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The Concept of Mass - With Jim Baggott

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This course explores changing scientific ideas about the nature of matter, from ancient Greek atoms and chemistry to quantum field theory, the Standard Model, and the Higgs boson.

Syllabus

Intro
My mission
The ancient Greeks
The chemists
Ice
Atoms
Mission Update
A Mess
Tom Stoppard
Einstein and Bohr
Quantum waves
Massless particles
What do we do
We cant accelerate
The Higgs Field
Theoretical Physics
Higgs Field
Higgs Boson
Standard Model
The Problem
Quatermass
Quantum chromodynamics
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The Royal Institution

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