Quantum Biology: Tunneling and Coherence in Living Cells
Examines experimental evidence for proton quantum tunneling in enzymatic catalysis, excitonic coherence in photosynthesis, and radical-pair magnetoreception in birds.
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The Big Picture: Poetic Naturalism from the Core Theory to Consciousness
Connects effective quantum field theory, thermodynamic entropy, Bayesian epistemology, and emergent agency into a coherent naturalist worldview.
The Physics and Philosophy of Time
Explains why a single universal 'now' vanishes in general relativity and loop quantum gravity, and how thermal coarse-graining gives rise to macroscopic time.
If Brains Are Computers, Who Designs the Software?
Argues that Darwinian natural selection and cultural memes build 'competence without comprehension,' assembling human conscious reflection from sub-personal neural processes.
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Physical Reality
Asymptotic freedom Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek distills modern physics into space, time, few elementary fields, gauge symmetry, complementarity, and cosmic history.
The Bioenergetic and Electrical Origins of Life
Explains how natural proton gradients across alkaline hydrothermal vents could drive prebiotic carbon fixation and give rise to chemiosmotic ATP synthesis across all life.
Faculty & visiting speakers at Royal Institution
13Professors, researchers, and invited lecturers recorded at Royal Institution.
Frank Ashwood
Soil Ecologist
2 lectures
Saiful Islam
Professor of Materials Chemistry
2 lectures
Carlo Rovelli
Centre de Physique Théorique, Aix-Marseille University
1 lecture
Daniel C. Dennett
University Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
1 lecture
David J. Chalmers
University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, NYU
1 lecture
Frank Wilczek
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics & Nobel Laureate, MIT
1 lecture
Jim Al-Khalili
Distinguished Chair in Theoretical Physics, University of Surrey
1 lecture
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
1 lecture
Josh Horton
PhD Student
1 lecture
Kit Yates
Associate Professor of Mathematical Biology
1 lecture
Maria Violaris
Quantum Physicist
1 lecture
Nick Lane
Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry, University College London
1 lecture
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Chemical Principles, Bioenergetics & Morphogenesis
Quantum orbitals, proton gradients, bioelectric patterning, and paleogenomics
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Quantum Fields, Cosmic Inflation & the Arrow of Time
Relativistic fields, Noether symmetries, early-universe inflation, and entropy
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