Neutrinos and Gold

I have a new job here in Scotland: I’m the Maxwell Fellow for Public Engagement. As part of that job I’m starting up a series of videos where I explain math and physics and also interview people here at the University.

Right now I’m calling it Edinburgh Explorations, and here is the first one:

I start by pretending that I’ll embrace controversy, parodying some things I’ve seen on physics YouTube. But in fact that’s the opposite of what I want!

There’s a lot of great math and science out there, and most people don’t know it yet. I would like to start series of talks on the Standard Model, general relativity, entropy, Clifford algebras, octonions, and various other topics that have fascinated me for years.

But most of those will require a decent tablet, so I can write equations and diagrams. I haven’t gotten one yet! Indeed I’m starting out extremely low-tech, and will gradually ramp up as I go. For now I’m trying to get good at roughly 20-minute monologues about science.