Actually his genes where extremely close to becoming non verbal autistic. Soooo he would of been taken care of for life if he wasn't who he is now. Also on another note. pay attention at how he laughs inside at his own inside joke without being too obvious. You can tell by his twitching eye 2:00
What’s wild is that he got his bachelor’s in history, then studied economics for a semester as a grad student before deciding it wasn’t for him, and then enrolled in Princeton’s PhD program for applied mathematics …before switching to physics. You have to wonder if the fact that his father was a theoretical physicist prevented him from taking the most straightforward path lol
@@viviondiolineAgreed. People hear how smart he is and are then overanalyzing every single thing to look for genius in it, even simply acting like a teacher does (he is/was a professor) and going to the blackboard to demonstrate like all teachers do.
This is one of the smartest people on the planet, And at some points his saying things are gonna get way weirder than we can ever imagine possibly soon maybe within your lifetime reader
Dude I was just thinking the same thing! I was like I I am at calculus level that’s it😂 I am just happy there are people that are discovering these things about our universe and gravity and all these laws of physics. If you think about it a certain way we are kinda witnessing history!
The interviewer is Wim Kayser. This is one of the interviews he did in a series called "Beauty and Consolation", and it ended with most of them sitting together for a conversation.
When I was 7 years old, I lived around the corner from Eddie and played with him. True story, Pikesville MD 1956 or 57. Hi Eddie, do you remember playing ball with me? Your dad brought you down to my house, Summit Park. You lived on Diana Rd, I lived on Pimlico Dr. JRE brought me here, although I have known about your work for decades.
@@BDB78 He was smart but kind of an egghead. He was a couple of years younger than me, but he didn't seem like the genius he was. He just wanted to play catch. I felt a little sorry for him.
Certain kinds of humans have such beautiful artful minds. I just found this gem of a man and I am grateful. Thank you for being. Friend to minds that think. Edward Witten. Wow! It's fun just listening to him. So eloquent.
How did i just find out about this guy for the first time by listening to jre like I've been a universe fan boy for over a decade now. I own several seasons to the universe and all of through the wormhole n i could listen to this guy talk for years like other physicists must be scared of this guy as even youtube spit out his name top of the list with just a edw.
What's an EDW? I remember someone (a theoretical physicist)saying in a documentary years ago that most theoretical physicists think they're smart. And Edward Witten is SO much smarter than all of us who think we're smart. 😊
He doesn't do podcasts, and his interviews are rare, as you can see by googling him on TH-cam. He did recently appear on Brian Green's World Science Festival, along with 3 other top level String Theorists. It's an amazing talk actually, go check it out. From what i see, he is also a bit 'embarassed' about his status as a legend in physics. When people prompt him to speculate, he refuses, and at least attempts to be super careful about what he says about physics. He is, however, adamant that string theory is the onyl real candidate right now for a final theory
Yes, 😂😂😂me too! I wanted to know the man that causes scientist to shake in fear 😊, he's not scary at all . I could actually understand . If science is music , he could compose many symphonies.
He's amazing , I would've loved to have a professor like him . I love the way he explains the most , it's as if he sees it in his mind and uses words to explain how he understands what you can't see. I love it and hope I can learn everything I've been having difficulty understanding .
@@mondrian5620 I can’t. No one can. Super string and M are entirely self referential by design and any experimental data that even trends towards disproving them (eg cosmological constant) are immediately countered by proposing random changes to assumptions that themselves can neither be proven nor disproven. There are systems like that that have proven net positive to our existence and valuable to civilization, except we do not call them science, we call them “philosophy” or “religion”.
Wow. Watch his eyes. It's as if he is computing thousands of computations instantaneously simply to deliver a layman's explanation of a topic that he understands on a level most humans could never. How we went from early man to this in less than a million years.
i dont think not one single mind can understand what he understands on his level, the general consensus between top level physicists is that Witten is leagues above in intelligence. Its truly such an amazing feat, i feel his the closest mind to something of AI. Hes sort of robotic. Interesting as hell. Would love to see scans of his brain.
Amazing. Even I could follow it LOL! But more seriously, what strikes me is the that the ancient idea that existence manifests using (I won't say "governed by") the mathematics of harmonic resonance just seems like it keeps re-emerging again and again among the most advanced thinkers in many different historical eras. As a musician, I want to heed Witten's warnings that the beauties and harmonies of string theory are not the same as in music. Even with his succinct explanation, I know that what I can grasp is still only at the very most simplistic edge of the universe he's talking about. People think science is all dry and logical but that's not at all true. Physicists gape in awe at the profound mysteries of the universe just the same as the rest of us. It must be exciting for Mr Witten to work at the boundary where logic and math confront those as-yet inexplicable mysteries.
