Fundamental Physics Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 3

commentary#3489

Gell-Mann Amnesia and Michio Kaku

Angela Collier

“Dr Angela Collier has this fun concept she calls Mann-Gell Amnesia”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

explainer#3545

The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies

Veritasium

“Derek Muller on the youtube channel Veritasium has a good video on this”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#3588

Nima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-Time

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

“Highly recommended for anyone interested in this topic.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

lecture#3608

Feynman: Knowing versus Understanding

TehPhysicalist

“I reference it because I already felt the same in my work on A.I”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

explainer#3634

Does Time Cause Gravity?

PBS Space Time

“Here's a really good explanation of what's actually going on when gravity influences an object.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

explainer#3656

The Snowflake Myth

Veritasium

“Here's a fantastic Veritasium video about snowflakes with a scientist that basically figured out all of the ways they can form”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

interview#3665

Feynman_i_dont_like_honors_ [longer_version]

batxg3

“It's worth watching once or twice a year to remind onself to be humble.”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2024

explainer#3678

How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story

ElectroBOOM

“Let me highly recommend Mehdi Sadaghdar’s (ElectroBOOM) excellent response video”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

lecture#3680

Richard Feynman - The.Character.of.Physical.Law - Part 2 (full version)

Tinkerin' Thinkers

“Feynman is so good at explaining these concepts that you don't even need any formal training to understand them.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2018

lecture#3737

Richard Feynman Messenger Lectures at Cornell The Character of Physical Law Part 1 The Law of Gravitation

TalkReelTV

“If you struggle with calculus, I found Herb Gross to be partucularly good”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

interview#3759

Grace Hopper on Letterman

TheLazlo101

“this seminal scene between the great, late Grace Hopper and David Letterman”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

explainer#3796

My Video Got 2 Companies Shut Down! (And even worse negative ion products)

The Thought Emporium

“This guy on youtube contacted the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to force Amazon to delist these products”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

explainer#3798

How to Detect Extra Dimensions

PBS Space Time

“Youtube video that explains this in depth”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

lecture#3820

Richard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture - aka "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"

Muon Ray

“there's a good richard feynam video about how things feel when they're that small”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

demo#3901

levitating frog

Graham McLeod

“If you think that's cool you should have a look at this frog”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2014

explainer#3912

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

Veritasium

“The Universe is Hostile to Computers" by Veritasium is good video.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

explainer#3952

Why is light slower in glass? - Sixty Symbols

Sixty Symbols

“This reminds me of this Sixty Symbols video which explains why light is slower in media such as glass than in a vacuum”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

explainer#4021

Does the Past Still Exist?

Sabine Hossenfelder

“This video by Sabine Hossenfelder explains it nicely”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

commentary#4061

Putin's new Russian MHD weapons explained (1st part)

Jean-Pierre PETIT

“Very good, and long videos on that subject”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

explainer#4068

How anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction

Applied Science

“here's an interesting and informative video from Applied Science on how these tags work”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

explainer#4093

Hitting the Sun is HARD

minutephysics

“as explained in the following minutephysics video (3 minutes): Hitting the Sun is HARD.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

demo#4108

Laser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement

Applied Science

“a pretty cool video where he demonstrates how a single laser diode can be used to measure miniscule vibrations”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

explainer#4269

What keeps a train on the track?

BoreMeScience

“Here's a great explanation by Richard Feynman”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#4300

Imaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar

TED

“Seriously, watch it. Very cool.”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2019

lecture#4302

Feynman: 'Greek' versus 'Babylonian' mathematics

TehPhysicalist

“Feynman was an excellent communicator”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

demo#4304

TMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)

Arend Schwab

“Explanation of the research in question behind this article, as well as a demonstration of the bike they based the research on.”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2019

commentary#4342

Self-filling water bottle: BUSTED!

Thunderf00t

“Thunderf00t has debunked a bunch of other enterprises doing water from the air”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

explainer#4367

The artificial gravity lab

Tom Scott

“I never really got it until I watched the Tom Scott video”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

explainer#4379

Can A Metal Bowling Ball Survive Inside a Nuclear Explosion?

Scott Manley

“You might also be interested in the story of Lew Allen's Balls”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

interview#4486

Freeman Dyson - Fermi's rejection of our work (94/157)

Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People

“you can watch Freeman Dyson recount this conversation in his own words in an interview”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

lecture#4489

The Extreme World of Ultra Intense Lasers - with Kate Lancaster

The Royal Institution

“Here's a great Royal Institution Lecture by Kate Lancaster talking about Ultra Intense Lasers from 2017”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

explainer#4499

Calculating a Car Crash - Numberphile

Numberphile

“There's also a great video I stumbled across yesterday”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

lecture#4512

Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?

Lex Clips

“It's very difficult to find some way of defining rather precisely something we can do that we can say a computer will never be able to do.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

explainer#4528

Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?

PBS Space Time

“was a huge relief and interesting dive into the q”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

explainer#4682

The Surprising Secret of Synchronization

Veritasium

“it is worth watching the entire video”

1 HN recommenders · 2021

demo#4704

Dropping Things Into The Sun is Hard....

Scott Manley

“Or watch Scott Manley demonstrate the unreasonable orbital dynamics you just described.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#4743

Is the Universe a Simulation? | 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate

American Museum of Natural History

“Some beg to differ”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

explainer#4765

Feynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7

Christopher Sykes

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

explainer#4795

Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

Practical Engineering

“Practical Engineering already explained the correct solution to this problem”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2026