I love the story that young Physics Department members at FSU opposed Dirac’s appointment (on the grounds he was too old) only to be told it was like the English Department opposing the recruitment of Shakespeare
Excellent presentation on Paul A.M. Dirac. I might add a couple of credible anecdotes regarding Dirac. A French physicist came to Dirac's home to discuss some cutting edge physics. The physicist was escorted into Dirac's study and he preceded for some time, trying with great difficulty to explain his work in English to Dirac. The physicist was clearly having considerable frustration with his limited spoken English. After quite some time, Dirac's sister, Betty, entered the study with some tea and biscuits, speaking fluent French, and wherein Dirac responded in fluent French. The French physicist who had spent considerable time frustrated in trying to express himself in English inquired of Dirac: Why didn't you tell me you spoke French. Dirac replied: You didn't ask. Another anecdote is from his days at Florida State University. The Physics Department held seminars which Dirac would often attend, sitting near the front row. He appeared to be dozing off throughout the presentations, but during the question & answer period, he would make brilliant comments and ask appropriate questions. He seemed asleep, but was all the while quite lucid.
Regarding the first anecdote, lol. Typical Dirac. His father was a teacher of the french language and for this reason Dirac learned to hate the language. But it makes sense that he was very fluent in it. Regarding the second anecdote, I suppose he'd do what I sometimes like to do. Was there, listening carefully with closed eyes. Sometimes vision distracts thought ;).
35:43 "Mathematics is a game where mathematicians invent the rules. Physics is a game where the rules are given to us by nature. What is interesting is that the rules of nature appear to be in the same mathematical rules as the mathematicians have concocted"
+David Watermeyer: not so! Matrix theory states that we are a quantum event where nature (the universe) is using us to explain to us what is happen! Think about it!
Pure mathematician , neither found of physics nor of historical science. Yet I read the rather thick book (The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom ) by Graham Farmelo . A great piece of work in which he shows the same clarity as in this video.
The hero of my college days studying physics. His methods in quantum mechanics are the best to this day. He had the modesty of the true sage, and moving to FSU was part of that charm, as well as improved weather for an 80 year old. I drove my Austin Healey to FSU to get him to sign a book, he was excited about the car and signed my book , we talked about Eddington as I recall.
I believe the lecture mentioned at 35:18 is "The Relation between Mathematics and Physics". I understand it was given in Edinburgh, February 6, 1939 in relation to the JAMES SCOTT prize. I hope this text helps with finding a copy.The video description, or linked website could benefit from a list of references and maybe even trustworthy sources for the lectures and papers mentioned in this talk.
29:28 “the only equation in Westminster Abbey” I was about to object, when I realised this was filmed before the passing of Hawking. RIP to two Cantabrigian heroes
I’m sympathetic to Dirac’s notion of beauty or elegance as a guide, but I think it should be taken with a pinch of salt. We know of cases where aesthetic intuition about theories were viewed as sufficient grounds for their acceptance. For example, the Ptolemaic model of the universe as geocentric was regarded as true, due in part to its aesthetic appeal. Later, challenges to the model were viewed as heretical. Copernicus had to have his work published posthumously for that reason. I think it is important to be wary of overly strict adherence to any prescriptive approach, such as beauty as a guide to finding paths to truth and discovery. The same goes for received wisdom.
Beauty in Euler, in De Moivre, in Bayes, more beauty in Relativity, in Schrödinger, in Dirac's own equation. Symmetry is the root of such beauty, I think, and invariance in reference frame change, is the fruit of beauty too. Least squares equation -fitting is the whacking of a tulip with a club hammer.
So, I Re-cognise the parallels of educational development and the intuition put into words and back by the experience of Geometric Drawing and Perspective Projection Techniques made of making in terms of time-timing sync-duration motion Actuality. Magnetic Monopole Thought Experiments should be associated with BBT.
1971, at a conference meeting, Dirac expressed his views on the existence of God.[61] Dirac explained that the existence of God could be justified only if an improbable event were to have taken place in the past: It could be that it is extremely difficult to start life. It might be that it is so difficult to start a life that it has happened only once among all the planets... Let us consider, just as a conjecture, that the chance of life starting when we have got suitable physical conditions is 10−100. I don't have any logical reason for proposing this figure, I just want you to consider it as a possibility. Under those conditions ... it is almost certain that life would not have started. And I feel that under those conditions it will be necessary to assume the existence of a god to start off life. I would like, therefore, to set up this connection between the existence of a god and the physical laws: if physical laws are such that to start off life involves an excessively small chance so that it will not be reasonable to suppose that life would have started just by blind chance, then there must be a god, and such a god would probably be showing his influence in the quantum jumps which are taking place later on. On the other hand, if life can start very easily and does not need any divine influence, then I will say that there is no god.[62]
35:40 "Mathematics is a game where mathematicians invent the rules. Physics is a game where the rules are given to us by nature. What is interesting, is that the rules of nature appear to be [written] in the same mathematical rules as the mathematicians have concocted." -Paul Dirac
There is a simple reason for that. As Man is made in "the image of God," his mind must inevitably reflect the thoughts that God had when He designed His universe.
