Edward Witten: On the Shoulders of Giants

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  • @tonyfoxxbuilds1920
    @tonyfoxxbuilds1920 Год назад +563

    Who else is here from a Joe Rogan podcast? I'd love to hear more lectures from this man. The way he describes physics with ease is kind of relaxing.

    • @rodnee2340
      @rodnee2340 Год назад +7

      You got me. I just had to see for myself. I hope my brain doesn't explode.🤣

    • @csr5139
      @csr5139 Год назад +3

      Same here 😂

    • @76dozier
      @76dozier Год назад +11

      Yep, just saw a Joe Rohan short saying this guy is the Michael Jordan of Physics!!!

    • @xaviermateman4585
      @xaviermateman4585 Год назад +1

      I am a member brother

    • @agist007
      @agist007 Год назад +1

      Yep

  • @kennethstrand7577
    @kennethstrand7577 Год назад +72

    Its incredible how precise he is in his words and phrasings, its like he says all and only the exactly correct thing.

    • @t3hPoundcake
      @t3hPoundcake 5 месяцев назад +1

      He's so precise in his dictation that sometimes I play a drinking game where whenever he says something like "uh" or "anyway" or "well, ... " I take a drink.
      It's usually hard to get a buzz going.

    • @vanleeuwenhoek
      @vanleeuwenhoek 5 месяцев назад

      Consider how many towering intellects are trapped behind incoherent, autistic rambling. That's the unique genius of this man: crystalline public interface.

    • @Pie314159265358
      @Pie314159265358 3 месяца назад

      Like, but not the thing.

    • @JoshuaMSOG7
      @JoshuaMSOG7 12 дней назад

      He said himself his first subject he was most interested in and studied was linguistics, which makes ton of sense by the way he speaks and forms his sentences.

  • @elidrissii
    @elidrissii 9 лет назад +165

    Unarguably the greatest living physicist.
    And great lecturer and expositor too it seems.

    • @elidrissii
      @elidrissii 2 года назад +2

      @@someone1059 No.

    • @michaelscott5653
      @michaelscott5653 2 года назад +14

      I would say he's the greatest _mathematical_ physicist today.

    • @macysondheim
      @macysondheim Год назад +1

      Un-arguably*

    • @macysondheim
      @macysondheim Год назад

      @@elidrissii No

    • @27dforce
      @27dforce Год назад +1

      Nope, anyone that still believes in string theory or Ed's theory, M theory, isn't the greatest!!!

  • @astraldreamhead193
    @astraldreamhead193 8 лет назад +101

    im mesmerized by this gentleman, the way he talks is so intelligent, and the tone and meter is so lovely

    • @WARDISWARD
      @WARDISWARD 7 лет назад +4

      he could work a bit on his intonation

    • @TwelfthRoot2
      @TwelfthRoot2 6 лет назад +12

      If he changed his intonation then it would be just like everyone else, boring. Once you accept his intonation and try to see where it comes from then things become a little more interesting. Hell do you think Christopher Walken would have been famous if it wasn’t for his strange intonation?

  • @stianaslaksen5799
    @stianaslaksen5799 6 лет назад +74

    Edward Witten is a master speaker. In his entire talk there is not a single "eeh" or "umm", or any other disturbances that creep into normal peoples speech. A pleasure to listen to.

    • @executivesteps
      @executivesteps 4 года назад +16

      Seriously? Yes he replaced them all with “so”.

    • @BoRisMc
      @BoRisMc 4 года назад +5

      you wanna check Robert Sapolsky to see what a master speaker is man.

    • @SaiaFT
      @SaiaFT 2 года назад +2

      He does say umm and even an uhh in the first minute.

    • @zackwentworth2653
      @zackwentworth2653 Год назад

      He stumbled over his words more than a 13 year old boy talking to his biggest crush 😂

    • @Its0kToBeWhite
      @Its0kToBeWhite Год назад

      5:26

  • @kuribojim3916
    @kuribojim3916 7 месяцев назад +6

    I am in awe of this remarkable man. His obvious intellect, clarity, and gentle tone of voice are a pleasure to behold.

