Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 92% confidenceAn AMS Einstein Public Lecture at UCLA by a Fields medallist, pitched superbly to a general audience.
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Terence Tao explains the cosmic distance ladder, the chain of methods from Earth's radius to distant galaxies.
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