Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online

modernphysics writes "The Outreach Department at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics offers a wide array of online lecture playbacks examining hot topics in modern physics and beyond. Presentations include Neil Turok's 'What Banged?,' John Ellis with 'The Large Hadron Collider,' Nima Arkani-Hamed with 'Fundamental Physics in 2010,' Paul Steinhardt with 'Impossible Crystals,' Edward Witten with 'The Quest for Supersymmetry,' Seth Lloyd with 'Programming the Universe,' Anton Zeilinger with 'From Einstein to Quantum Information,' Raymond Laflamme with 'Harnessing the Quantum World,' and many other talks. The presentations feature a split-screen presentation with the guest speaker in one frame and their full-frame graphics in the other."

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[Speare]

Presentations include Neil Turok's 'What Banged?,' John Ellis with 'The Large Hadron Collider,' ... Raymond Laflamme with 'Harnessing the Quantum World,' and many other talks.

For some reason, after those titles, the phrase, 'Many Norweigian films including "The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", and "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"' floated through my head.

Re:Neil Turok

[torqer]

Doesn't he also hunt dinosaurs?

Re:Two comments and already the site is crawling.

[m5brane]

Web server meltdown in 3....2.....1..... It's working fine here. Then again, I'm sitting in an office at the Perimeter Institute, so that may explain some of it.

Re:Exciting, but

[MosesJones]

1. Little bits, I mean really little, like even smaller than the republican vote in Greenwich Village
2. Time is just another dimension, space is a different set of dimensions. Like you and your girlfriend/wife/partner/online bot perspectives on what constitutes romantic
3. Electric charge is those new Visa swipe pay things, its all done by electricity to charge you

Glad I could help. My other works include explaining relativity using your relatives and energy v entropy using only the medium of mime.

Re:Exciting, but

[Thanshin]

Exciting as these subjects are, what I'd really like to see is someone tackling these:

1. What are particles? - Particles are simply assumed a priori. Nobody has ever managed to explain what a particle is.
2. What is time - why is it different from space?
3. Mass is 'curvature of space', so to speak. So what is electric charge? 1 - Particle is a jam band formed in Los Angeles in 2000. The original members were Dave Simmons (guitar), Steve Molitz (keyboard), Eric Gould (bass), and Darren Pujalet (drums). Simmons died shortly after the formation of the band due to a sudden illness.

2 - Time is a rock 'n' roll / classic rock band based in Windsor, Ontario, consisting of four members; Tony Slater on lead guitar and vocals, Nikki London on rhythm guitar and vocals, Bon Clayton on bass guitar and vocals, Scary Carey on drums and vocals. They were quite different from Space, an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, who came to prominence in the mid-1990s with hit singles such as "Female of the Species", "Neighbourhood" and "Avenging Angels".

3 - Electric is an album by Paul Rodgers of Bad Company fame and Charge is the fifth album by The Aquabats. The album marks the band's debut on Nitro Records, and was followed by their first national tour in several years. The album is very similar in sound to the previous year's EP Yo, Check Out This Ride!.

Re:Exciting, but

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like someone's been using the beta of Powerset