  • @Dr.scottcase88
    @Dr.scottcase88 Год назад +13

    It is so refreshing to listen to professor Witten, speak in terminology that is clear and understandable to delay person. So often in his mathematical lectures, he can speak for over an hour long, and I am unable to understand a single sentence in the lecture.

  • @sibbyeskie
    @sibbyeskie Год назад +33

    Always pictured Witten as a sort of Ivory Tower figure, solemnly churning out technical papers. Turns out he is actually a terrific engaging communicator.

    • @mojowolf5597
      @mojowolf5597 Год назад +4

      Hahahahaaha...sure, he is a regular smooth talker!

    • @A_Frog_from_mars12
      @A_Frog_from_mars12 Год назад +1

      His public speaking skills are made even more impressive because hes most likely autistic. You can see it in his mannerisms in the 1 on 1 interviews. His body language is very stiff, he always Is looking down at the floor avoiding eye contact.

    • @feynmanschwingere_mc2270
      @feynmanschwingere_mc2270 Год назад +3

      He's an incredible mind. The closest thing we have to Einstein (albeit not quite at that level) imo. True genius.
      He studied history and journalism too; i think he may have dabbled in linguistics as well. He seems very well read.

  • @deeliciousplum
    @deeliciousplum 9 лет назад +31

    Professor Edward Witten is a living pioneer. Always a joy to explore this gentleman's thoughts and inquiries.

  • @ro4eva
    @ro4eva 9 лет назад +14

    Maybe it's just me, but his voice and articulation are almost soothing when wearing noise-cancelling headphones. I could comfortably fall asleep listening to him speak - that's meant to be complimentary (for the record).

  • @miscibi
    @miscibi 9 лет назад +23

    Again, perfect timing! Just when I needed to see some more from Ed Witten! :)
    Thank you for making these sorts of presentations available!

  • @DrDave21
    @DrDave21 4 года назад +26

    The look on his face at 29:36: "Shit, how can I explain this to a room full of apes..."

  • @aristotle4048
    @aristotle4048 7 лет назад +36

    Witten has always been a role model of mine, and a true giant in his own right.

  • @tattoomas
    @tattoomas Год назад +4

    he s so hypnotic 🤩 could listen to him talk al day
    "using the human language" perfectly effortless

  • @scriabiniste
    @scriabiniste 8 лет назад +43

    Wow: this is really brilliant, even to a layman like me. And how smart was Feynman? Unbelievable.

  • @neilmcintosh5150
    @neilmcintosh5150 8 лет назад +205

    Probably the smartest guy in the world alive today

    • @billy-joes6851
      @billy-joes6851 8 лет назад +7

      Nope, Chomsky is.

    • @neilmcintosh5150
      @neilmcintosh5150 8 лет назад +36

      Bill Hampton No you're mistaken. Witten is.

    • @masterchef1837
      @masterchef1837 8 лет назад +1

      +Neil McIntosh Even though it looks like supersymmetry is dead, something he was a big supporter of?

    • @PaulDiracTWR
      @PaulDiracTWR 8 лет назад +33

      +Bill Hampton hahaha good joke man, made my day.

    • @neuralvibes
      @neuralvibes 8 лет назад +10

      Not so sure about that. Many modern-day physicists are surprisingly ignorant about basic philosophical issues and you cannot really be considered smart, let aalone the smartest, if you lack a solid philosophical foundation upon which you base your reasoning. On the other hand, if you only have in mind formulaic and mathematical smarts then a large number of mathematicians would have to be in contention for the title.

  • @max123559
    @max123559 9 лет назад +80

    THIS man should be a celebrity

    • @marksw5499
      @marksw5499 5 лет назад +15

      Absolutely he should. But don't bet on it. People are WAY too damn stupid to fully appreciate people like him. Instead, they'd rather look up to the Kardashians.

