What Are the Most Inspiring TED Talks on Physics and the Universe?

Greg Bernhardt · 2015-02-06T15:25:31+00:00

Physics TED Talks Aaron O’Connell: Making Sense of a Visible Quantum Object Amory Lovins: A 40-Year Plan for Energy Andrea Ghez: The Hunt for a Supermassive Black Hole Angela Belcher: Using Nature to Grow Batteries Anil Ananthaswamy: What it Takes to do Extreme Astrophysics AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on Science With Squishy Circuits Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness Boaz Almog “Levitates” a Superconductor Brian Cox: CERN’s Supercollider Brian Cox: What Went Wrong at the Large Hadron Collider Brian Cox: Why We Need the Explorers Brian Greene: Making Sense of String Theory Brian Greene: Why is Our Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn Moon Harbor Life? Carter Emmart Demos a 3D Atlas of the Universe Charles Elachi: The Story of the Mars Rovers Dan Cobley: What Physics Taught Me About Marketing David Deutsch: A New Way to Explain Explanation David Deutsch: Chemical Scum that Dream of Distant quasars David Hoffman: Catch Sputnik Mania! Dimitar Sasselov: How We Found Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets Freeman Dyson: Let’s Look for Life in the Outer Solar System Garik Israelian: What’s Inside a Star? Garrett Lisi: A Theory of Everything George Dyson: Let’s Take a Nuclear-Powered Rocket to Saturn George Smoot: The Design of the Universe Janna Levin: the sound the Universe Makes Jill Tarter: Why the Search for Alien Intelligence Matters John Hodgman: A Brief Digression on Matters of Lost Time Kary Mullis: Celebrating the Scientific Experiment Lee Smolin: How Science is Like Democracy Leonard Susskind: My Friend Richard Feynman Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Truth in Physics Neil Turok: 2008 TED Prize Wish: An African Einstein Nick Veasey: Exposing the Invisible Patricia Burchat: Shedding Light On Dark Matter Richard Dawkins: Why the Universe Seems so Strange Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope Sean Carroll: Distant Time and the Hint of a Multiverse Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its Final Century? Stephen Hawking: Questioning the Universe Stephen Petranek: 10 Ways the World Could End Stephen Wolfram: Computing a Theory of Everything Steve Jurvetson: The Joy of Rockets Steven Cowley: Fusion is Energy’s Future Taylor Wilson: Yup, I Built a Nuclear Fusion Reactor The History of our World in 18 Minutes http://physicsdatabase.com/2013/10/29/ted-universe-on-a-knife-edge/ TEDx Talks “Spooky” Physics: Leo Kouwenhoven “The Art of the Higgs Boson”: Toyoko Orimoto A New Type of Mathematics: David Dalrymple Adam Cochran – The Electronic “Feynman Lectures on Physics” Alex Filippenko at TEDxBerkeley Alexander Szalay – Cosmology: Science in an Exponential World Ana Mourão – “Newton’s Laws on the Roads” Astronomy For Humankind: Kevin Govender Avshalom Elitzur – Too Beautiful Not To Be True Barry Collin – Connecting the Human Universe Changing the Course of the Solar System: Dr. Ed Lu Charles Crawford – The Physics of Diplomacy Charlie Marcus – Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computation Claude Theoret – Measuring Zeitgeist and the Digital Future of Humanities Curiosity and the Search for Life on Mars: Darby Dyer Curtis Wong: WorldWide Telescope Danny Hillis – Reminiscing about Richard Feynman Dario Autiero – The Neutrino Anomaly Dark Matter – What We’re Really Made Of: Michelle Thaller David Awschalom – Abandoning Perfection for the Quantum Age David MacKay – How the Laws of Physics Constrain Our Sustainable Energy Options David Waldeck – Solar Paint Debbie Berebichez – How Physics Gains Insight from Interconnectivity Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch – Quantum Sensitivity Does Colour exist?: Andrew Parker Don Eigler – Moving Atoms, one-by-one Dr Claude Pruneau – The Perfect Liquid Dr. Alex Filippenko – Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe Dr. Francesco Petruccione – Durban: A City Goes Quantum Dr. H. Lee Sawyer – “Can Particle Physics Save the World?” Dr. Maura McLaughlin – The Dark Side Dr. Michael Liu – Telescopes as Time Machines Dr. Tara Shears The God in Small Things Dreams of a Final Theory: Hirosi Ooguri Eleanor Dobson – Inside the Belly of CERN Food Physics: Bill Yosses Forget What You Know: Jacob Barnett Harrison Prosper – Echoes of the Past Higgs Boson, The Kiwi Connection: David Krofcheck How a Nano Country Lands a