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The Fermilab channel is also quite good for short-form content. ScienceClic English has absolutely wonderful visualizations. All of them do make some subtle inaccuracies or skip things for the sake of brevity though. I think Sabine Hossenfelder's channel has the most accurate videos in that 10-15 minute range, but they're still only about 15 minutes long.

I don't have a proper education in Physics, but have been trying to self-teach and I think that none of the ~15 minute video channels really cover things to a very detailed degree. You really do need textbooks/lectures/real papers to actually understand it. The channel "Physics Explained" is pretty good for more in depth breakdowns of things, but it is quite dry compared to those other channels and still not really a substitute for a textbook or class.

And I don't even mean learning things well enough to get a job as a particle physicist or anything. Just some things, like say particle spin, just can't be explained in under a few hours and without the math behind them. They don't have a proper intuitive analog to our macro-level world.



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