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Series · Fermilab
Fermilab · Don Lincoln and colleagues
Short, precise episodes from Fermilab, many with Don Lincoln: what quantum mechanics is really about, entanglement, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics, quantum field theory and quantum foam, plus a look inside the lab's quantum-computing and networking work.
Lecture · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Nima Arkani-Hamed · 2014
One of the most original theorists working today on why quantum mechanics and gravity together suggest that spacetime itself may not be fundamental. Delivered at Perimeter Institute in November 2014; demanding in places, exhilarating throughout.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · David Tong · 2017
Cambridge's David Tong explains why the fundamental ingredients of the universe are fields, not particles, and how a handful of quantum fields in the Standard Model produce everything you can see. The perfect overture to Chapter 25.
Demo · CERN
CERN
CERN's own three-and-a-half-minute 3D animation of ALPHA-g: antihydrogen made from positrons and antiprotons inside the ALPHA atom trap, then dropped to see which way it falls. It shows the machinery behind the 2023 result that closes this section.
Lecture · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Netta Engelhardt
A Perimeter public lecture on Hawking's puzzle of whether information ever escapes a black hole, given by one of the physicists this section credits with the 2019 Page-curve calculations. The natural sequel to the 2018 PBS briefing video, which ends before that work.
Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermilab's eight-minute report on the 2025 final result of the Muon g-2 experiment, the anomaly this section uses as a case study in science correcting itself. Note that the measurement itself held steady; as the section explains, the anomaly largely faded because lattice QCD brought the theoretical prediction into line with it.
Series · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Various speakers
Thirty evening talks from the Royal Institution's lecture theatre in London, where Faraday once lectured: quantum fields, quantum biology, sensors, the quantum internet and the meaning of it all. Pick any one; each stands alone.
Explainer · YouTube
Quanta Magazine
Cambridge physicist David Tong assembles the Standard Model piece by piece, starting from fields and ending with the questions it cannot answer, which is exactly the arc of this session. Watch for how each new force appears as a new field, and note the channel's own correction: at 13:50 the animation leaves the photon out of the force carriers, but the narration has it right.
Explainer · YouTube
PBS Space Time
Matt O'Dowd sets out why Hawking radiation seems to destroy information and why that collides with quantum mechanics. It dates from 2018, so pair it with Part 6, which brings the story up to the 2019 Page-curve calculations.
Explainer · YouTube
ScienceClic English
An animated tour that starts from the question behind this section, how to reconcile relativity with quantum mechanics, and pictures particles as excitations of fields that fill space. It also asks what spin is and where electric charge comes from, questions that return with Dirac's equation in Part 2 and the Standard Model in Part 4.