The First Three Minutes Course Webpage
Meeting Notes and slides
- Welcome email
- Week 1 email, slides, notes
- Week 2 email, slides, notes
- Pure energy email, 1/21/2021
- Week3 email, slides, notes
- Week4 email, slides, notes
- Week5 email, slides, notes
- Week6 email, slides, notes
- Week7 email, slides, note
- Week8 email, slides, notes
- Week9 email, slides
- Week10 email, slides, notes
Course Information
- Course Information and syllabus
- Zoom link for all meetings here
- Couse lexicon
Supplementary Reading
- Recent paper by Steven Weinberg on the state of particle theory here
- Memo about combining electromagnetic waves to make pulses and the relationship to photons
- The Hooker 100″ telescope on Mt. Wilson
- “The Inflationary Universe” by Alan Guth here
- The Great Debate here
- Review article about Hubble and cosmic expansion
- Robert Wilson’s 1978 Nobel Prize lecture with lots of detail here
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn
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Constructing Quarks, Pickering
- The Curious Observer’s Guide to Quantum Mechanics here
- Cygnus Black Hole gets heavier here
- Hubble constant crisis here
- Murray Gell-Mann on the Beauty of Physics here
Blogs
- physics buzz: http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com
- Not even wrong: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
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Backreaction: http://backreaction.blogspot.com