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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1 mo on HNGrace Hopper on Letterman
1 mo on HNMy Video Got 2 Companies Shut Down! (And even worse negative ion products)
1 mo on HNHow to Detect Extra Dimensions
1 mo on HNRichard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture - aka "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
1 mo on HNlevitating frog
1 mo on HNThe Universe is Hostile to Computers
1 mo on HNWhy is light slower in glass? - Sixty Symbols
1 mo on HNDoes the Past Still Exist?
1 mo on HNPutin's new Russian MHD weapons explained (1st part)
1 mo on HNHow anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction
1 mo on HNHitting the Sun is HARD
1 mo on HNLaser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement
1 mo on HNWhat keeps a train on the track?
1 mo on HNImaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar
1 mo on HNFeynman: 'Greek' versus 'Babylonian' mathematics
1 mo on HNTMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)
1 mo on HNSelf-filling water bottle: BUSTED!
1 mo on HNThe artificial gravity lab
1 mo on HNCan A Metal Bowling Ball Survive Inside a Nuclear Explosion?
1 mo on HNFreeman Dyson - Fermi's rejection of our work (94/157)
1 mo on HNThe Extreme World of Ultra Intense Lasers - with Kate Lancaster
1 mo on HNCalculating a Car Crash - Numberphile
1 mo on HNRichard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
1 mo on HNCould The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
1 mo on HNThe Surprising Secret of Synchronization
1 mo on HNDropping Things Into The Sun is Hard....
1 mo on HNIs the Universe a Simulation? | 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
1 mo on HNFeynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7
1 mo on HNWhy Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
0 mo on HNSuperheating of water (Mythbusters)
0 mo on HNThe problems with Helion Energy - a response to Real Engineering
0 mo on HNWhite holes and wormholes are probably real. Here's why.
0 mo on HNFilming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS
0 mo on HNSpinlaunch: BUSTED!
0 mo on HNSynchronization of Metronomes
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