The guy is so smart, I just regret my math skills are not as good as his, to have same pleasure of the overall harmony that the theory is revealing. These guys are on frontiers of human intelligence, bests of the bests. One day, they will come with something incredible, discovering all tones of the space symphony. I wish every next generation has at least one Edward Witten and that I could see where they got in 1000 years from now ;-)
I know I'm listening to a genius, but feel like I'm looking at an alien that has taken human form. Never heard of him before. Thank you Eric Weinstein.
@@TheDarkLasombra I wouldn’t say it’s dead at all. It only ends when everything ends. Everything is connected in one way or another rather we want to believe it or not.
I enjoyed his x/y graph where he wrote the “t” and “m” first, then proceeded to fill in the “I” and “e” to for the x value. The efficiency and thought form is extraordinary
hes the closest mind to AI we ever had, or will have for awhile i feel. his mind seems so robotic, so beautiful in a sense but also kind of frightening how much ahead his brain is from everyone else. I truly believe that people who criticize string theory, truly cant see the grand scheme of it clearly. he might be 500 years too early to be recognized, if string theory ever get proven correct or figured out, then society as a whole needs to have experimentation with it which would cause insurmountable energy. We'd need to be a type 3 civ at that point which is thousands of years if not 10's of thousand away.
Absolutely fascinating! I do understand thoroughly, and I don't know why. Edward Whitten 2:30 Edward is anticipating which questions the interviewer might ask while listening. Each word narrows down the gamut of possible words to finish the question. 12:00 Edward waits for the question to then for the answer idea to form, then the proper words to succinctly express the idea. 12:06 Being interrupted, Edward re-opens the gamut of responses then evaluates the interviewers further input and waits for the idea to form before the words gel to the best choices, a form of branching and/or backward time. 14:20 Five differing string theories are described by Edward. Perhaps the five separate conclusions describe the parameters of “fuzziness” required by higher dimensional time. I am presuming that these five separate theories are each presented in linear form. 17:00 Concerning symmetry; I don’t see how symmetry can be maintained at sub-luminal velocities. The balancing factor might be a super-luminal stillness gradient. Sub-luminal “fuzziness” may be balanced by super-luminal clarities, if you will. 17:50 “Space and time will only be approximations.” The position and velocity of a particle being an approximation is a part of this “fuzziness.” This is required for linear time to operate as we observe it. “Paying attention to what’s first and what’s last.” The words of this linear statement cannot express the idea the first and last can be simultaneous, as well as reversed.
This might be a bit off the topic, sorry about this, but can we use this concept or aspect of it to build things? Or and to move objects? 14:30 - 14:41 is that a little joke he made?
Just came across this interview! Strange! i had a dream a number of years back. It consisted of just one continuous note/ tone, it was the most incredible sound /experience.it was as if everything in the universe was contained in that note. it was a whole orchestra playing the most beautiful music, nothing else existed it was as if i was in this most incredible peaceful place. Nothing else existed except this joy and tranquility and peace. would have been happy to stay there and never return!
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” - Albert Einstein
Jonathan Valenzuela : I would say that while physics theories are formulated in mathematics, they are ultimately a synthesis of empirical facts, and so, are subject to falsification upon new contrary evidence. A theory that makes no empirical predictions, is not physics, but rather, mathematics. A mathematical theory that has 10^500 answers, is vacuous as a picture of reality.
Jonathan Valenzuela : I don’t recall the context of Einstein’s statement,..... it may have been in reference to H. Weyl’s “gauge” invariant generalization of general relativity to “world geometry”,..... Einstein said that it was mathematically “beautiful”, and “Genius of the first rate “,... but “impossible that the theory corresponds to nature”.
The beauty of music analogy is quite nice - as being untrained in music theory I would look at the score for a beautiful song and have no idea what I was looking at whereas a trained musician could possibly recognise the beauty from the notes, silences and accents. We would certainly not scoff at the use of "abstract" musical notation to create beautiful music as we should not scoff at the use of abstract mathematical constructs to create beautiful physical theories and models.
One of the problems of the string analogy is that strings are solid objects as well. In reality however particles are illusions: quanta create/maintain (oscillating) forcefields that give us the illusion of particles
I really like this video because it says more than the majority of popular materials. I've watched tens of YT videos on string theory and almost none of them say how it differs from standard QFT, i.e. in the sense of being much more rigid and explaining interactions just by the structure of particles. To me, Witten with his passion and concentration is a much better advertiser of strings than Kaku; at least to me Witten is far more convincing.
