Nima Arkani-Hamed: The Messenger Lectures

In 1964, Richard Feynman returned to Cornell University for a while and gave his Messenger Lectures that are available to you thanks to Bill Gates.

Now it's 2010 and the five Messenger Lectures were delivered by the world's leading particle phenomenologist, Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton).

Here is the first one, from October 4th, 2010.


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All the lectures are available (5 times 90 minutes):

1. Setting the stage: spacetime and quantum mechanics
2. Our "Standard Models" of particle physics and cosmology
3. Spacetime is doomed: what replaces it?
4. Why is there a macroscopic universe?
5. A new golden age of experiments: What might we know by 2020?

Just to be sure, Nima fits into the context of this blog. In the first lecture, he announces that his whole series will require the viewers to become radical conservatives much like Nima himself. ;-) Nima borrowed the term from John Wheeler.




Hat tip: Nima ;-)