The Story of Physics ft. Edward Witten

1:16 / 1:27:46 The Story of Physics ft. Edward Witten Witten 17.3K subscribers Subscribe 1.3K Share Download Clip Save 58,918 views Feb 22, 2023 “Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.” ― Edward Witten more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/edward... Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Witten 17.3K subscribers Videos About 156 Comments rongmaw lin Add a comment... @joshjc86 @joshjc86 7 months ago (edited) The only person I’ve ever seen who seems like he’s reading from a teleprompter, but it’s literally him uploading from the files in his brain to us 98 Reply 15 replies @science_steve @science_steve 4 months ago Thank you Dr. Witten for taking your time to explain this from your valuable perspective. 8 Reply @CasperAblij @CasperAblij 7 months ago fantastic. would be amazing a to make a new version of this in a similar way, with Witten talking about more recent work etc 17 Reply @aclearlight @aclearlight 6 months ago Wonderful content! This is my first stumble upin your channel and I am very impressed by the offerings I see here...thank you! 2 Reply @praveenkumardhankar2716 @praveenkumardhankar2716 1 month ago His genius is contagious. Light always travels at the same speed cz maybe it travels independent of the geometry of space we're used to? I know gravitational lensing but then there's the doppler effect to counter it at macro level. So why is the universe 'expanding' ? 1 Reply @greggapowell67 @greggapowell67 1 month ago What a truly brilliant man. 2 Reply 1 reply @chady77077 @chady77077 9 days ago 26:11 Should be most watched. Fantastic insight from Prof.Witten. Reply @sonarbangla8711 @sonarbangla8711 1 month ago That string theory enables us to unite gravity and QM is in itself a miracle, giving us an insight into the reality that is related to hologram, counting entropy etc. Loss of information in a BH that reappears when the next cycle of CCC is indeed shown by Penrose as indispensable. Reply @jimw5299 @jimw5299 1 day ago This guy is Awesome. I wish i could under his mind. Reply @Franciscasieri @Franciscasieri 5 months ago (edited) Imagine 8B Ed Witten brains on one planet...since there are billions of possibilities for planets like ours...it could exist now...imagine that society, that world... 4 Reply 1 reply @lunychoonz4587 @lunychoonz4587 4 months ago (edited) I need to hear more, the concepts are so mind altering that it’s almost calming. His father was a physicist..epigenetic’s anyone? Reply @TmpSchoolofficial @TmpSchoolofficial 1 month ago One can write a book for general physics by these subtitles 🔥🔥🔥 Reply @DylanUPSB @DylanUPSB 7 months ago Where is this from? Can't find it anywhere else on the Internet. What a gift for you to have shared it, thank you! 12 Reply @jwilliams8210 @jwilliams8210 1 month ago Wow! This gentleman is absolutely brilliant! Reply @dimitriosfromgreece4227 @dimitriosfromgreece4227 1 month ago Thanks for this brother ❤️🙏love and RESPECT Reply @frontech3271 @frontech3271 3 weeks ago Caught some of his stand-up in a Cambridge dive, killer! Reply @arthuaful @arthuaful 7 months ago would be nice when the available automatic subtitles would include all spoken languages in the video. is this something that one can configure as creator, or is it solely on youtube? this would be a nice fix! 1 Reply @YYEEIISSOONN @YYEEIISSOONN 1 month ago Nice Interview, his voice communicates peace. I listen him while i was doing my stuff. Vibes from the far Perú. 1 Reply @asadmech12 @asadmech12 4 months ago Dr Written, I have a question..when you blow a balloon, and when we say that balloon is expanding, then something is expanding it which is air in this case..but when we say that space is expanding..what is expanding it? What is the fabric of space made up of? If the space of fabric is made of something then it means that the big bang is still happening and there is a fundamental energy or force that is pushing everything and creating time as well. If we could figure it out I think we would be able to find different dimensions of time as well. Reply 2 replies @benjamminbling1748 @benjamminbling1748 7 months ago Anyone reading this to you I admire your hunger for knowledge as my vibrations become more collective. I’m starting to be able to understand more complex ideas. 