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There are physical and philosophical secrets of time remaining unsolved.

The Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo Rovelli

The Royal Institution

Jun 13, 2018

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rWqJhDv7M
  • 54m53s

Q&A The Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo Rovelli

The Royal Institution

Jun 13, 2018

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXcu0BlbTrM
  • 29m34s

Carlo Rovelli

Roger Penrose explains his ideas of signals from before the big bang and conformal cyclic cosmology.

"Are we Seeing Signals from Before the Big Bang?" - Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS

Oxford University Scientific Society

Jan 30, 2014

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npmDbbGbSoE
  • 1h29m45s

Jerome Gauntlett invites to a journey from the fundamental laws of nature to black holes.

Quote (12:52): And one of the most stunning predictions it [Einsteins theory] makes is that there exist black holes.

Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Physics - with Jerome Gauntlett

The Royal Institution

Oct 26, 2017

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKp1XeEF74
  • 1h02m33s

Q&A - Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Physics - with Jerome Gauntlett

The Royal Institution

Oct 26, 2017

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GZRt8kIdVE
  • 11m20s

Jerome Gauntlett

Max Tegmark about our understanding of the universe:

Our Mathematical Universe with Max Tegmark

The Royal Institution

Oct 8, 2014

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3UxvycpqYo
  • 45m08s

Adam Smith in an interview with Roger Penrose about his work in the 1960s which resulted in winning the nobel prize:

Roger Penrose: "I had this strange feeling of elation"

Nobel Prize

Oct 6, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bmJalWKTj8
  • 11m47s

Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize

Oct 6, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFKNDVmx6k
  • 36m46s

All Nobel Prizes 2020

Seven Millenium Problems - one is solved. Six more are open challenges, each a chance to win one million dollars. Tom Crawford explains these problems.

The Million Dollar Equations - with Tom Crawford

The Royal Institution

Sep 17, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f251NkeDVB8
  • 1h11m39s

Tom Crawford - Million Dollar Equations - Q&A

The Royal Institution

Sep 7, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFc7kGfLSIc
  • 15m28s

Tom Rocks Maths

Nobel laureate and member in the Order of Merit Sir Roger Penrose in an interview at *The Royal Institution*:

Black Holes, Symmetries and Impossible Triangles - In Conversation with Roger Penrose

The Royal Institution

Dec 9, 2021

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYRti8ZU5s8
  • 1h09m48s

Edmund Copeland is a researcher at the University of Nottingham. While his professional focus is theoretical physics and cosmology, he has got a passion for numbers, too.

An A-Class Reject (with Ed Copeland) - Numberphile Podcast

Numberphile2

Feb 21, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1gBpcwAmNg
  • 1h04m18s

WP: Edmund Copeland

Tara Shears about antimatter in modern physics:

Tara Shears - Antimatter: Why the anti-world matters

The Royal Institution

Oct 18, 2013

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fy6oiIRwJc
  • 59m41s

WP: Tara Shears

Roger Penrose about his conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) model of the universe.

Sir Roger Penrose: New Cosmological View of Dark Matter, which Strangely and Slowly Decays

Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination

Feb 1, 2018

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSMME-Cl5g
  • 1h15m02s

Dark matter is still one of the big riddles of our time.

What is dark matter? – with Peter Fisher

The Royal Institution

Jan 5, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMOHLZtYLM
  • 56m46s

Q&A: What is dark matter? – with Peter Fisher

The Royal Institution

Jan 4, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM3X06fRNhM
  • 26m42s

WP: Peter H. Fisher

Can we still have an open discussion in academia about controversial topics? This is becoming an important question in modern society. The culture of debate is moving towards a dogmatic principle sometimes.

The new politics of gender identity | Kathleen Stock

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Mar 14, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhndRR4vF0
  • 24m19s

WP: Kathleen Stock

How do we define latitude and longitude on the surface of the earth? And what is happening with the reference meridian?

