Veritasium Videos we all want (maybe)

[TensorCalculus]

On my current "I hope Veritasium makes a video on this" list (just recently crossed out principle of least action and alphafold lol):
-> Riemann Hypothesis
-> Noether's theorem
-> Maxwell's equations
-> String theory
-> Loop quantum gravity
-> Standard Model
-> Deep Learning
-> Kepler's laws (simple but very fun)
-> Microsoft's new "revolutionary" quantum computer Majorana 1 - potentially?
(any others?)

 

[fresh_42]

You can read about the RH here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/the-extended-riemann-hypothesis-and-ramanujans-sum/
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/the-history-and-importance-of-the-riemann-hypothesis/
and about Kepler's laws on Wikipedia which isn't bad.

Your list is quite ambitious for a video and I doubt that it will be anything else than an illusion of any insight. Even Maxwell's equations, which are comparably simple in the light of the others are all but trivial. Hawking once called them the most important equations in physics.

 

[Hornbein]

I once picked up a book on progress toward the Riemann hypothesis. I couldn't even understand the first page.

Professor Littlewood made some progress. He seemed to think it was false. "I see no reason it should be true" said he.

John Nash gave a lecture about the Reimann hypothesis that exposed him as nuts.

I like to think that at the Multiverse Mathematical Conference they say to the Earth representative, "aren't you from that place where the Reimann hypothesis appears to be true? I hear that men there go crazy trying to prove it."

 

[FranzS]

For the Riemann hypothesis, check out all the videos by YouTube channel "zetamath". Best explanation I could find! Hope he resume the series.
For special & general relativity, as well as for other physics-related topics, I recently discovered "Floathead physics", again on YouTube. He really pushes your intuition and ofter refers to Feynman lectures.

 

[TensorCalculus]

Your list is quite ambitious for a video and I doubt that it will be anything else than an illusion of any insight.

True, but he has covered topics which could be considered more complex than just the basic physics you might learn at say, high school - though this is from me, who hasn't studied physics past undergrad at all. These are all topics that I know about (and for things like kepler's laws use very frequently) but am quite curious as to how Derek would approach adapting them to a more wide audience (like he did for something like principle of least action... kind of...?)

For the Riemann hypothesis, check out all the videos by YouTube channel "zetamath". Best explanation I could find! Hope he resume the series.

I'm also a fan of 3 blue 1 brown's explanation - short but I think it's really understandable! I'll take a look though - sounds great :D