Edward Witten

What works did Edward Witten do? Phymaths 3.86K subscribers Join Subscribe 1.5K Share Download Thanks Clip 83,834 views Premiered Aug 29, 2023 #theoreticalphysics #physics #witten Description Edward Witten is a brilliant theoretical physicist who has made many significant contributions to theoretical physics. In this video, we briefly review his educational background and his contributions to physics. Some links 1) Ed Witten's interview with David Zierler: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/... 2) Ed Witten's interview with Hirosi Ooguri: https://www.ams.org/notices/201505/rn... 3) Ed Witten's interview at the Institute of Physics: • Newton Medal winner (2010): Edward Wi... 4) Ed Witten's interview at Kyoto Prize: • Message from Dr. Edward Witten - The ... 5) David Gross at The Origins Podcast: • David Gross on String Theory, his Nob... 6) Ed Witten's inspire page: https://inspirehep.net/authors/983328... 7) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-le... 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Show transcript Phymaths 3.86K subscribers Videos About 252 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... @IExist496 @IExist496 1 month ago Hello, I found you in my recommendations and just want to thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos. Even though they’re not ‘popular’, per se, your videos have helped me a lot in the realm of physics and mathematics, and should definitely gain a wider audience. 24 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @deblaze666 @deblaze666 1 month ago The crazy thing is that with all this, you havent even touched on what he has been doing for the last 4-5 years. He hasnt retired, he is just absolutely ripping through foundational problems in quantum gravity, specifically in desitter space. The man is unstoppable. 40 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 9 replies @qsfrankfurt9513 @qsfrankfurt9513 3 weeks ago Edward Witten is one of Brandeis University's gems. He was actually a History major before going on to be the best in Mathematics and Physics. Our Professors at Brandeis talked about him with a huge amount of reverence. They were close to the Fields Medal, but he won it. Why would he retire? He's still doing amazing work. We're lucky to have him among us. Wish I had been able to study from him, maybe Relativity. 5 Phymaths Reply 1 reply @jameslyons3320 @jameslyons3320 1 month ago Having a fascination of Witten’s work I am very grateful for your work on this creation!!! 9 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @stephenscharf6293 @stephenscharf6293 1 month ago Excellent video, thanks. I first heard of Ed Witten from Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcasts. Would it be possible to create a link that links to the publications you cited? Thanks again for making this video. 5 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @EdwinSteiner @EdwinSteiner 1 month ago (edited) Thanks for making this video! Pop science is way too much about the people who make the most noise and humble geniuses like Witten are hardly recognized except by insiders. I have a question: Given that there are such brilliant minds like Witten who have pondered the most important questions in physics for decades, how do you as a theoretical physicist motivate yourself to attack big problems? It seems easy to fall into the defeatist attitude that if someone like Witten couldn't crack a problem, it doesn't make sense for someone who is not on his level to even approach it. Do you think about this at all or do you have a completely different mental framing? I'd be interested in that. 4 Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @cademosley4886 @cademosley4886 1 month ago (edited) I bet one of his most popularly known works after the 1995 M Theory paper would be the work which Brian Greene talks about in his book The Elegant Universe, in which his team were working on a model about holes in Calabi Yau manifolds around 1997, and after giving Witten the briefest summary, they realized they were in a race with Witten who could answer the whole thing in a week after the team had been working over months, and the team and Witten ended up publishing their works together at the same time. That didn't even make this list, but I think a lot of people know about it just because The Elegant Universe was a hit book that led to Brian Greene getting on TV and becoming a popular science communicator, and people could understand the human drama in the story. 13 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @yellowlght9181 @yellowlght9181 1 month ago It's an excellent synopsis on his works and accomplishments 11 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 3 replies @stianaslaksen5799 @stianaslaksen5799 1 month ago Thank you for this video. I learned a lot. 3 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @florianhofmann7553 @florianhofmann7553 1 month ago Although I cannot understand anything about his work, it was very well presented and sounded particularly good on my speakers. 👍 12 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @frankshifreen @frankshifreen 1 month ago Great video- making it almost understandable to the layman- like to know more about Langlands Program - seems to be at the forefront of research and proofs in our time 6 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @spaghettimeatballs137 @spaghettimeatballs137 4 weeks ago You did a good job explaining a complicated topic 4 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @merlinraja2863 @merlinraja2863 1 month ago This is an excellent video summary of many of Ed Witten's contributions and associated and interlaced developments in physics. 3 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @himacho8771 @himacho8771 1 month ago excellent video, very nicely structured 5 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @terrabusinessLLC @terrabusinessLLC 3 days ago Very elaborate and interesting video... Thank you for creating and sharing. 👍🙏 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @chunksloth @chunksloth 3 weeks ago Witten is my favorite sci-fi author. 11 Reply @IvicaAnteski @IvicaAnteski 1 month ago What I concluded from this video is that Witten should fly more often :) 97 Phymaths Reply 1 reply @jamesraymond1158 @jamesraymond1158 1 month ago I still don't know what he did. Dirac, Feynman, Bardeen etc. had easily understandable discoveries, but it is hard to point to any such discoveries by Whitten. 16 Reply 6 replies @hammadshahzad8082 @hammadshahzad8082 1 month ago You are doing really good job. Keep it up..... 8 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @gravitationalvelocity1905 @gravitationalvelocity1905 1 month ago So, what are the string vibration for an electron? What about a muon? Can we get a description of all the basic particles? 2 Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @OumJoonHo @OumJoonHo 1 month ago I hope people like Edward Witten never die or at least live to be 200 years old. 8 Reply @friedrichfermi6559 @friedrichfermi6559 1 month ago Very nice biography video, Sir! 4 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @mohitdhanik5274 @mohitdhanik5274 1 month ago Such a beautiful video❤.. Keep uploading more 14 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @youtubesucks1885 @youtubesucks1885 1 month ago I understand most works of Witten but the work by Drinfield and Beilinson 12:35 is beyond me. Had to read follow-up literature to get the essence of it. 6 Phymaths Reply @zhelyo_physics @zhelyo_physics 1 month ago I enjoyed this video! well done! 2 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @halneufmille @halneufmille 1 month ago I would like a follow-up video showing prediction from his works that were later verified expeimentally. 1 Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @Jaylooker @Jaylooker 1 month ago The “theta angle” of system at 19:27 sounds similar to the angle of Sato-Tate’s conjecture with both having similar bounds of 0 ≤ θ ≤ π. Also the ground state of such is has an angle proportional to cos θ like that in Sato-Tate. Maybe after correcting for the proportional or considering the generalized Sato-Tate conjecture, they are the same? Witten also related Langlands program (2 dimensional Galois representations in this case) to electromagnetism at 18:29. Going from the geometric to arithmetic Langland’s is kinda difficult. Instead just use the t’ Hooft operators of the dyons in the electromagnetism system and the equivalent Hecke operators to define some modular form. Then, use Serre’s modularity conjecture (proven in full generality by Khare and Wintenberger) to recover a 2-dimensional Galois representation attached to an elliptic curve with complex multiplication. This elliptic curve can described using Sato-Tate. Reply @Thomas-cat @Thomas-cat 1 month ago edward witten might be the likely candidate for the most underrated scientist in the history of humanity he literally climbed the highest mountain called string theory and pretty unknown to the public ( i mean he does not care but yeah ) 33 Reply 11 replies @ralphhebgen7067 @ralphhebgen7067 1 month ago Witten has a degree in history and linguistics? Wow - so do I! I, too, can therefore be a top-genius physicist. 😂😂 9 Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @ligmafish3806 @ligmafish3806 1 month ago The thing that I really learned is the importance of taking flights to have more epiphanies 6 Phymaths Reply @agnibhamajumdar9137 @agnibhamajumdar9137 1 month ago its really alien to me, how did he manage to get a PHD position in theoretical physics after the 1st undergrad year in applied math??...can anyone explain?? 6 Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @fernandomendezmendez6466 @fernandomendezmendez6466 1 month ago (edited) I think Vasily Pestun should be included in the list of notable students 🤔. 2 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @marfmarfalot5193 @marfmarfalot5193 1 month ago Thank you for making this video. 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @as-qh1qq @as-qh1qq 1 month ago He is a great among greats, perhaps even among them. Reply @josephyoung6749 @josephyoung6749 1 month ago His physical presence must be unusual for such a mind... you can already see this in the stiffness of his joints as he walks, the regularity of the scull, and one can compare the subtlety of his gaze and soft voice to the eye of a storm. 1 Reply @sdsa007 @sdsa007 1 month ago Interesting that he has/had an interest in linguistics... Wondering if there is a connection between language (linguistics) and math intelligence. If I learn more languages, can I become a better mathematician? The idea that different cultural immersions force the brain to develop more intelligence or more perspective. 1 Reply Phymaths · 3 replies @YogiMcCaw @YogiMcCaw 1 month ago Hopefully history will recognize that Witten is on the level of Einstein, Newton, and Hawking. I suspect the reason it hasn't already is because the work he does is so advanced that it's difficult to explain to the layperson. Science writers and popularizers have done a great job of making Newtonian gravity or even relativity more or less graspable in non scientific terms for the public. Progress is being made also in finding ways to convey some basic ideas of quantum mechanics to the general public. But string theory? Yeah, everyone has heard the violin string analogy, but i think everyone also understands that there's way more "there" to string theory. Surely Witten is not a great scientist because he understands how to make a perfect fifth on a guitar string, and people know that. This video makes a much appreciated attempt (really - great job!), but still well over half of it went over my head. Sometimes it just takes a while for history to be able to articulate the true greatness of some geniuses. Sometimes it's well after they die. 2 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @hkgfhg @hkgfhg 1 month ago Thank you! Great video. 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @levansaginashviliskidney8726 @levansaginashviliskidney8726 1 month ago I am starting my undergraduate course in physics soon. Any advice? Awesome video 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 6 replies @sdsa007 @sdsa007 1 month ago Whoever started the Langlangs program is totally awesome! 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @Trizzer89 @Trizzer89 1 month ago I don't understand how his guy didnt know he should be in the math/science area when he seems to be the best a physics math 3 Reply @fl0a226 @fl0a226 2 weeks ago Great summary! 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @Markoul11 @Markoul11 1 month ago Great video! Thanks! 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @zouvictor8731 @zouvictor8731 1 month ago As a PhD in theoretical quantum optics, unfortunately I can't understand any work from Witten even though I had tried to study it 4 Reply 1 reply @tomaschlouba5868 @tomaschlouba5868 4 weeks ago Great video! But 19 minutes in I am waiting for any physics to come in, so far only mathematics 😀 3 Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @j.lo.5784 @j.lo.5784 1 month ago Do you think its possible to curl up and hide a dimension by energy saturation? Could 4d hyperspace become 3d space introducing a second time coodrinate near lightspeed? 1 Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @gravitationalvelocity1905 @gravitationalvelocity1905 1 month ago Can anyone explain at a high level how the strings yield gravity? 2 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 5 replies @angelogabriel6862 @angelogabriel6862 1 month ago We should put him on a plane that touches down only a couple of times per year, so he can explain what he discovered on the flight. 1 Phymaths Reply @Lorenzo-pu5vy @Lorenzo-pu5vy 1 month ago Really hope that string theory will come out to be successful , otherwise so many brilliant minds semi-wasted their time … 2 Reply @hammadshahzad8082 @hammadshahzad8082 1 month ago Wow its amazing...❤❤ 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @1vootman @1vootman 3 weeks ago It's surprising that he wasn't a prodigy, and that he studied history first even though. I feel a lot of math students could grasp concepcits of calculus at an early age, so that doesn't surprise me too much. 2 Reply @topdog5252 @topdog5252 1 month ago (edited) 10:22When you don’t understand a proof, but you’re so smart you just proceed to go try prove it your own way. Wow! 10 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @adi-1933 @adi-1933 1 month ago What you didn’t tell is there anything useful we can calculate with string theory and then compare it with an experiment? Does string theory predict any new physics we can observe? 