The Greenwich Meridian is in the wrong place

Stand-up Maths

Aug 2, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB5xuAhrkWE
  • 25m06s

Matt Parker
WP: Matt Parker
Steve Mould
WP: Steve Mould

WP: Geographic coordinate system
WP: Meridian
WP: Longitude
WP: Latitude

This talk is about the early rapid expansion of the cosmos: the idea of inflation and its connection to the universe how we observe it today.

Cosmic inflation: is it how the universe began? - with David Mulryne

The Royal Institution

Aug 31, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmkHQ9zNm8k
  • 1h07m17s

Q&A: Cosmic inflation: is it how the universe began? - with David Mulryne

The Royal Institution

Aug 24, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm24V0Q2p5E
  • 21m43s

Dr David Mulryne

A little journey through the world of mathematics:

Thinking better with mathematics – with Marcus du Sautoy

The Royal Institution

Mar 24, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PlmsnyWXMw
  • 54m32s

Q&A: Thinking better with mathematics – with Marcus du Sautoy

The Royal Institution

Mar 16, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hRPW0m1k2A
  • 33m41s

WP: Marcus du Sautoy

Old footage from 2000-05-24: Sir Timothy Gowers about the importance of mathematics:

Timothy Gowers, The importance of mathematics

Clay Mathematics Institute

Apr 5, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQHbdi8A0p8
  • 59m40s

CMI
WP: Clay Mathematics Institute

Today we recall an one hour Numberphile podcast with Sir Roger Penrose:

Why Did The Mathematician Cross The Road? - with Roger Penrose

Numberphile2

Aug 8, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiDWGbsVEno
  • 1h05m17s

What is gravity? How does it connect to other forces of nature? How does it control the universe? There are still scientific mysteries and unsolved problems around.

Solving the secrets of gravity - with Claudia de Rham

The Royal Institution

Jun 4, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MN64JlsMw
  • 1h01m17s

WP: Claudia de Rham

Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem:

The Man Who Solved the World’s Hardest Math Problem

Newsthink

Jun 29, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ev1lGq0B4
  • 11m13s

WP: Fermat's Last Theorem
WP: Andrew Wiles

Richard Dawkins in an interview with Lex Fridman:

Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes | Lex Fridman Podcast #87

Lex Fridman

Apr 10, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-JlzBuUUU
  • 1h07m20s

Richard Dawkins
WP: Richard Dawkins

Roger Penrose in a movie length interview with Lex Fridman about consciousness, conformal cyclic cosmology and incompleteness of quantum mechanics.

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Lex Fridman

Mar 31, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0
  • 1h27m56s

WP: Conformal cyclic cosmology

Roger Penrose explains his proposal and idea of conformal cyclic cosmology.

Roger Penrose | The Next Universe and Before the Big Bang | Nobel Prize in Physics winner

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Jul 24, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjwnjR0apY
  • 29m52s

Roger Penrose proposes the idea of conformal cyclic cosmology where our universe is just an aeon. This is an alternative to the big bang theory. There is a chance that empirical evidence is hidden in available data.

Roger Penrose | Gravity, Hawking Points and Twistor Theory

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Jun 28, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gl8pwY2kW8
  • 43m13s

Conformal cyclic cosmology
Twistor theory

Astronomer Chris Impey gives a talk about black holes

The Physics of Black Holes - with Chris Impey

The Royal Institution

Aug 21, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roM1QPr8lNo
  • 53m40s

Q&A: The Physics of Black Holes - with Chris Impey

The Royal Institution

Aug 21, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X8YAv3kErI
  • 25m25s

Chris Impey
WP: Chris Impey

Timothy Gowers gives a talk about the concept of generalization in mathematics, followed by an interview session with Hannah Fry.

Productive generalization - Timothy Gowers

Oxford Mathematics

Nov 21, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SD9eNNdaE
  • 1h28m31s