25 Reply 8 replies @kennethclayton1526 @kennethclayton1526 6 months ago Doc, Marylin (Norma Jean) Monroe understood the power of sex so well, she probably never thought of it. That was in the 50s. Today, she might not get a second look. Same for Liz Taylor. I like Weinstein's style of intellect. Not that I 'understand' either his, or Witten's genius. But more because I don't enjoy laboring over a technical construct, finally getting the idea (string theory), only to walk away wondering, 'What is it?' Even Witten says, 'We have five pieces, and another smaller part. Maybe that smaller part is what makes it 'super string theory', and that makes it worth the Fields Medal. 'Norma Jean' probably knows, but doesn't think about it. Reply @nosuchthing8 @nosuchthing8 3 months ago I had to pause 1:30 in. Perhaps a better explanation of how speed is additive (at low speeds) would be those moving conveyor belts at airports. When you hop on those, and then walk, when you get to the end you get a wild burst of speed, both speeds added together. 1 Reply 1 reply @YYEEIISSOONN @YYEEIISSOONN 1 month ago He Knew things humans doesnt. Enjoy more the life, the moment. Start living. Reply @bjarkenielsen905 @bjarkenielsen905 7 months ago If you take, for example, the periodic table Alpha=Sigma squared, you have the mass of all the gases. 18 times 18 = 324.; X .Z.Y axis is each 108. . You live in the 6th house. 18 in the periodic table. 2 Reply @ProactiveForce @ProactiveForce 1 month ago You have and are the most amazing mind. Reply @DrDr-pg5br @DrDr-pg5br 7 months ago He is trying his best to dumb it down. He must think we are all adorable little ants. What a brain. 11 Reply @winstonvpeloso @winstonvpeloso 2 weeks ago i lose it every time he makes an expression like he’s suppressing a giggle Reply @hosoiarchives4858 @hosoiarchives4858 1 month ago Edward Witten throwing a ball lol 1 Reply @HeiiarchyGameplays @HeiiarchyGameplays 7 months ago (edited) Say I’m going the speed of light and hypothetically turned on a flash light, if my eyes were good enough and body resilient enough, would I see the tail end of that beam of light as I chase it? What does it look like to be chasing light at the speed of light? 2 Reply 10 replies @quincy3d69 @quincy3d69 7 months ago even if some times the rules make now sense they might be the rules after all 2 Reply @gerardopc1 @gerardopc1 4 months ago I like his voice, soft and smooth 3 Reply @johnheckles8239 @johnheckles8239 4 months ago (edited) We need to get Edward Witten on the Lex Fridman Podcast 👌🏻👍🏻 15 Reply 1 reply @megakeenbeen @megakeenbeen 4 months ago Pretty cool video Reply @franklee2683 @franklee2683 2 months ago "Ever learning,yet never coming into the Knowledge of Truth..." 2nd Timothy 3:7 1 Reply 2 replies @jimlahey5354 @jimlahey5354 7 months ago He would school Michael Jordan In physics 16 Reply 1 reply @jaytorr6701 @jaytorr6701 2 weeks ago It is actually sad that the public learned of Witten only after the JRE Weinstein interview... 1 Reply @josefnavratil646 @josefnavratil646 4 months ago Witten, a piece of that genius is missing. If the brains of the string players thought just a little bit (just a little bit is enough) and admitted that the strings are the dimensions of space themselves, better that they are 3+3D of space-time, and that these dimensions on the Planck scales twist, curve, pack into bizarre formations, packages, so finally (!) even the theory of strings would acquire the physical form that actually exists in Nature... and that matter is built from dimensions, not from strings that are "out of nothing", mathematical entities. 