Geometery and the Universe | Frank Wilczek | Nobel Conference

Frank Wilczek presenting "Geometric Fantasy" at the 49th annual Nobel Conference: The Universe at Its Limits taking place at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2013.
Theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer for their discovery of “asymptotic freedom,” which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction (or color change) between them (and that when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles). In 1973, while a graduate student at Princeton, Wilczek and his adviser, David Gross, developed the theory (independently discovered by Politzer at Harvard), which was important for the development of quantum chromodynamics.
Subjects:
-Beginning of Lecture (4:58)
-Einstein's Awakening (8:50)
-The Geometry of Timeless Perfection (11:49)
-The Geometry of Change (19:42)
-Flexible Space-Time (26:42)
-Internal Space (38:37)
-Mind and Matter (41:50)
-Beginning of Q&A (56:05)
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[@MeissnerEffect]

Yay it’s our incredible Mr Wilczek honoring mankind’s wonder with his great mind ❤️✨🦋

[@jrhunter007]

It's interesting that the greatest minds of our time are predominantly atheist or agnostic. It's no coincidence that greater knowledge and understanding and an appreciation of reality leads to reduced religiosity (and that the inverse leads to the opposite).

[@pankakesnotstellar]

Thank you G. A. College for these brilliant discussions and videos. I am now on the 3rd one and I am grateful for making them available to those who cannot take part directly. tful

[@gavinwince]

Wilczek is elegant :)

[@AlbertoLopezisnotit]

Not all are falling sleep this days...

[@shirleymason7697]

Absolutely .....volume needs some inflationary event.

[@scriabiniste]

Thanks to GAC for such a stimulating array of talks and questions.... Very interesting that Prof. Wilczek chose not to answer an incredibly fascinating question: Does time really exist or is it just a measurement of change? It seems to me that there is nothing ascientific about such a question, particularly given the implications of relatvity.

[@Lavabug]

Not ascientific at all, it's a good question, just amazingly hard (hence the "wow") and any possible answer at this point is just speculative. Time is not an observable quantity in QM and it always appears as an indpendent parameter.

[@solaroneproject]

sound output of the video is too low to hear...

[@maestroanth]

that cylinder blew my mind.

[@pankakesnotstellar]

Start at 5:00 for the interesting part

[@danieljoseph255]

I find it odd that this guy is actually playing up his mannerisms to appear as a stereotypical eccentric. All of the truly great minds in the history of science were able to see past this presentation

[@halo2bounceguy]

He is eccentric about some topics in Physics, I think. Super-symmetry and geometry are two of his favorites.

[@andypitch]

Pardon? :-(

[@janklaas6885]

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