The Physics of Black Holes - with Chris Impey
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Published 2019-08-21
Buy Chris' book "Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes" : geni.us/NL3M8Hu
Chris Impey explores the questions this profound discovery can help answer and the role black holes have played in theoretical physics.
Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor and deputy head of the astronomy department at the University of Arizona. His research has been supported by $18 million in grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation, and he has had 24 projects given time on astronomy's premier research facility, the Hubble Space Telescope.
This talk was filmed in the Ri on 9 May 2019.
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All Comments (21)
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I feel like I've watched enough videos about black holes by now, but somehow they keep pulling me in.
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"Research is what i do, when i don't know what to do" I'm currently unemployed watching this at 5am!! love it!!!!
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You are a born lecturer. At last I have stumbled on someone I can listen to learn and understand astronomy.
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THIS is how you give a lecture. No lip smacking and βuuhhβsβ. Well done, concise and understandable. Thankyou!
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Chris Impey has a gift for conveying information. Granted there's no math here , but the concepts are dealt with in such a way as to make them completely accessible. What a fantastic lecture, and what a fantastic lecturer.
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Like others have said, I hate when I start watching these RI talks late at night. I end up staying up most of the night. I enjoy them that much!
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Good luck finding it now but Chris Impey's Essential Astronomy series of lectures is one of the modt fascinating things ive ever seen
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I love how he uses such rare words in almost a nonchalant manner, yet I have to go and google these words to see the intricately layered meaning behind them. BlasΓ©, quiescent.. to name a few. This man is a treasure!
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Thank you so much for uploading these Videos
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10^100 years. We had a good run.
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fantastic lecture. also, that's the first time I've seen Hawking's grave. what an absolutely perfect, badass tribute - and such a flex, that you're so synonymous with black holes that you get to put one on your headstone.
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A great lecture - one of those where almost every word went over my head, yet I was still absolutely captivated. Bravo Mr Impey π
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What an amazing lecture! Many thanks for the upload.
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Now I know why time passes so slowly when sitting next to my mother-in-law.
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This is easily the best lecture I've seen on black holes... and more. I think it's because it's easy to understand!
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Fantastic lecture. Thanks Ri
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This guy is great! I learned several new things about black holes and I've been reading about them for decades.
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Lovely! Thank you for providing this video.
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What an amazing lecture! Thanks for sharing this video, giving me the opportunity to learn a bit more about black holes and it's mysterious properties with a great talk by Chris Impey.
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The best science talk Iβve seen in 50 years.