@@stephenphillips4984.. This is far more mathematically beautiful as it is simpler than the current bloated Standard Model and has intrinsic, quantised super-symmetry at its heart... Promotes the positron to its rightful place. It is cold, hard, materialist, realist and utterly godless, making it far more beautiful than any ugly old creation myth. God is an ugly character, a crux, an excuse, a lazy cop out. -- Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 4D multi/universe model -- Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum -- Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction -- Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Free, out of place cell warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 DC spin loops -- Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 DC spin loops -- Noton/Dark Matter (n+-): Exactly opposite phase close p+ and e- annihilate (ie. entangled pair created together (e_p) ), else a noton forms -- Nucleons: Proton: P=pep.. Neutron: N=P_e=pep_e.. Beta-: N-e>>P+e.. Beta+: P+e_p>>N+p.. Alpha: A=PNPN=PeP_PeP=(pep_e_pep)_(pep_e_pep) -- Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field -- Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel -- Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion -- Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls cells, that then bounce out, stabilising as a torus of 6 in/out (N/S) DC loops -- Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s -- Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Notons have compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel -- Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s and e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits -- Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly noton hits statistically tipping the balance -- Photon: Charged particles moving up and down (transmitter, atomic electron) form a radiating transverse wave blip pattern -- Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys -- Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient -- Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation -- Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration -- Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions' intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs inwardly at C that annihilate or form notons, Protons, Neutrons -- Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter + a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Fast -ve charge loss? Noton crystal exploded? -- Black Hole: Absorbs matter and energy. Noton crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything entering? -- Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison -- Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass -- Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, (anti) neutrinos, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
Dirac fue un genio que no aceptaba la idea de un creador hasta que no descubrió la belleza de su descubrimiento. Mientras la gente común acepta la idea de la existencia del creador por medio de la belleza externa e interna de la creación, Dirac lo hizo cuando se descubrió que era un genio que había descubierto otra belleza diferente a la que para él era belleza 💕.
"Dirac was a genius who did not accept the idea of a creator until did not discover beauty of his discovery. While ordinary people accept the idea of the existence of creator through the external and internal beauty of creation , Dirac did it when was discovered to be a genius there was discovered another beauty different from that for him was beauty"
Interesting talk and nice to hear more about Dirac. Not sure if QFT is the true description of reality, but if a theory agrees with nature to 1 part in 10^12 (or of that elk) then it probably deserves attention and respect. Geniuses are still human, capable of mistakes. And I think his apparent obsession with beauty in theories may have been just that. I think a balanced approach is best. Whether that be from an individual or a community of individuals. Nature is nature, and just because someone thinks something is beautiful, doesn't make it right or wrong.
But that so respected theory may be the result of an underlying, yet to be discovered theory that is more beautiful. We are currently confused since quantum mechanics is not complete, but that doesn't make it wrong either.
According to a story by Abdus Salam, Dirac didn't believe in supersymmetry. He had said to Salam (after the latter had delivered a lecture on supergravity): " If supersymmetry is real, it would have been discovered a long time ago." Was that the reason why Witten forgot the details of the conversation with Dirac (how can you forget such a conversation?), as the speaker seems to have told us?
Im such a Big fan of Dirac and all of the these people Einstein , Bohr etc haw could you not!. Science is more important than ever especially for the young generations. It would be nice to hear about the road science has been at the last 400 years. So very important for us these stories. They can inspire young people to take on physics.
Problem is a load of Nazti Governmentalistsm (Uber-Libs/Sozialists/Commies/Republicans) took over from the 30s onwards, confusing the world with stupidly expensive high energy physics experiments that discover no new useful materials, deep space telescopes and probes that are of no use to man nor beast, Climate Control uber-science that blatantly flouts the very sensible Anti-Weather Warfare Treaty... -- 90+ failed Tokamaks, and still they want more, instead of Thorium Molten Salt Breeder Reactors, because the Scientific-Military-Industrial-Data Collection Complex is addicted to enriched uranium and Liberal Science doesn't know when to give up... blah, blah... Neutrino detectors, gravy train wave detectors... moon missions.. Sort out Earth first - without turning it into a climate-controlled weather war zone. -- I respect the old masters, the new lot have wasted trillion$ and trillion$, and so many of the best brains... plus Watts and natural resources... It's a disgusting Nazti Neo World Order Scientific Dictatorship!... It's a Waster's World...
Fucking Amazing 🙌🎉🥰🤗thank YOU!!! I am as far away from this mathematician as they come (I use my fingers to count when playing cribbage 🤦🏼♀️) but one thing I have always felt since I was a young child, is the Beauty, sheer elegant beauty in reality. This really resonates ❤
I lived in Tallahassee during Dirac's last years and I regret never attending one of his lectures. He was said to have stated, "When God designed the universe, He used beautiful mathematics."
@IggyDalrymple: While watching this documentary I realised why Richard Feynman appreciated - for lack of a better word - Paul Dirac. The latter climbed trees in professorial garb and the former played bongo's in a bathing suit. However, what is more, these were two BRILLIANT men whose work we have inherited and appreciate.
Dirac is my favorite because his theory fits my theory! Like he doesn't like quantum mechanics because I can't fathom who would. Thankfully it isn't that way but I like it because it allows us to do anything we like (time travel; pan jumping; and, so much more)!