    • @jamesodin1990
      @jamesodin1990 4 года назад

      Mark SW same as china

    • @bhavikyadav7495
      @bhavikyadav7495 4 года назад

      @@marksw5499 I think people love Niel Tyson much more than Edward witten and Brian Greene

    • @frankienorthtroptriton4771
      @frankienorthtroptriton4771 3 года назад +1

      @Harsh Raval and he’d interrupt Ed the entire time

    • @AWAB55
      @AWAB55 3 года назад

      @Divyanshu Pandey well explain why do you think he’s an idiot?

  • @NewbFixer
    @NewbFixer 4 месяца назад

    We appreciate you fella. Thank you for your efforts, discoveries, insights and taking the time to communicate to the public and push science forward.

  • @ryanrj7500
    @ryanrj7500 6 лет назад +50

    This guy takes raw intelligence to the next level. Wish I could borrow his brain just to see the world from his perspective.

    • @balf8215
      @balf8215 5 лет назад +8

      And then get back to "average". No thanks :)

    • @thepowerman8952
      @thepowerman8952 4 года назад +2

      @@balf8215 Narcissist.

  • @charleshultquist9233
    @charleshultquist9233 Год назад +1

    One of the best descriptions I've seen.

  • @contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint
    @contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint Год назад +13

    anyone else looking for videos of this man making an academic opponent weep and cry

    • @tombeatty4792
      @tombeatty4792 Год назад +4

      I read an article about Witten in the 1980's, I think. It may have been in Discover magazine. The writer said that when very prominent physicists met him for the first time, some of whom thought they might win a Nobel eventually, they just gave up on the dream on the spot. They realized that Witten was so far ahead of them that they didn't stand a chance. This would happen at dinner parties!

    • @ypey1
      @ypey1 10 месяцев назад +1

      He is capable i just know it😅

  • @garymastin5581
    @garymastin5581 Год назад +4

    Fortunately Ed has been a star almost since post grad and because so I have watched probably 20 talks by him. ❤

  • @twistedmezelf
    @twistedmezelf 8 лет назад +9

    This was the 4th time i watched this talk from start to finish and still i have a hard time wraping my mind around the ideas proposed

    • @onebraid
      @onebraid 8 лет назад +3

      I would suggest watching the excellent NOVA series called "The Elegant Universe". It's a big time commitment, but it will prim you for Witten-level talks.

    • @twistedmezelf
      @twistedmezelf 8 лет назад

      John Mitchell Do you have an idea what will prepare me? cause i want to be prepared to understand the near future if only to join the existential crisis that follows :P

    • @xkCD_cmpnt
      @xkCD_cmpnt 6 лет назад +3

      twistedmezelf
      Sorry late for the reply but you'll need a lot of maths mainly in the fields of Algebra which includes Abstract, Linear and Lie Algebras lots of Algebraic Topology and Algebraic Geometry and sound understanding of Manifold Theory and Lie Groups and that just the Math part. For the Physics prerequisite you'll need sound understanding of Graduate level Physics which involves lots of GR and QFT , after that you can sufficiently ( although with a bit of hassle here and there) understand Wittens work on M Theory and follow papers from other great string theorist like Nimbu, Sen and Randall.

  • @bryan3dguitar
    @bryan3dguitar 2 года назад +2

    The audio levels change when he approaches the "live" microphone at the podium - while still using his wireless, lapel microphone. Does anyone notice this in the auditorium?

  • @markkennedy9767
    @markkennedy9767 3 года назад +3

    What I find is he is so easy to follow. I don't know if this is because of his unusual delivery which I first found slightly jarring but now is actually just really nice to listen to. Even compelling. Really interesting and brilliant guy.

  • @ashishkiift
    @ashishkiift 4 года назад +1

    Privileged to live during the time of Ed Witten ! Wish the cameraman was zooming in on the screen as Ed spoke. Such a shoddy job !

  • @diegoesteta
    @diegoesteta 5 месяцев назад

    The world is sooo elegant. Thank you prof

  • @ggrthemostgodless8713
    @ggrthemostgodless8713 Год назад +4

    I am compatible with this guy's sense of humor... he is so subtle.