5 Reply @mathunt1130 @mathunt1130 4 weeks ago A nice overview. 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @kashu7691 @kashu7691 1 month ago this is excellent 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @ecological6454 @ecological6454 4 weeks ago (edited) If my father/mother was a physicist and proper guidance, i might have been witten. 2 Reply @MATT-ll2zf @MATT-ll2zf 1 month ago Witten learned General Relativity in 10 days 💀, hell man this guy is an alien 9 Reply Phymaths · 9 replies @davidwilkie9551 @davidwilkie9551 1 month ago Bohr said Einstein was clearly able to understand his theory in a convincing way.., Good Enough. Reply @siddheswarmukhopadhyay7148 @siddheswarmukhopadhyay7148 4 weeks ago How can i download edward witten's phd thesis? 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @alexjbriiones @alexjbriiones 1 month ago (edited) All I have to say is wow! I knew Ed Witten was brilliant but I had no idea he was at the same level as Einstein - at least he will be when his theories come to pass. There are some critics who say these theories are a waste of time (Eric Weinstein) because it's all theoretical and can not be proven experimentally, but the Math makes sense and the smartest people are working on it. Can you comment on the name M theory, why did Witten give it this name? Is this the "mother" of all theories? 1 Reply Phymaths · 3 replies @michaelblankenau6598 @michaelblankenau6598 1 month ago These people are undoubtedly brainiacs of the highest order . Having said that it remains to be seen whether even one of them can spit a dope bar . 1 Reply @Giraffozilla @Giraffozilla 4 weeks ago How was he accepted into Princeton math and physics grad schools with only a bachelor's in history? 4 Reply Phymaths · 3 replies @paologalliani4172 @paologalliani4172 4 weeks ago As a mathematician he won the field medal but his theories in string theory have no experimental proof they are right 2 Reply @markboggs746 @markboggs746 1 month ago What has he done / found which has been tested using the scientific method? 2 Reply Phymaths · 2 replies @thankor @thankor 12 days ago I am TERRIFIED of this man! 2 Reply @vxcnzz @vxcnzz 1 month ago (edited) I find his work like Salvador Dalí's. It almost looks like it could be real in some parallel universe where his brilliant madness is manifest into reality. Elegant surrealism in physics and mathematics. It is so beautiful you could mistake his constructed reality for the one we live in. I think god would be impressed and say "hmm that's a nice idea. I didn't think of that." Reply @jesseaustin2438 @jesseaustin2438 1 month ago 19:24 the 2Pi of an electric charge is of a Newton law object in motion stays in motion, while.. and it goes with my 'see other comment' gravity is the time of time,, where different fields have own spaces and own times' and the times' time like thing is gravity, but i thought matter or mass moves in straight lines, light (i guess non fermion particles ,just learned fermions have mass) or massless matter moves in S pattern, and energy in Z zig zag ligjning bolt, like non round S,, oh yeah and i thought e=mc² type stuff centric over particle centric and that particle centric is an inverse of emc centric,, but yeah, so the S is like the part of the 2Pi highlighted at that 19 25 of this vid,, the particle would have S movement in a tacked on dimension,, like my other comment were open strings are attached to other membranes and vibe thru our.. i'd forgotten that it explains Double-Slit experiment superposition as 1 string but 2 ends on another Membrane outaide our spacetime Membrane c-space.. it moves conserving momentum as energy field (centric and other comment Quantum Fluctuation and Heis Unct Princ 0 into 1(0) as Big Bang then that is embued to quantum fluctuation to split into different fields of energy and matter then the particle fields grow,, so in that the particles are connected thru quantum energy field (gravity is the time of time would mean energy and mass is time of spacetime which is what i said in other terms,, this is supporting evidence) and quantum mass field or Higgs, and they move differently like the charge or electromagnetic field interaction quanta is that it moves straight and grows waving photon wavelength of pi in 2D maybe 1D and is like the other statement earlier about string theory about 2D confinement or space thing,, and charge photon wavelength stuff is the growth of like said at 19 25 as a series ,Sigma series, that is the proof for how to calculate pi,, but it grows in its own infinite time but relative to the outside largescale c-space time dialation rate and then it reverses in the dimension and goes back to the other side.. it doesnt have to or i havent proven it grows to infinity but thats my prototype conjecture. Reply @YuTv1408 @YuTv1408 1 month ago The guy might be a genius, but String Theory might be all wrong. It's been ~50 years since psychics hasn't produced any novel type of tech. So who cares who went were, who did what. What are going to do with science today+moving forth. ... nice video. 😅 4 Reply 1 reply @markgiroux_ @markgiroux_ 3 weeks ago In the thumbnail, it looks like he just found them, like "oh... here they are" 2 Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @ameerahmed6623 @ameerahmed6623 1 month ago The more trips Witten takes the more he will drive everyone crazy including himself. He will bury string theory all by himself. 2 Reply @user-fi1jg4ln3b @user-fi1jg4ln3b 1 month ago Ed witten is truely einstein successor. 7 Reply 5 replies @OzzySanz16 @OzzySanz16 1 month ago How significant were these contributions that he made ? 2 Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @gaeilgeanois9314 @gaeilgeanois9314 3 weeks ago (edited) Hes a Mathematical Physicist (emphasis on the Math) but hes not a Theoretical Physicist (emphasis on the Physics) even though that is technically what his profession is. People say hes destroyed a generation of Physicists and if you think of him as a Theoretical Physicist that's true but if you think of him as a Mathematical Physicists instead then hes been wildly successful and so have all the people he took with him on his journey. Reply @ultimateman55 @ultimateman55 1 month ago Do I have any questions? No, none at all. I understood everything perfectly. 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @PimentelES @PimentelES 3 weeks ago I'm a theoretical physicist and there are many negative points about Witten as well. In general when faced with a hard problem he tweaks the problem to a more symmetrical or easier version of it and solves that. This is great to produce beautiful mathematics but very bad to actually describe how nature really works 1 Reply @junyun6447 @junyun6447 1 month ago Written is a better mathematician than a physicist. String Theory remains incomplete, and in the end may even be wrong. 1 Reply @abhijeetkumar7375 @abhijeetkumar7375 1 month ago Bhaiya I have written research paper..I want to send Edward Witten..How can I send him? Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @baseshorts4520 @baseshorts4520 13 days ago Sad his talent got wasted completely studying String Theory 😢 Reply @edwardwood3622 @edwardwood3622 1 month ago You have got to be kidding, nobody can be that smart? 2 Reply 1 reply @othihaliemleu8382 @othihaliemleu8382 2 weeks ago So t'hooft basically ruined Witten with his paper. Witten could be a great physicist when he decided to not focus on string theory... but he is a mathematician instead.. 1 Reply @physicsman3788 @physicsman3788 1 month ago (edited) frank yang is the top one theoretical physicist in the current world, maybe witten is as good as Yang. 1 Reply @benefactor4309 @benefactor4309 1 month ago Make a video on Ashoke Sen 1 Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @146maxpain @146maxpain 3 weeks ago Ed Witten is not a physics genius. I am sorry string theory fans but the emperor wears no clothes. 1 Reply @MuhammadAli-rz2ft @MuhammadAli-rz2ft 1 month ago ❤❤❤❤ 1 Phymaths Reply @ImmutableUniverse @ImmutableUniverse 1 month ago 1:03 where is this clip of Brian Greene from? 1 Phymaths Reply Phymaths · 3 replies @jaywulf8067 @jaywulf8067 13 days ago Yup, these were all words! Reply @qubex @qubex 3 weeks ago “The last word is not Witten” 1 Reply @paulbali9998 @paulbali9998 1 month ago His name literally means "Edward the Smart". See also Lord Brain. 1 Reply @tototutu1165 @tototutu1165 1 month ago Sorry the smartest guy on the planet at the moment is Terence Tao Reply Phymaths · 3 replies @user-pt7ip2yz9d @user-pt7ip2yz9d 1 month ago Had to check the playback speed. . . . Reply @michelgi6499 @michelgi6499 1 month ago Witten should debate Erik Weinstein some time… 😅 Reply @RobertDryer @RobertDryer 1 month ago Ed Witten is an alien throwing off the scientific community 😂😂😂 Reply @ahmadrifai6723 @ahmadrifai6723 1 month ago Edward witten is new propeht he was the messiah Reply @johnmckiernan987 @johnmckiernan987 1 month ago Shame he didn't spend his time solving the cancer problem 1 Reply @rushiraul4084 @rushiraul4084 1 month ago My 100th comment in honour of Ed witten. 1 Phymaths Reply @jogaleone7224 @jogaleone7224 1 month ago 0:29 “walk like an autistic” 🤗 1 Reply @aliharvey448 @aliharvey448 1 month ago (edited) If he's so smart, why hasn't he invented a transdimensional refractor? This could've been invited in the 1800s Reply @benheideveld4617 @benheideveld4617 1 month ago Who did you create this video for? It’s just a word-salad unless you are current in the field, at which point it is trivial… 2 Reply @subharunbanerjee6771 @subharunbanerjee6771 2 weeks ago String theory is not physics..it is philosophy...should not be taken seriously 1 Reply @shammahrashad @shammahrashad 1 month ago His lectures are so compact. He is a great speaker but his monotonous voice makes me sleepy. 1 Reply @Chillypuwn @Chillypuwn 2 weeks ago String theory have taken 70 years and haven't been able to show one single testable hypothesis for it. They have to constantly move the goalpost by inventing new dimensions to make their theories fit. Its the field for physicists who should have been mathematicians. Its a waste of time, energy and research funding. Reply @ktuluflux @ktuluflux 3 weeks ago Lol who cares if someone is “smart”? Give them a golf clap and then move onto other important things? 1 Reply @the.trollgubbe2642 @the.trollgubbe2642 2 weeks ago Yeah ....he wasted his life doing math puzzles that lead to nowhere. String theory is mathematical philosophy 1 Reply @nautaki @nautaki 3 weeks ago Nonsense. Being smart is rather irrelevant. What is Witten known for compared to all these other people (Weinberg!! Einstein? really?)? Nothing really. 1 Reply @NeverTalkToCops1 @NeverTalkToCops1 5 days ago Stop fawning over theoretical physicists. Stop it! Reply @lawliet2263 @lawliet2263 1 month ago Weird, because his dad has done quite a research on anti gravity under the USG Reply @argynkuketayev4166 @argynkuketayev4166 10 days ago none of this is Physics though Reply @vtr8427 @vtr8427 1 month ago String theory failed . Ed whitten failed . Led physics in wrong direction for past 30 yrs. 1 Reply @proteusaugustus @proteusaugustus 1 month ago He put me to sleep. Enough with the string theory. Those guys make a lot of money on speculation. I guess your smart if no one can prove anything. 3 Reply 1 reply @Burevestnik9M730 @Burevestnik9M730 1 month ago buddy, it looks like you are on a horse race? take it easy, buddy. relax. read a book or two on how to present things Reply @ralffig3297 @ralffig3297 1 month ago Wasted his life in a theory of nothing. 3 Reply 1 reply @danielmccarthy7998 @danielmccarthy7998 1 month ago This video annoys Sean Carroll. Reply Phymaths · 1 reply @Paul-cb8cf @Paul-cb8cf 8 days ago EDWARD WITTEN IS WRONG BUT DOES HE KNOW IT? Reply Conversation: Salam, Sciama, Witten and Budinich Int'l Centre for Theoretical Physics 23.3K subscribers Subscribe 5K Share Download Clip Save 316K views 9 years ago The conversation is sparkling! Historical footage of Abdus Salam, Dennis Sciama, Edward Witten and Paolo Budinich talking about physics. Note that the conversation took place in 1986, not 1990 as stated in the caption. 650 Comments Add a comment... @Z1g0l 7 months ago Thank you Eric for leading us to this gem! 493 Reply 17 replies @Zerostar369 7 months ago I feel honored to have been witness to such a great conversation. Thank you. 28 Reply @mohammadmahmood8255 2 years ago After 4 years of this interview, Witten won the fields medal and you can see his passion and enthusiasm for Maths and Physics here...Sadly Abdusslam the noble laureate passed away in 1996 ... 105 Reply 13 replies @siddhantritwick287 @siddhantritwick287 3 years ago (edited) What an honor to watch the great minds together! 10 Reply @LoquaciousApe @LoquaciousApe 8 years ago The sheer breadth and intensity of Witten's understanding of both physics theory and history is incredible. 249 Reply 27 replies @zaxhanta3142 @zaxhanta3142 6 years ago The sheer knowledge, understanding and genius in this conversation is tangible even after 3 decades. Beautiful. Brilliant. 19 Reply @docoftheworld @docoftheworld 8 years ago one of the greatest minds sitting in one room and discussing the origin of ideas. this is so beautiful. One can only be filled with wonder and amazement. 78 Reply 2 replies @HiAdrian @HiAdrian 8 years ago Thank you so much for sharing this with us, simply wonderful! 7 Reply @ishyandmikkischannel8811 @ishyandmikkischannel8811 3 years ago (edited) Interesting to visit 30 years after having a shared office next to Salam's. At. 11:00 Salam makes a reference to Chris Isham who never got into strings as far as I remember. At 19:00 Witten mentions Tom Kibble's cosmic strings - a beautiful idea, very big around 1990, not borne out by experiment. Kibble really deserved the Nobel for the Higgs mechanism for the later 1967 paper (Weinberg thought so). I do recall Salam giving a seminar on Chern-Simons which Witten had been pushing. And brings back memory of E8 - every 2nd seminar used to be on that. 23 Reply 1 reply @Wandering_Chemist @Wandering_Chemist 7 months ago Literally some of the greatest minds just sitting together discussing the nature of reality at the must fundamental level….just purely fascinating. 