The Quantum World
Lecture series within the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2026
It is the same lecture cycle as in 2017 and 2023, this time with differently formatted records.
Quantum Mechanics according to Feynman
Lecture within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2025/26
Is quantum entanglement spooky action at a distance?
Lecture together with prof. Miloslav Dušek within the Lectures on Modern Physics, cycle Dialogues on Quantum Physics: 100 years later in autumn 2025.
The Story of Inertia and Gravity
Lecture series within the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2025
Slightly reorganized cycle from previous years:
Quantum Oddities
Lecture at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium, April 10, 2025
Physics in Movies
Lectures within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2024/25
Relativistic Space and Time
or everything you ever wanted to know about relativity – but were afraid to ask
Supplementary lecture in the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2024
Discussion around the Special Theory of Relativity
Discussion reaction to the lecture by Václav Vavryčuk "Twin Paradox and Relativity of Time" on the LLionTV channel.
The Quantum World (for beginners and intermediate)
Lecture series within the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2023
It is the same lecture cycle as in 2017.
Birth and Death of Universes
Lecture together with prof. J. Bičák within the transdisciplinary seminar Rebirth
Quo vadis, fundamental theories?
Lecture within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2022/23
The Story of Inertia and Gravity
Lecture series within the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2022
A slightly updated cycle of lectures that already took place in 2019 and 2016.
The Order of Time
Lectures presented within the Order of Time cycle at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium in autumn 2021.
Cycle on the Flow of Time
Series of lectures within the Seminar on Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2020.
Nobel Prize 2020 for Black Holes
J. Bičák, M. Bursa, P. Krtouš, T. Ledvinka, O. Pejcha, O. Semerák (UTF MFF UK, AsÚ AV ČR)
Extraordinary lecture included on the occasion of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for theoretical and experimental research on black holes.
Through the wormhole and black hole or Physics of Interstellar
Lecture at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium in autumn 2019
The Language of Fundamental Theories: Action and Geometrization
Lecture within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2019/20
How to overtake light
Lecture within the March for Science 2019.
It is a short selection from the Bestiary of GR (see below).
The Story of Inertia and Gravity
Lecture series within the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2019
The Phenomenon Feynman
Two lectures within the cycle Lectures on Modern Physics in 2018
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
Lecture in spring 2018 commemorating the life and work of Stephen Hawking.
Numbers – where did they come from and what are they for?
Two lectures within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2017/18
The Quantum World
Lecture series within the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2017
On the Nature of Physical Theories
Two new lectures from the cycle Physics as an Adventure of Knowledge in 2016
Equivalence Principle and Curved Spacetime
Lecture for the 100th anniversary of GR organized by the Czech Astronomical Society and JČMF, Oct 2, 2015.
Infinitely big problems with infinitely small numbers
Lecture within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2014
Playing with space (or what surfaces we can encounter)
Lecture within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics in 2012
On motion and rest
2008-2009
Krtouš P.: On Motion and Rest, Focus Pragensis VIII (2008) 57
The article follows the development of the concepts of rest and motion from Aristotle to Einstein. It discusses the transition from first-order dynamics to second-order dynamics, the birth of Newtonian absolute space and its subsequent Machian critique, and finally the structure of contemporary description in special and general relativity.
Special theory of relativity and the worm farm
2001-2004
Lecture held, for example, within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics on Oct 17, 2019, or March 4, 2004, or within the cycle Lectures on Modern Physics on Oct 7, 2004.
Trip to the stars
2001-2004
Demonstration program for the lecture Tangled time or space like Emmental (held, for example, within the seminar Philosophical Problems of Physics on May 20, 2004, or under the title Time travel on Dec 16, 2004, within the cycle Lectures on Modern Physics).