Symmetry explains the world | Cumrun Vafa and Lex Fridman

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Cumrun Vafa is a theoretical physicist at Harvard.
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[@heathweeks1985]

Loving the images for reference during these conversations. It adds a whole other layer to the experience.

[@dariushmilani6760]

The poster you showed during the interview where the Earth was known to be at the centre was called Geo-centric and not Helio-centric . None the less I enjoyed the interview.👍

[@user-mw7ll9lb5v]

Yes correct but im sure it was a mis speak due to the raw format🤫

[@makhalid1999]

Bruh. These ancient people were real smart

[@Lightningtiger101]

Definitely not humans then.

[@edwardlewis1963]

@0:32 "if it's true that we haven't figured out most of how things work currently"
if?
When it was thought that the sun goes around the earth, that wasn't wrong, but the earth going around the sun was a simplier solution that more neatly described observation, and even that was not perfect, merely closer to simplicity.
The romans did not seem to have zero in their numbers, but the were not wrong in their calculations; but an improved number system which included zero - the decimal system - opened up a world of mathematics.

[@DustinWayneHotard]

"improved"
Leave it up to humans to make non-existent things extant.

[@yamasama1]

Great interviewer & interviewee!

[@soldatenderrgottes1005]

Modern day Galileo does not use a telescope, he uses a smartphone

[@EG.]

Truth is however, there is no perfect symetry in the nature and in the universe.

[@craigdaurizio686]

But in some ways there are if you think about things like harmonics. The ways in which things are asymmetrical are actually still in very symmetrical ways. A distorted wave form is composed of several hundred or thousand perfect sine waves at different frequencies, same with a square wave.

[@knight3481]

Yes. Most of the symmetries are spontaneously broken.

[@tru7hDevo]

A circle not a sphere same result

[@destinations.revealed]

Are stereotypes points of social Symmetry ?

[@spheriscope]

Infinite correlation.

[@fibonaccifanzeroviews7839]

Huuummmm I'm a ratio person 🐚🌻❄