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If you are interested in physics and have not seen Dr. Feynman's 7-part lecture series entitled The Character of Physical Law, you really owe it to yourself to watch them in their entirety [1]. The site's interface has some neat features, such as links into the transcript and notes related to the topic being discussed.

Dr. Feynman delivered these lectures as part of the "Messenger Lectures" [2] series at Cornell University in 1964:

Lecture 1: Law of Gravitation - An Example of Physical Law

Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics

Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles

Lecture 4: Symmetry in Physical Law

Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future

Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty - The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature

Lecture 7: Seeking New Laws

[1] Requires SilverLight: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_Lectures




Fortunately they're also on youtube, if you - like me - either don't like silverlight or you can't install it on your computer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-JKAHaml7A




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