in Experimental Particle Physics from Rice University.ĭr. He is also a Guest Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Notre Dame. And who wants live in a dark cave all their life?!ĭon Lincoln is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). Some of them are by necessity some of the most well-known ones, but they are needed for context, and then now and then there are some crucial ones that are not as commonly shared in popular treatments. Given the vast history of scientific and philosophical discoveries, insights and also 'wrong turns', I'm impressed at how Prof Lincoln manages to pick just the very illuminating ones without losing the big picture, instead highlighting the big picture. Enough to hang a new hook in your mind to which further insights can be hung, but you're not hanging a faulty hook on the wrong wall that you later need to take down. Prof Lincoln does simplify but not without throwing away anything of fundamental value. Lincoln impresses me primarily for two things:ġst: 80/20 principle: When I put in the time to learn something/consume information, I absolutely want to know that what I'm spending time learning is not something I subsequently have to unlearn, as it's pure wrong, or too much of a false approximation. This is a wonderfully cogent journey to a 'less false' picture of what reality really is. Not too deep, Not too shallow: Just right! Should you spend a couple of hours listening/watching this series? Lincoln will provide it in nice sized 30 minute lectures. And there is the major reason why we don’t have a theory of everything, But if you want a great overview of this complex subject, Dr. Unfortunately, we don’t know much about how gravity works. The theory of everything would include all the forces, strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravity, and all the particles to explain the universe. After discussing all the particles, he gets to the Big Bang and discusses gravity and the universe. He has a sense of humor he calls geek humor. Lincoln makes his lectures interesting and understandable with lots of charts, mentions of famous physicists who contributed to the discoveries, and all the theories. But these particles are made up of smaller particles that can be detected. All I knew going into it was tthat there are atoms, a nucleus, protons, neutrons, snd electrons. Lincoln is an expert on this subject ! He works as an experimental physicist with the particle collider.
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