Informal History of Physics

It's a warm summer evening in ancient Greece...

This guy got his PhD in physics when he was 21 years old!

It is amazing that in a short time so many things are discovered and more or less understood. It is a miracle that i can lay on the couch with my laptop listening to one of the most brilliant scientist telling me all about it. We live in a somewhat troubled golden age that i wish more people could enjoy.

What a masterpiece of a post, please continue !

This is the 2nd time I watch this video. On my first watch, being foreign to the sciences, I was totally lost. On my re/watch, after consuming many smaller videos on the particulars, I was able to enjoy the talk MUCH more! Thank you so much for sharing a chronological development of physics in a consumable manner! It was very helpful to my understanding!

Thank you so much! Please continue posting, the way you present material is very intuitive and immensely useful.

Thank you Stephen Wolfram for your astonishing work. I discovered you through lex fridmans podcast amd have relistened to those podcasts several times. Ive been through your and your colleagues 2018 (i think) hypergraphic analysis of euclids geometry. Dazzling! Ive got A new kind of science at the ready on my table. I just need to do a few weeks of push ups and yoga to be able to lift it up without straining my back. In addition to your wonderful insights two things i have appreciated in your work have been: your comment about intellectual self confidence being instrumental to your elaboration and integrarion of your own ideas toward their coherence and explanatory power. I also appreciate your genuine enthusiasm for and gifts of explanation. Bravo and many thanks

Mr Wolfram, you're the man. Please keep up the amazing work you're doing and please keep telling us about it. I just watched your presentation on "Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics" at the Royal Institution and I was really impressed and I would like to know everything about your project and how it is going into the future.

Absolutely loving these talks. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and work!

I like the way Wolfram talks, it's very precise and clear.

What a wonderful talk, particularly enjoyable listening to nowadays ie during lock down in London.

Physics is such a difficult subject but I followed this because you are a very good teacher.

This is incredible that Stephen is able to give an entire history of physics with no notes or anything. What a genius.

I very much enjoy your posts, videos, I know so little and then it’s a matter of retrieval you’re doing it Beautifully!

Thank you so very much for this!

Very good, thorough lecture on the history of physics! I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention Niels Bohr though. He was one of the pioneers and chief architects of quantum theory and was the first to explain the stability of atoms as well as the spectrum of hydrogen. You also didn't mention the EPR paradox and quantum entanglement, or Bose-Einstein condensates. But I guess it's next too impossible to cover all the important developments in the history of physics! Good job!

Happy to see your views and discuss further the physics and math with you. :)

This is phenomenal stuff Stephen! It seems to me very very few people have your breadth of knowledge when it comes to physics and it’s history

wow! thankyou painting my veranda listening to this wonderful man share his knowledge. reliving my high school physics and more.

Thanks Stephen!