Showing posts with label lectures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lectures. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Monday, December 10, 2012

Leonard Susskind's GR lectures at Stanford.

I discovered Leonard Susskind because of the book "The black hole war". It was interesting and funny and the fact I was not able to grasp the last part of it -that holographic metaphore is disturbing-, didn't make me dislike it at all. I started to look at physicists more like human beings thanks to it. And that's saying a lot.

Before that, my only contact with physicists were close related hate-filled-relationships due to the fact engineering physics in Spain -the time I studied it, at least- were intended more to make an IQ selection than teaching actual interesting physics. I can blame no one for that. It's a consequence -one of the bad ones- of having a public university model. Good ones outnumbered bad ones, by the way. In the future, who knows.

Leonard Susskind a couple of years ago. From Stanford web.

Monday, November 26, 2012

An interesting video from MIT: EFE, introductory level.

Next post was intended to be an estimation of energy needed for warping spacetime, but its going to take a little more of time since I have to do some checkup on math -and procedure.
So, in the mean time... :)

... I've already said I'm not very fond of hearing classes. In general it is quite truth, but in my quest for understanding spacetime, several internet searches have leaded me to actual videos of classes. Which is a little ironic, I guess...