  • @FernandoDeLeon
    @FernandoDeLeon 8 лет назад +48

    He is in the league of Newton and Einstein

    • @surfermx
      @surfermx 8 лет назад +6

      in math he could be even better than Newton and Einstein 😆

    • @gru8212
      @gru8212 8 лет назад

      +Fernando De Leon he is probably challenger

    • @junior3082
      @junior3082 8 лет назад +17

      Maybe intellectually, but until his theories are proven like their theories were, he can't be viewed in the same light.

    • @MARKCREEKWATER1
      @MARKCREEKWATER1 7 лет назад +1

      I agree: I have much more respect for Dr. Witten after viewing some of his videos,
      mainly due to his clear and logical descriptions of the history of physics,
      but I still believe that "string theory" is bunk .....

    • @spencerallbritton9459
      @spencerallbritton9459 7 лет назад +5

      Newton is in a class all by himself. There can only be one first. He was the primary builder of modern physics. He also did practically all of his work by himself, and the bulk of his work in a two year span. To top it off, he spent most of his time with alchemy and looking for secret messages and codes in the Bible. Who knows how much more he would have discovered had he devoted his entire life to science.

  • @DanHowardMtl
    @DanHowardMtl 9 лет назад +39

    Show the slides maybe?

    • @psybin
      @psybin 9 лет назад +2

      +Dan Howard The ones that have pictures are shown, the rest are just text of what he's saying.

    • @DanHowardMtl
      @DanHowardMtl 9 лет назад

      Psybin Okee Dokee.

    • @scepticalchymist
      @scepticalchymist 4 года назад +2

      @@psybin Maybe, but in science it is common to show the science and not the presenter, since the facts are important and not the guy. The guy is anyhow well known from one picture at the start, but the formulas etc. are important.

  • @sparhopper
    @sparhopper 7 лет назад +10

    Shame on the videographer(s) and/or the editors that _failed_ in keeping up with properly showing his slides!

  • @anubha1981
    @anubha1981 7 месяцев назад +1

    His interpretation and birds eye view is exhilarating

  • @michaelcrawford310
    @michaelcrawford310 8 лет назад +17

    Watched a lot of these lectures. About time to fire the entire sound team.

    • @1966Cliffy
      @1966Cliffy 7 лет назад +1

      Yes, many comments on the brilliance of the man, and they the Festival gets a couple of media undergrads on comms. - pathetic!

  • @Lord_Vadr
    @Lord_Vadr Год назад +1

    Would love to sit down and have his ear for a conversation. A lot of ideas to discover as well as scrutinize.

  • @goldenphoenixpublish
    @goldenphoenixpublish Год назад +1

    Some 20 minutes in, Ed begins to describe how every path a particle can take is possible -- if not necessarily probable. Perhaps one way of explaining this is to say that "Everything in the Universe connects to everything else." Essentially in each and every "instant" of time (understood as a "moment of change") all universal influences converge on the particle -- a particle which itself is in unity with all other particles. The law of efficiency simply summarizes all such influences and 'determines' the particle's path through the greater unity of all things. Of course, this explains why the double-slit experiment gives such surprising results. The investigator's presence is also a factor. (A presence that itself does not exist in isolation from all things either...)

  • @stevemenegaz9824
    @stevemenegaz9824 Год назад

    Incredibly insightful.

  • @TomHamilton221155
    @TomHamilton221155 Год назад

    excellent communicator of the complex.

  • @polytpe57
    @polytpe57 9 лет назад +2

    A brilliant man,maybe one of the greatest mathematical physicists in history.

  • @jondury9450
    @jondury9450 7 лет назад +5

    Wow, Steve Weinberg and Ed Witten in a same room.

  • @anunusualnick8340
    @anunusualnick8340 4 года назад +5

    I have a question. If this string theory is supposed to be the ultimate theory of the universe. Then what are these strings made of?