Nano Spaceship on the Moon: Avi Barliya How a Single Principle of Physics Governs Nature and Society: Adrian Bejan How Einstein Invented GPS: Curvature and Relativity: Andreas Malmendier How the World Works: John L. Casti How to Make a Habitable Planet: Aurora Kesseli How we could teach physics – Dagmara Sokolowska Humanity in the Multiverse: Thomas Hertog In the Beginning was the Code: Juergen Schmidhuber Is There a Fifth Dimension?: Arlie Petters Is There A Need For Fundamental Physics Research in Africa? Jacques Vallée – A Theory of Everything (Else) Jane Rigby – Putting Telescopes into Space Jeremy Darling – Water in the Universe Jim Green – Seven Wonders of the Solar System Joe Jordan – The Solar Window Of Opportunity Jorge Buescu – “The Importance of Useful Mathematics” Karol Wójcicki – Reach for the Stars Krister Shalm – Magic, Dance and Quantum Physics Looking for the Immeasurably Small: Marco Delmastro Mapping the Invisible: Mitzi Vernon Maria Sundin – Water – a Necessity for Life on Earth and other Planets Matters of Our Universe: Abhishek Kumar Meenakshi Narain Ph.D. – Journey to the Early Universe Michael Doser – The Return Of Antimatter Michael Nielsen – Open Science Michelle Borkin – Astronomical Medicine Michelle Feynman and Christopher Sykes – Fun to Imagine Music, Physics, Shapes in Nature and Why we Like Music: Yuri Landman Nadine Dabby – Programming Molecular Robots Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack – Changing The World Through A Shared Cosmology Nanomaterials: The Science of the Small by Stefan Bon Natthi Sharma: Making Sense of the Weird Quantum Reality Neutrinos, Einstein, Time and Paradox: Tom Weiler Paul Counsel – The Physics of Consciousness Paula Apsell with David Pogue, NOVA, The Fabric of the Cosmos Phil Plait – An Asteroid Impact Can Ruin Your Whole Day. And Your Species Phillip Christopher-Manipulating Atoms for Your Everyday Life Physicist Who Studies Any or All Subjects of Interest around Him: Beom Jun Kim http://physicsdatabase.com/2013/06/16/tedx-physics-meets-wall-street/ Priyamvada Natarajan- Unraveling the Dark Side of the Universe Professor Dorit Aharonov — A Feldenkrais Lesson for the Beginner Scientist Quantum Computation: Michelle Simmons Quantum Leap Mechanics and Magic – Driving Innovation in Education: Marshall Monroe Quantum Life: How Physics Can Revolutionise Biology by Jim Al-Khalili Reaching for the Moon – Creating a Multi-Planet Civilization: Robert Richards Rosario Mantegna – On Using Physics to Understand Economic Complexities Rudy Rucker – Beyond Machines: The Year 3000 S. George Djorgovski – Evolving Science and Technology in Cyber Space Salon 2012 – Ryszard Stroynowski Sandra Faber – Our Cosmic Past, our Cosmic Future Sanjoy Mahajan – Rote Learning Fragments the World Scott Aaronson – Physics in the 21st Century: Toiling in Feynman’s Shadow Sean Carroll – Cosmology and the Arrow of Time Simon Fölling – Quantum Simulations Siphons in the Skies: Stephen Hughes Sir Roger Penrose – Space-Time Geometry and a New Cosmology Space Archaeology: Alice Gorman Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Rives, Kip Thorne: Finding Things Out String Cosmology: Study of the Universe Surviving the Outer Limits: Life in Saturated Salt by Amy Schmid Suzanne Hobbs Baker – Art & Nuclear Energy http://physicsdatabase.com/2013/11/06/tedx-tamara-davis/ TEDxAmsterdam – Gerardus ‘t Hooft TEDxWarwick – Jay Lakhani TEDxYouth@Manchester – Ian Morison Thad Roberts – Visualizing Eleven Dimensions The Crossroads of Space Exploration: Dr. James R. Webb The Discovery of the God Particle – Big Bang to Big Data: Kyle Cranmer The End of the World As We Know It The Future of Asteroid Exploration: Parv Patel The Future of Consciousness: Stuart Hameroff The Geometry of Particle Physics: Garrett Lisi The Micro Frontier: Benjamin Allanach The Particle Physicist Next Door: Pearl Sandick The universe: Fred Watson The Wonder of Solar Eclipses: Joel Harris Theoretical Cosmology: Andreas Albrecht There is Certainty in Uncertainty: Brian Schmidt Tommaso Dorigo & Peter Woit – Universe Dissectors Tony Hey – Feynman and Computation Wade Adams – Nanotechnology and Energy War, Poverty and Radio Astronomy: Justin Jonas What is a Physicist Doing in the Jungle?: Ille Gebeshuber What Would You Say to an Extraterrestrial? – Douglas Vakoch Why India Should Be Proud Of Vedic Maths : Gaurav Tekriwal Will Asteroids End the World: Dante Lauretta Zvi Bern – Feynman Diagrams: Past, Present, Future