@@TheDarkLasombra ...you are correct and even in the 90s plenty of people were skeptical about it. The only thing that kept it going was that fraud Kaku and his incessant chirping about it in every documentary he was asked to be in.
What I intuit is that one formula talks about potentiality and the other about actualisation. I wonder if there are particular, discrete dimensionalites to potentiality and to actualisation.
Is Ed Witten the Mozart, Beehtoven, and Bach of mathematical physics? I do not understand the details of their work, but I do sense & appreciate the beauty of their work.
Except it is a hypothetical mess AND HE GOT EVERYONE TO FOLLOW IT. He's so far down the rabbit hole he cannot find his way out and may be unwilling to tell everyone THEY need to.
Just imagine those strings are oscillating inside us too they are on our finger tips infront of our eyes yet the are sooo far away from us even though we ourselves are made of it
The only thing I can't grasp is why strings? And please how did we start thinking of strings and why not circles? Or anything else? I feel its all entangled and to use one shape of linear material may be another rabbit hole. Possibly? I am a bit lost here. Any help be great.
A point particle has zero dimensions. A string is the only one dimensional object. When they studied the equations they realised they resembled harmonics, hence the name string
@@bluemonstrosity259 Thank you. This makes perfect sense to me. I play guitar and use my vocal chords. They are strings too. I wonder if there is an element that can capture harmonic vibration from a magnet and get some perpetual motor movements or something. I want the future now. LoL. Ya na . Oil is needed for ever but we need to think outside the box. Put a little bow tie on that string or something 👍 Where's the damn flying cars? I want it all.
3:49 he mentions that gravitational theory also has a similar problem of in falling matter. If the rate of gravitational radiation is very very small, wouldn't that solve the problem?
The seed of my theory... There are three kinds of "strings" and they are not looped..... The strings are more like a knitted blanket with strings overlapping each other in a similar fashion as the thread in the blanket (over-under-over-under, up and down). Each string "type" has a natural harmonics "range" and each interacts with the others according to these "harmonics". The points where the strings overlap and interactions with those next to, above and bellow at certain frequencies or "harmonics" is where you get matter in all its forms.. The kinds of strings overlapping, the position of the stings as in up/down/over/under and the frequencies of each determin what form of matter.... Thats it in a nutshell.
The greatest mind in generations spent his entire career on a Masturbatory theory that has yet to make any contact with physical reality and shows no signs of ever doing so. What a beautiful tragedy.
Plus the maths that he developed along the way has contributed fundamentally in which he has won a fields medal , one of only two physicists to win them. Other being Martin hairer who was briefly my professor for stochastic analysis
Unlike string theory, loop quantum gravity is manifestly background independent,..... but it sounds like Witten is saying string theory will treat spacetime as emergent from more fundamental structures (?) (Probably referring to Ads Cft correspondence).
Spacetime becomes a derived concept in the context of String theory since the fundamental theory is the worldsheet theory in 2d. Spacetime emerges from the dynamics of strings. However, this is only a part of the full story since there are other string theories where there is no exact notion of fundamental objects, see e.g. M-theory.
5:30 can anyone with physics knowledge explain this to me.. how does the bottom right point come into play? How does “2 come from the past” when the bottom left point was the origin
The guy is exactly what i expect a genius to look and act like. With those mystical lips.
Just like the detective brothers in south park
Here after JRE
Indeed!
Same!
Me too bru. This guy is awesome!
Amazing podcast with Eric Weinstein.
Same here
If Ed Witten had never made it in physics, he’d have made a tremendous hypnotist
i feel thoroughly lobotomized and blissfull
Absolutely
Or gay guy
Lol😂😂😂😂😂
Actually his genes where extremely close to becoming non verbal autistic. Soooo he would of been taken care of for life if he wasn't who he is now. Also on another note. pay attention at how he laughs inside at his own inside joke without being too obvious. You can tell by his twitching eye 2:00
That jumper alone makes him a boss.
You can tell he’s a special dude, doing exactly what he’s supposed to be doing, and so calmly ❤
What’s wild is that he got his bachelor’s in history, then studied economics for a semester as a grad student before deciding it wasn’t for him, and then enrolled in Princeton’s PhD program for applied mathematics …before switching to physics. You have to wonder if the fact that his father was a theoretical physicist prevented him from taking the most straightforward path lol
You can see in his eyes, he is visualizing his explanations. When he is finished he re-enters the reality of the conversation.