18 Reply @buddhasarchive8385 @buddhasarchive8385 1 year ago Loved the conversation. this is more than 30 years old and feels like I am watching it live. 5 Reply @degenetron7590 @degenetron7590 7 months ago People like this are simply a gift to humanity for this whole species to progress further 14 Reply @vatsalyavaibhavsrivastava2671 @vatsalyavaibhavsrivastava2671 2 years ago Absolutely loved it <3 1) People discussing, Hubble space telescope, and gravitational waves in 1986 2) Young Witten defending strings in front of legends 3) Funny story of Sir Dennis as a Ph.D. student under Paul Dirac (46:29) Loved to see the far-sightedness of these giants. Wish they could see through the 21st century. 58 Reply 2 replies @NomenNominandum @NomenNominandum 8 years ago So many of the most brilliant physics minds in a discussion - just AWESOME !!! 5 Reply @martin1988mj @martin1988mj 8 years ago I get goosebumps when I listen to this conversation. I only understand it partly, but the notion that by the privilege of listening this you are at the forefront of science and understanding is simply stunning 103 Reply 6 replies @user-jh3rx3ej7h @user-jh3rx3ej7h 6 years ago Abdus Salam and Ed Witten at the same table. Two of the greatest minds who ever lived. 50 Reply @3steban427 @3steban427 7 months ago (edited) Absolutely fascinating to hear them talk about gravitational wave detection 3 Reply @kewal_chhetri @kewal_chhetri 2 years ago So fortunate to hear the conversation amongst these great personalities... 5 Reply @wiserhuman21 @wiserhuman21 3 years ago Edward Witten's speeches are like academic essays) 1st paragraph, 2nd paragraph, Transition words, excellent grammar 196 Reply 6 replies @Avlys101 @Avlys101 2 months ago So incredibly rare to have a video of a deep technical discussion between the best minds on the planet. Reply @christopherwoodcock8535 2 years ago Nice to see scientists talking seriously about real science. And, Edward Witten is truly brilliant 17 Reply @smoothcriminal28 @smoothcriminal28 8 years ago Edward Witten is a remarkable human being with a mind of epic proportions. 78 Reply 1 reply @karlkarlsson9126 @karlkarlsson9126 2 years ago (edited) All dead except one, but yet here we are 36 years later, watching them as they are being alive talking to each-other for us to watch and listen. It's what you leave behind when you die that counts, if you do, you never really die. 27 Reply 1 reply @stephencarlsbad @stephencarlsbad 7 months ago I love how a young Ed Witten holds the older guard of physics captive with his passion for sharing scientific nuance, beyond what they may have intuited. 21 Reply @hawthornehillnaturepreserv5186 @hawthornehillnaturepreserv5186 2 years ago Witten’s knowledge of physics, math and history runs circles around his piers. I’m convinced he must have a photographic memory because his recall of extreme detail is uncanny. And most exciting is his passion and love of the subjects and intellect, he gets almost giddy when he talks. You would expect fire to come out of his ears at times. His thought is palpable. 50 Reply 2 replies @HappyGilmore401 @HappyGilmore401 6 months ago (edited) I love how we can see the Witten ponder something, smile like a kid thinking about if he should present this idea, then he sends it. 6 Reply @ktatlow @ktatlow 6 months ago This is wonderful! Does anybody have a link to a transcript? 2 Reply @kdub1242 @kdub1242 8 years ago This kid Witten is going places. 365 Reply 18 replies @mythicalmusical800 @mythicalmusical800 7 months ago Nobody notices that they are in the presence of a certified forklift operator in the room. It was me. Filming the whole conversation. 159 Reply 10 replies @Frangos1958 @Frangos1958 4 years ago Amazing video, thank you. I was lucky enough to be a student at Imperial College London and meet Abdus Salam when he won his Nobel prize in 1979. Also met Kibble who is mentioned a few times. Interestingly, they predict the detection of gravitational waves within 10 years - it took about 30 in the end. 41 Reply 1 reply @alanfertom6354 @alanfertom6354 9 years ago Oh my god! Watching witten and Salam have a argument is like seeing Plato and Aristotle have a dialogue. 244 Reply 12 replies @luminousblue1539 @luminousblue1539 1 year ago This is the most enjoyable conversation I've ever seen. Are there more videos similar to this? 5 Reply @prepareforwinter213 @prepareforwinter213 7 months ago It’s weird how these guys are actually intimidating, their intelligence could melt your brain 6 Reply @hrperformance @hrperformance 2 years ago amazing to hear this!! thanks for posting 1 Reply @miscibi @miscibi 7 years ago Holy shit! It was quite a while ago when I received the answers to sooo many questions I had about physics, mathematics, and coming up with theories! THANK YOU for uploading this. 2 Reply @paulmulenga8742 @paulmulenga8742 3 years ago OMG the brilliance of this conversation is mind blowing 6 Reply @Bikewithlove @Bikewithlove 7 months ago “I’m not late - given the time dilation of postulated quantum gravity in a Higgs particle accelerator I’m early in a way you could never understand.” -Witten 6 Reply @gabrieliatarelli @gabrieliatarelli 8 years ago Thanks for uploading this. can you please make closed caption available ? i have a friend that would love to understand it but he's def. 52 Reply @matthawksworth @matthawksworth 7 months ago This has got to be the most intelligent conversation ive ever heard 5 Reply @tagexing @tagexing 3 years ago The occasion of this conversation seems to be the day when Witten was awarded the first Dirac Medal, as Salam said at 4:25, "Dirac, who we were celebrating today by giving Witten the first Dirac Medal." The award was announced on August 8, 1985. The ceremony may have happened in Feb 1986? 12 Reply @AmjadHussain-me4fc @AmjadHussain-me4fc 8 years ago this is just amazing....all beautiful minds in one room... 9 Reply @ive3336 @ive3336 1 month ago It's wild that 4 years after this conversation the Hubble telescope was launched and absolutely blew everyone's mind. Gonna have to go and find each of their reactions to hubble now 😂 great vid! Reply @chetnasirodaria3579 @chetnasirodaria3579 3 years ago Abdus is like teacher seeing his extraordinarily brilliant student. 20 Reply 4 replies @satkotech @satkotech 6 months ago Very interesting discussion, even though at times it was difficult to understand them due to the quality of the audio. Reply @Mikelovision @Mikelovision 5 years ago This should happen a lot more. 3 Reply @aroojqureshi8012 @aroojqureshi8012 3 years ago Utmost respect for Dr. Abdus Salam. One of the greatest minds of 20th Century. 19 Reply @branchclan6112 @branchclan6112 7 months ago Interesting to hear these long form conversations on things not seen by the human eye. 2 Reply @wandererstein3724 @wandererstein3724 8 years ago Great respect for Dr.Abdus Salam and Edward Witten. Witten looks so young in this video. 43 Reply @alexandermcfarlane2109 @alexandermcfarlane2109 7 years ago Awesome to see their hopes at 40mins fulfilled this year :) 16 Reply @bilalarain4632 @bilalarain4632 2 months ago Abdus Salam, indeed what a personality. 1 Reply @tamurhaq @tamurhaq 7 months ago Wow how incredible to have stumbled upon this. Thank you to the uploaded. 3 Reply @danyalzaffar5145 @danyalzaffar5145 3 years ago Witten is agreeing to everything salam is saying before even listening fully😂😂😂😂😂 10 Reply 1 reply @mm-zn5hh @mm-zn5hh 4 months ago Imagine this is your group of friends and you're one of them, and this is your conversation while drinking in a bar.. 1 Reply @darkstatehk @darkstatehk 5 years ago "The plasma physics involved would look rather complicated; Complicated enough that I certainly would never come to understand it myself" Classic Ed Witten! Borderline sarcasm wrapped so beautifully in a soup of realism. Dear Ed......please don't die until you are at least 400 years old. 36 Reply 3 replies @gerardopc1 @gerardopc1 4 months ago Isn't it fantastic that we have free access to this video? 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 2 Reply @tenningale @tenningale 2 months ago Before I ever heard Witten speak I just saw him in pictures and thought he looked like a badass who'd probably have a baritone, authoritative voice. 2 Reply @redwolf155 @redwolf155 7 months ago So honored to see Abdul Salam speak here, Reply @MOSP14 @MOSP14 7 months ago He’s got this smile that says: “man I know so much more than everyone in this room” 😂 11 Reply 2 replies @pzever @pzever 2 years ago what a brilliant young mind Witten was at the time... 2 Reply @karanchanaya2981 @karanchanaya2981 8 months ago Love and Respect to Mr Sciama 1 Reply @davidwilkie9551 @davidwilkie9551 7 months ago If I said I understand what is being said, hopefully I would only be fooling myself. Because when I hear Susskind's version of String Theoretical concepts, the hands-on experience of practical learning comes across as "All is Vibration", and that can be related to the quantization cause-effect of superimposed, log-antilog frequency-amplitudes in line-of-sight superposition, represented in Polar-Cartesian formatting. The library of Mathematical Conjecture is expected to fit somewhere in the same picture and it's to be expected that the Students of Witten projected concepts can be drawn into relevant research..? Reply @ajsap8160 @ajsap8160 7 months ago 29 years from this meeting they detected gravitational waves. Quite the feat. 40:57 1 Reply @tanmaybhore1979 @tanmaybhore1979 3 years ago The best video I've seen in a long time, thank you for the upload 1 Reply @TomAtkinson @TomAtkinson 6 months ago I quite like this unconfined fractional electric charge idea. Could explain the cosmic consciousness due to that "resolved only in higher dimensions" part, wish I knew what that meant. However, I heard that it was found that voltage is quantised (at NIST) so... these fractional charges maybe would have to be excluded from electric circuits or not exist. Hmmmm. Reply 2 replies @katzenfriedel @katzenfriedel 5 years ago (edited) What a beautiful historical document ... they speak about gravitational wave detection and Dennis Sciama conjectures it will be done in the next 10 years .... turns out it took 30 instead 3 Reply @BarriosGroupie @BarriosGroupie 4 years ago Ed is 35 years of age here; a mature physicist and not a kid. 9 Reply @enigma9306 @enigma9306 7 years ago Every few no longer I come back and watch this video. It's surprisingly relevant 11 Reply @gaulindidier5995 @gaulindidier5995 4 years ago Whether string theory is true or not, Ed is such an impressive mind, i'm quite inspired by him! 35 Reply 12 replies @ashishkiift @ashishkiift 2 years ago This is GOLD ! Thank You YouTube ! 5 Reply @Bullaken @Bullaken 6 months ago I'm proud to say that I understand some of the words they said. 4 Reply @scientist9553 @scientist9553 3 years ago Proud of humanity's sir Salam.salute his highness dignity.i have no word saying praise.speechless personality Reply @1900maniac @1900maniac 2 years ago Interesting to hear them talk about gravitational wave detectors. Turned out to be too optimistic about the timeline Reply @jessicaiatarelli6948 @jessicaiatarelli6948 8 years ago I would like to ask the same thing. Closed caption or subtitles... Please!! English is not my first language and I'm working very hard to understand some of the things that are being said in this video. Help me! =) 9 Reply @ExMachina70 @ExMachina70 7 months ago Ed seems like he's his own greatest critic. Reply @manxr1 @manxr1 2 years ago I think Lie was originally looking for the Galois theory of differential equations of some sort? Peter Olver talks about it in his very well-written book on Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations. 2 Reply @dr_IkjyotSinghKohli @dr_IkjyotSinghKohli 8 years ago How much we miss in today's society with the scientists of today! We went from Dennis Sciama and Abdus Salam to Neil de Grasse Tyson and Lawrence Krauss, a true loss for today's youth! 94 Reply 26 replies @garamiglm2026 @garamiglm2026 7 years ago The Brilliant Abdus Salam in his elements. Great to see all these geniuses talking. Respect from India. 30 Reply 17 replies @UmarKhan-zl2jm @UmarKhan-zl2jm 2 years ago I always come to this video very often just to see Ed's talk 3 Reply @thedouglasw.lippchannel5546 @thedouglasw.lippchannel5546 2 months ago I believe that the pitch, tone, and overall characteristics of Ed Witten's voice are half of his genius if not more. As soon as he starts talking I feel small and dumb, and that would be the case even if he were simply ordering an ice cream cone with sprinkles. Reply 1 reply @ethorii @ethorii 6 years ago I can see the Napoleon Dynamite persona based on a couple of Witten's traits. I love his level calm voice even though I have almost no comprehension of what he says. 4 Reply 1 reply @EdwardWitten-eb5py @EdwardWitten-eb5py 7 months ago I remember this conversation fondly 1 Reply 1 reply @seancaceres619 @seancaceres619 2 hours ago They really had no idea what the Hubble would be capable of. Reply @nickbros @nickbros 1 year ago "whether you start with a mathematical scheme and look for a physical interpretation, or start with a physical principle which you guess to be correct, and try to prove it experimentally and codify it to a mathematical form" modern physicists: "yeahh, how about i start with a mathematical scheme, and end with a mathematical scheme" 6 Reply 1 reply @Edruezzi @Edruezzi 4 months ago This is the first time I've heard Abdus Salam. 1 Reply @pickitypopsnickitylovejone6558 @pickitypopsnickitylovejone6558 4 years ago I think Witten would cringe at how romanticized he is in this comment section. I also think it is what hampers successful communication between himself and most people today. Not to take away from his stellar achievements, of course, he is brilliant. What is fascinating or surprising to me is how understable geniuses like him are, the same impression I have of Einstein. They do not have the airy view of themselves that people tend to have about them. 12 Reply 4 replies @robertstewart3501 @robertstewart3501 3 years ago I've been following various research and likely the brainiacs are way ahead of me, but if you mix pilot waves as hydrodynamic carrier waves involving spheres at spacetime intersection, and fluid phase change (black holes as ice, maybe white holes) into M Theory, does anything interesting (possibly local) pop out? Hydrogen-1 may even be a good description of that sphere. Banach–Tarski math may be useful. Reply @helveticaneptune537 @helveticaneptune537 11 months ago Written and Salam should have teamed up to become WWE world tag team championships. 