The World According to Physics - with Jim Al-Khalili
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Published 2020-04-23
Jim’s book ‘The World According to Physics’ is available now: geni.us/tthctKn
Jim Al-Khalili has presented The Life Scientific on Radio 4 since 2011. Although his ‘day job’ is as an academic professor of physics at the University of Surrey, where he also has a chair in the public engagement in science, he has achieved wider prominence as a public scientist, author and broadcaster. He has fronted a number of radio and television documentaries, mainly on BBC4, including Chemistry: A Volatile History, which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2010.
This digital lecture was recorded on 8 April 2020 using Webinarjam.
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All Comments (21)
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As the lockdown began in the UK at the end of March we tried to find new ways of still bringing you excellent science talks. Here's our first attempt at doing this remotely with the help of our good friend and jolly good sport Jim Al-Khalili. We hope you enjoy.
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My favorite physicist. What a natural teacher 👏👏👏
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I've learnt more physics from Sir Jim then my school life. ❤️ From India
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15:52 The Unification of Physics in one slide 🤩
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Ah! Jim Al-Khalili! This is going to be good
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I'll never forget watching Jim's Atom miniseries. Totally blew me away. I've been a fan ever since.
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Jim Al-Khalili is simply the best science educator today.
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Jim, we love you. Stay safe!
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Huge fan of Jim Very glad you didn’t cancel this and he still did a lecture
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This was most enjoyable. I watched with some young friends of mine. All of us were inspired to add to our objective understanding of the Universe and our place in it. Bravo, Jim Al-Khalili, for your humour, your insight and your depth of knowledge.
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“ In an ocean of the unknown “ - - brilliant ! , it totally incapsulates what we Don’t know about everything around us .
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I love science and the public dissemination of it. The work of Prof. Al-Khalili and a few others play a big part in my retired life. My best hope is that one day I shall die learning something, life will be complete.
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Always an immeasurable privilege to hear from you, Professor Al-Khalili. Thank you so much for such a rich opportunity.
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Just began to read this amazing “The world according to physics”！Thank you
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Jim was my quantim physics amd maths lecturer at uni in the 90s.
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"I really enjoyed making this Powerpoint slide" - Now there's a first! :) Always a pleasure to listen to Jim.
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I just infinitely, immeasurably, impossibly love that quote"no religion no meditatation no philosophy no prayer will tell you that but physics can do that.
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The applause from The R.I. hall at the end was a nice touch.
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Thanks Prof Al-Khalili!!!! My applause 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 after many years of my brain in mothballs, your awesome BBC "Chemistry: A Volatile History" got me totally hooked on science! Thanks for my new adventure.
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Professor Jim. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you and your lectures. We don’t fully understand quantum mechanics yet but we’re working on it thanks so much for your very enjoyable lectures
