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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8 mo on HNI bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate
8 mo on HNThe Speed of Light is NOT About Light
7 mo on HNWhy No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
6 mo on HNRichard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)
6 mo on HNHD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (with optional Chinese subtitles)
6 mo on HNA new way to visualize General Relativity
6 mo on HNQuantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong
6 mo on HNThe Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo Rovelli
7 mo on HNHow Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
5 mo on HNThe Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Introduction
6 mo on HNThe Biggest Misconception About Electricity
5 mo on HNWatch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
5 mo on HNFeynman: Magnets (and Why?) FUN TO IMAGINE 4/ higher quality version!
5 mo on HNstring theory lied to us and now science communication is hard
4 mo on HNHow Trees Bend the Laws of Physics
5 mo on HNBut why would light "slow down"? | Visualizing Feynman's lecture on the refractive index
5 mo on HNWhat Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity
5 mo on HNNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
5 mo on HNRichard Feynman. Why.
4 mo on HNRichard Feynman talks about light
4 mo on HNWorld's Roundest Object!
4 mo on HNFeynman: What things really are like FUN TO IMAGINE 1
4 mo on HNNuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2
4 mo on HNMost People Don't Know How Bikes Work
4 mo on HNThe Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
4 mo on HNHow Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time
4 mo on HNA New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion
4 mo on HNStephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89
4 mo on HNHow to Understand What Black Holes Look Like
4 mo on HNGeoffrey West on COMPLEXITY
3 mo on HNHow We're Redefining the kg
4 mo on HNA Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
3 mo on HNThe True Nature of Matter and Mass | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
3 mo on HNRichard Feynman Lecture -- "Los Alamos From Below"
3 mo on HNStephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234
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