    • @bspain1637
      @bspain1637 3 года назад +2

      Dehydrated spittle of the vanquished...

    • @orkhanhuseynli7668
      @orkhanhuseynli7668 2 года назад +2

      They are pure energy with geometric shapes

    • @RottenHussey
      @RottenHussey 5 месяцев назад

      Wormholes

  • @jefferylubinski528
    @jefferylubinski528 11 месяцев назад +2

    Who remembers Charles proteus steinmetz?

  • @praveenkumardhankar2716
    @praveenkumardhankar2716 Год назад +1

    @13:37 "You couldn't get any credit for scientific ideas nowadays. But apparently in the 18th century you could." ----------> Since gravity is space-time curvature a 'graviton' would be a 'cube' of Planck length in the smallest unit of time imaginable. It won't be a particle or a string. That's why the 'graviton' wasn't discovered or observed at the Large Hadron Collider. Thanks.

  •  2 года назад

    People like him make me proud as a human. Thanks, Edward witten for your hard work.

  • @srikanthtupurani6316
    @srikanthtupurani6316 4 года назад +4

    The greatest mathematical physicist of all time. No doubt about this. He is frightening like hell. The way he writes equations it appears as if it is some joke for him. The kind of math he knows there are very few people who can come close to witten.

    • @allgoodwithme3290
      @allgoodwithme3290 Год назад

      This comment is so stupid! Largely because it idolises and isolates what is significant from the rest making the assumption that the rest lacks the required knowledge or propensity for that knowledge.

    • @KONSTANTINOSDALAKOURAS-w3b
      @KONSTANTINOSDALAKOURAS-w3b Год назад

      Terence Tao is better.

  • @andrewcoursaris5063
    @andrewcoursaris5063 5 лет назад +6

    Hes very eccentric likeable and very smart

    • @tofu8688
      @tofu8688 Год назад

      Damn you might as well blow him while you’re at it

  • @JamesEIvoryIII
    @JamesEIvoryIII Год назад +3

    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme”.
    -Mark Twain 😉

  • @jacknicklin953
    @jacknicklin953 7 лет назад +5

    Wonderful, thank you.

  • @asimenyekalambo8065
    @asimenyekalambo8065 4 месяца назад

    How can i contact him??

  • @odnewdylee
    @odnewdylee Год назад

    2:42: wouldn't that establish light moves as a wave, as water does. Water moves as a wave, electromagnetism moves as a wave right?

  • @_paralaks_
    @_paralaks_ 8 лет назад +5

    Horrible recording as I see from the first 12 minutes! We should be able to see the slides when EW stops talking and looking at them; at least!

  • @daleminkel2816
    @daleminkel2816 Год назад

    We are all here because of the funnel theory. We started at Joe Rogan interviewing Eric Weinstein and were immediately funneled through RUclips where we each clung to a Witten video probably predetermined initially by the RUclips algorithm and finally our personal preference for the length of the video.

  • @KatrinaDancer
    @KatrinaDancer Год назад +1

    I take exception to him saying there will only be a few equations. I'm here 4 the math! More math please 😁

  • @twoscoops1509
    @twoscoops1509 8 лет назад +1

    I've always wanted to give him a hug. Edward witton is my hero from since i was a small child. I love how he explains the most complex concepts. His books are even better.

  • @nictrent3790
    @nictrent3790 Год назад +1

    The movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once makes total sense now :D

  • @priyabratadash4542
    @priyabratadash4542 9 лет назад +1

    thank u so much WSF .. i was wandering why he has not been invited yet.. it was a great talk

  • @lawrencewamithi4430
    @lawrencewamithi4430 6 лет назад +1

    During a physics conference many of the physicist ranked witter to newton and Einstein

  • @superscienceshow
    @superscienceshow 7 лет назад +2

    the slides they don't show are text of what he is saying. that is how he rolls

  • @steamerwon
    @steamerwon 9 лет назад +1

    Very interesting BUT... I wish people who make these videos show the SLIDES that the commentator is continually referring to.. WE all know what the speaker looks like but the information on the slides is often not displayed either at all or only for a brief time...
    Sooooo pleeeez let us see more of the slides......................

