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Quantum Gravity lectures (Leonard Susskind)
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Stanford lecture series by Leonard Susskind on quantum gravity, delivered as part of his physics course lectures on YouTube, covering general relativity, black holes, and the quantum theory of gravity at a physics-lecture level.
Commenters point to Susskind's lectures as approachable physics content that rewards repeated viewing, and one suggests them for viewers with a basic calculus and vectors background.
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I'd suggest anyone with a passing knowledge of calculus, complex numbers, and vectors to sit through Leonard Suskind's lectures on quantum gravity. This one was good and wouldn't need the calc/math background, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OkwGDKoY0o . But YT is full of actual physics lectures and sitting in on them is pretty approachable with that calc/math background. I think they give an interesting comparison to these popular pieces on particle physics. You might not understand everything the way a physics college student should, and that's ok because you aren't one. But I bet you walk away knowing quite a bit more than you suspect and you can always replay them.
Pop-sci pieces tend to portray the universe as just a bunch of particles interacting in odd/spooky ways. It's a little reductive and sort of enshrines entanglement and similar concepts as unknowable at times. I skimmed this and it seems to spend a lot of time on spin 0 particles. Who knows, maybe that's a constraint from ER=EPR? But I didn't feel like it really conveys much about Higgs.
(Which would serve a purpose - "oh you can't know it so please come back for next installment in my series of 10 books describing it." I don't think any authors actually set out with that as a goal, explicitly, but they could do a better pointing out where to go for further, more complicated edification. That sort of thing could shoehorn new talent into science.)