4 Reply @MarxismIsACancerousReligion @MarxismIsACancerousReligion 7 months ago (edited) I can’t help to wonder how this conversation would go today in light of quantum mechanics finding the underlying reality to our universe to be non local. Would or is the recent quantum mechanics Nobel prize findings a bigger part of the conversation in todays equations? Reply @shawnmlekush2806 @shawnmlekush2806 9 months ago An intellectual is someone that can get high off an idea. I am SO BAKED right now!!!! 3 Reply @anoopsrana @anoopsrana 4 years ago Amazing ! 1 Reply @parthasur6018 @parthasur6018 6 years ago Ed Witten's undergraduate degree was in History! 66 Reply 3 replies @breakfastenjoyer @breakfastenjoyer 6 years ago Please allow for captions to be added. 8 Reply @jhonythedick @jhonythedick 2 months ago I didn’t understand shit about what they’re saying but i watched the whole thing and I’m extremely fascinated by the sheer genus of Edward Witten, those people really make you feel dumb as hell 2 Reply @hrperformance @hrperformance 2 years ago Ah man I was really enjoying that discussion! If it was too hot for Paolo, then why didn't he just leave and let the other three get on with it 😂 I actually laughed a lot as well! 2 Reply @robertwhitten265 @robertwhitten265 7 years ago @24:00 "Galactic center with threads coming out and the threads are 100 parsecs long" That's like 8 times the Kessel Run made by the Millennium Falcon. 5 Reply @DrDeuteron @DrDeuteron 2 years ago This was 1986: A time if maximum optimism. Salam's SU(2)xU(1) had just unified the electroweakforce, SU(3) would soon be confirmed with 3-jet events. Gauge symmetry was king. It was pretty clear SU(5) was the GUT, and then into gravity, and it would be super. Well no. protons didn't decay, su5 was wrong, 30y later the Higgs was found but no SUSY...we are lost. There's been some fun in the neutrino sector, but otherwise: nothing new has happened in particle physics. Looking back, I put the W, Z (Salam) discovery (1985) as the beginning of the end of the glory years of particle physics...and this interview capture that optimism perfectly. Ofc Sciama hints at where the action would be: astrophysics. Cygnus X-3 is a bust, but all the mind bending data have come from above since this was filmed. 10 Reply 1 reply @kruger @kruger 6 months ago Awesome! Reply @edwinmunguia4781 @edwinmunguia4781 7 months ago Wow human beings have so much potential 2 Reply 1 reply @michealray4895 @michealray4895 6 months ago Virtual photons make it difficult for me to believe there is much, if any, validity to the conversation they had in this video. Reply @afifakimih8823 @afifakimih8823 3 years ago (edited) Who knows then,one day this smart kid wiould be world smartest person or would be one of the great Theoretical physicist,and only physicist ever who won field madal in mathematics (equivalent to nobel prize). Ed Witten is a giant in his field.!! He is actually a genius.! 💜❤❤ 7 Reply @sachithfernando3918 @sachithfernando3918 7 months ago This is how exactly what we feel like talking with my friends after a blunt... 🔥🔥🔥 1 Reply 1 reply @ocularisabyssus9628 @ocularisabyssus9628 3 years ago 48:38 Salam: “Show!? Show? Good Heavens! It wasn’t a show at all. We’re doing serious discussion. Good heavens!” 10 Reply 5 replies @ernietech2256 @ernietech2256 6 months ago They listen to Ed Witten and think OMG, he is so very far ahead of most of mankind in his understanding of math and physics. 4 Reply 1 reply @umaxi96 @umaxi96 3 years ago Those glasses make Witten look 3 times more clever than the average person already :P 7 Reply @kalijasin @kalijasin 7 years ago Brother Abdus Salam will be missed. 5 Reply @Nihhuz @Nihhuz 7 months ago I have no clue what they're talking about but it's fascinating. 2 Reply @acuriouseccentric @acuriouseccentric 3 weeks ago Thank God we live in our times, bouta transcibe this whole convo plug it in chat gpt and have a blast Reply @naimulhaq9626 @naimulhaq9626 3 years ago I wonder why physicists are least interested in 'fine tuning' either of the parameter space or Maldacena's QC function. These experts are of the opinion of random distribution of BH in our galaxy, yet not one came near our solar system, in the past 4.5 billion years, wiping out all possibility of the evolution of life here. There are many other instances where 'fine tuning' plays crucial role. 1 Reply @sajateacher @sajateacher 8 years ago Listening to these gentlemen speak is like listening to great music... not that I understand even 5% of what they're saying, however. I remember reading something by Paramahansa Yogananda where he speaks of, I think it was his Samadhi experience, where he saw great whips lashing curtains of light into the illusion of reality and all creation. Perhaps what he was seeing were cosmic strings? Wish I could remember where I read it... 21 Reply 3 replies @germanodabramoLP @germanodabramoLP 2 years ago 35 years later, honor to Prof. Sciama. Plain common sense vs. complete nonsense. 4 Reply 2 replies @tomp2008 @tomp2008 7 years ago 33:29 brilliant camera-work 154 Reply 9 replies @darthvader-ey4xw @darthvader-ey4xw 4 years ago So refreshing to watch this after watching all those political debates. 2 Reply @MS-cj8uw @MS-cj8uw 2 years ago Its a grate privilege that to see the geniuses talking .... thank you ......actually I thing that we are in the era of converting the mathematics to a physics .......and that indeed like a great victory to a human kind, it seem as there is a continuous sound saying that there is a deep connection between our biological system and the universe....... it seem we are not in the era where we make analysing for the physics of nature by the mathematics only ...... 1 Reply @demi12342002 @demi12342002 2 years ago This was on my 21st birthday and i was getting hammered at the bar on this day lol!! 1 Reply @justinbenglick @justinbenglick 9 years ago Great video! Is there video of the Dirac Medals being awarded? 2 Reply @manxr1 @manxr1 2 years ago That little Dirac story at 47 min gave me a hard laugh. 2 Reply @romitpatel2495 @romitpatel2495 6 years ago leading lights of thorotical physics. 1 Reply @karlhoffman4676 @karlhoffman4676 7 months ago I love how there's levels to genius. 3 brilliant minds listening to a clearly more intelligent human, and they all know it... I wonder how many conversations Einstein had with his peers discussing relativity and impressing everyone. 2 Reply @npaaron4157 @npaaron4157 7 months ago Wittens brain is about to bust out of its head Reply @afifakimih8823 @afifakimih8823 3 years ago Who knows then that kid,one day will be world smartest person,a great Theoretical physicist,a great mind..!!❤💜❤💜 4 Reply @rajm.5819 @rajm.5819 5 months ago I love Edward Wittens diabolical smile and eye contact. 2 Reply @mohammedaslam2518 @mohammedaslam2518 4 years ago These peopels are heros.made this wold very easy.thanks sir .i stute you.... Reply @snowpants2212 @snowpants2212 7 months ago "Such a particle, with its feeble electric charge and its heavy mass, wouldn't be electrically bound in atoms. The gravity of the Earth would pull it right out." Reply @myroseaccount @myroseaccount 7 years ago This is where Physicists work out that Witten is well extremely clever,,, 1 Reply @robbader3 @robbader3 8 years ago Did this take place before M-Theory was devised by Witten? It seems like you can almost see him come up with the idea of "going home and discovering M-Theory" at 7:19. 1 Reply @zy9662 @zy9662 1 year ago (edited) Sciama, Salam pointing since the midldle 80s the problems with Supersymmetry and String Theory. You can see Sciama's strong scepticism in those dismissive smiles. Witten not directing his body posture towards him when discussing looks odd 2 Reply @NourDin-zj9ix @NourDin-zj9ix 2 years ago Beautiful minds 1 Reply @peaelle42 @peaelle42 9 years ago loool. i enjoyed Sciama's little stories about Dirac more than Witten's rambles on cosmic strings. Reply @hendriksahertian5525 @hendriksahertian5525 2 months ago If Einstein was in the discussion, it will be discussion of millennium Reply @ethorii @ethorii 6 years ago @33:35 Witten starts discussing the idea of sending tiny probes to other stars using the laser sail concept just publicized as a new Hawking idea and funded by some Russian billionaire. 6 Reply @damiancitobarbanis7575 @damiancitobarbanis7575 3 weeks ago I don’t understand hardly anything, and I thought I know quite a lot about physics. How could Witten at that young age know so much??? Reply @franciscomartinez-up9lq @franciscomartinez-up9lq 7 months ago Wow the older professor are listening to a younger professor Reply @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 6 months ago Poor Dewey B Larson. They never even mention his name. So much for unified physics. 1 Reply @TheMemesofDestruction @TheMemesofDestruction 2 years ago Things tend to come full circle. Reply @urrehmanhafeez3107 @urrehmanhafeez3107 3 years ago Mashaallah Jazakaallah 8 Reply @loririvers9826 @loririvers9826 2 months ago I’ve never felt so inferior. Fascinating. Reply @HimanshuParihar @HimanshuParihar 2 years ago Great, they are talking about gravitational wave detector which finally detected gravitational wave in 2015!! 2 Reply @Eric06410 @Eric06410 7 months ago Written is a beast 1 Reply @vikashkumarmukhia3013 @vikashkumarmukhia3013 3 years ago memorial talk 1 Reply @drinkbeetlejuice @drinkbeetlejuice 7 months ago Genius and unfulfilled promise. Reply @FineFlu @FineFlu 6 months ago Its wild that Whitten is the center of this convo Reply 1 reply @mrbubbles69able @mrbubbles69able 4 years ago 19:27 the eyebrow raise of Edward Witten 14 Reply @sahadevrai5582 @sahadevrai5582 3 years ago legends are here 1 Reply @chargersina @chargersina 7 months ago at the end, It turns out we know now the Astronomer was right about Quasars and Salam was very careful not to call them Black holes. Oh the skeptics.:) Reply @dailyflash @dailyflash 7 months ago It's a pleasure watching geniuses work it out. And they're trying to figure out howworks. it's not for war, money, or oppresion. 1 Reply @sushimamba4281 @sushimamba4281 4 months ago Witten was about 35 years old here. Reply @chady77077 @chady77077 1 month ago 16:07 Mr. Whitten shares his warmth with Xiao-Gang Wen. And proceeds to illuminate the room. Reply @alexdrudigmail @alexdrudigmail 8 years ago And then, twenty-two years later, Witten has to debate with ... Unzicker! 43 Reply @engjds @engjds 4 weeks ago Witten is quite smart, I learnt a few new things, barking up the wrong tree on a few things, but he will learn. Reply 2 replies @thepowerman8952 @thepowerman8952 1 year ago Ha ha quickly becomes just a Q&A for Witten! Reply @Bugaboo-wq5sc @Bugaboo-wq5sc 9 months ago The only person missing here is Dr. Strangelove 2 Reply @zorrodafnioths @zorrodafnioths 7 months ago Joe Rogans hug of death incoming 8 Reply @fitch1329 @fitch1329 1 year ago And here I am trying to calculate my rent lol Reply @DH432hrtz @DH432hrtz 4 months ago The backhand smack of intellect. Reply @drbonesshow1 @drbonesshow1 8 years ago The young Ed Witten looks like he's also there to sell the three others on the panel a pair of shoes: 1:55 8 Reply @ArtScienceWonder @ArtScienceWonder 3 years ago Someone add this to those Unintentional ASMR videos, will put you right asleep as much as the viewer wants to listen. ZZZzzzzzzzzzZzzzzzz 2 Reply @victortorres3187 @victortorres3187 1 month ago Ed Witten has an incredible control of his mandibles Reply @tobiedavis8841 @tobiedavis8841 1 month ago (edited) If ever there is an alien in human skin, it's witten😅 Out of this world genius! Reply 1 reply @barryispuzzled @barryispuzzled 7 years ago Dr Witten is talking about the consequences of a mathematical scheme that he's obviously studied in depth. However, this need not have very much to do with physical reality. 4 Reply @karlruv8332 @karlruv8332 8 years ago witten is so brilliant and nervous 2 Reply 8 replies @jordanpennington2599 @jordanpennington2599 7 months ago Welp I was feeling pretty smart until I watched this. 2 Reply @DrDeuteron @DrDeuteron 2 years ago I'm with Sciama: we have no guidance, other than the absence of evidence...which is not too motivating. 4 Reply @prabhawapearl @prabhawapearl 6 years ago Dyuam! I can't understand Ed, He is so fucking smart! 2 Reply @Smood47 @Smood47 3 months ago You can see all the physicists looking to Witten as a leader Reply 7 replies @ankurc @ankurc 2 years ago Great Reply @ajaxman200 @ajaxman200 7 months ago I found it wierd but maybe YouTubes algorithm search is becoming more and more harmonised with our unconscious mind, or vice versa??? 2 Reply @minhajali4124 @minhajali4124 6 years ago I love Abdus Salam. 7 Reply @SoundsSilver @SoundsSilver 1 year ago 6:34 This has to be one of the creepiest people to have ever walked the earth. That tongue movement and that voice give me chills. 1 Reply 2 replies @williamdrijver4141 @williamdrijver4141 6 months ago How tall is Edward Witten? Looking at the four of them walking down the hall, he looks to be 6 ft 3 or 190 cm in height? Reply 1 reply @happyrogue7146 @happyrogue7146 2 years ago very few physicists can raise on eye brow 1 Reply @anunusualnick8340 @anunusualnick8340 10 months ago (edited) I have an idea why gravity is so weak compared to electromagnetism. It's because time goes so much faster in the smaller scales. I'll give a simple example. You should read it. If we had an exactly similar solar system as ours, but size of an atom. They on the small planet would see light go 8 times around their Earth on one their seconds, so same as we see. Because everything sees light go as fast from their perspective. Difference is that on the small planet light goes 8 times around the planet, BUT, it is so much shorter distance compared to how far light travels on our Earths second. So it would take thousands or millions of years for those on the small planet to see light travel bit under our planets 300 000 kilometers (scary near number 3). Which is the speed of light in a second from our perspective. So it is depending from what scale you see light go, and what measure system you use. Scale of size affects time surely. This should apply to everything in the universe, even atoms. So when a second passes on this planet, millions of years has passed on the atom scale. That is why atoms seem so strong compared to gravity. They are so much smaller than us and time goes so much faster on that scale, so all their forces seem so strong compared to us. Reply @hmu958 @hmu958 7 months ago There's more intelligence in this room than in some, most, murican states. Reply @anastasiailieva7800 @anastasiailieva7800 3 years ago (edited) I simply don't get it why we should stick to either dots or strings as the fundamental elements of existence. it seems too static- why can't we assume that both are fundamental and so matter becomes energy and vice versa all the time? also, why should there be only one big bang if time becomes sort of irrelevant idea at that point- there could be many big bangs going on simultaneously all over the place so to speak, an eternity of big bangs and universes.