Lecture 3 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts

(October 19, 2009) Leonard Susskind gives the third lecture of a three-quarter sequence of courses that will explore the new revolutions in particle physics. In this lecture he talks about what a quantum field is and how it is related to particles.

Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor of Physics, received a PhD from Cornell University and has taught at Stanford since 1979. He has won both the Pregel Award from the New York Academy of Science and the J.J. Sakurai Prize in theoretical particle physics. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• science
• physics
• quantum mechanics
• field theory
• particle
• wave
• momentum
• occupation number
• harmonic oscillation
• position
• reaction
• annihilation
• wave function
• probability
• atom
• decay
• photon
• creation
• energy

[MalaTemporaCurrunt]

more cookies!

[zomgthisisawesomelol]

Cookie addiction, it's a terrible thing!

[mphello]

It would sound funnier if he ate corn nuts instead of cookies.

[TRXW]

How do you record the voice of each student clearly and focused each time they ask a question?

[bundawartini]

Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always explore the new revolutions in particle physics. In this lecture he talks about what a quantum field is and how it is related to particles.

[grunder20]

Who do you think has the most brilliant mind, Hawking or Susskind?

[onusbaum]

Creation operator for particle at position X: isn't it created at x=0 (the fourier transform of a plane frequency spectrum is a point at the origin, not at x, no) ?

[1isaacmusic]

I bet his nickname is " The Cookie Monster ". On a lighter note, the microphone is loud, I'm glad he's not eating corn on the cob.