Love that observation.
I’d give anything to experience his thoughts, even for a few minutes
Same
Hyperfantasia I believe it's called ☝️
Correct. He re-enters reality after talking about the unreality that is string theory. This is brilliant maths. Shit physics though
What a creature . How fast he bolts to the black board is inspiring. Like a child when asked about his bike
what a weird comment
@@viviondioline the only person being weird is you my man lmao
@@viviondiolineAgreed. People hear how smart he is and are then overanalyzing every single thing to look for genius in it, even simply acting like a teacher does (he is/was a professor) and going to the blackboard to demonstrate like all teachers do.
This is one of the smartest people on the planet, And at some points his saying things are gonna get way weirder than we can ever imagine possibly soon maybe within your lifetime reader
He’s articulating these complicated ideas so quickly and smoothly and at the same time translating his words into layman for us to understand.
Came here after Rogan didn’t you haha?
@@CrossOverNewz1318 yup lol. Eric Weinstein is so brilliant that when he praised Witten I had to check him out
Same here man😂
Blown away by his smoothness and beautiful delivery... this man is incredible
@Lex Braxman same I heard that and was like I gotta see this man he speaks off. Cheers Eric!
I find it interesting that he seems so kind, sensitive and softspoken.
Yeah, most people with such a high IQ are usually very arrogant.
I am just not smart enough to comprehend even 5% of what he said.
But I am glad there are people like him that know and care. ,👍
Jo Lim 😆 so true!!
It’s not that difficult
You just need to be motivated
@@CoolGuy-fg3xv It's probably the most difficult thing one could study lol
his explanation is already simplified Lmao
Dude I was just thinking the same thing! I was like I I am at calculus level that’s it😂 I am just happy there are people that are discovering these things about our universe and gravity and all these laws of physics. If you think about it a certain way we are kinda witnessing history!
Plot twist: He is just making up random stuff on the spot knowing that most people wouldn't know the difference.
I could listen to him speak forever.
I wish we had educators like this man. Then I remember myself In high school and understand why we don't.
Same her my friend. Good thing we matured
So true
The interviewer is Wim Kayser. This is one of the interviews he did in a series called "Beauty and Consolation", and it ended with most of them sitting together for a conversation.
When I was 7 years old, I lived around the corner from Eddie and played with him. True story, Pikesville MD 1956 or 57. Hi Eddie, do you remember playing ball with me? Your dad brought you down to my house, Summit Park. You lived on Diana Rd, I lived on Pimlico Dr. JRE brought me here, although I have known about your work for decades.
Lucky You!
Wow! What was he like as a kid?
@@BDB78 He was smart but kind of an egghead. He was a couple of years younger than me, but he didn't seem like the genius he was. He just wanted to play catch. I felt a little sorry for him.
@@JB19504 you can feel the lack of inhibition to chase what he desires, clearly it moves him almost commandingly
It is brilliant how he can explain this in such a way a person like me can understand. This guy it's a genius.
He is easy to listen to. His words truly paint pictures for the mind. Soothing voice as well...great for ASMR. :)
This guy went to his board to prove his point furthermore during an interview. Fucking legend
The most fascinating video I've seen in years. Extremely captivating.
Certain kinds of humans have such beautiful artful minds. I just found this gem of a man and I am grateful. Thank you for being. Friend to minds that think. Edward Witten. Wow!
It's fun just listening to him. So eloquent.
Me too, when around Crack.
How did i just find out about this guy for the first time by listening to jre like I've been a universe fan boy for over a decade now. I own several seasons to the universe and all of through the wormhole n i could listen to this guy talk for years like other physicists must be scared of this guy as even youtube spit out his name top of the list with just a edw.
He's like Voldemort, you're not supposed to know about him.
If you even follow physics a little bit over the past few decades you would know who he is...
What's an EDW? I remember someone (a theoretical physicist)saying in a documentary years ago that most theoretical physicists think they're smart. And Edward Witten is SO much smarter than all of us who think we're smart. 😊
He doesn't do podcasts, and his interviews are rare, as you can see by googling him on TH-cam. He did recently appear on Brian Green's World Science Festival, along with 3 other top level String Theorists. It's an amazing talk actually, go check it out.
From what i see, he is also a bit 'embarassed' about his status as a legend in physics. When people prompt him to speculate, he refuses, and at least attempts to be super careful about what he says about physics. He is, however, adamant that string theory is the onyl real candidate right now for a final theory
I understood that, no discovery channel special has ever given me that when it comes to String Theory
I am glad people like this, Great Scientists and professors like Ed Witten get the recognition they deserve.
