Physics

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of physics.

Video playlists about Physics

The lights and sounds of the universe

5 talks • 53:34
Find out what sound a black hole makes, if (possible) alien life is blocking star light and other astounding things happening in our galaxy -- and beyond.

Talks about Physics

15:54

James Beacham

How we explore unanswered questions in physics

Posted Dec 2016
10:39

James Green

3 moons and a planet that could have alien life

Posted Aug 2016
11:15

Wanda Diaz Merced

How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars

Posted Jun 2016
10:58

Allan Adams

What the discovery of gravitational waves means

Posted Feb 2016
14:10

Auke Ijspeert

A robot that runs and swims like a salamander

Posted Jan 2016
13:57

Harry Cliff

Have we reached the end of physics?

Posted Jan 2016
6:28

Raymond Wang

How germs travel on planes — and how we can stop them

Posted Dec 2015
13:42

Jedidah Isler

The untapped genius that could change science for the better

Posted Dec 2015
14:28

Alan Eustace

I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it

Posted Sep 2015
23:03

Jim Simons

The mathematician who cracked Wall Street

Posted Sep 2015
15:38

Wendy Freedman

This new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe

Posted Aug 2015
16:09

Jim Al-Khalili

How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions

Posted Aug 2015
4:19 Under 6 minutes

Jedidah Isler

How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

Posted Apr 2015
17:47

Fred Jansen

How to land on a comet

Posted Apr 2015
9:29

Randall Munroe

Comics that ask "what if?"

Posted May 2014
12:50

Michel Laberge

How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion

Posted Apr 2014
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26 ideas from the future

At TED2014, we asked speakers and attendees to riff off the conference’s theme (“The Next Chapter”) and tell us what might radically change society, life, technology and so on ...