- ok, if such notions cannot be proven to be right, they cannot be proven to be wrong either...or can they? )) 1 Reply 1 reply @viktorkadza @viktorkadza 7 months ago Just say Dirac was your supervisor one more time! Reply @gerardopc1 @gerardopc1 4 months ago How tall is Edward Witten? 1 Reply @qmsajidata @qmsajidata 6 years ago That Moscot looks nice on him! Reply @danarrington2224 @danarrington2224 7 months ago I would love to know if anyone is able to clean up the sound a little. The "muffled" sound makes it hard for me to keep up, especially since they all have unique accents. Reply @mohamedyusuf9944 @mohamedyusuf9944 8 years ago Theoretical physics need to be a creative imagination to discover the truth I'm excited from string theory and I think it will be a simple solution between quantum mechanics and relativity 3 Reply @afifakimih8823 @afifakimih8823 4 years ago Who knows then,oneday this kid Ed Witten would be a great theoretical physicist.!!even today he is considered only living brilliant theoretical physicist.!! 2 Reply 1 reply @pn2543 @pn2543 1 year ago @40:00 preview of LIGO technology just being discussed at the time, some 30 years before being realized 3 Reply @keejanaanmainkown13 @keejanaanmainkown13 7 years ago real scholars...should b shown to religious folks how to talk! I have to watch it prolly 3 or 4 times to get some level of understanding but really enjoyed how these elites talk...thank you very much for loading. 6 Reply @ashfaqkhan1965 @ashfaqkhan1965 7 years ago Few good men, The Earth Shakers 2 Reply 1 reply @ManWhoLostTooth @ManWhoLostTooth 8 years ago Room full of geniuses, and Witten is easily the brightest one there. 12 Reply 1 reply @bazejgraff7143 @bazejgraff7143 6 years ago I wish Feynman was there too 34 Reply 2 replies @DavidBrown-om8cv @DavidBrown-om8cv 5 months ago Professor Salam: "... string theory ... I think the uniqueness of this theory is a very appealing thing." CONJECTURE: String theory (in some form) is the only mathematically plausible way to unify quantum field theory and general relativity theory. QUESTION: What is the main problem with string theory? I say that the main problem with string theory is that the string theorists fail to realize that Milgrom is the Kepler of contemporary cosmology. Am I wrong? Did Gravity Probe B's 4 ultra-precise gyroscopes really malfunction or did the 4 gyroscopes work correctly & confirm the hypothesis: dark-matter-compensation-constant = (3.9±.5) * 10^–5 ? Please google "pavel kroupa dark matter" & "milgrom witten fredkin". Reply 1 reply @paul_the_merciful @paul_the_merciful 5 months ago Witten is a woody Alen type character in science .. idea + theory X 2 billion words = we don't know..lol Reply @bradleysteptoe6186 @bradleysteptoe6186 2 months ago Utterly absorbing Reply @nicce @nicce 1 year ago Most have started to give up hope of finding SUSY. Dirac was right. 1 Reply @harrybond9378 @harrybond9378 6 months ago Written by Witten! Reply @charlesvan13 @charlesvan13 8 years ago 15:15 No, professor every finite dimensional Lie algebra corresponds to a Lie group, Lie's third theorem, though I think Lie only proved it locally. 1 Reply 2 replies @xi7837 @xi7837 4 years ago probably the most densley intelligent place in the world 3 Reply @labenditacontrasena @labenditacontrasena 9 months ago Esto es como el privilegio de ser la mosca en la pared. Aunque no entiendo demasiado, gracias! Reply @ImNotHereEither @ImNotHereEither 7 months ago (edited) “It would be better if string theory explained quantum mechanics, but…” E Witten says. It doesn’t. I think it’s an intellectually fruitful and beautiful place in which to play, but it’s not providing us with the answers to the fundamental problems of how we understand space time, the weak force and their connection to quantum mechanics. 1 Reply @Edruezzi @Edruezzi 4 months ago A side link here asks if evil disproves god. Hell, Australia disproves god. Reply @KissSlowlyLoveDeeply-pm2je @KissSlowlyLoveDeeply-pm2je 6 days ago Decades later, and string theory is still a dead end. Reply 1 reply @sudharshanshetty26 @sudharshanshetty26 2 years ago Four heavy minds Reply @King-jq5vt @King-jq5vt 7 months ago (edited) As brilliant as Ed is, Fast-forward 20+ years from this conversation. String theory hasn't produced anything except PhD students. It's almost a shame he spent so much time in one area basically creating a type of complicated math. String theory is openly mocked half the time when you get a group of physicists on a stage together to talk. 2 Reply @rezanezami7540 @rezanezami7540 1 month ago This is how string theory took over the Theoretical Physics world. Do you see how Salaam and others are just watching Witten try to understand what he's saying? Probably Witten single-handedly derailed the normal path of theoretical physics progress for 30 years. How much talent been wasted in this beautiful fancy world with absolutely no physical reality connection that is verifiable. Reply @enigma9306 @enigma9306 7 years ago Every few no longer I come back and watch this video. It's surprisingly relevant 2 Reply @barryispuzzled @barryispuzzled 7 years ago Dr Witten is talking about the consequences of a mathematical scheme that he's obviously studied in depth. However, this need not have very much to do with physical reality. 2 Reply 1 reply @ashrafjehangirqazi1497 @ashrafjehangirqazi1497 4 months ago Young Witten reminds me of the young Chomsky. Reply @davehughes53 @davehughes53 7 months ago (edited) A shame he hasn’t had a break through. Understanding and regurgitateing Is not advancement Reply @linkwei9591 @linkwei9591 3 years ago Edward Witten ladies and gentlemen 2 Reply @ktuluflux @ktuluflux 3 weeks ago I have no idea why we are still enamored with notions of “mathematical beauty”. It sells books and generates clicks I guess. Reply 1 reply @samman350 @samman350 2 years ago Such a strange idea that beauty should validate a theory. Just seems so non-physics like. In my opinion, and in the opinion of every decent physicist, reality, through an experiment should validate a theory (or rather, it can only prove it wrong). And stop idolizing these people! Strictly speaking they're not even physicists, and they're probably all wrong. 2 Reply 3 replies @cobaltbomba4310 @cobaltbomba4310 6 years ago Witten is a kid before Dr.Salam! 4 Reply @cojocaru25 @cojocaru25 7 months ago It will be a much more fun iterview if other ones will be at least closer to eduard iq level.. Reply @evanislost @evanislost 6 months ago I wouldnt be surprised if these guys had to eat thousands and thousands of extra calories to sustain the amount of energy being used by their neurons. 1 Reply @jn3750 @jn3750 4 months ago I have troubles understanding other gentlemen (except Witten) Reply @matteogirelli1023 @matteogirelli1023 1 month ago Christopher Nolan directed this, and then made memento Reply @marknquinn @marknquinn 9 years ago When was this recorded? Witten wins the Dirac Medal 1985? Reply 1 reply @raakhanaten1035 @raakhanaten1035 7 months ago So, string theroy is broken? Witten is incorrect? Reply @arnav257 @arnav257 2 years ago Where was this conducted? Reply @misternobody1741 @misternobody1741 6 months ago God to guy in thumbnail: “how Jewish do you want to be when you are born?” Guy in thumbnail: “YES.” Reply @galaxia4709 @galaxia4709 8 years ago Lol, are they calling the HST: "the space telescope" ... (?). Interesting to get a view into the past. 3 Reply @dante19890 @dante19890 4 months ago so this is the Voldemort we heard so much about Reply @jaimenunez3544 @jaimenunez3544 2 months ago Bros got theoretical rizz Reply @bobwealthomontese9712 @bobwealthomontese9712 2 years ago Interesting Reply @jonathanbarnes215 @jonathanbarnes215 5 months ago Talking about how they go about finding the answers to the universe. Something light. Reply @cdub4693 @cdub4693 4 months ago He’s probably the smartest man on earth but in all honesty probably couldn’t do an oil change on his own car. Reply @micpin6810 @micpin6810 7 months ago 39:51 - 😀😀😂😂. Well, after 37 years it's back to square one. Reply @rubicunduseratiudas1264 @rubicunduseratiudas1264 1 day ago I think Witten is an actor, that's all. Reply @snowpants2212 @snowpants2212 7 months ago "What Lie did with Lie Algebras, I don't know" Reply @kriegguardsman7500 @kriegguardsman7500 7 months ago this guy looks like a 1930s german cartoon 🤣 1 Reply 1 reply @rajeevgangal542 @rajeevgangal542 6 months ago Have free fractional charges been observed? Reply @Gbzildo @Gbzildo 1 year ago Grand Unified Physics Memes Brought me here Reply @manuelsolis3819 @manuelsolis3819 6 months ago Meanwhile Im struggling to find the best position to sleep so that my blanket covers my feet. Reply @Name_b @Name_b 3 months ago May be all ideas can be put mathematically. Reply @moumous87 @moumous87 5 years ago mind-orgy... I hope I could enjoy it but this is way beyond my level 1 Reply @iamalive2826 @iamalive2826 1 year ago Young kid raging older ones 1 Reply @Hollowsmith @Hollowsmith 3 years ago This Witten guy might think he's smart, but I'll have him know that I have received perfect spelling quizzes in gradeschool, earning me MULTIPLE gold star stickers. Checkmate, Witten. 2 Reply @TheDavddd @TheDavddd 8 years ago tooo much brain power Reply @ryandegraw5807 @ryandegraw5807 7 months ago 38:05 why these edits? This happened a few times. 2 Reply @orionxtc1119 @orionxtc1119 1 month ago Only Witten is still alive 1 Reply @stevejanowiak1982 @stevejanowiak1982 7 months ago 1986 got this group of interesting geniuses. In 2023 we got the broads on The View. 😩 1 Reply @7DarkBlack @7DarkBlack 7 months ago Am I hear now ? or maybe it was then, back in 2035 2 Reply @ariplatt8192 @ariplatt8192 6 months ago Good lord. Reply @princeedmunddukeofedinburg @princeedmunddukeofedinburg 6 months ago Nothing has changed with the string theory for the past 70+ years.... 2 Reply @duxvu9873 @duxvu9873 1 month ago They are just giving meaning to observable things while being excited that one prediction somebody made is partly proven to be true. Thay are just exploring borders of our limited mind. Reply 2 replies @Name_b @Name_b 3 months ago Written is giving class and see how students are listening carefully. Reply @cymoonrbacpro9426 @cymoonrbacpro9426 3 years ago (edited) Mathematics is not physics, in this video is about Mathematicians story telling. Mathematics meets the definition of a language, And just like any language, there are infinite amount of stories that you can invent to describe our universe. But a story is just a story, which needs to be confirmed, and that my friend, is called observation. Unfortunately for these mathematical physicist, as they are called, most of these narratives will never be confirmed, Because of the remoteness in time and in space. For “No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” ~John Wheeler. Most of these hypothetical narratives will never be Validated! Will be forever in the realm of mathematical fiction. 2 Reply 1 reply @mirzarehman7566 @mirzarehman7566 7 months ago League of the legends 👏 Reply @norseko @norseko 7 months ago i skipped inglish to study fizziks. Reply @loren-emmerich @loren-emmerich 8 years ago L/mpcx1/2xc/e=mc2-1, that's it Reply @aristideregnier4883 @aristideregnier4883 5 months ago And what did they all produce thus far? 1 Reply 1 reply @Panda_436 @Panda_436 1 year ago (edited) What happened in 25:16???? :C Reply @benefactor4309 @benefactor4309 4 years ago Witten is 6 ' 2 " 3 Reply 1 reply @morgellonbetancor1453 @morgellonbetancor1453 8 years ago SALUDOS Reply @helveticaneptune537 @helveticaneptune537 3 years ago Salam looks delicious 1 Reply @fblazquezgil @fblazquezgil 7 months ago Didn’t knew Mattia Binotto is a physicist 🤔 Reply @Mad-Coo @Mad-Coo 7 months ago Give this man a pot noodle Reply @Smood47 @Smood47 3 months ago Camera work here is really weird. Like focusing on a hand for 10 seconds. Reply @mikemayhall9078 @mikemayhall9078 7 months ago 177,000 views. 176,000 views since JRE last month Reply @zhongruiwang @zhongruiwang 6 years ago Oh my god I feel I am so stupid 6 Reply @alexuwo @alexuwo 7 months ago Joe Rogan Army checking in. 1 Reply @jeffreykalb9752 @jeffreykalb9752 7 months ago Be honest: 30 years and no progress. Quantum mechanics had immediate and continually deepening results. 1 Reply @bouber6598 @bouber6598 7 months ago Glad to see my hero, Dr Abdussalam. 1 Reply @cdub4693 @cdub4693 4 months ago That’s a big ass head there better be a big brain in there. Reply @abelmedina7879 @abelmedina7879 6 months ago 5:27 Dirac was right. String Theory doesn't work 1 Reply @fredo5188 @fredo5188 7 months ago Here because of the JRE! 👋 Reply @SamYn727 @SamYn727 6 months ago fractional charges? what the fuck is witten talking about. is he about to write a new chapter is physics/chemistry? Reply @TheCogniscenti @TheCogniscenti 1 year ago (edited) To Liven up this shindig I thought You guys could use a few Jokes... if you're curious the name of Schroedinger's cat was pandora .. his dog's name was spotify... his pet lizard was David Icke Reply 7 replies @ryandegraw5807 @ryandegraw5807 7 months ago Why the edits? 