Ryan Tomayko

Beauty and truth in physics —

Murray Gell-Mann’s (quarks, Nobel prize winner, peer to Feynman at Caltech) TEDtalk from 2007 on the relationship between beauty (simplicity) and truth in science and mathematics:

What is especially striking is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

He goes on to give a bunch of anecdotes that show this playing out over and over during the development of particle physics.

Primer (2004) —

In honor of the greatest xkcd ever, this is Primer in its entirety. It really is that fucked up.

Richard Feynman: Take the world from another point of view —

One of the better pieces on Feynman I’ve seen. First aired February 2, 1975 on NOVA. I know what I’ll be watching on the Muni for the next few days :)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine —

“One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman…” — need I excerpt more?

PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum —

The second way to teach quantum mechanics.

A Brain Cell is the Same as the Universe —

Space goes inward.

Feynman Interview: The pleasure of finding things out —

Nice little Feynman short on google video. Feynman talking, Feynman painting, Feynman being the complete bad-ass that only Feynman can be… I can’t get enough of him.

Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? —

It’s impossible for diffuse flames (jet fuel, paper, office stuff) to reach temperatures needed to melt steel. This guy thinks there were thermite charges in the buildings.

Space Time - Relativity, Quantum Physics and the Universe

Nikola Tesla (Wikipedia) —

Tesla’s wikipedia entry. I’ve been wanting to read up on him for some time now.

Einstein's Big Idea - E = mc2 Explained —

Audio excerpts from recent PBS/NOVA program celebrating “E = mc2”

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory —

Bwwwhhahahahaaaa

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman —

Holy crap a new Feynman book! Published by his daughter.

MP3s and PDFs of Feynman Lectures —

There’s a ton of stuff in here.

Black Hole created in Lab? —

holy shit

Tim Bandits - What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? —

Yea, this is the coolest thing I’ve read in a long time. Tim: let me borrow that “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book – I’ll tear that shit up in a night, I swear…