  • @2000coco
    @2000coco 9 лет назад +5

    This brilliant man👏👏😍😍

  • @luiz5411
    @luiz5411 Год назад

    Hey camera man we can hear the speaker but rarely see the slides. keep up the good work.

  • @milkymodi6264
    @milkymodi6264 Год назад

    Doesn’t a string need tension in order to vibrate ?

  • @hshdhdbnd
    @hshdhdbnd 9 лет назад +2

    I wonder if we could have a three-dimensional random quantum geometry to get closer to a four-dimensional random quantum geometry (involving space and time). Wouldn't that 3 dimensional theory be an upgrade from String Theory which is a two-dimensional random geometry?

    • @suesimmons926
      @suesimmons926 3 года назад

      I was wondering the same thing ... two dimensions of space and one of time.

  • @Wasteomindy
    @Wasteomindy 8 лет назад +1

    Where are slides? :\

  • @edwardjones2202
    @edwardjones2202 2 года назад +1

    Not just an ivory tower guy
    He wrote a bunch of public letters protesting the Israeli imprisonment of a Palestinian physicist

  • @SenorAhole
    @SenorAhole 5 лет назад +1

    Amazing man, M theory is brilliant theory!

    • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
      @paulmichaelfreedman8334 Год назад

      Yes brilliant math work. But string theory has a lot of problems. There's still no way of testing the theory, and the Standard model is basically complete - including all evidence of existence being of > 5 Sigma significance.
      The untestability says something about a theory. The math, as said is brilliant and Witten just saw the common components of 5 different string theories and combined them into one (Due to the complexity it required a mathematician with extreme intelligence to solve). That is pure math magic and has nothing to do with presenting any evidence or proof that string theory is correct.
      Bottom line: Witten made string theory "Elegant" with M theory, but that does in no way prove it - it is still likely it is completely wrong with respect to what it represents.

  • @whocares1409
    @whocares1409 3 года назад +2

    This guy should have his own TV Series. Probably the greatest physicist alive today.

  • @NothingMaster
    @NothingMaster 5 лет назад +2

    Witten was a history buff, long before he was a physicist.

  • @ilanpi
    @ilanpi Год назад

    “If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.” -Hal Abelson

  • @someluke005
    @someluke005 8 лет назад

    Why so few slides shown??

  • @kavalkid1
    @kavalkid1 4 года назад +3

    Wonderful! Oh, my _____ The observation of quantum entanglement may be our hint into the 4 dimensional geometry we seek. The geometric structures we do perceive are viewed from a higher dimensional vantage point. We are viewing entanglement from a dimension below the state this phenomenon exists in. Perhaps it is more a palindrome than a rhyme that can be used to see the commonalities from the inside out. Any entangled pair may be the pushpin or anchor. Any entangled pair exist at the same "place" in 4 dimensional geometry. The Delayed Choice experiment may be our access point.

  • @mitchellhayman381
    @mitchellhayman381 Год назад

    Amazing man. Imagine a world where everyone was as highly evolved as this.

  • @ravishingrickyrude303
    @ravishingrickyrude303 Год назад

    How much information does it take to be above probability ?

  • @funmeister
    @funmeister 7 лет назад +1

    To lecture/presentation video uploaders: Please stop showing only the presenter and failing to show the slides!

  • @aristotle4048
    @aristotle4048 7 лет назад +4

    When Witten jokingly remarked that De Maupertuis thought the principle of least action proved the existence of God, I was expecting the audience to react. The fact that they didn't is a little unsettling.

  • @PistonDriven
    @PistonDriven Год назад

    When every sentence is a world, undiscovered..

