Carlo Rovelli’s rebellious past and how it made him a better scientist
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- Carlo Rovelli is a familiar name to regular readers of New Scientist. For the past three decades he’s been the source of some of the most intriguing ideas in fundamental physics, ranging across quantum physics, Einstein’s general relativity and the search for the holy grail of a theory that can combine these two theories. This short film, "The Meaning of Meaning", gives us some insights into his rebellious past and how that makes for good science.
"The Meaning of Meaning"
Featuring Carlo Rovelli
Written and directed by Jeremy Gans
Produced by Jeremy Gans and Scott Turner
Edited by Rebecca Lafortune
Cinematography by Scott Turner and Chris Romeike
Music by Florian Seraul
Sound supervision by Shawn Cole
Sound recording by Adam White
Additional editing by Reginald Grey
Associate producer Kari Teicher
Special thanks to Francesca Vidotto
Commissioning editor for Penguin Random House UK Sam Voulters
I love how big of a rebel he was, he didn't lose himself and he found his purpose, truly amazing!
This was a fantastic addition to the channel. So well done. I'm commenting because I love it when a video or film leaves me feeling inspired and hopeful. It's not just the subject of Carlo Rovelli, it's also how the story is told. I know next to nothing about filmmaking, but I do notice how things like editing and music help me to immerse myself in a subject. That was so good.
I highly recommend his book, Reality Is Not What It Seems. Loved it!
All of his books are awesome!
I loved "Helgoland", which I've just read, I loved "Seven Short Physics Lessons", and I'm loving "The Order of Time" - which I'm reading - but... his book that seems to my to have, for many, many reasons, of great importance is "The birth of science. Anaximander's Revolution".
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I love Carlo Rovelli. He has such a flexible mindset, and, if anyone remembers John Grant, who wrote the 'Littlenose' stories, Carlo is like the Italian version of John Grant - such a soothing voice, explaining stuff in such a straightforward way. I always feel a bit guilty that I disagree with him :D
The thing about quantum physics is that for it to make sense, you need to discard one or more of your 'common sense' ideas about reality. Carlo's relational picture makes total and perfect sense if the idea you want to keep is that of a single universe. To do this, you discard the idea that the 'things' are real, and instead substitute the idea that it is only the relations between things that are real.
Thanks for watching. He's so compelling. His talk on time is also worth a watch: th-cam.com/video/NrjFE_Rd2OQ/w-d-xo.html
This video is beautiful. Thank you.
This video motives me for some reason
Us too! Thanks for watching
I know this is a little bit different, but bear with me. Many decades ago, I was working at a very large company that produced a lot of patents. For a while, although I was a "rocket scientist" I ended up in the HR department managing a major implementation of new computer systems. I got to see some things that, as an engineer I would not have. One thing that was of major interest to me, now in my mid-60s, is that of patent production. Many people produce patents in their early years. But, we found that people who remained in technical roles had a similar rate of patent production at the end of their careers, in their late 50s and early 60s. I have seen this myself with people I know, and in my own work.
This video makes me think of my late good friend, Professor Lotfi Zadeh, who deeply inspired me when I joined his conference group between 2007-2014 in the USA.
I have read 5 of his books. If you are familiar with quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, his books are fascinating. But my favorite is "The order of time", is the best book ever to explain the nature of time and how time comes to be an emergent property of our universe. Most explanations of the notion of time turn out to be more confusing rather than clarifying the subject. But this book makes it clear even for a layman.
I love Carlo Roveli. All his books are really enjoyable. I will meet him one day.
I really like that his books are short but impactful. We need more short books. So very often magazine articles are converted into 500 page books where the same concept is repeated over and over again
I agree with Professor Rovelli in that we do these things when we are youth.
Relations and Observations, two key things but are they the same principle in his vision of QM. It explains a lot of things in relation to my life too. I guess it is just the way it is, universe is trying to tell us how it is. Thanks Carlo, you added something to my ability to see. Sheesh.:)
Whitehead's Process Philosophy finally bears fruit
Just wow
Life is just to Love and to be Loved 💕 Love alone can Conquer the WORLD.
He's so inspiring
Congratulations 👏 for organizing a Wonderful Presentation/Event.
-But not self- destructive rebellious (drinking, partying) which is what I had thought it might be (& would have been a bit/ even more interesting...) 😅😆
Beautiful film!
Whenever I feel down, I watch this video and it gives me hope that I will do what I want to do.
Love it!!
Yes
I remember when I was in college between ages 17 to 19, I studied pure and applied science and I became very smart in physics. This continued in all aspects of science, mathematics, engineering, computer science at university.
Until they find that one act of his that hurt the feelings of someone.
Then they cancel the fellow to hell
Did he say.... Heisenberg ☠
Rovelli has a great enthusiasm, but he reminds me of the continental philosophers who can get away with saying things you can't strictly say in analytical philosophy, using a kind of rhetoric of reality, cultural references and
associational ideas. His foreign accent tops everything off, and I do wonder what he's really saying. Is he still tripping on untested reality, hypotheses that are whisked up out of nothing?
His foreign accent? What was the accent of - to name but a few - Bohr, Planck, Schrodinger, Lorentz, Boltzmann. Pauli, Fermi, de Broglie, Curie....Kepler, Huygens, Galileo...Copernicus...What was their accent? Do you speak some language other than English?
@@elenabal4885 They're all great and geniuses, I have no issue with them being foreign.
@@johnsharman7930 But you make a point about that accent that makes no sense on his work.
And what about "continental philosophers" I don't get the point...