Here from JRE
Yes, 😂😂😂me too! I wanted to know the man that causes scientist to shake in fear 😊, he's not scary at all . I could actually understand . If science is music , he could compose many symphonies.
@@daniaa.oliva-pena7338 the reason he makes them shake in fear is because they feel stupid when he speaks...
@@Gatsu_Gambino, lol!!!
@@daniaa.oliva-pena7338 lol 😆 I'm serious though that's what most of the ones who have spoken with him have said.
What did he do with anything but Philosophize non- verifiable, non-useful mental gymnastics.
This man has an incredible gift to communicate. I would give anything for a conversation with him
There is nothing you have that would be worth even a "string" of his time
@@Eric714Trading lmao bro did you feel good writing that
@@MrInventer80 😂😂
@@MrInventer80 did you? He's right though... people who are so smart have literally nothing that interest them...
@@Gatsu_Gambino that's just generalizing
He's amazing , I would've loved to have a professor like him . I love the way he explains the most , it's as if he sees it in his mind and uses words to explain how he understands what you can't see. I love it and hope I can learn everything I've been having difficulty understanding .
The only one that can elevate your mama to the next level is a supernatural wisdom holy Ghost professor Jesus Christ
Colossians chapter 1
@@Setfree316Don’t use God’s name in vane.
lol I guess you don’t realize super string theory is a scam.
@@mensrea1251 prove it.
@@mondrian5620 I can’t. No one can. Super string and M are entirely self referential by design and any experimental data that even trends towards disproving them (eg cosmological constant) are immediately countered by proposing random changes to assumptions that themselves can neither be proven nor disproven. There are systems like that that have proven net positive to our existence and valuable to civilization, except we do not call them science, we call them “philosophy” or “religion”.
Wow. Watch his eyes. It's as if he is computing thousands of computations instantaneously simply to deliver a layman's explanation of a topic that he understands on a level most humans could never. How we went from early man to this in less than a million years.
It's the pain of knowing exactly how much you don't know.
Yeah. I felt like he is a robot reading from 10 extra large monitors seamlessly!
i dont think not one single mind can understand what he understands on his level, the general consensus between top level physicists is that Witten is leagues above in intelligence. Its truly such an amazing feat, i feel his the closest mind to something of AI. Hes sort of robotic. Interesting as hell. Would love to see scans of his brain.
@@Theantmang Watch some coference from Terence Tao, Witten is a smart person but physicist at the end... Mathematicians are at other level. =)
Less than 200,000
I can honestly say that I understand everything he is saying. He is actually explaining it in layman's terms.
No doubt he is way more detailed in reality he can speak all this within equations but knows only a few ppl would get that
It wouldn’t be a very informative interview if he wasn’t
It's like watching a professional boxer. You can vicariously enjoy the conversation, but beware of the hubris.
Cap 🧢
Yes and his technique should be mimicked so people can understand
Amazing. Even I could follow it LOL! But more seriously, what strikes me is the that the ancient idea that existence manifests using (I won't say "governed by") the mathematics of harmonic resonance just seems like it keeps re-emerging again and again among the most advanced thinkers in many different historical eras.
As a musician, I want to heed Witten's warnings that the beauties and harmonies of string theory are not the same as in music. Even with his succinct explanation, I know that what I can grasp is still only at the very most simplistic edge of the universe he's talking about.
People think science is all dry and logical but that's not at all true. Physicists gape in awe at the profound mysteries of the universe just the same as the rest of us. It must be exciting for Mr Witten to work at the boundary where logic and math confront those as-yet inexplicable mysteries.
I didn't know that handsome Squidward was a scientist, too!
The guy is so smart, I just regret my math skills are not as good as his, to have same pleasure of the overall harmony that the theory is revealing. These guys are on frontiers of human intelligence, bests of the bests. One day, they will come with something incredible, discovering all tones of the space symphony. I wish every next generation has at least one Edward Witten and that I could see where they got in 1000 years from now ;-)
We build our own superintelligence edward witten, how about that?
@@janzacharias3680Quick! Grab his DNA!
If you could understand the math you could bulshit the hell out of people also.
This is soothing to watch and listen to, regardless of the limits of my understanding
He’s literally explaining these things while simultaneously editing himself for us little people .
I know I'm listening to a genius, but feel like I'm looking at an alien that has taken human form. Never heard of him before. Thank you Eric Weinstein.
Dude has to be on the very high end of the Autism spectrum. Would love to observe him in a social setting.