It is strange to learn the timing of his brother's death in 1924 and how this preceded his productive period. This was the year in which logical positivism suffered a mortal wound at the tip of Gödel's pen, the results on Undecidable Propositions. Paradoxes. Leaving the goals of positivism aside where this thrust left them, I think it may have been the reason that Dirac eventually lost faith in his own original direction. The equivalence of linear algebra and analytic methods in harnessing the solutions of the wave equation points to the possibility of the arithmeticisation of analytic results, by the rational parametrization of the circle. Such a programme is obviated by the death of arithmetic; real number theory is what remains to the empirical theorist by way of metaphysical foundations. But a foundation on the contradiction of 'defining infinity' is not logically overcome by pragmatism. Only experimentally, as it were. It is clearly the arithmetical nature of linear algebra which suggests that analytic solutions in physics with quadratic foundations may very well be pointing to something structurally significant numerically that could be ordered in group-theoretical terms. Algebraic field theory complementing physical field theory. It's very exciting food for thought. But both in pure mathematics and applied physics, the preference for statistical models and abstracted quantities in floating point notation with standard deviations as a metric resolvent was buttressed by the apparent failure of arithmetical proof. Personally I do not blame Dirac for being disappointed. But as Pauli noted, Dirac was not actually religious; "There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet!" But a prophet he was nonetheless. For both physics and mathematics rely upon synthetic a priori mathematical principles which are by definition metaphysical. This metaphysics does not arise "after" or "out of" physics. It rather provides the only possibly sound logical foundation for scientific and mathematical, and indeed even religious metaphysics. Thanks for the pleasant lecture.
The Unsuitability of the Unconscious Mathematics A Language For Physics - the need to add a mandatory baseline of consciousness to the Unconscious Mathematics - at least a checks-and-balances 'compiler' similar to compilers in software systems.
In Bristol there is a Dirac Trail, a route around his various locations. I've not yet followed it all, but it is in my plans for my next visit to Bristol (a fascinating and historical city well worth a visit)
Later in life, Dirac's views towards the idea of God were less acerbic. As an author of an article appearing in the May 1963 edition of Scientific American, Dirac wrote: It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of a mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it. You may wonder: Why is nature constructed along these lines? One can only answer that our present knowledge seems to show that nature is so constructed. We simply have to accept it. One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better.[60]
Consider this. Paul E=hv is Planck's equation in 1900, with Planck's constant representing the irrational units, making the equation rational by using rational n for the constant, is misstatement yet Mother Nature is pleased:?) E=nv-n/Tp, and then ETp=n is a rational revolutionary geometry that Dirac and Gauss would applaud:?) And it is valid for any observer. No renormalization is required:?) Gauss' least squares define its measurement variance. And lost in space takes on a beautiful irony for Carl Gauss:?)
If man is power, women are creation . Beauty.. aestheticism can bring both together . Men coms to a woman - women come to man, whereby WE come to God in perfection.
Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 4D multi/universe model -- Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Free, out of place cell warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 DC spin loops Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 DC spin loops Noton/Dark Matter (n+-): Exactly opposite phase close p+ and e- annihilate (ie. entangled pair created together (e_p) ), else a noton forms Nucleons: Proton: P=pep.. Neutron: N=P_e=pep_e.. Beta-: N-e>>P+e.. Beta+: P+e_p>>N+p.. Alpha: A=PNPN=PeP_PeP=(pep_e_pep)_(pep_e_pep) Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls cells, that then bounce out, stabilising as a torus of 6 in/out (N/S) DC loops Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Notons have compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s and e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly noton hits statistically tipping the balance Photon: Charged particles moving up and down (transmitter, atomic electron) form a radiating transverse wave blip pattern Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions' intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs inwardly at C that annihilate or form notons, Protons, Neutrons Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter + a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Fast -ve charge loss? Noton crystal exploded? Black Hole: Absorbs matter and energy. Noton crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything entering? Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass -- This is not an aether theory, it's a matter-energy field, a quantised, relativisitic subspace medium. Forces and matter emerge from and are part of the field -- Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
Dirac fue y será siempre genio porque descubrió una belleza matemática en la materia, en lo que da forma a las cosas; sin embargo genio es aquél que sin ser el genio hecho reconoce la belleza de la creación.
as far as i concern, expressing anti religion,anti philosophy are not a proper words. i would rather use truth seeker of our reality and nature. some purposely concocted mathematically rules are not a true nature of maths and science of reality.
I suppose that if you can't build a time machine or fold space to travel vast distances, all that is left is to chatter about beauty. The misery of the quantum cult.
As one says in Dutch:: Food for psychologists. What a beautifull personality! Some friennds of mine tend to , what people call Authism. Well if so concerning Dirac; He chose the right spectrum of authism. There is no God and Dirac is his prophet!
I understand from this good elucidation, that I am correct in being with and more-I know ALL Physics. And he was on the way, was Paul Dirac. Einsteinium ideation got in his way.
If physics has to be beautiful to be true, is it also the case that, for example, politics must be beautiful to be true - here we have the unfortunate source of Utopianism ...
Dirac era un genio que no aceptaba que detrás de la creación hay un genio mayor que todos los genios humanos juntos. Sólo hay que contemplar la creación, cómo surge la vida, las formas que tiene la vida, el sentido de la bondad, de la humildad. del amor entre los hombres, ectc. Que Dirac se negaba a aceptar. Cómo negar la filosofía, la más hermosa de todas las disciplinas. Luego que hizo su descubrimiento entonces abrazó la filosofía, que su raíz filo- quiere decir amor, vida, y Sofía, de sabiduría. De un negador de la búsqueda de la sabiduría Dirac se convirtió en un filósofo de la belleza cuántica, de la naturaleza matemática de las cosas, y al final abrió su espíritu de genio a la belleza cuántica y física de las cosas, no al valor de las cosas por su contenido espiritual y humano.
