Cosmology | Lecture 1

Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on Cosmology. Recorded January 13, 2009 at Stanford University.

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fifth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

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http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• science
• physics
• Big
• Bang
• theory
• space-time
• geometry
• inflation
• dark
• matter
• energy
• cosmological
• constant
• expansion
• galaxy
• doppler
• shift
• relativity
• alice
• bob
• frequency
• Hubble
• homogeneity
• isotropy
• velocity
• of
• recession

[TheisticThinker]

I love Cosmology, maybe I want to become a Cosmologist, it is awesome that I as a 17 teen year old can study this before I learn the time when I would start study it in a University. With this you can be very prepared.

[Sweetiethemane222]

Wow why do I feel so dumb.

[ColossusShade]

what are the prerequisites for a class like this?

[MrAlienpirate]

daaa fuck ??? im confussssled }=/

[starhawks1]

@TheisticThinker watching youtube isn't going to do shit for you

[starhawks1]

@TheGeneralBurn nobody gives a fuck...if you could get an A in this class I'd be impressed, just because you watch a youtube video doesn't make you a college student

[DancingMaskProphet]

364 LOL

[LeonhardEuler1]

@TheYoungCosmologist You should start studying the mathematics!! They are equally interesting in and of themselves!!! I particularly like the study of Riemann surfaces, as well as symplectic topology.

[doubleja]

"this is not string theory incidentally"

lol

[TheisticThinker]

@HitfulVids This is the study of the origin of physical reality, its structure and its fate. Sounds interesting?

[moondigit007]

Nothing weird it is just a plane geometry problem, with the hand of the clock as r and the path of the hand as the circumference. Without Euclidian geometry there's no Copernicus , Kepler, Galileo or Newton. Sir Issac Newton thought Euclid's postulates as common sense.Alfred Einstein considered geometry as perhaps the oldest branch of physics.