@@justinmitchell9681 You some doctor or going to school for psychology?
Hogwash !
@@mondrian5620do you have to study a thing to make observations within a thing?. Moron
Eric Weinstein, has called string theory out, for the grift that it is.
Thank you Eric, Joe, and Mr. Witten.
takes the question " how long is a piece " to another level
I like that he is talking about stuff in an intelligent way. But in a way you can understand and also how it’s not anything scary or fear inducing.
that's because he's dumbing down for you, Mr Cannnibalwhore22
Also considered complete horseshit by most in Physics now. String Theory is dead.
@@TheDarkLasombra I wouldn’t say it’s dead at all. It only ends when everything ends. Everything is connected in one way or another rather we want to believe it or not.
@@TheDarkLasombra explain?
I enjoyed his x/y graph where he wrote the “t” and “m” first, then proceeded to fill in the “I” and “e” to for the x value. The efficiency and thought form is extraordinary
hes the closest mind to AI we ever had, or will have for awhile i feel. his mind seems so robotic, so beautiful in a sense but also kind of frightening how much ahead his brain is from everyone else. I truly believe that people who criticize string theory, truly cant see the grand scheme of it clearly. he might be 500 years too early to be recognized, if string theory ever get proven correct or figured out, then society as a whole needs to have experimentation with it which would cause insurmountable energy. We'd need to be a type 3 civ at that point which is thousands of years if not 10's of thousand away.
The fact that we celebrate someone singing WAP more than we do this
He is charming personality. A great energy.
Absolutely beautiful.
And also the fluid motion of harmonious is outstanding
Absolutely fascinating! I do understand thoroughly, and I don't know why.
Edward Whitten
2:30 Edward is anticipating which questions the interviewer might ask while listening. Each word narrows down the gamut of possible words to finish the question. 12:00 Edward waits for the question to then for the answer idea to form, then the proper words to succinctly express the idea.
12:06 Being interrupted, Edward re-opens the gamut of responses then evaluates the interviewers further input and waits for the idea to form before the words gel to the best choices, a form of branching and/or backward time.
14:20 Five differing string theories are described by Edward. Perhaps the five separate conclusions describe the parameters of “fuzziness” required by higher dimensional time. I am presuming that these five separate theories are each presented in linear form.
17:00 Concerning symmetry; I don’t see how symmetry can be maintained at sub-luminal velocities. The balancing factor might be a super-luminal stillness gradient. Sub-luminal “fuzziness” may be balanced by super-luminal clarities, if you will.
17:50 “Space and time will only be approximations.” The position and velocity of a particle being an approximation is a part of this “fuzziness.” This is required for linear time to operate as we observe it. “Paying attention to what’s first and what’s last.” The words of this linear statement cannot express the idea the first and last can be simultaneous, as well as reversed.
Good analysis sir
such a brilliant man, I just wish I could follow what he is saying.
It takes time me like 2 yrs
ChatGPT is really just Ed Witten sitting at a keyboard and typing really, really fast.
This might be a bit off the topic, sorry about this, but can we use this concept or aspect of it to build things? Or and to move objects?
14:30 - 14:41 is that a little joke he made?
OMG 😲 I just understood deep concepts in minutes. My head is hurting but love it. True genius makes it look easy simple not difficult🙏
Trust me, you don’t understand it
@@Joey-kr4mnlol , crackpots every where
We have three theories that make predictions for the behaviour of particles but we haven’t managed to make a single prediction yet.
Just came across this interview!
Strange! i had a dream a number of years back. It consisted of just one continuous note/ tone, it was the most incredible sound /experience.it was as if everything in the universe was contained in that note. it was a whole orchestra playing the most beautiful music, nothing else existed it was as if i was in this most incredible peaceful place.
Nothing else existed except this joy and tranquility and peace. would have been happy to stay there and never return!
That was some powerful Hashish you were smoking.
all in one tone? epic, god is a shrutibox!
To sum it up ... strings are really small cosmic soap bubbles
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” - Albert Einstein
Jonathan Valenzuela : Einstein meant that while mathematics uses deductive reasoning, science must rely on inductive reasoning.
Jonathan Valenzuela : I would say that while physics theories are formulated in mathematics, they are ultimately a synthesis of empirical facts, and so, are subject to falsification upon new contrary evidence. A theory that makes no empirical predictions, is not physics, but rather, mathematics. A mathematical theory that has 10^500 answers, is vacuous as a picture of reality.
