Brian Greene: The universe on a string
April 23, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com In clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle ...
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- -: Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything
October 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com 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 elementary particles and forces you've ever seen. Follow us on Twitter htt...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Eleanor Dobson - Inside the belly of CERN
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The LHC project at CERN has hit the headlines in the last couple of years. Everything on the big detector projects such as ATLAS is of a colossal scale from the fundamental nature of the science being done through to the size of the collaborations themselves. But comparatively little is said abou...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Leo Kouwenhoven - That is a one centimeter step
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Leo Kouwenhoven is professor Quantum Transport. Quantum mechanics is the theory of atoms and elementary particles. Man itself is made out of atoms as well so quantum is the basis of our existence: life as we know it. Recent studies show that even large objects act quantum like existing in two pla...
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- -: Quark Soup: How Brookhaven Lab Makes Quark-Gluon Plasma
October 6, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/07/Steven_Gubser_The_Little_Book_of_String_Theory Steven Gubser, Princeton physicist and author of The Little Book of String Theory, recaps recent experiments performed with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Gubser de...
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Patricia Burchat: Shedding Light on Dark Matter
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Patricia Burchat talks about dark matter and dark energy that physics has been trying to prove, detect and quantify.
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Brian Cox: What Went Wrong at the LHC
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Brian Cox gives update about the LHD at CERN and the problems that it recently encountered.
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Garrett Lisi: Theory of Everything
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Garrett Lisi used shaped and patterns to explain the fundamentals of particle physics, surprisingly beautiful, without the use of equations.
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Brian Cox: CERN's Supercollider
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Brian Cox shows the almost complete Large Hadron Collider of CERN and the awesome disoveries we could hear about after it has been used to re-create the Big Bang.
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