Fundamental physics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (164)
Fundamental physics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 164 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 390 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Physics: classical mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, Feynman lectures, physical law, physics courses, Walter Lewin, Veritasium, physics explainers and demonstrations.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate: “Yeah I really liked the AlphaPheonix video[0] where he actually built the thing in a field and explained the entire effect properly.” — an HN commenter, 2023.
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3 mo on HNIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
3 mo on HNHow are holograms possible?
3 mo on HNHow the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
3 mo on HNRichard Feynman Magnets
3 mo on HNDoug McLean | Common Misconceptions in Aerodynamics
3 mo on HNthe sham legacy of Richard Feynman
3 mo on HNCosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension
3 mo on HNAre Space and Time An Illusion?
3 mo on HNThe Biggest Misconception in Physics
3 mo on HNWhat Happens at the Event Horizon? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
3 mo on HNFeynman: Mirrors FUN TO IMAGINE 6
3 mo on HNHow Electricity Actually Works
3 mo on HNShould Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)
3 mo on HNWhy is the Solar System Flat?
3 mo on HNBackspin Basketball Flies Off Dam
2 mo on HNHow does a whip break the sound barrier? (Slow Motion Shockwave formation) - Smarter Every Day 207
3 mo on HNWhy does light slow down in water?
3 mo on HNThe complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
3 mo on HNLight Waves Visualized using Photon Sieves.
3 mo on HNRisking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
3 mo on HNRoger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85
3 mo on HNLecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)
3 mo on HNTurning Waves Into Particles
3 mo on HNReynolds Number - Numberphile
3 mo on HNThe Maths of General Relativity (1/8) - Spacetime and Worldlines
3 mo on HNA Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
2 mo on HNMagnetohydrodynamics - Propelling Liquid Metal with Magnets!
2 mo on HNThe Scientific Method-Richard Feynman
2 mo on HNFeynman: Take the world from another point of view (1/4)
2 mo on HNEpisode 1: Introduction - The Mechanical Universe
2 mo on HNLecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein
2 mo on HNThe Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
2 mo on HNWhy is Time a One-Way Street?
2 mo on HNThe Strangest Implication of Quantum Mechanics
2 mo on HNFeynman: Magnets FUN TO IMAGINE 4 But see NEW UPDATED file at https://tinyurl.com/ycphc432
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