1 Reply @stevenrays.7461 @stevenrays.7461 7 months ago He proceeds any of these men. Reply @JAJvdVen @JAJvdVen 8 years ago 17:16 Reply @thankor @thankor 10 days ago I AM TERRIFIED OF THIS MAN RUN RUN FROM HIM Reply @Kenneth_James @Kenneth_James 7 months ago So what's his name Reply @mikekrier1465 @mikekrier1465 1 month ago What's with the closeups on the hands? Reply @arafatzbd @arafatzbd 4 years ago O my god. what I am watching 1 Reply @felinefriend6101 @felinefriend6101 6 months ago (edited) wheres the 4th guy ….ooops ….found him Reply @prashantnegi007 @prashantnegi007 7 months ago yup JRE 😅 7 Reply @jeedan_deka @jeedan_deka 2 years ago Busskho proffesor maksudai Reply @ashrafjehangirqazi1497 @ashrafjehangirqazi1497 4 months ago Not being able to celebrate Abdus Salam shuts Pakistan out of the 21st century, 1 Reply @mikejackson8963 @mikejackson8963 7 months ago Eric sent me here!!! Thanks algo. 2 Reply @lexbraxman9270 @lexbraxman9270 7 months ago Do they play COD? 3 Reply @lello333 @lello333 4 years ago if the world was like 50% of people like these, we would have live, today, in a wonderfull world!! what a shame God dint fabricated us more smart and cleaver! what a shame 2 Reply 1 reply @ripper1fl1 @ripper1fl1 2 months ago GOD is the big bang lol Reply @iamalive2826 @iamalive2826 1 year ago (edited) Salam impressed by witten 1 Reply @MrJamesLongstreet @MrJamesLongstreet 7 years ago What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men. 1 Reply 1 reply @maciejkowalski6045 @maciejkowalski6045 7 months ago what did these people do thats practical and we can use it everyday ? Reply 1 reply @deepjyotipaul1532 @deepjyotipaul1532 2 years ago Why 21 dislikes ? 😐☹️ Reply 1 reply @Ugaritic @Ugaritic 2 years ago Sciama was a Syrian immigrant Reply @modvs1 @modvs1 8 years ago ..., cue Peter Woit. Reply @pallfy20 @pallfy20 8 years ago 29:20 & 37:40 Reply @trinigladiator8830 @trinigladiator8830 7 months ago (edited) Eric Weinstein on Rogan brought me here. 10 Reply @Selfbalancing @Selfbalancing 3 months ago he's smiling because he knows something and can't say it Reply @numbersix8919 @numbersix8919 4 months ago 1986 Reply @H3ntairican @H3ntairican 7 months ago Here because of Joe Rogan and Eric 🤓 25 Reply 3 replies @jonathanramirez643 @jonathanramirez643 7 months ago Shout out to the Joe Rogan podcast 3 Reply @BrianBull @BrianBull 7 months ago Joe! Reply @clausbacher @clausbacher 7 months ago Not impressed. What did the guy do for the world so far? Reply @sohailhassan8977 @sohailhassan8977 4 years ago This is real or fake? 1 Reply @seanodonoghue9005 @seanodonoghue9005 7 months ago Rogan 4 Reply @Kostly @Kostly 7 months ago Physics is for all intents and purposes, dead. Reply @obsthetimes @obsthetimes 8 years ago Does the domineering Salam have a spot on his forehead he's trying to hide ? 2 Reply 5 replies @nagilum @nagilum 7 months ago Dave’s not here man. 1 Reply @princesamurai45 @princesamurai45 6 months ago Shout out to Eric Weinstein. 2 Reply @darthjelly8095 @darthjelly8095 7 months ago So sheldon is base on witten? Reply @canzuk4711 @canzuk4711 5 months ago Salam was the least "sympathique" of this group of great minds, bordering on rudeness. Reply @rockpadstudios @rockpadstudios 7 months ago Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff. But after a 100 years of funding physic's where are the anti-gravity drives, 1g engine that runs for years, etc.? All we get are theories (which is fine) but as a civilization we need solutions to our energy needs etc. Reply @peedinkus389 @peedinkus389 6 months ago Wut? Reply @CoolGuy-fg3xv @CoolGuy-fg3xv 3 years ago These guys don’t know Reply 1 reply @fredirecko @fredirecko 7 months ago Weinstein is trolling all of you lol. Reply @travelgalaxy8291 @travelgalaxy8291 3 years ago Abdus Salam is pakistani 2 Reply @zenmasterjay1 @zenmasterjay1 7 months ago E=mπ² Reply @raulmunguia3164 @raulmunguia3164 7 months ago Rf. Reply @eSKAone- @eSKAone- 6 months ago Every so called "scientist" that does not see that the universe is a living thing is just a mechanic. His mind can only process the obvious parts of life before his eyes. Everything is alive. Life does not end at the other side of a cell's membrane. A city is an organism too. There is no isolated system in the universe. It's systems within systems, overlapping each other. God is life itself. Everything in life is connected. We are part of a greater being. Religions are just different languages, they are an attempt to communicate this insight to other humans. With science getting more and more of the picture (macrocosm, microcosm), and people getting educated about it, it will be easier and easier for everyone to understand it. For that:☮️, you have to see this:☯️. Reply @cojocaru25 @cojocaru25 7 months ago The smatrest men leaving at this time in point jus my 2 cents opinion ) Reply 1 reply @isaacdietz5914 @isaacdietz5914 4 weeks ago no. Reply @SuperVince1010 @SuperVince1010 6 months ago joe rogan Reply @nc7341 @nc7341 6 years ago (edited) How many of us really know what they are talking about? Such clips on youtube is just a waste of time. I am not here to watch the mannerisms of brilliant people. Reply 2 replies @aaautoandengineering3093 @aaautoandengineering3093 7 months ago Nasty formulas Reply @ummnine6938 @ummnine6938 1 year ago string theory has wasted toooo much time of everyone, i mean too much time, its just really bad! its 2022 now! Reply @3Circuit6Breaker9 @3Circuit6Breaker9 7 months ago Eric Weinstein! 1 Reply @Stopinvadingmyhardware @Stopinvadingmyhardware 5 months ago another liar Reply @donaldforeman4010 @donaldforeman4010 7 months ago Trump 2024 - Ed Witten 1 Reply @barenjuden3911 @barenjuden3911 7 months ago Gay 1 Reply @majidhussain3896 @majidhussain3896 7 months ago Peace, Islam is the truth. Read the Qur'an 1 Reply @micpin6810 @micpin6810 7 months ago So from 1986 to 2023 is a WHOPPING 37 YEARS. What a waste, as string theory has now become not just a failed hypothesis but a complete JOKE. Reply @gregwilson6636 @gregwilson6636 3 months ago whitten is sooooo the smartest bloke in the room! Reply @marcoestiercol6112 @marcoestiercol6112 1 month ago Witten, the man who held back humanity for decades to pursue his selfish unpractical dreams. A true monster. 1 Reply 1 reply @zxionboy @zxionboy 7 months ago J=rE :) .. there, my contribution to string theory 🤌🏻 Reply Edward Witten: On the Shoulders of Giants World Science Festival 1.2M subscribers Subscribe 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 K Share Download Clip Save 283,703 views Nov 12, 2015 Acknowledging the scientists who blazed intellectual trails before him, Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen a little further it was by standing on the shoulders of giants.” In this special annual series, we invite our audience to stand on the shoulders of a modern-day giant. In 2015, we were honored to present an address by a titan of physics, Edward Witten. Professor Witten is a leading light of superstring theory and the only physicist to have won the vaunted Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honor. Known for advancing a number of novel approaches in mathematics and physics, Witten opened up new vistas in 1995 when he unified five seemingly competing superstring theories into M-theory, which seeks to unify Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: / worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: / worldscifest PARTICIPANT: Edward Witten PROGRAM DATE: Saturday, May 30, 2015 Nature Rhymes. 00:00 Waves. 1:00 Progress from the 17th century 6:55 Kinetic energy and the distance from the sun. 11:58 Lagrangian mechanics 16:09 Richard Feynman contributions to physics 22:45 The world line of a particle. 28:00 Newton and Einstein working together. 37:03 What if string theory is correct? 44:44 Chapters View all Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript World Science Festival 1.2M subscribers Videos About 1:01:21 Steven Weinberg: On The Shoulders Of Giants by World Science Festival 1:08:05 Barry Barish: On the Shoulders of Giants by World Science Festival WSF Latest Releases by World Science Festival 496 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... @WorldScienceFestival Pinned by World Science Festival @WorldScienceFestival 6 years ago Hello, YouTubers. The World Science Festival is looking for enthusiastic translation ambassadors for its YouTube translation project. To get started, all you need is a Google account. Check out Edward Witten: On the Shoulders of Giants to see how the process works: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=2UQ8teAebcg To create your translation, just type along with the video and save when done. Check out the full list of programs that you can contribute to here: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCShHFwKyhcDo3g7hr4f1R8A&tab=2 The World Science Festival strives to cultivate a general public that's informed and awed by science. Thanks to your contributions, we can continue to share the wonder of scientific discoveries with the world. 62 Reply 7 replies @tonyfoxxbuilds1920 @tonyfoxxbuilds1920 8 months ago Who else is here from a Joe Rogan podcast? I'd love to hear more lectures from this man. The way he describes physics with ease is kind of relaxing. 452 Reply 61 replies @kennethstrand7577 @kennethstrand7577 7 months ago Its incredible how precise he is in his words and phrasings, its like he says all and only the exactly correct thing. 31 Reply @elidrissii @elidrissii 7 years ago Unarguably the greatest living physicist. And great lecturer and expositor too it seems. 138 Reply 8 replies @sibbyeskie @sibbyeskie 7 months ago (edited) Always pictured Witten as a sort of Ivory Tower figure, solemnly churning out technical papers. Turns out he is actually a terrific engaging communicator. 15 Reply 3 replies @miscibi @miscibi 7 years ago Again, perfect timing! Just when I needed to see some more from Ed Witten! :) Thank you for making these sorts of presentations available! 20 Reply @deeliciousplum @deeliciousplum 7 years ago Professor Edward Witten is a living pioneer. Always a joy to explore this gentleman's thoughts and inquiries. 24 Reply @ryanrj7500 @ryanrj7500 5 years ago This guy takes raw intelligence to the next level. Wish I could borrow his brain just to see the world from his perspective. 40 Reply 2 replies @stianaslaksen5799 @stianaslaksen5799 4 years ago Edward Witten is a master speaker. In his entire talk there is not a single "eeh" or "umm", or any other disturbances that creep into normal peoples speech. A pleasure to listen to. 50 Reply 5 replies @Dr.scottcase88 @Dr.scottcase88 8 months ago It is so refreshing to listen to professor Witten, speak in terminology that is clear and understandable to delay person. So often in his mathematical lectures, he can speak for over an hour long, and I am unable to understand a single sentence in the lecture. 7 Reply 1 reply @scriabiniste @scriabiniste 7 years ago Wow: this is really brilliant, even to a layman like me. And how smart was Feynman? Unbelievable. 41 Reply 1 reply @garymastin5581 @garymastin5581 6 months ago Fortunately Ed has been a star almost since post grad and because so I have watched probably 20 talks by him. ❤ 2 Reply @aristotle4048 @aristotle4048 6 years ago Witten has always been a role model of mine, and a true giant in his own right. 34 Reply @markkennedy9767 @markkennedy9767 1 year ago What I find is he is so easy to follow. I don't know if this is because of his unusual delivery which I first found slightly jarring but now is actually just really nice to listen to. Even compelling. Really interesting and brilliant guy. 3 Reply @goldenphoenixpublish @goldenphoenixpublish 6 months ago Some 20 minutes in, Ed begins to describe how every path a particle can take is possible -- if not necessarily probable. Perhaps one way of explaining this is to say that "Everything in the Universe connects to everything else." Essentially in each and every "instant" of time (understood as a "moment of change") all universal influences converge on the particle -- a particle which itself is in unity with all other particles. The law of efficiency simply summarizes all such influences and 'determines' the particle's path through the greater unity of all things. Of course, this explains why the double-slit experiment gives such surprising results. The investigator's presence is also a factor. (A presence that itself does not exist in isolation from all things either...) Reply @RenePlougsgaard @RenePlougsgaard 1 year ago (edited) People like him make me proud as a human. Thanks, Edward witten for your hard work. Reply @astraldreamhead193 @astraldreamhead193 7 years ago im mesmerized by this gentleman, the way he talks is so intelligent, and the tone and meter is so lovely 92 Reply 2 replies @whocares1409 @whocares1409 2 years ago This guy should have his own TV Series. Probably the greatest physicist alive today. 2 Reply @forsak3nkill3r @forsak3nkill3r 4 years ago Wish they gave him another hour or two so he could fully explain everything without feeling short on time. Great video though. 5 Reply @srikanthtupurani6316 @srikanthtupurani6316 3 years ago The greatest mathematical physicist of all time. No doubt about this. He is frightening like hell. The way he writes equations it appears as if it is some joke for him. The kind of math he knows there are very few people who can come close to witten. 4 Reply 1 reply @kavalkid1 @kavalkid1 3 years ago Wonderful! Oh, my ___ The observation of quantum entanglement may be our hint into the 4 dimensional geometry we seek. The geometric structures we do perceive are viewed from a higher dimensional vantage point. We are viewing entanglement from a dimension below the state this phenomenon exists in. Perhaps it is more a palindrome than a rhyme that can be used to see the commonalities from the inside out. Any entangled pair may be the pushpin or anchor. Any entangled pair exist at the same "place" in 4 dimensional geometry. The Delayed Choice experiment may be our access point. 3 Reply @travisfitzwater8093 @travisfitzwater8093 1 year ago I think the Quantum Field Elemental Point (FEPs or Feptons) whose size cannot be measured directly but only ever by inference with regard to its behaviors when interacting with other Feptons) always prefers interaction when possible. Like in the crudely analogous situation of a child's carnival bounce house or a large trampoline with 4 iron weights placed equidistantly on the surface and 300 magnets from 1/2 centimeters to 4 centimeters in size randomly and carefully scattered across the surface. Some will initially fall towards a weight others will land in the interstitial space. When the surface is carefully agitated, say by the introduction of three chipmunks to it: the agitation by their scurrying will cause the magnets to migrate -variously, but not precisely predictably towards one or another of the weights where they will bind and remain stationary until three Golden Retrievers are permitted to trapse about the surface in which case the iron weights may clump variously together or into a singularity of them all. Reply 2 replies @stevemenegaz9824 @stevemenegaz9824 1 month ago Incredibly insightful. Reply @tattoomas @tattoomas 7 months ago he s so hypnotic 🤩 could listen to him talk al day "using the human language" perfectly effortless 2 Reply @hshdhdbnd @hshdhdbnd 7 years ago I wonder if we could have a three-dimensional random quantum geometry to get closer to a four-dimensional random quantum geometry (involving space and time). Wouldn't that 3 dimensional theory be an upgrade from String Theory which is a two-dimensional random geometry? 