How to Think Like a Physicist

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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    The Pope of Physics goo.gl/74ZEKW
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  • @tibees
    @tibees  6 лет назад +46

    Petr has started making videos again on his own channel - see link in description and go subscribe to him!
    Do you have other books that you think help foster critical thinking? Post them in a comment down below :)

    • @FisicoNuclearCuantico
      @FisicoNuclearCuantico 6 лет назад +1

      Quantum Electrodynamics - Walter Grein

    • @dev_invc
      @dev_invc 6 лет назад +1

      General Physics problems -IE IRODOV.... and well am an engineering student. .. (but I didn't laugh at you.... )

    • @NeXuzMotionzz
      @NeXuzMotionzz 6 лет назад +1

      The Quran fosters critical thinking, but you guys are probably not going to believe me lol

    • @incollectio
      @incollectio 6 лет назад +3

      - Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World (1995)
      (Along with the original Cosmos series, this changed my life. Still as relevant as ever.)
      Some other classics that come to mind:
      - Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism (ca. ~200 CE; essentially the only known text to survive of the earliest skeptical tradition)
      - Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
      - Martin Gardner: Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952)
      - Richard Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (1985)
      - Michael Shermer: Why People Believe Weird Things (1997)
      - Keith E. Stanovich: How to Think Straight About Psychology (latest 11th edition 2018) (book introducing critical thinking skills while also introducing psychology; the writer is one of the pair who coined the terms system 1 / system 2)

  • @iamJuxen
    @iamJuxen 6 лет назад +83

    Tibees, you seem like such a sweet person, you inspire me to work on being less of an a***hole.

  • @funkahontas
    @funkahontas 6 лет назад +400

    Funny how they’re both in the same posture with the right leg over the left and hands cupped around the knees, does that help you think like a physicist? 🤔

  • @isabellahurley6552
    @isabellahurley6552 6 лет назад +29

    I’m so happy I just recently found your channel. I absolutely love physics and I want to major it when I go to university in a couple years and there truly are no other channels like your’s that give a genuine and pure depiction of studying physics and on top of that, you just make me feel relaxed about it and like I can do it in a way.. and I’m saying that because I often doubt myself and feel stressed or insecure but your videos are oddly calming and encouraging and I really appreciate them ❤️

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +9

      This is a lovely comment, I hope that you can continue to find inspiration from my channel :)

  • @formerunsecretarygeneralba9536
    @formerunsecretarygeneralba9536 6 лет назад +15

    Traits of a physicists:
    Sit with your leg crossed because einstein did it that guy in that video did it, that girl in that video did it and carl sagan did it too and so should you if you want to be a physicist. Well unless you're neil degrasse tyson or me (3 minute limit) and long exposure of crossed leg sitting hurts you.

  • @parvye
    @parvye 6 лет назад +7

    It's always interesting to have another insight of a guest in your videos!

  • @ZyNeEnZyNe
    @ZyNeEnZyNe 6 лет назад +156

    Easy - you think in math and always pay respect to the Lord Einstein

    • @rafags2987
      @rafags2987 6 лет назад +5

      Mani and Newton, do not forget newton

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +112

      1 like = 1 prayer for Lord Einstein

    • @sidharthcs2110
      @sidharthcs2110 6 лет назад +5

      Mani
      1) imagine
      2)convert it in to math
      3)reason it using existing principles and laws

  • @user-vc5rp7nf8f
    @user-vc5rp7nf8f 6 лет назад +79

    wish i was smart enough to talk and hang out with tibees

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 6 лет назад +6

      Toby is smart enough to talk to lay people.

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +69

      I'm no better than anyone else here, i'd hope that anyone feels they can talk to me

    • @u-ser530
      @u-ser530 6 лет назад +2

      Hello Tibees im from Morocco (north africa) and i do really appreciate your channel and your works...
      also the video that i liked the most in your channel (i've not seen all of them) is titled "Universe in an Atom"
      it really inspired me to rethink about how mysterious that is our "universe" and our "reality" is ...

