http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/
http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/
They have been called the Dead Sea Scrolls of physics. Since 1986, the Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to whom Albert Einstein bequeathed his copyright, have been engaged in a mammoth effort to study some 80,000 documents he left behind.
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Professor Hawking has given many lectures to the general public. Below are some of the more recent public lectures. Included with these lectures is a Glossary of some of the terms used.
A selection: http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures.html
Into a Black Hole (2008)
Is it possible to fall in a black hole, and come out in another universe? Can you escape from a black hole once you fall inside? In this lecture I talk about some of the things I’ve found out about black holes.The Origin of the Universe (2005)
Why are we here? Where did we come from? The answer generally given was that humans were of comparatively recent origin, because it must have been obvious, even at early times, that the human race was improving in knowledge and technology. So it can’t have been around that long, or it would have progressed even more.Godel and the End of Physics (2002)
In this talk, I want to ask how far can we go in our search for understanding and knowledge. Will we ever find a complete form of the laws of nature? By a complete form, I mean a set of rules that in principle at least enable us to predict the future to an arbitrary accuracy, knowing the state of the universe at one time. A qualitative understanding of the laws has been the aim of philosophers and scientists, from Aristotle onwards.Space and Time Warps (1999)
In science fiction, space and time warps are a commonplace. They are used for rapid journeys around the galaxy, or for travel through time. But today’s science fiction, is often tomorrow’s science fact. So what are the chances for space and time warps.Does God Play Dice (1999)
This lecture is about whether we can predict the future, or whether it is arbitrary and random. In ancient times, the world must have seemed pretty arbitrary. Disasters such as floods or diseases must have seemed to happen without warning or apparent reason. Primitive people attributed such natural phenomena, to a pantheon of gods and goddesses, who behaved in a capricious and whimsical way. There was no way to predict what they would do, and the only hope was to win favour by gifts or actions.
Here’s the question: Is the cat dead or alive?
According to quantum mechanics, the cat is neither dead nor alive but the sum of the two states. At that point, you say “That’s nonsense!”, “That’s preposterous!” How can you be both dead and alive simultaneously?
Michio Kaku
Compare Wigner’s friend and Schrödinger’s cat:
I–I in the widest meaning of the word, that is to say, every conscious mind that has ever said or felt ‘I’–am the person, if any, who controls the ‘motion of the atoms’ according to the Laws of Nature.
Erwin Schrödinger
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BIO 387 Hacking Consciousness: Consciousness, Cognition, and the Brain
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/hacking-consciousness-consciousness/id919606163
Listen to renowned physicists, nutritionists, neuroscientists, etc. as they investigate the nature of consciousness as a field of all possibilities. We’ll explore consciousness as the source not only of the human mind and its ability to experience, know, innovate… but also as the source of all structures and functions in creation, from fine particles to DNA to galaxies, in parallel with the scientific notion of a unified field, or superstring at the basis of the infinite diversity of time and space.
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Original manuscript: https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:168238/bdef:Asset/view
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