Jonathan Valenzuela : I don’t recall the context of Einstein’s statement,..... it may have been in reference to H. Weyl’s “gauge” invariant generalization of general relativity to “world geometry”,..... Einstein said that it was mathematically “beautiful”, and “Genius of the first rate “,... but “impossible that the theory corresponds to nature”.
Jonathan Valenzuela : No, I had always thought that Weyl invented the gauge concept himself.
@@noumenon6923 20:55-21:06 like he is saying here?
Somehow I think conversing is taking more mental calculation from Witten than anything he's explaining
If Ed Witten had never made it in physics, he’d have made a tremendous supervillain.
What's missing is that he's not stroking a hairless cat...
I seriously thought the same thing!!! 👍🏼
🤣
What...as the nicest guy in the World...😂
Ozymandius!
This man is truly remarkable! Like God damn! Wish I had a professor like him back in the uni. days.
A genius with a very calming voice.
The beauty of music analogy is quite nice - as being untrained in music theory I would look at the score for a beautiful song and have no idea what I was looking at whereas a trained musician could possibly recognise the beauty from the notes, silences and accents. We would certainly not scoff at the use of "abstract" musical notation to create beautiful music as we should not scoff at the use of abstract mathematical constructs to create beautiful physical theories and models.
First chapter of Simarillion
Except piano strings are three dimensional. The “strings” in string theory are one. Seems problematic.
One of the problems of the string analogy is that strings are solid objects as well. In reality however particles are illusions: quanta create/maintain (oscillating) forcefields that give us the illusion of particles
It’s like having Leonardo Davinci try and teach me how to draw a stick figure. This guy is amazing.
He’s so fun to listen to. Gotta love this Rock Star
I wish I wanted this guy on JRE, but Joe would be so lost at minute 10 😂
3:19 how many wave packets does it take to get to the center of an atomic nuclei
I read once that grad students called him "The Alien".
I like his string jumper
I really like this video because it says more than the majority of popular materials. I've watched tens of YT videos on string theory and almost none of them say how it differs from standard QFT, i.e. in the sense of being much more rigid and explaining interactions just by the structure of particles. To me, Witten with his passion and concentration is a much better advertiser of strings than Kaku; at least to me Witten is far more convincing.
but theyre both full of shit with this nonsense
Isn't String Theory basically dead in the physics world? That's why we are looking at a clip from 2000 instead of 2023.
@@TheDarkLasombra ...you are correct and even in the 90s plenty of people were skeptical about it. The only thing that kept it going was that fraud Kaku and his incessant chirping about it in every documentary he was asked to be in.
Piękno tego jest takie, że definiuje się liczby, które są punktami, a później zagęszcza się te punkty chcąc utworzyć coś ciągłego. To się nie uda.
Physics is more exiting than ever!
Typo is unfortunately more true than the intended
Imagine the conversations between
This guy and the "help" at Epgreens Island.
Edward should record guided meditation videos. His smooth voice will put anyone to sleep in a few minutes.
What I intuit is that one formula talks about potentiality and the other about actualisation. I wonder if there are particular, discrete dimensionalites to potentiality and to actualisation.
One of the smartest men alive currently
And Grigorio Perelmano
I hear , Its THE MOST INTELLIGENT MAN, at least in physics
This guy really does seem like chatgpt is whispering into his ear and the occasional pauses is him waiting for the text to continue to generate
This guy could either solve all earths problems or end the universe.
Me too ! When I smoke a potent joint !
Hearing this guy articulating himself is honestly incredible but I can't thanking about the way he wrote "time" in the beginning 2:30
Wasn't that weird?
Mr. Witten is on an higher level , You see that he really try to be the most simple that he can , with all these images , and btw? i'm lost anyway. :)
that's the most interested I've ever been over something on a blackboard/whiteboard before
Is Ed Witten the Mozart, Beehtoven, and Bach of mathematical physics? I do not understand the details of their work, but I do sense & appreciate the beauty of their work.
He's the Michael Jordan of physics according to Eric Weinstein
If Elon Musk and Jeff Goldblum had a child it would be Ed Witten.
@@jimbusmaximus4624 stop...
Hes so gay n wimsical weepli soundi dis guy is suha coward go cry to epstei i mean it braun
He is a machine gun loaded with mind f*cks. 23 minutes of non stop blast smooth greatness.
Except it is a hypothetical mess AND HE GOT EVERYONE TO FOLLOW IT. He's so far down the rabbit hole he cannot find his way out and may be unwilling to tell everyone THEY need to.
