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Cosmic Concepts

Professor Katherine Blundell OBE · Gresham College

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About

This talk will explain how the speed of light was first measured, and how an obscure but brilliant patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland by the name of Albert Einstein deduced that the speed of light is the upper speed limit for everything in the Universe.

Lectures

  1. Faster than Light? 2019-10-02 · YouTube
  2. Frozen in Time? 2019-10-23 · YouTube
  3. The End of Matter? 2019-11-20 · YouTube
  4. Shapes of Free Fall 2020-01-29 · YouTube
  5. Simple Laws, Spectacular Astrophysics 2020-03-04 · YouTube
  6. Perceptions, Expectations, and Discoveries 2020-05-20 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Katherine Blundell OBE
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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