Everything I've ever learned about math and physics (meaning, principles of the Universe), underscores for me that Dirac was correct to insist upon real beauty in equations, if they are to accurately convey the workings of God, or whomever you credit for Creation. There are simply too many countless examples of such proven beauty to ignore that this criterion is essential. -- I admire Dirac increasingly the more I study him.
You are wrong to infer that Dirac saw a God as a requisite to beauty in equations describing nature. You are injecting your own convictions here. Study him better.
@@f-xdemers2825 I understand that Dirac was agnostic. In my comment I allowed for "whomever" created the universe, and by that I also meant "whatever". I myself have no dog in the hunt, so am not injecting my own convictions, certainly not religious ones. So I would sit on the agnostic side of the fence too. Certainly something caused Creation, even if is just physics itself. From where did integrated physical law originate? What created physics and why is it so pointedly concisely mathematical? The point I was trying to make was that many, if not most, cosmologists and physicists are in awe of the astounding degree to which physical laws are so often characterized by great mathematical beauty often with an inexplicable degree of simplicity, concision, and inter-relatedness. To my knowledge, no one has explained this remarkable phenomenon.
Dirac was an eminent thinker but not in language, but in mathematics. How ever, he accepted the idea of religion as a guide of the nature beauty long after he spent many years refusing the God idea in the universe, unifying the bridge of relativity between he and the common people of faith. Dirac had to be a genius to accept the beauty of the creation, of the religion, things that common people used to accept without being genius.
@@matthewgrimm9036 You are wrong to infer that Dirac saw God as a requisite to beauty in equations describing nature. You are injecting your own convictions here. Wonder harder.
I love the story that young Physics Department members at FSU opposed Dirac’s appointment (on the grounds he was too old) only to be told it was like the English Department opposing the recruitment of Shakespeare
this is about "unfair competition"...
Lol
Dirac was a savage genius.
He has one of the wildest character development arcs in modern physics.
Imagine if he was alive now...
he had Asperger's
Most definitely on the autistic spectrum.
Great Presentation! Farnelo’s biography of Dirac, “The Strangest Man,” was also wonderful
Ahh, Paul Dirac is such a genius. Thats part of a reason why I went to Bristol Uni for my degree!
Hoang LE me too
what a beautiful lecture and homage to Dirac.....
Excellent presentation on Paul A.M. Dirac. I might add a couple of credible anecdotes regarding Dirac.
A French physicist came to Dirac's home to discuss some cutting edge physics. The physicist was escorted into Dirac's study and he preceded for some time, trying with great difficulty to explain his work in English to Dirac. The physicist was clearly having considerable frustration with his limited spoken English. After quite some time, Dirac's sister, Betty, entered the study with some tea and biscuits, speaking fluent French, and wherein Dirac responded in fluent French. The French physicist who had spent considerable time frustrated in trying to express himself in English inquired of Dirac: Why didn't you tell me you spoke French. Dirac replied: You didn't ask.
Another anecdote is from his days at Florida State University. The Physics Department held seminars which Dirac would often attend, sitting near the front row. He appeared to be dozing off throughout the presentations, but during the question & answer period, he would make brilliant comments and ask appropriate questions. He seemed asleep, but was all the while quite lucid.
Thank -you Robert, you have added to my understanding.
Was he stranger than Oliver Heaviside? He was also weird, brilliant and English.
@@Andrew-rc3vh Such people are sometimes referred to a British eccentrics. They both were eccentric, but Heaviside was even more eccentric.
Regarding the first anecdote, lol. Typical Dirac. His father was a teacher of the french language and for this reason Dirac learned to hate the language. But it makes sense that he was very fluent in it.
Regarding the second anecdote, I suppose he'd do what I sometimes like to do. Was there, listening carefully with closed eyes. Sometimes vision distracts thought ;).
@@mlliarm Thank you for your comment.
One of the first to imagine anti-matter. Rest in peace, Dirac.
Only my body is dead . My theory lives on forever.🎓🎓
@@pauldirac808 No- two ways= either }{ three paths allow middle
I'm reading his book, The strangest man, its really good, love the stories on the development of quantum mechanics.
I am sure you loved the book. It is one of my favorites.
35:43 "Mathematics is a game where mathematicians invent the rules. Physics is a game where the rules are given to us by nature. What is interesting is that the rules of nature appear to be in the same mathematical rules as the mathematicians have concocted"
+David Watermeyer: not so! Matrix theory states that we are a quantum event where nature (the universe) is using us to explain to us what is happen! Think about it!
+Alpha “Qilbe” Omega It's as though the universe has developed a mechanism to try and understand itself
+D. C Are you my doppelganger?
David Watermeyer or is it that mathematics is a descriptive tool that sometimes describes something better than words and in exquisite detail?🤔
Mathematics was developed based on observing the nature and had to make sense in that context.
Beauty is a quality. Elegance is beautifully concise. :)
Pure mathematician , neither found of physics nor of historical science. Yet I read the rather thick book (The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom ) by Graham Farmelo . A great piece of work in which he shows the same clarity as in this video.
