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Barry Barish - Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 ·

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Barry Barish is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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1:08 - Early math and physics questions
10:42 - Enrico Fermi
17:14 - Birth of the Nuclear Age
22:22 - The Fermi Paradox
27:26 - Gravity
44:08 - Philosophical implications of general relativity
51:14 - Detecting gravitational waves
54:28 - LIGO
1:27:25 - Nobel Prize
1:42:14 - Black holes
1:54:34 - Space exploration
2:02:28 - Books
2:11:17 - Advice for young people
2:17:13 - Meaning of life

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