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His quantum mechanics lecture on YouTube at the Royal Society I think, is a masterpiece. Some very interesting facts, mostly about what we don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

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I like that he sees that we haven't made progress (in 10 years or now 20) and likely won't. He doesn't delve into the silliness that a lot of pop-sci particle physicists have. It's all well beyond me, but I've always wondered why the inertial Higgs mass seems also to be gravitational in addition to all the binding energy mass, which is inherently relativistic. Whether that's (presumably not based on his comments) related to "dark matter" is the other sort of cosmological connection. Nice review.

The Royal Institution - based around the corner from the Royal Society and the scientific home to Michael Faraday but these days is mostly about science communication.

They're celebrating 200 years of the Christmas Lectures and Discourses this year, both started by Faraday.

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