The hero of my college days studying physics. His methods in quantum mechanics are the best to this day. He had the modesty of the true sage, and moving to FSU was part of that charm, as well as improved weather for an 80 year old. I drove my Austin Healey to FSU to get him to sign a book, he was excited about the car and signed my book , we talked about Eddington as I recall.
the square of a vector. beautiful.
Wonderful lecture on Dirac
Thanks for this video. A fine commeration of a great thinker I absolutely respect.
I believe the lecture mentioned at 35:18 is "The Relation between Mathematics and Physics". I understand it was given in Edinburgh, February 6, 1939 in relation to the JAMES SCOTT prize. I hope this text helps with finding a copy.The video description, or linked website could benefit from a list of references and maybe even trustworthy sources for the lectures and papers mentioned in this talk.
Ta- I have copied your comment, as it IS of Assistance--- >
29:28 “the only equation in Westminster Abbey” I was about to object, when I realised this was filmed before the passing of Hawking. RIP to two Cantabrigian heroes
The greatest mind to have ever grace this (4) dimensional manifold.
What about Riemann ?
@@yyaa2539 He's certainly in the running with Gauss, Euler, Langlands, Godel and Einstein
@@gaulindidier5995 errr Einstein was a god.
Sehr schön zusammengefasst. Die menschlichen Aspekte in der Welt der Wissenschaft❤
Thank you for this.
amazing! thanks
I’m sympathetic to Dirac’s notion of beauty or elegance as a guide, but I think it should be taken with a pinch of salt. We know of cases where aesthetic intuition about theories were viewed as sufficient grounds for their acceptance. For example, the Ptolemaic model of the universe as geocentric was regarded as true, due in part to its aesthetic appeal. Later, challenges to the model were viewed as heretical. Copernicus had to have his work published posthumously for that reason. I think it is important to be wary of overly strict adherence to any prescriptive approach, such as beauty as a guide to finding paths to truth and discovery. The same goes for received wisdom.
Thank you.
Beauty in Euler, in De Moivre, in Bayes, more beauty in Relativity, in Schrödinger, in Dirac's own equation.
Symmetry is the root of such beauty, I think, and invariance in reference frame change, is the fruit of beauty too.
Least squares equation
-fitting is the whacking of a tulip with a club hammer.
So, I Re-cognise the parallels of educational development and the intuition put into words and back by the experience of Geometric Drawing and Perspective Projection Techniques made of making in terms of time-timing sync-duration motion Actuality.
Magnetic Monopole Thought Experiments should be associated with BBT.
great talk!😀
1971, at a conference meeting, Dirac expressed his views on the existence of God.[61] Dirac explained that the existence of God could be justified only if an improbable event were to have taken place in the past:
It could be that it is extremely difficult to start life. It might be that it is so difficult to start a life that it has happened only once among all the planets... Let us consider, just as a conjecture, that the chance of life starting when we have got suitable physical conditions is 10−100. I don't have any logical reason for proposing this figure, I just want you to consider it as a possibility. Under those conditions ... it is almost certain that life would not have started. And I feel that under those conditions it will be necessary to assume the existence of a god to start off life. I would like, therefore, to set up this connection between the existence of a god and the physical laws: if physical laws are such that to start off life involves an excessively small chance so that it will not be reasonable to suppose that life would have started just by blind chance, then there must be a god, and such a god would probably be showing his influence in the quantum jumps which are taking place later on. On the other hand, if life can start very easily and does not need any divine influence, then I will say that there is no god.[62]
35:40 "Mathematics is a game where mathematicians invent the rules. Physics is a game where the rules are given to us by nature. What is interesting, is that the rules of nature appear to be [written] in the same mathematical rules as the mathematicians have concocted." -Paul Dirac
There is a simple reason for that. As Man is made in "the image of God," his mind must inevitably reflect the thoughts that God had when He designed His universe.
@@stephenphillips4984.. This is far more mathematically beautiful as it is simpler than the current bloated Standard Model and has intrinsic, quantised super-symmetry at its heart... Promotes the positron to its rightful place. It is cold, hard, materialist, realist and utterly godless, making it far more beautiful than any ugly old creation myth. God is an ugly character, a crux, an excuse, a lazy cop out.
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Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 4D multi/universe model
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Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum
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Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction
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Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Free, out of place cell warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 DC spin loops
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Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 DC spin loops
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Noton/Dark Matter (n+-): Exactly opposite phase close p+ and e- annihilate (ie. entangled pair created together (e_p) ), else a noton forms
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Nucleons: Proton: P=pep.. Neutron: N=P_e=pep_e.. Beta-: N-e>>P+e.. Beta+: P+e_p>>N+p.. Alpha: A=PNPN=PeP_PeP=(pep_e_pep)_(pep_e_pep)
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Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field
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Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel
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Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion
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Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls cells, that then bounce out, stabilising as a torus of 6 in/out (N/S) DC loops
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Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s
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Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Notons have compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel
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Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s and e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits
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Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly noton hits statistically tipping the balance
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Photon: Charged particles moving up and down (transmitter, atomic electron) form a radiating transverse wave blip pattern
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Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys
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Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient
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Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation
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Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration
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Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions' intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs inwardly at C that annihilate or form notons, Protons, Neutrons
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Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter + a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Fast -ve charge loss? Noton crystal exploded?
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Black Hole: Absorbs matter and energy. Noton crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything entering?
