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Conversations About Science with Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler

I believe deeply that science is one of the world’s great spectator sports, and should be a source of joy and excitement for every human being.

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An awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all.

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If you’re curious to know what my book is about and why it’s called “Waves in an Impossible Sea”, then watching this video is currently the quickest and most direct way to find out from me personally. It’s a public talk that I gave to a general audience at Harvard, part of the Harvard Bookstore […]

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ON 11/04/2024

On my recent trip to CERN, the lab that hosts the Large Hadron Collider, I had the opportunity to stop by the CERN control centre [CCC]. There the various particle accelerator operations are managed by accelerator experts, who make use of a host of consoles showing all sorts of data. I’d not been to the […]

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ON 10/30/2024

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