The Closest We’ve Come to a Theory of Everything
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A massive thank you to Prof. Steven Strogatz for his expertise and enthusiasm. As an exclusive bonus for our Patreon members, we've posted a longer interview with Prof. Strogatz over there: https://www.patreon.com/posts/principle-of-116042877
A huge thank you to Prof. Haithem Taha, Prof. Anthony Bloch, Dr. Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Dr. Sarah Millholland, and Dr. Andrew Mitchell for all their help with finding the story …
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Chapters (12)
One rule that replaces all of physics
0:51
The problem of fastest descent
5:09
Fermat's principle
7:17
Bernoulli's solution
10:38
Maupertuis' principle
12:28
Maupertuis attacked and ridiculed
14:01
Euler & Lagrange to the rescue
17:22
The general approach to solving these problems
19:32
Writing the principle into its modern form
23:17
Why the principle works
27:08
Another way to do mechanics
30:19
A “spooky” breakthrough
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