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Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison
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Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass
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Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, (anti) neutrinos, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
Excellent addition to scholarship, by your ability.
thank you, very impressive. graham farmelo wrote a wonderful book about paul dirac: "Der seltsamste Mensch"
brilliant talk about Dirac
Marco Picos Sol thanks
From what I've read of Dirac is that the graduate students in his department called him "Dr. No Talk."
I wish Dirac would’ve told Ed Witten NOT TO WASTE 40 YEARS ON FAILED STRING THEORY!!!
This is brilliant!
Heisenberg was the genius. Incredible how he invented it. He was an artist. Dirac was a genius as well
O ! so YOU say- of what ?
WOW!
Dirac fue un genio que
no aceptaba la idea de
un creador hasta que
no descubrió la belleza
de su descubrimiento.
Mientras la gente común acepta la idea
de la existencia del
creador por medio de
la belleza externa e interna de la creación,
Dirac lo hizo cuando
se descubrió que era
un genio que había
descubierto otra belleza diferente a la
que para él era belleza 💕.
"Dirac was a genius who
did not accept the idea of
a creator until
did not discover beauty
of his discovery.
While ordinary people accept the idea
of the existence of
creator through
the external and internal beauty of creation ,
Dirac did it when
was discovered to be
a genius there was
discovered another beauty different from
that for him was beauty"
Interesting talk and nice to hear more about Dirac.
Not sure if QFT is the true description of reality, but if a theory agrees with nature to 1 part in 10^12 (or of that elk) then it probably deserves attention and respect.
Geniuses are still human, capable of mistakes. And I think his apparent obsession with beauty in theories may have been just that. I think a balanced approach is best. Whether that be from an individual or a community of individuals.
Nature is nature, and just because someone thinks something is beautiful, doesn't make it right or wrong.
But that so respected theory may be the result of an underlying, yet to be discovered theory that is more beautiful.
We are currently confused since quantum mechanics is not complete, but that doesn't make it wrong either.
All true theories are beautiful, but not all beatiful theories are true.
I think Dirac would agree, by nodding
i would love to help you being myself...thank god there are people like you around...you can count on me if it is of your interest...btw, thanks..:)
According to a story by Abdus Salam, Dirac didn't believe in supersymmetry. He had said to Salam (after the latter had delivered a lecture on supergravity): " If supersymmetry is real, it would have been discovered a long time ago." Was that the reason why Witten forgot the details of the conversation with Dirac (how can you forget such a conversation?), as the speaker seems to have told us?
Im such a Big fan of Dirac and all of the these people Einstein , Bohr etc haw could you not!. Science is more important than ever especially for the young generations. It would be nice to hear about the road science has been at the last 400 years. So very important for us these stories. They can inspire young people to take on physics.
Problem is a load of Nazti Governmentalistsm (Uber-Libs/Sozialists/Commies/Republicans) took over from the 30s onwards, confusing the world with stupidly expensive high energy physics experiments that discover no new useful materials, deep space telescopes and probes that are of no use to man nor beast, Climate Control uber-science that blatantly flouts the very sensible Anti-Weather Warfare Treaty...
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90+ failed Tokamaks, and still they want more, instead of Thorium Molten Salt Breeder Reactors, because the Scientific-Military-Industrial-Data Collection Complex is addicted to enriched uranium and Liberal Science doesn't know when to give up... blah, blah... Neutrino detectors, gravy train wave detectors... moon missions.. Sort out Earth first - without turning it into a climate-controlled weather war zone.
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I respect the old masters, the new lot have wasted trillion$ and trillion$, and so many of the best brains... plus Watts and natural resources... It's a disgusting Nazti Neo World Order Scientific Dictatorship!... It's a Waster's World...
@@PrivateSi probably. AGREE. Yes white shorts boys need not the dump, butt eradication. ( by the way I have ALLL physics complete- why tell them !
Fucking Amazing 🙌🎉🥰🤗thank YOU!!!
I am as far away from this mathematician as they come (I use my fingers to count when playing cribbage 🤦🏼♀️) but one thing I have always felt since I was a young child, is the Beauty, sheer elegant beauty in reality. This really resonates ❤
I lived in Tallahassee during Dirac's last years and I regret never attending one of his lectures. He was said to have stated, "When God designed the universe, He used beautiful mathematics."
@IggyDalrymple: While watching this documentary I realised why Richard Feynman appreciated - for lack of a better word - Paul Dirac. The latter climbed trees in professorial garb and the former played bongo's in a bathing suit. However, what is more, these were two BRILLIANT men whose work we have inherited and appreciate.
Dirac is my favorite because his theory fits my theory! Like he doesn't like quantum mechanics because I can't fathom who would. Thankfully it isn't that way but I like it because it allows us to do anything we like (time travel; pan jumping; and, so much more)!
Alpha Omega lol what?
Dirac wrote The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
2:40 starts
Thanks
I want to see the movie of this guy
good!
It is strange to learn the timing of his brother's death in 1924 and how this preceded his productive period. This was the year in which logical positivism suffered a mortal wound at the tip of Gödel's pen, the results on Undecidable Propositions. Paradoxes. Leaving the goals of positivism aside where this thrust left them, I think it may have been the reason that Dirac eventually lost faith in his own original direction.
