Constants of Nature Explained: Planck's Quantum of Action
Planck's constant, found in 1900, is probably the most important, but also the most myterious constant of nature. A m essage of nature we need to wonder about - to this day the very existence of h remains unexplained.
Carver Mead on G4v: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdiG6ZPib3c
Carver Mead on Semiconductors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m99YI7HZs1o
Carver Mead Press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYRv7chhR_0
https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/2022/carver_mead/
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol4-doc/198
0:00 Mead's career
2:30 Moore's Law
3:15 Physical Law's
4:30 How did Mead's interest in fundamental physics arise?
6:00 Why bother with fundamental problems?
7:10 In view of new experiments, would you craft a physical law in the same form?
8:05 Mead's vritique on GR and his theory of gravitation G4v
9:00 Brief comments on Quantum Theory
10:00 Do we have a proper description of reality?
10:30 Gravity again
11:15 Einstein's 1911 and 1912 papers and Mead's theory
17:25 Shapiro time delay and variable speed of light (VSL)
19:00 Pulsars
20:00 Taylor-Hulse
21:00 Methodological problems and VSL
24:00 standing waves and propagating light
25:00 proposal for an experiment
26:50 Mach's principle
27:15 Sciama's paper
28:40 Gravitational constant - one fundamental problem
29:50 Accelerated frames - the other fundamental problem unsolved by Newton
31:20 Missing Mach's principle in current theories
32:30 Communication with experts
34:00 Intuitive and formal thinking
36:20 How much theory is hidden in observations?
37:30 Gravity Probe B
40:10 Gravitational waves
41:10 Open data
43:00 Microworld
45:00 The engineer's approach
46:10 comments on string theory
47:45 Science advances with one funeral at a time
48:50 Are we in the datrk ages again?
51:30 Technology and physics
52:00 Tunneling and semiconductors- a groupthink example
53:30 On Bardeen
56:00 What hinders progress?
57:00 Americas computer revolutions
58:15 Sillicon valley research climate
1:01:00 Lasers and superconductors
1:03:00 Coevolution of physics and cosmology
1:04:00 superconductors
1:05:40 high temperature superconductors
1:06:30 Ray Kurzweil
1:08:45 neural nets and superintelligence
1:11:00 An optimist statement
1:14:00 Heinrich Hertz
1:15:00 Rooted in Nature
1:17:30 To young people: think in your own way
Apologies for the missing gallery view in zoom... next time I'll know how to do that!
Mind also my backup channel:
https://odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: www.amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhSem7fUlY0
Physicists have not figured out yet why the laws of nature require such a strange phenomenon as radioactivity.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhE2KIHgqg4
Feynman was a character you simply cannot dislike. Yet, the theory on which his fame is based, turns out to be bogus - a symptom of the superficiality he tackled fundamental questions of physics.
I highly recommend Oliver Consa's papers on QED:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10345
https://vixra.org/abs/2002.0011
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03301
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02078
For those unaware that he was depicted as a genius: https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Life-Science-Richard-Feynman/dp/B008YFC52O/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnCDVrBSDFk
Despite the success of both Newtonian mechanics and special relativity, the very existence of the constant of nature c is unexplained - a strange speed limit for there seems to be no deeper reason.
My take: https://vixra.org/abs/1508.0170
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRbMVuIEGOo
Talk given at the DPG meeting 2018 in Würzburg, https://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2018/conference/wuerzburg/part/t/session/26/contribution/10. More on Alexander Unzicker's critique on particle physics:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492176249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNg4cCe6A74
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXWelcSRH4
This channel is about fundamental physics - the big questions. Dr. Alexander Unzicker is a theoretical physicist and science writer. He has diplomas in physics and law and a PhD in neuroscience. He spends most of his time thinking about the laws of nature.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxbGJKm1EXk
An approach to fundamental physics based on unit quaternions, talk given at the 2022 DPG meeting in Heidelberg.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOqCnq4q-c