Written by John Lounsbury
Cambridge physics professor David Tong delivers a lecture for the non-physicist explaining how our current understanding of the universe has been developed. When finished, you will understand the general nature of such things as photons, quantum mechanics, quarks and quantum fields – and have been well entertained in the process.
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Tong lectures in the same hall and from the same lecture desk as Michael Farday did nearly 200 years ago. In fact his presentation is one in a continuing series of Friday lectures started by Faraday at Trinity College, Cambridge, and known as the “Faraday Lectures”.
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