The equivalence of linear algebra and analytic methods in harnessing the solutions of the wave equation points to the possibility of the arithmeticisation of analytic results, by the rational parametrization of the circle. Such a programme is obviated by the death of arithmetic; real number theory is what remains to the empirical theorist by way of metaphysical foundations. But a foundation on the contradiction of 'defining infinity' is not logically overcome by pragmatism. Only experimentally, as it were.
It is clearly the arithmetical nature of linear algebra which suggests that analytic solutions in physics with quadratic foundations may very well be pointing to something structurally significant numerically that could be ordered in group-theoretical terms. Algebraic field theory complementing physical field theory. It's very exciting food for thought.
But both in pure mathematics and applied physics, the preference for statistical models and abstracted quantities in floating point notation with standard deviations as a metric resolvent was buttressed by the apparent failure of arithmetical proof.
Personally I do not blame Dirac for being disappointed. But as Pauli noted, Dirac was not actually religious; "There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet!"
But a prophet he was nonetheless. For both physics and mathematics rely upon synthetic a priori mathematical principles which are by definition metaphysical. This metaphysics does not arise "after" or "out of" physics. It rather provides the only possibly sound logical foundation for scientific and mathematical, and indeed even religious metaphysics.
Thanks for the pleasant lecture.
I´m a theoretical physicist. Dirac´s work is the last beauty physic. QED is a dirty theory
The Unsuitability of the Unconscious Mathematics A Language For Physics - the need to add a mandatory baseline of consciousness to the Unconscious Mathematics - at least a checks-and-balances 'compiler' similar to compilers in software systems.
Dirac was a Superman
You mean Spiderman?
EDTHODU JAMAL KOYA JAMAL
Is that a question or are you trying to tell me what I meant?
Dirac was one of the most Aladeen of his time,genius.
He truly was the best Alladin of his time!
In Bristol there is a Dirac Trail, a route around his various locations. I've not yet followed it all, but it is in my plans for my next visit to Bristol (a fascinating and historical city well worth a visit)
Later in life, Dirac's views towards the idea of God were less acerbic. As an author of an article appearing in the May 1963 edition of Scientific American, Dirac wrote:
It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of a mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it. You may wonder: Why is nature constructed along these lines? One can only answer that our present knowledge seems to show that nature is so constructed. We simply have to accept it. One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better.[60]
Why are the French good mathematicians and good engineers and excellent scientists
Consider this. Paul
E=hv is Planck's equation in 1900, with Planck's constant representing the irrational units, making the equation rational by using rational n for the constant, is misstatement yet Mother Nature is pleased:?)
E=nv-n/Tp,
and then ETp=n is a rational revolutionary geometry that Dirac and Gauss would applaud:?) And it is valid for any observer.
No renormalization is required:?) Gauss' least squares define its measurement variance.
And lost in space takes on a beautiful irony for Carl Gauss:?)
Beauty is no criterion for truth.
QM is the best example: it's so ugly but so far it is one of the most accurate theories in physics.
If man is power, women are creation . Beauty.. aestheticism can bring both together . Men coms to a woman - women come to man, whereby WE come to God in perfection.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
the only comment of Dirac when he read and peace (forced by Wigner) was : It´s wrong. Once there were two dawns the same day
Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 4D multi/universe model
--
Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum
Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction
Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Free, out of place cell warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 DC spin loops
Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field, radiating AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 DC spin loops
Noton/Dark Matter (n+-): Exactly opposite phase close p+ and e- annihilate (ie. entangled pair created together (e_p) ), else a noton forms
Nucleons: Proton: P=pep.. Neutron: N=P_e=pep_e.. Beta-: N-e>>P+e.. Beta+: P+e_p>>N+p.. Alpha: A=PNPN=PeP_PeP=(pep_e_pep)_(pep_e_pep)
Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field
Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel
Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion
Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls cells, that then bounce out, stabilising as a torus of 6 in/out (N/S) DC loops
Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s
Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Notons have compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel
Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s and e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits
Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly noton hits statistically tipping the balance
Photon: Charged particles moving up and down (transmitter, atomic electron) form a radiating transverse wave blip pattern
Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys
Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient
Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation
Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration
Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions' intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs inwardly at C that annihilate or form notons, Protons, Neutrons
Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter + a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Fast -ve charge loss? Noton crystal exploded?
Black Hole: Absorbs matter and energy. Noton crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything entering?
Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison
Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass
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This is not an aether theory, it's a matter-energy field, a quantised, relativisitic subspace medium. Forces and matter emerge from and are part of the field
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Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
Small world I meant Brando's kid
Debatably the most important physicist of all time, dare I say?
Dirac fue y será siempre genio porque
descubrió una belleza
matemática en la materia, en lo que da
forma a las cosas; sin
embargo genio es aquél que sin ser el genio
hecho reconoce la belleza de la creación.
Please say where Dirac's essay on mathematical beauty can actually be found.
Later responses inform on this portal. 10-4-21
@@jakalamanewtown6814 Thanks.
less intro and no hosts!!!
as far as i concern, expressing anti religion,anti philosophy are not a proper words. i would rather use truth seeker of our reality and nature. some purposely concocted mathematically rules are not a true nature of maths and science of reality.
Is this view valid anymore? In fact some have criticized this as currently holding back Physics.
32:00 ... not a modest house, a gymnasium.
I suppose that if you can't build a time machine or fold space to travel vast distances, all that is left is to chatter about beauty.
The misery of the quantum cult.
Was Dirac a Wrangler?
goosecouple..He was a Levi’s
Wrangler was only for undergrad to qualify!