2 Reply 1 reply @ashishkiift @ashishkiift 2 years ago Privileged to live during the time of Ed Witten ! Wish the cameraman was zooming in on the screen as Ed spoke. Such a shoddy job ! 1 Reply @mitchellhayman381 @mitchellhayman381 5 months ago Amazing man. Imagine a world where everyone was as highly evolved as this. Reply @jacknicklin953 @jacknicklin953 6 years ago Wonderful, thank you. 4 Reply @twistedmezelf @twistedmezelf 7 years ago This was the 4th time i watched this talk from start to finish and still i have a hard time wraping my mind around the ideas proposed 6 Reply 3 replies @thlee3 @thlee3 7 months ago anyone else looking for videos of this man making an academic opponent weep and cry 6 Reply 1 reply @ilanpi @ilanpi 3 weeks ago “If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.” -Hal Abelson Reply @KatrinaDancer @KatrinaDancer 6 months ago I take exception to him saying there will only be a few equations. I'm here 4 the math! More math please 😁 1 Reply @ro4eva @ro4eva 7 years ago Maybe it's just me, but his voice and articulation are almost soothing when wearing noise-cancelling headphones. I could comfortably fall asleep listening to him speak - that's meant to be complimentary (for the record). 10 Reply 1 reply @neilmcintosh5150 @neilmcintosh5150 7 years ago Probably the smartest guy in the world alive today 191 Reply 46 replies @ggrthemostgodless8713 @ggrthemostgodless8713 6 months ago I am compatible with this guy's sense of humor... he is so subtle. 2 Reply @deeplearningpartnership @deeplearningpartnership 5 years ago He's brilliant. 1 Reply @JamesEIvoryIII @JamesEIvoryIII 2 months ago “History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme”. -Mark Twain 😉 1 Reply @twoscoops1509 @twoscoops1509 7 years ago I've always wanted to give him a hug. Edward witton is my hero from since i was a small child. I love how he explains the most complex concepts. His books are even better. 1 Reply 2 replies @charleshultquist9233 @charleshultquist9233 6 months ago One of the best descriptions I've seen. Reply @priyabratadash4542 @priyabratadash4542 7 years ago thank u so much WSF .. i was wandering why he has not been invited yet.. it was a great talk 1 Reply @Lord_Vadr @Lord_Vadr 4 months ago Would love to sit down and have his ear for a conversation. A lot of ideas to discover as well as scrutinize. Reply @williamdrijver4141 @williamdrijver4141 7 months ago No idea what Mr Witten talks about, but Ihe is an excellent presenter. I do wonder if physicists lose themselves in theoretical stuff. Are they using their superior intelligence to help their country? To improve humanity? Help nature? Make the lives of millions or even billions of people better? Reply @NothingMaster @NothingMaster 3 years ago Witten was a history buff, long before he was a physicist. 1 Reply @Evan2718281828 @Evan2718281828 4 years ago Didn't know Riemann tried to describe gravity in terms of curvature but only of space and not time. Reply @shengxianzhao272 @shengxianzhao272 7 years ago A brilliant man,maybe one of the greatest mathematical physicists in history. 1 Reply @max123559 @max123559 7 years ago THIS man should be a celebrity 67 Reply 7 replies @romyou3788 @romyou3788 6 years ago This man is easily the most brilliant physicist in the world 3 Reply 3 replies @anunusualnick8340 @anunusualnick8340 3 years ago I have a question. If this string theory is supposed to be the ultimate theory of the universe. Then what are these strings made of? 4 Reply 2 replies @Texastomfoolery @Texastomfoolery 7 months ago I sure wish he'd talk about the advanced stuff 1 Reply @footballempirefc5960 @footballempirefc5960 2 years ago Lucky to be living listen to this genius talking Reply @callmedeno @callmedeno 7 months ago So far is string theory still likely to be correct or has it ran into trouble? Reply @morgellonbetancor1453 @morgellonbetancor1453 5 years ago tal vez los gigantes nos dejaron pistas muy grande y se esta adecuando a la necesidad de las prioridades Reply @mauriciofurlan7773 @mauriciofurlan7773 1 year ago Que pena! Podia ter colocado legendas em português. Reply @ZoeTheCat @ZoeTheCat 7 years ago As a person who understands physics at a certain level, I realize how he is attempting to simplify the talk. However, I think anyone who does not understand physics at a reasonably deep level....will probably get absolutely nothing from this. These videos will only be important for future generations of physicists to look back and reflect on the current general thoughts of today. Who knows - this video might be as quaint as a pre-Copernican era talk about epicycles ;-) But Ed is fully aware of that. There is a LOT that we still don't know.PS: I wish Feynman were alive and in the audience. I can see him standing up and correcting Witten about the photon. Light ultimately IS a particle (not a wave)...at least we're pretty sure. Reply 6 replies @cpatricksday @cpatricksday 4 years ago (edited) Amazing man, M theory is brilliant theory! 2 Reply 1 reply @advaitrahasya @advaitrahasya 7 months ago A century of these mathematical models. Chronocentric Atomism is exactly analogous to Geocentricism in pre-Copernican astronomy. Manage that, take an overview on the currently popular models as each being a "blind man's report of the elephant" … and understanding most of the puzzles, problems and anomalies becomes trivial. Just as escaping geocentricism made understanding the epicyclic motions relative to a view from planet Earth… quite trivial. Reply @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 5 years ago Witten is a guy who, when I hear him speak, I want to say, "just show me the equations!" 1 Reply @LJO_Hurts_Pianos @LJO_Hurts_Pianos 5 years ago I've heard that Witten's intellect leaves other physicists quivering -- that he's freakishly intelligent even for a theoretical physicist. That says something. I've always wanted to hear him speak. Reply @PistonDriven @PistonDriven 7 months ago When every sentence is a world, undiscovered.. Reply @aristotle4048 @aristotle4048 6 years ago (edited) When Witten jokingly remarked that De Maupertuis thought the principle of least action proved the existence of God, I was expecting the audience to react. The fact that they didn't is a little unsettling. 3 Reply @lawrencewamithi4430 @lawrencewamithi4430 5 years ago During a physics conference many of the physicist ranked witter to newton and Einstein 1 Reply @robbie_ @robbie_ 7 months ago Is this guy really a "modern day giant"? He sent physics down a cul-de-sac for 20 years. Reply @erikziak1249 @erikziak1249 7 years ago Lovely! Just one comment: I always viewed the graviton similar to a phonon, which is a quasiparticle. Simply a particle just made up by our reasoning and understanding, but essentially nothing which can be detected directly, but only reconstructed. Ideally from first principles, sorry for this stupid joke, it is late at night, but at least it is friday tomorrow. Reply 1 reply @jackhammer6963 @jackhammer6963 7 months ago Is there am age where you are to old for this to have an effect or does your age not matter?? Also how do you find out where the moon was when you were born? How do you determine when you should be saving your self and how long does this period last?? Reply @ExMachina70 @ExMachina70 7 months ago Oh great! They're grading on a curve! Oh crap! Did Edward Witten sign up for this class too? Reply @2000coco @2000coco 7 years ago This brilliant man👏👏😍😍 5 Reply @FernandoDeLeon @FernandoDeLeon 7 years ago He is in the league of Newton and Einstein 45 Reply 9 replies @ulriklm1 @ulriklm1 5 years ago A great mathmatichian 1 Reply @nictrent3790 @nictrent3790 9 months ago The movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once makes total sense now :D 1 Reply @NuffxSaid @NuffxSaid 7 months ago (edited) What if the universe is a ball and it's rotation creates the illusion of expansion due to the curvature 😬 Maybe its even orbiting something and the closer it get to the source it speeds up the rotation or it's maybe even being stretched out. Due to the universe ball orbiting a black hole... so that is what is where stretching or speeding up is happening... dun dun dun. I have no idea what I am saying 😂 Reply @vigo47 @vigo47 1 year ago This is how a physicist explains physics for laymen not like Eric Weinstein. 4 Reply @luiz5411 @luiz5411 2 weeks ago Hey camera man we can hear the speaker but rarely see the slides. keep up the good work. Reply @andrewcoursaris5063 @andrewcoursaris5063 4 years ago (edited) Hes very eccentric likeable and very smart 5 Reply 1 reply @Herbert2892 @Herbert2892 3 years ago I wish SO MUCH that this video had "non generated" english subs! I know how to read but my english hearing is not so good... Reply @bryan3dguitar @bryan3dguitar 1 year ago The audio levels change when he approaches the "live" microphone at the podium - while still using his wireless, lapel microphone. Does anyone notice this in the auditorium? 1 Reply @paulgets2737 @paulgets2737 7 years ago ' On the Shoulders of Giants' ? Edward Witten is undoubtley the greatest living theoretical physicist of the World. But it is overstatement to compare him to Isaac Newton. At least until his M-Theory will be proved a true physical theory. If ever... 3 Reply @milkymodi6264 @milkymodi6264 4 months ago Doesn’t a string need tension in order to vibrate ? Reply @pablock0 @pablock0 4 years ago que homemmm Reply @TutorSAT @TutorSAT 7 years ago What about the suppositional thinkers and scientists that ask great questions. WHY IS OLE ROMER NOT ON THE POPULAR LIST OF GREAT INVESTIGATORS. He gave birth to practical investigation into the speed of light. Reply @petermacinnes5313 @petermacinnes5313 1 year ago Mr Witten has made a statement I would strongly dispute. He said that a pure sine wave sounds ugly to the human ear. I am a musician and recording engineer, and can tell you that there is nothing ugly about a sine wave - if you tap a tuning fork on a hard surface, and then listen, you will hear a close approximation to a sine wave. Not ugly. Mr Witten has strayed outside of his area of expertise, and has mispoken. 1 Reply @jame2182 @jame2182 7 months ago Fascinating Reply @odnewdylee @odnewdylee 7 months ago 2:42: wouldn't that establish light moves as a wave, as water does. Water moves as a wave, electromagnetism moves as a wave right? Reply @WaltersGuides @WaltersGuides 5 years ago this guy speaks in physics memes 1 Reply @mathedguy @mathedguy 10 months ago (edited) I wish the good professor could use a different analogy than a violin string. He says they could vibrate in many different ways. But of course a violin string can only vibrate when it is taut, and its vibration is determined by its length ! (Since Pythagoras) 1 Reply @nicholasdamjanovich4686 @nicholasdamjanovich4686 7 months ago Perhaps we will never be able to comprehend how to unify big and small because our perspective of big is limited by how small we are relative to the true size of the Universe/the bit we can see. The earth appears flat until you comprehend that the size difference between us and the earth helps us to have that disillusionment. Perhaps, we are atoms relative to the grand perspective of all that truly exists in the Universe and not just the observable universe. We cannot possibly comprehend the scale of perspective necessary to unify all Physics into one seamless thing. We can only touch on the parts that we are able to see. Three blind men and an elephant. Reply @davidreynolds2450 @davidreynolds2450 7 years ago Isaac Newton said: "If I am able to further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants," 10 Reply 17 replies @zekez5934 @zekez5934 7 months ago I wish this dude would come out publicly about how verbose, silly, and egocentric Eric is. I want one witness, just one witness from Eric's cute little parable about how he discovered everything before anyone else did everyone in the room immediately turned to look at him as if to acknowledge they knew that the all-powerful Eric was truly the discoverer of all. I'm betting there is not one person who can corroborate that story, cuz like most things in Eric's world, the only exist in his imagination. 1 Reply @tomahawkmissile241 @tomahawkmissile241 6 months ago during thus presentation there was about 150 gamma ray that went through the thought process. Reply 1 reply @ravishingrickyrude303 @ravishingrickyrude303 7 months ago How much information does it take to be above probability ? Reply @stormtrooper3381 @stormtrooper3381 7 months ago So what I understand is that I don’t understand this quantum fourth dimension. But I do understand the 3rd dimension quantum geometry and know a 4th exists that I don’t understand. Reply @sparhopper @sparhopper 6 years ago Shame on the videographer(s) and/or the editors that failed in keeping up with properly showing his slides! 8 Reply @johnfarris6152 @johnfarris6152 4 years ago He almost broke the CC. So far Feynman has been spelled, Fineman and Phiman along with Feynman. 1 Reply @thecollageman3290 @thecollageman3290 3 weeks ago Checking all things at all times without time to get the best result. Reply @opendebate @opendebate 9 months ago Witten is bad at giving a talk, but great at writing scientific papers! Reply @merlinthegreat100 @merlinthegreat100 6 years ago Very nice and modest guy. He is very very brilliant, but string theory strays off from experiment. It is inarguably beautiful and is most likely in the right direction. 