  • @peterkovacs8876
    @peterkovacs8876 6 лет назад +7

    there are a lot of popular media physicist (Brian Green, Max Tegmark, Tyson, etc) but the most most most most biggest MIND is WITTEN

  • @jame2182
    @jame2182 Год назад

    Fascinating

  • @johnfarris6152
    @johnfarris6152 5 лет назад +1

    He almost broke the CC. So far Feynman has been spelled, Fineman and Phiman along with Feynman.

  • @mikelis106
    @mikelis106 Год назад

    this man´s voice is a mixture on the voice of an angel mixed with that of a computer.

  • @JetskiDex
    @JetskiDex 7 лет назад +2

    What's his instagram?

  • @victoriarisko
    @victoriarisko 3 месяца назад

    ❤ wonderful!!!

  • @tarekazzam389
    @tarekazzam389 2 года назад

    Thomas Young visited Goettingen (in the 1600 or 1700s?) and stayed in the former Egyptology- and Orientalism-House at Prinznstr. in Downtown Goettingen.

  • @paulgets2737
    @paulgets2737 9 лет назад +4

    ' On the Shoulders of Giants' ? Edward Witten is undoubtley the greatest living theoretical physicist of the World. But it is overstatement to compare him to Isaac Newton. At least until his M-Theory will be proved a true physical theory. If ever...

  • @davidreynolds2450
    @davidreynolds2450 9 лет назад +12

    Isaac Newton said: "If I am able to further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants,"

  • @thecollageman3290
    @thecollageman3290 Год назад

    Checking all things at all times without time to get the best result.

  • @callmedeno
    @callmedeno Год назад

    So far is string theory still likely to be correct or has it ran into trouble?

  • @romyou3788
    @romyou3788 7 лет назад +3

    This man is easily the most brilliant physicist in the world

  • @MrShark731
    @MrShark731 Год назад +1

    I am here because of Eric Weinstein on Joe Rogan calling him V of physics

  • @anaccount8474
    @anaccount8474 8 месяцев назад

    I do appreciate what an intellectual supergiant he is but it's telling that he's won the Fields Medal but never been awared a Nobel Prize. He's more of a mathematician than a physicist.

  • @forsak3nkill3r
    @forsak3nkill3r 5 лет назад +7

    Wish they gave him another hour or two so he could fully explain everything without feeling short on time.
    Great video though.

  • @zerovision1991
    @zerovision1991 5 месяцев назад

    We are blessed by god himself to have Edward Witten

  • @unsub8924
    @unsub8924 Год назад

    Edward Witten's cadence feels as if my dad was speaking to me.

  • @adrianwright8685
    @adrianwright8685 Год назад

    13:15 de Maupertuis. Actually pronounced - de Moh-per-twee

  • @jackhammer6963
    @jackhammer6963 Год назад

    Is there am age where you are to old for this to have an effect or does your age not matter?? Also how do you find out where the moon was when you were born? How do you determine when you should be saving your self and how long does this period last??

  • @gordonwilson2430
    @gordonwilson2430 Год назад

    Or as physicist Sidney Coleman once said, "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stood between the shoulders of dwarves."

  • @RottenHussey
    @RottenHussey 5 месяцев назад

    So, you know how time is supposed to be a straight line, with the past, present, and future all happening one after the other? Well, some people think that's not true. They think that all of time is happening at the same time, and that we're just experiencing it one moment at a time.
    I find that idea really interesting. Imagine if you could travel far out into space and look back at Earth through a powerful telescope. You could see the past! You could watch the dinosaurs roaming the Earth, or the ancient Egyptians building the pyramids.
    The farther away you went, the further back in time you could see. You could watch the whole history of the world unfold before your eyes.
    But what about the future? Could you see the future if you traveled far enough away?
    I don't know. But it's a fun thought to imagine.

  • @PplsChampion
    @PplsChampion Год назад

    31:25 witten probably not a big fan of old moog synthesizer music :)

  • @vigo47
    @vigo47 3 года назад +4

    This is how a physicist explains physics for laymen not like Eric Weinstein.

  • @Limpn00dle84
    @Limpn00dle84 9 лет назад +9

    When did Rudy Giuliani become a physicist?