How you can solve the problem without the love ? 🤣
Too bad genius doesn’t extend to fixing the speaker up with a decent mobile microphone
Would it have hurt you to FILM this event?
"Anti religious and anti philosopher" - YESSS. definitely my hero!
As one says in Dutch:: Food for psychologists. What a beautifull personality! Some friennds of mine tend to , what people call Authism. Well if so concerning Dirac; He chose the right spectrum of authism. There is no God and Dirac is his prophet!
I understand from this good elucidation, that I am correct in being with and more-I know ALL Physics. And he was on the way, was Paul Dirac. Einsteinium ideation got in his way.
Excellent talk. Unfortunately the loud background noise makes it difficult to make sense of talk.
If physics has to be beautiful to be true, is it also the case that, for example, politics must be beautiful to be true - here we have the unfortunate source of Utopianism ...
Politics isn't physics. But sometimes, physics is politics.
No, it isn't the case.
So if water is wet, does that mean politics is wet ?
@@juliusraben3526 Politics IS the problem, not the solution. YAWN.
Dirac era un genio que
no aceptaba que detrás de la creación
hay un genio mayor
que todos los genios
humanos juntos. Sólo
hay que contemplar
la creación, cómo surge la vida, las formas que tiene la vida, el sentido de la
bondad, de la humildad. del amor
entre los hombres,
ectc. Que Dirac se
negaba a aceptar. Cómo negar la filosofía, la más hermosa de todas
las disciplinas. Luego
que hizo su descubrimiento
entonces abrazó la
filosofía, que su raíz
filo- quiere decir amor,
vida, y Sofía, de sabiduría. De un negador de la búsqueda de la sabiduría Dirac se
convirtió en un filósofo
de la belleza cuántica,
de la naturaleza matemática de las cosas, y al final abrió
su espíritu de genio
a la belleza cuántica y
física de las cosas, no
al valor de las cosas
por su contenido espiritual y humano.
renormalization is a shame
Everything I've ever learned about math and physics (meaning, principles of the Universe), underscores for me that Dirac was correct to insist upon real beauty in equations, if they are to accurately convey the workings of God, or whomever you credit for Creation. There are simply too many countless examples of such proven beauty to ignore that this criterion is essential. -- I admire Dirac increasingly the more I study him.
You are wrong to infer that Dirac saw a God as a requisite to beauty in equations describing nature. You are injecting your own convictions here. Study him better.
@@f-xdemers2825 I understand that Dirac was agnostic. In my comment I allowed for "whomever" created the universe, and by that I also meant "whatever". I myself have no dog in the hunt, so am not injecting my own convictions, certainly not religious ones. So I would sit on the agnostic side of the fence too. Certainly something caused Creation, even if is just physics itself. From where did integrated physical law originate? What created physics and why is it so pointedly concisely mathematical? The point I was trying to make was that many, if not most, cosmologists and physicists are in awe of the astounding degree to which physical laws are so often characterized by great mathematical beauty often with an inexplicable degree of simplicity, concision, and inter-relatedness. To my knowledge, no one has explained this remarkable phenomenon.
(Isotope, Element) ($charge, $ dipole ) (x,y,z)size (x,y,z)distance (t_half life & Fr_cycle)
(2*#,#) ($:#,$:#)(x,y,z)_size (x,y,z)_distance T+half_life Fr=Cyclic
+steven stallings what ?
It's an idea all the universe can be summed up as a set of numbers - based on the periodic table of the elements and energy waves
+steven stallings Try not to embarrass yourself in public any more.
He would have been Homosexually inclined.
Dirac was an eminent
thinker but not in language, but in mathematics. How ever, he accepted the
idea of religion as a guide of the nature
beauty long after he
spent many years
refusing the God idea
in the universe, unifying the bridge
of relativity between he
and the common people of faith. Dirac
had to be a genius to
accept the beauty of
the creation, of the religion, things that
common people used
to accept without
being genius.
P
Mathematics is the secret language that God created to breathe life into exsistence.
That would be DNA
First you have to prove the existence of god.
@@morpheus6749 O another mind of GOD
There is no God and Dirac is His last prophet ..... that was all i needed to hear fro the day
this is a failed attempt at a serious subject. Can it !
dorry can not dtay long conical collapse of time
wait isn't it common for 13 year olds to think about space and time? kekws
I also hate QFT, it´s ugly
Great bio on Dirac, but the audio is painful
Dios es una palabra
creada por el hombre.
Pero no con sentido
cuántico, de números,
sino de sentido humano y espiritual.
The rules of physics and the rules of mathematics are allies from the One Devine God. Us human just extract those rules. Peace
You are wrong to infer that God is a requisite to beauty in equations describing nature. You are injecting your own convictions here.
Not quite half the universe in his head. Slightly less than half.
Yet another stupid title. re·li·gion
/rəˈlijən/
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Leave your "religion" out of science and math.
I suppose your viewpoint is superior to Dirac's, then? Have you published anything, or been submitted to peer review? Just wondering.
James Benton Ticer His religion was Math
Why? In the end, Dirac did not.
@@JRobbySh " and another thing." , seperate yourselves in your ugly stouch.
@@matthewgrimm9036 You are wrong to infer that Dirac saw God as a requisite to beauty in equations describing nature. You are injecting your own convictions here. Wonder harder.