I would love to experience that kind of genius , even if it was for just one day
@Robert Hunt
I meant experiencing it like Mr.Witten does ,and why bring up a totally irrelevant (horrible ) tv -show ?
If you are willing to learn and then teach what you know, your halfway there. 🙂
I agree, he sees the world quite differently or i can say in an unbelievable detail and order in his imaginations.
Is there an "Eddington Number" for the amount of strings that would constitute the visible Universe?
Just imagine those strings are oscillating inside us too they are on our finger tips infront of our eyes yet the are sooo far away from us even though we ourselves are made of it
and just imagine you have 100Trillion microbes inside of you that are not you. There is more of them than there is you. Imagine that!
The only thing I can't grasp is why strings? And please how did we start thinking of strings and why not circles? Or anything else?
I feel its all entangled and to use one shape of linear material may be another rabbit hole. Possibly? I am a bit lost here. Any help be great.
And why blackboards?
A point particle has zero dimensions. A string is the only one dimensional object. When they studied the equations they realised they resembled harmonics, hence the name string
@@bluemonstrosity259 Thank you. This makes perfect sense to me. I play guitar and use my vocal chords. They are strings too. I wonder if there is an element that can capture harmonic vibration from a magnet and get some perpetual motor movements or something.
I want the future now. LoL. Ya na . Oil is needed for ever but we need to think outside the box. Put a little bow tie on that string or something 👍
Where's the damn flying cars? I want it all.
I wish i lived in a society where things like this goes viral on tik tok and Witten is a rock star.
3:49 he mentions that gravitational theory also has a similar problem of in falling matter. If the rate of gravitational radiation is very very small, wouldn't that solve the problem?
"If", but it's not...
Hmmmmm that's a chin scratcher abhijith let me get back to you on that one
We need Real Physics back!
The seed of my theory...
There are three kinds of "strings" and they are not looped..... The strings are more like a knitted blanket with strings overlapping
each other in a similar fashion as the thread in the blanket (over-under-over-under, up and down). Each string "type" has a natural harmonics "range" and each interacts with the others according to these "harmonics". The points where the strings overlap and interactions with those next to, above and bellow at certain frequencies or "harmonics" is where you get matter in all its forms.. The kinds of strings overlapping, the position of the stings as in up/down/over/under and the frequencies of each determin what form of matter....
Thats it in a nutshell.
Stephen Hawking took all the glory and fame while Edward was quietly working in the background
This guy apparently drove physics to a dead end.
This is all well and good, but what is the practical application in this world? How will this make my life better?
This man is a genius!
I came here after JRE and expected to find Woltemort, but instead I found a Michael Jackson voiceover Frankenstein movie.
The greatest mind in generations spent his entire career on a Masturbatory theory that has yet to make any contact with physical reality and shows no signs of ever doing so. What a beautiful tragedy.
Except for the fact that this could be the foundation of some brilliant engineers, “AHA” moment; that changes the world forever.
Your comment is more masturbatory than anything he has done. Tragic.
Plus the maths that he developed along the way has contributed fundamentally in which he has won a fields medal , one of only two physicists to win them. Other being Martin hairer who was briefly my professor for stochastic analysis
If an event is certain but delayed … does that make the event move into the future? Essentially make the event or trigger time travel?
23 years later and we’re finally starting to realise how much this purely abstract maths that exists only in his mind has stunted real physics
Stopping saying "we" can help the problem. Only believe what you have verified for yourself.
Can anyone explain or point out what he means by the quantum mechanical 'fuzziness'?
I think he is talking about in the quantum world you can never know where anything is.
Thanks for the lesson, Witten.
Unlike string theory, loop quantum gravity is manifestly background independent,..... but it sounds like Witten is saying string theory will treat spacetime as emergent from more fundamental structures (?) (Probably referring to Ads Cft correspondence).
Spacetime becomes a derived concept in the context of String theory since the fundamental theory is the worldsheet theory in 2d. Spacetime emerges from the dynamics of strings. However, this is only a part of the full story since there are other string theories where there is no exact notion of fundamental objects, see e.g. M-theory.
I think this is organized insanity. 😂
5:30 can anyone with physics knowledge explain this to me.. how does the bottom right point come into play? How does “2 come from the past” when the bottom left point was the origin
X axis is space. 2 particles are separated in space. Y axis is time. It shows how their position progresses in time.
@@nathanriviere6421 thank you
this dude is fucking insane.
in the best way possible
ASMR with Edward Witten
if aliens ever invade we need him to act as our leader... that way they'll never know how dumb the rest of us are.
can you calculate the relation of testosterone and brain function