PickVidsBest Fundamental physics Videos
The 164 Fundamental physics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 12 introductory, 23 intermediate, 122 for a general viewer, and 7 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Veritasium, PBS Space Time, Christopher Sykes.
Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124
A roughly four-and-a-half-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Stephen Wolfram about his Wolfram Physics Project and a fundamental theory of physics, computation, life and the universe.
Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox
A minutephysics explainer on the twins paradox in special relativity.
The Geometry of Causality
PBS Space Time explains how spacetime geometry and light cones determine the order of events and what can cause what.
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Lex Fridman interviews mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein about science, mathematics, and society.
Physics in Clojure - Colin Smith
Colin Smith introduces Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics and his Clojure port, sicmutils.
I Think Faster Than Light Travel is Possible. Here's Why.
Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she thinks faster-than-light travel may not be ruled out.
I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.
Sabine Hossenfelder explains that waste heat from ever-growing energy use could eventually boil the oceans in a few centuries, whatever the energy source.
All you need to know to understand 5G
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains how 5G works and examines the health concerns around millimeter wave radiation.
Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?
Scott Manley explains the thermal balance of spacecraft and how a satellite could be configured to radiate away the heat from datacenter-scale computing in space.
The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
PBS Space Time, together with It's Okay to be Smart and PBS Eons, asks how a universe drifting toward disorder produced something as complex as life.
Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
A PBS Space Time episode explaining why faster-than-light travel is equivalent to travelling back in time, using relativity and Minkowski diagrams for different observers.
My dream died, and now I'm here
Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she left academia, criticizing its incentives, funding and career structure.
Power is not energy: why the difference matters
Technology Connections explains the difference between power (watts) and energy (watt-hours) and why confusing them leads to errors.
The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
PBS Space Time explains the Standard Model Lagrangian, the single equation encapsulating the particle physics theory, and visualizes what its terms mean.
The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
Veritasium visits Chernobyl, Fukushima and other places to find who on Earth is exposed to the most ionizing radiation.
What if you could only see the world in UV?
Veritasium shows what the world looks like through a UV camera.
Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law'
Flanders and Swann perform 'First and Second Law', a comic song about the laws of thermodynamics, from their 1964 stage show At the Drop of Another Hat.
Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) -- Dynamics and Bifurcations
Nathan Kutz presents the spatio-temporal dynamics of rotating detonation rocket engines, including combustion fronts that behave like solitons.
Richard Feynman on hungry philosophers (or do we see objects or only their light)
A one-minute clip from Richard Feynman's 1979 Auckland lecture in which he answers whether you see an object or only its light.
We all move at the Speed of Light
ScienceClic explains why nothing can go faster than light by treating motion through space and time together, so everything moves at the speed of light through spacetime.
Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?
Scott Manley surveys the research on whether people can adapt to rotating artificial gravity, from early Soviet centrifuge tests to modern studies.
How Do Bikes Stay Up?
A short minutephysics video explaining why bicycles stay upright.
Feynman: Mathematicians versus Physicists
A ten-minute clip of Richard Feynman describing how mathematicians and physicists differ in their interests and customs.
What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
A detailed 40-minute explanation of the ultraviolet catastrophe, covering Rayleigh and Jeans' classical treatment of blackbody radiation and Planck's quantum hypothesis.