THE VIDEO SHELF · quantum field theory
Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll's 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting lecture on particles, fields and the future of particle physics. He explains that particles are vibrations in underlying quantum fields and touches on the Higgs, neutrinos and dark matter.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the clearest long-form explanation of the everything-is-fields view for non-physicists.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Fermilab
- Topic
- quantum field theory
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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> Every point of Universe contains infinite number of small, even infinite small, particles. What "particles"? [VIDEO] (really worth it! Watch at 1.5 times speed) and [LINK] (reading the discussion is useless though without understanding at least what is presented in the above lecture)
Noseshine on Hacker News · 2016-10
In A Natural Law for Rotating Galaxies: What Does This Mean for Dark Matter?Sean M. Carrol always mentions this fact when he talks about QFT, which can be very entertaining like this one from 2013 "Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics" [VIDEO] (Audio starts at 19 sec, Lecture starts at 2:00)
okket on Hacker News · 2016-08
In There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)I believe "everything is fields" is indeed a common interpretation. Particles are an unnecessary component we invent because of our familiarity with "stuff" This lecture is long but goes into the everything is fields idea [VIDEO]
brian-armstrong on Hacker News · 2020-02
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