Professor of Theoretical Physics
Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.
Richard Feynman, in a four-part lecture series from 1979, explores the quantum mechanical description of light, addressing foundational questions first posed by Isaac Newton. The series delves into photon behavior, quantum reflection and transmission, and electron-photon interactions within the framework of quantum electrodynamics.
Explore Richard Feynman's insightful perspective on the fundamental principles of computation, examining the interplay of hardware, software, and heuristic problem-solving approaches.
Traces how microscopic time-reversible dynamical laws give rise to macroscopic irreversibility, thermodynamic entropy growth, and a cosmological low-entropy boundary condition.
Contrasts Babylonian empirical reasoning with Euclidean axiomatic deduction to explain why physical laws admit multiple mathematically equivalent formulations with radically different physical intuition.
Richard Feynman explores the indispensable role of mathematics in formulating and comprehending physical laws, detailing how abstract mathematical structures provide the language and framework for natural phenomena. This lecture is part of the Messenger Lectures given at Cornell University.
Physical law, LIGO gravitational waves, singularity topology, and AdS/CFT entanglement
Cornell University · Caltech · University of Oxford +2
