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Lisa Randall (Big Think Interview)

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Lisa Randall is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Harvard University and one of the most cited and respected scientists working today. Her extraordinary and prolific career has seen her become the first tenured female theoretical physicist at three of the world’s greatest universities – Harvard, Princeton and MIT – as well as the bestselling author […]

John Lloyd: An Animated Tour of the Invisible

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Comedic genius John Lloyd‘s classic Ted Talk is an entertaining rumination on the wonder of the universe, here beautifully animated as part of TED’s TEDEd project – ‘lessons worth sharing’. Recorded in 2009, Lloyd cleverly weaves a linguistic labyrinth of intriguing juxtapositions whilst highlighting the paradoxes of our scientific understanding of the universe. Delivered as […]

Martin Rees: Are We Real?

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Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, delves into the deepest questions of existence in this thought provoking documentary. Rees, immaculate silver hair never out of place, embarks on an intellectual adventure illuminated by a stellar collection of talking heads in the shape of John Conway, Leonard Susskind, Max Tegmark […]

David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars

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David Deutsch puts a whole new perspective on our place in the universe in this challenging, amusing, and bewilderingly brilliant TED Talk. Oxford physicist Deutsch is one of the most creative and original minds working in science today. He is the undisputed father of quantum computing and has written two very important, yet accessible, books […]

Brian Greene – The Illusion of Time

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Brian Greene‘s excellent 2011 adaptation of his book, the Fabric of the Cosmos, resulted in a 4-part series for PBS Nova. In this episode he explores the mysteries and paradoxes of time. Atomic clocks are now so accurate they won’t lose a second in more than 100 million years, but while clocks can tell us […]

The World As Hologram

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Is the entire universe a hologram? Leonard Susskind, one of the fathers of string theory, takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics in this captivating lecture. Susskind is one of the most widely respected and original physicists working in the world today.  He independently originated string theory in the late 1960s and famously […]

Powers of Ten

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Powers of Ten is a classic short film made by the famous Californian design team,  husband and wife,  Charles and Ray Eames. Narrated by Philip Morrison, the film starts with a camera hovering over a man enjoying a picnic on the lakefront in Chicago. What follows is an amazing visualisation of the relative scale of […]

God, The Universe and Everything Else

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A hall of fame line up if ever there was one! Professor Stephen Hawking, Dr. Carl Sagan and Sir Arthur C. Clarke are interviewed together by Magnus Magnusson on the big questions of God, the origin of the universe, extra terrestrial life and the future of mankind. Produced by Central Independent Television in the UK […]

Lawrence Krauss: Life, the Universe and Nothing

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Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physist at Arizona State University working at the interface between particle physics and cosmology. He is the Inaugural Director of the Origins Project at ASU – a national center for research and outreach on origins issues, from the origins of the universe, to human origins, to the origins of consciousness […]

Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder

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Australian child prodigy Terence Tao has matured into one of the leading mathematicians in the world today advancing, amongst other things, our understanding of prime numbers. Here he gives a brilliant lecture on the scale of the universe and how we discovered the size of, and distance between, the various bodies that inhabit it – […]
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