THE VIDEO SHELF · string theory
The Case for String Theory - Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols interviews Nottingham cosmologist Tony Padilla, who says string theory deserves to be taken seriously. He explains how strings emerged from the equations rather than being invented.
Why HN readers recommended it
It is cited in string theory arguments as a counterweight to critics, a working physicist's reason to think there is something to the theory.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sixty Symbols
- Topic
- string theory
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I like [VIDEO] (The case for String Theory). It shows that there is a natural progression to String Theory that very few other theories have.
the6threplicant on Hacker News · 2017-06
In The Dangerous Irrelevance of String TheoryI've never found a good description or explanation of string theory for the layman. I look, but then I always run into Brian Greene. I did find this video[1], where a professor explains why he at least believes there is something to it. Tl;dr - …
snarfy on Hacker News · 2018-07
In The Admiral of the String Theory Wars (2015)
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