1 Reply @jondury9450 @jondury9450 5 years ago Wow, Steve Weinberg and Ed Witten in a same room. 4 Reply @daleminkel2816 @daleminkel2816 10 days ago We are all here because of the funnel theory. We started at Joe Rogan interviewing Eric Weinstein and were immediately funneled through YouTube where we each clung to a Witten video probably predetermined initially by the YouTube algorithm and finally our personal preference for the length of the video. Reply @peterkovacs8876 @peterkovacs8876 4 years ago there are a lot of popular media physicist (Brian Green, Max Tegmark, Tyson, etc) but the most most most most biggest MIND is WITTEN 7 Reply @bindon8581 @bindon8581 6 years ago Getting hung up on quanta, the building blocks, misses the bigger picture, the house in this analogy. Thus General Relativity is to be subsumed under particle physics in modern minds, just as chemistry has been. I stress the fact that, say, an orange cannot be reduced to atoms in any meaningful way. The essense, or zest, is missed out. As for the particle, it's bound to the wave, according to the Michelson-Morley experiment. Wheeler was on the right route with his one electron theory, which Feynman dismissed out of hand. The particle doesn't move; it bobs up and down or side to side in accordance with Newton's neglected inverse cube law, just like a buoy. The electron sent out out from the 2-slit experiment isn't the same one that arrives. It knocks on it's neighbour, a sort of domino effect. Let's add that wasting more money on bigger colliders will only result in more of the same, but weaker, up the fractal harmonic wave. Ed said it himself at 00:32:25. Since banging particles together at higher energies isn't risk free, it's time to face reality and smell the napalm, before we rip an hole in the very fabric of space-time. Most interesting physics data has come from telescopes, anyway. Even Feynman was fed up with a new quixotic particle being found every week. I claim they're just the phantom ghosts of the harmonics, something Pythagoras knew about 2,500 years ago! Reply 1 reply @TRayTV @TRayTV 3 months ago Oh, wow. At about the 13:28 mark Witten tells a joke, pauses for laughter and the audience erupts with silence. Maybe people will eventually laugh due to second-hand retellings? (If you didn't get the first joke you probably didn't get this one either.) Reply @1artillery1 @1artillery1 7 years ago I think space is never totally empty. Reply @BL-tr2ug @BL-tr2ug 7 months ago Godammit, I knew giants existed.... Reply @superscienceshow @superscienceshow 6 years ago the slides they don't show are text of what he is saying. that is how he rolls 2 Reply @praveenkumardhankar2716 @praveenkumardhankar2716 1 month ago (edited) @13:37 "You couldn't get any credit for scientific ideas nowadays. But apparently in the 18th century you could." ----------> Since gravity is space-time curvature a 'graviton' would be a 'cube' of Planck length in the smallest unit of time imaginable. It won't be a particle or a string. That's why the 'graviton' wasn't discovered or observed at the Large Hadron Collider. Thanks. Reply @JohnMandalios @JohnMandalios 7 months ago this is basic formation aspects of one (his) .The problem of fluidity vis-a-vis the (new) Ether is not within IAS' paradigmatic writ. Forget strings. Reply 1 reply @DrDave21 @DrDave21 3 years ago (edited) The look on his face at 29:36: "Shit, how can I explain this to a room full of apes..." 14 Reply @SeanMauer @SeanMauer 7 years ago So gravity is not a force, it's a simulator of reality. 1 Reply 1 reply @michaelcrawford310 @michaelcrawford310 7 years ago Watched a lot of these lectures. About time to fire the entire sound team. 16 Reply 1 reply @katiekat4457 @katiekat4457 6 years ago He has one of the highest pitched voices I've ever heard for a man and yet he is very manly looking. 7 Reply @newbiebyte4377 @newbiebyte4377 7 months ago (edited) why do people say this is not correct anymore? Reply @abelkrazd7893 @abelkrazd7893 7 months ago He may be smart but has he ever listened to a tuning fork? It sounds good Reply @steamerwon @steamerwon 7 years ago Very interesting BUT... I wish people who make these videos show the SLIDES that the commentator is continually referring to.. WE all know what the speaker looks like but the information on the slides is often not displayed either at all or only for a brief time... Sooooo pleeeez let us see more of the slides...................... 1 Reply @pb4520 @pb4520 2 years ago everything is fractal including God's thoughts 1 Reply @tristancraven3685 @tristancraven3685 6 years ago (edited) ooh look at that image of an atomic wave the purple one that is exactly the image of single point energy . and thus the ancient mathematical geometrical symbol of the positive swastika .. this professor has a lot to learn. Reply @1artillery1 @1artillery1 7 years ago How could strings hold the weight of an atom? Compress on it? Reply 2 replies @Ramkumar-uj9fo @Ramkumar-uj9fo 1 month ago Can string theory as an hypothesis scientifically can lead to tachyons and time travel has an iota of truth? Say yes or no Yes ChatGPT ❤❤🎉🎉 Is it scientifically hypothesis that this time travel can be accepted by theory of evolution? Say yes or no No. The theory of evolution and the concept of time travel are not directly related scientific hypotheses. ChatGPT ❤❤🎉🎉 Reply @tamasmihaly1 @tamasmihaly1 3 years ago He is the best. Reply @canzuk4711 @canzuk4711 6 months ago Greatest living mind 1 Reply @thankor @thankor 2 weeks ago I am TERRIFIED of this man! Reply @bobsmith5185 @bobsmith5185 7 months ago I understood what he said, but, wow, it was very poorly presented. He’s yet another scientist / mathematician who should let more organized & articulate communicators convey information. Reply @rodnee2340 @rodnee2340 7 months ago I don't care if he destroys my mind at least I understood a little something. If my mind remains intact I will know I'm too stupid to understand it anyway. Reply @johnhigginbotham3037 @johnhigginbotham3037 1 year ago Every sentence starts loud and then fades away, What a pain to listen to ,,,JMH 1 Reply 1 reply @litgoat9622 @litgoat9622 6 years ago newton of our time 1 Reply @funmeister @funmeister 6 years ago To lecture/presentation video uploaders: Please stop showing only the presenter and failing to show the slides! 1 Reply @Yatukih_001 @Yatukih_001 6 years ago Giants have minds, voters have none. 3 Reply @tristancraven3685 @tristancraven3685 6 years ago but it was available before 17th century. alchemy was used to understand the world and universe .they had electricity back in antiquity time . Reply 2 replies @martinsapien306 @martinsapien306 6 months ago The biggest mystery is why is he walking back and forth... Reply @Hythloday71 @Hythloday71 7 years ago He says at the end ... "so we get G.R. for free" ..... "so we have 2 dimensional .... but we don't know how to do 4 dimensional ..." But G.R. is 4 dimensional ... so can string theory do it or not ? ? ? Reply 2 replies @depthoffield4744 @depthoffield4744 7 years ago It is fitting that his name is Witten lol Reply @TutorSAT @TutorSAT 7 years ago YEAH I agree with Bill Watson below. Reply @shuddles08 @shuddles08 7 years ago Everyone commenting is very very smart 1 Reply @tarekazzam389 @tarekazzam389 1 year ago Thomas Young visited Goettingen (in the 1600 or 1700s?) and stayed in the former Egyptology- and Orientalism-House at Prinznstr. in Downtown Goettingen. Reply @DanHowardMtl @DanHowardMtl 7 years ago Show the slides maybe? 38 Reply 3 replies @stephena.sheehan9959 @stephena.sheehan9959 4 years ago ... "four-dimensional random quantum geometry" and Dr. Weinberg is looking uncomfortable, but accepts that if this is how nature is, so be it. :-) Reply @someluke005 @someluke005 7 years ago Why so few slides shown?? Reply @MathIsMore @MathIsMore 7 months ago He's talking like he's reading a book. Crazy. Reply @VM-wt3ti @VM-wt3ti 7 years ago why doesnt he give us tips on how to study 1 Reply 1 reply @splotbang8296 @splotbang8296 7 months ago The only person who can win an argument with this man is his wife. Reply @kendrickburton1111 @kendrickburton1111 1 year ago I would give anything just ta have one person hear me out I can dim any and every star in tha sky almost if not completely out and Brighten them up twice as bright everybody think I'm crazy I'm not I'm very special to humanity.. And I'm taking in and cycling everything so different then other people.. please someone read this that can help me understand.... PLEASE it's taking a real impact on my soul and meaning of reality... Reply @edwardjones2202 @edwardjones2202 10 months ago Not just an ivory tower guy He wrote a bunch of public letters protesting the Israeli imprisonment of a Palestinian physicist 1 Reply @vincentrusso4332 @vincentrusso4332 1 month ago Usually savants lose their communication skills.. Reply @JyoPari @JyoPari 7 years ago Wow... Reply @justsaynotoboomers @justsaynotoboomers 7 years ago But does he know why plants crave Brawndo? Check and mate, smart guy. Reply @robertwhitten265 @robertwhitten265 8 days ago I tell everyone that I'm related to him as a pick up line. Never works. Reply @garymastin5581 @garymastin5581 1 month ago I asked joe Rogan to set up a debate between Witten and Eric Weinstein who speaks in derogatory terms about string theory and Witten Reply @tristancraven3685 @tristancraven3685 6 years ago gravity is electro magnetic energy . Reply 1 reply @MrShark731 @MrShark731 6 months ago I am here because of Eric Weinstein on Joe Rogan calling him V of physics Reply @soucianceeqdamrashti8175 @soucianceeqdamrashti8175 7 years ago Extremely annyoying that the slides are not shown! Reply @deusdat7204 @deusdat7204 6 months ago 2023: string theory is virtually discredited. Reply @amazingcezo @amazingcezo 1 month ago His askew tie is driving me insane. Reply @PplsChampion @PplsChampion 7 months ago (edited) 31:25 witten probably not a big fan of old moog synthesizer music :) Reply @Outcast_Raj @Outcast_Raj 2 years ago Man i don't understand his English its too fast for me 1 Reply @eswn1816 @eswn1816 2 years ago Warning: He will refer to slides that you will not see... Arghhh...! 1 Reply @marioulises5978 @marioulises5978 7 months ago (edited) I'm here because of Joe Rogan. 😁 Reply @stevenmielke3883 @stevenmielke3883 6 months ago Is this not the explanation of the butterfly effect Reply 1 reply @_paralaks_ @_paralaks_ 7 years ago Horrible recording as I see from the first 12 minutes! We should be able to see the slides when EW stops talking and looking at them; at least! 5 Reply @johnquiroz8279 @johnquiroz8279 6 months ago I don't think this guy is all that Reply @Limpn00dle84 @Limpn00dle84 7 years ago When did Rudy Giuliani become a physicist? 9 Reply @FixingPhysics @FixingPhysics 1 month ago "Two-dimensional quantum geometry" a modern day flat-earth theory? Reply @Tom-ef1mz @Tom-ef1mz 7 years ago sound guy needs to stop switching mics Reply @Dexduzdiz @Dexduzdiz 6 years ago What's his instagram? 1 Reply @JerryHatrickShorts @JerryHatrickShorts 7 months ago (edited) I’m here because of Rogan Reply @gyanprakashraj4062 @gyanprakashraj4062 5 months ago I dont think so...🥳🥳🥳 Reply @janklaas6885 @janklaas6885 7 months ago 28:00 Reply @fancyhandle @fancyhandle 3 weeks ago (edited) Who gave the camera to this guy!? You skipped most of his slide for crying out loud!!! WHY!!!!!!????? Reply @bhagavan.108 @bhagavan.108 7 months ago What is this? Some person caught in time/space? Analysing the ignorance of the history of psychics. Great. Reply @johnfarris6152 @johnfarris6152 4 years ago Bee's can smell stuff. Reply 1 reply @evo2542 @evo2542 6 months ago I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE JOE! Reply @pateder2163 @pateder2163 7 months ago I must of missed that f=ma day in high school.. Reply 1 reply @Wasteomindy @Wasteomindy 7 years ago Where are slides? :\ 1 Reply @the.trollgubbe2642 @the.trollgubbe2642 7 months ago I couldn't be in his presence. I would feel like a dog that peed on the floor. So low, so unworthy. Reply @AndreUchoaUSA @AndreUchoaUSA 6 years ago Badly edited......you guys should show the SLIDES! Reply @jizim8947 @jizim8947 5 months ago I have one thing to say... HUH? Reply @markkajdi4263 @markkajdi4263 7 months ago Go Joe Rogan Reply @adametherington7010 @adametherington7010 7 months ago Came here from joe Rogan podcast anyone else? 1 Reply 1 reply @ArilandoArilando @ArilandoArilando 3 years ago 9:00 1 Reply @jaimescorner1817 @jaimescorner1817 8 months ago Joe Rogan Podcast brought me here. Reply @alangarland8571 @alangarland8571 6 years ago Tick tock Reply @rubear8245 @rubear8245 7 months ago 8:17 first major mistake. Empty spacen is an unevidenced unproven purly fabricated conception in the mind sbd does not relate to physics. Facepalm Reply 2 replies @bjorkstrand7773 @bjorkstrand7773 1 month ago HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING Reply @donnetube73 @donnetube73 7 months ago Bet he can't bang a nail in, and in context but of people like this, they just have a good memory and just recite text, they are not that smart Reply @nobodymove232 @nobodymove232 1 month ago Thanos Reply @richardl.currier4052 @richardl.currier4052 7 years ago omg hes so cute i just wanna hold his small baby mouth 18 Reply 5 replies @AbhishekKumar-ch9pz @AbhishekKumar-ch9pz 7 months ago Enough of his face, can we see some slides plz 🥲 Reply @CGGS1981 @CGGS1981 5 months ago Just for evidence, like if Joe and Eric Weinstein brought you here... Reply @e.habtom396 @e.habtom396 6 months ago Here from joe rogan Reply @alphasuperior558 @alphasuperior558 7 months ago (edited) He sounds with a soft voice like he's fruity. Reply @garymastin5581 @garymastin5581 1 month ago Cer😢ainly Reply @edwardolvera5280 @edwardolvera5280 7 years ago If the audience are not high level Physicists ( who very probably are not) no one will understand a shit. jajaja sick 2 Reply 8 replies @slowdown7276 @slowdown7276 7 months ago Hi Voldemort. Reply @MeaHeaR @MeaHeaR 1 month ago Thé Audio is be TERRI-BULL, Itt be ALL Over thé Pláicé He's Mumbling Mâkéth itt Werséd to Be Héré Reply @jimtaggert42 @jimtaggert42 5 years ago do not dis Trump here or you will be smashed!!! 1 Reply 1 reply @namratakawlekar4205 @namratakawlekar4205 2 years ago (edited) oMKAR KAWLEKAR PSYcHEDELIC DJHES 15MAY1991 JAI hIND Reply @HT-rq5pi @HT-rq5pi 7 years ago this guy is a really bad speaker 3 Reply 14 replies @zackwentworth2653 @zackwentworth2653 7 months ago String theory is a joke! Reply @mojowolf5597 @mojowolf5597 7 months ago Not impressed...just another theorist who gives overly complicated responses Reply @Ernesto1317 @Ernesto1317 7 months ago Why do they pursue unification obssesively given that the universe (not only the visible one but the neglected one by physics) is infinitely diverse. Unification is a fairy tale we should drop if we want to make real progress. Reply @tuduloo7799 @tuduloo7799 6 months ago show us the slides!!!! Reply @blackhorse8427 @blackhorse8427 8 months ago 202 IQ 😲 Reply @ayoubar9026 @ayoubar9026 1 month ago This guy is as if an ai specialized in maths and physics became conscious Reply