2 Reply @FlockOfHawks @FlockOfHawks 1 month ago Wasn't Einstein's calculus a response to the findings of Michelson & Morley ? Reply @andybaldman @andybaldman 1 month ago Nobody here has genuinely learned anything from watching this. You’re just here because of Rogan. This is entertainment for you. Not education. Reply 1 reply @babitasingh5086 @babitasingh5086 3 months ago Sir, How contact you, I am working in Quantum gravity 1 Reply @mathewbates6838 @mathewbates6838 1 month ago You can literally see the dude uploading the next paragraph with a extended blink. 2 Reply @collinsoconnor5843 @collinsoconnor5843 6 months ago Why do tenured professors at MIT hide under their desks when you visit the campus? 2 Reply @jeremyluna9956 @jeremyluna9956 7 months ago 59:10 causes the (expansion) of the universe to accelerate 4 Reply 2 replies @cya3mdirl158 @cya3mdirl158 3 weeks ago I can’t understand what is difference between electric and magnetic fields. What is the carrier of the magnetic field. And why light is an electromagnetic wave if there are no electrons there Reply @xXxTeenSplayer @xXxTeenSplayer 6 months ago Is there a full English version? I can see all you JRE people didn't even make it to the Italian(?) lmao 🤣. 2 Reply @trudyandgeorge @trudyandgeorge 4 weeks ago The LHC did not reveal any evidence for super symmetry. Reply @zando5108 @zando5108 3 months ago This guy seriously needs to donate his sperm. 100 Ed Wittens i believe have the collective power to create a utopia for all. 1 Reply @leisurejain7835 @leisurejain7835 6 months ago Love from India❤️❤️ 2 Reply @wattsmichaele @wattsmichaele 1 month ago How can you translate the Spanish narratives????? Reply @seancaceres619 @seancaceres619 3 days ago (edited) So for anyone that has been following Eric Weinstein from JR, which is why I'm here, would know that Weinstein said ON JR that Edward Witten is the one intellectual that he is terrified of, and that is stating alot as Weinstein is an intellectual heavyweight himself. What I dont understand is why Weinstein (presently 2023) is railing against string theory. Most notably, bashing Michio Kaku openly? But Edward obviously gets a free pass, not that I would want anyone to be bashed..... I mean seriously, Dr. kaku builds a particle accelerator in his garage as a teenager but is now reduced to being chastised by colleagues for all to see? Reply @DFF1234 @DFF1234 4 months ago this is grand admiral thrawn Reply @kev4241 @kev4241 6 months ago profound lack of confusion 1 Reply @ClassyAssCassie @ClassyAssCassie 2 months ago Well, where the fuck them particles at dog? I though me and my ex were super symmetrical too, heartbroken 1 Reply @francescos7361 @francescos7361 6 months ago Thanks Reply @zenithriding @zenithriding 7 months ago but...HOW? Reply @nosuchthing8 @nosuchthing8 3 months ago When the smartest man on the planet is barking up the wrong tree. 2 Reply 5 replies @n.y.c.freddy @n.y.c.freddy 1 month ago HELLO! Edward Witten ET Al.! Never ANY mention of *Karl Friedrich Gauss! ( *Gauss! ) Albert Einstein - fell into and *discovered *Gauss! You KNOW.! WELL? *Gauss was THE TOP RUNG of the physics LADDER that *Einstein utilized! WELL.? Reply @benson6143 @benson6143 7 months ago Witten should get into teslas work Reply 9 replies @Mohammad_Imran_ @Mohammad_Imran_ 3 months ago Here after Eric wienstien podcast.. 1 Reply @BrianBull @BrianBull 7 months ago Here b/c of Joe Rogan 1 Reply @grantthorburn5935 @grantthorburn5935 3 months ago That's not him.... Reply @JJ-yk6il @JJ-yk6il 3 months ago This guy can’t be real. He’s like a men in black character. Nothing about him comes across as human. I’m not trying to be hurtful, but he seems like he’s about to transcend from the 3rd to 4th dimension. 1 Reply 1 reply @diwakarkumar1469 @diwakarkumar1469 7 months ago (edited) I came here from j. R. E podcast with eric weinstein. 137 Reply 26 replies @davidschilling2949 @davidschilling2949 3 months ago Wtf are the brown books in the background? Reply