    • @91722854
      @91722854 6 лет назад +5

      Don't look down on yourself, we are all children of star dust

    • @rambojohn9041
      @rambojohn9041 6 лет назад +4

      Tibees Okey tibees. Have a nice day.

  • @ethanmartin2781
    @ethanmartin2781 6 лет назад +5

    I was about to ask for you to link the books in the description, but of course you were already on top of that. :)

  • @catarinacardoso1
    @catarinacardoso1 6 лет назад +34

    I'm in love with your channel ♥️

  • @albert3801
    @albert3801 6 лет назад +2

    Thank you for this video. Petr has a great and personable way of explaining things and had some great insights. I’ve learned a lot about the broad concepts of estimation.

  • @incollectio
    @incollectio 6 лет назад +20

    “Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility." - Carl Sagan

  • @BrainBuzzz
    @BrainBuzzz 6 лет назад +10

    Thanks so much for the vid, Tibees! Very helpful and informative, as always :D

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +9

      Thanks for watching!

  • @michaelhafner7487
    @michaelhafner7487 6 лет назад +3

    Duke from Venezuela?
    Reminds me of an engineering professor telling us we could waste our time memorizing dimensionless numbers, or we could focus on the problem at hand and look up which one we needed when we were putting pencil to paper. When the obligatory question regarding an upcoming exam over dimensionless numbers was raised, he rolled his eyes, but came back with, "Obviously, Mr. [smartass student who was bolder than I], your problem at hand IS memorizing them, so I suggest you start looking them up before Friday."

    • @michaelhafner7487
      @michaelhafner7487 6 лет назад

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dimensionless_quantities
      For those who have never heard of these.

  • @rickyrickalvous2982
    @rickyrickalvous2982 6 лет назад +2

    been watching a few videos now, this is like my fifth or sixth one, Subscribed

  • @jima4286
    @jima4286 5 лет назад +1

    I like the interviews, more please. Also, take us into the labs and show us what people are working on.

  • @jhunclyn7814
    @jhunclyn7814 6 лет назад +4

    Thanks for book recommendations

  • @MoontyCrabNebula
    @MoontyCrabNebula 6 лет назад +5

    Really interesting. British physicist G.I Taylor correctly estimated the trinity atomic explosion by using the photographic stills with length scales and dimensional analysis. His specialty was waves and fluid dynamics. Both really difficult fields and no doubt contributed to his crafty analysis. The energies released were top secret at the time. This is the type of creative (like artists) and mathematical +physical intuitive thinking that excellent physicists possess. Physics and other hard scientific fields are highly dynamic with which you use the fundamentals to extrapolate and understand the complex phenomena of nature, creating new models along the way. But perhaps even the fundamentals change with different time scales. Energy is constant except the fact that the universe and its energies came into existence at the big bang epoch! (failure of the conservation law). Nothing is set in stone. And we should approach everything as such. Repeatedly reflect on why it is so, and make sure it is understood.

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +1

      Being a great physicist does require creativity

  • @rambojohn9041
    @rambojohn9041 6 лет назад

    Hey that pianos question is actually really good to start analyzing things and really putting your brain to work. i will try some!

  • @prasoonvishwakarma9538
    @prasoonvishwakarma9538 6 лет назад

    The story shared related to the Enrico Fermi was really very much interesting,it kind of amazes me how differently the brain of different people works and how sharp brain few of the people possess their methods of alternative approach thinking different from the crowd and doing something unexpected and amazing is very much stupendous.

  • @marmikthakore7480
    @marmikthakore7480 6 лет назад +6

    You are cutely intelligent! I like your humble nature and soothing voice.

  • @bluenetmarketing
    @bluenetmarketing 6 лет назад +1

    A message to my fellow old guys and girls. I believe our future is in good hands with people like this.

  • @gitongakelvin4917
    @gitongakelvin4917 6 лет назад +2

    I'd love to see a Tibees and Neil deGrasse Tyson interview. So far so good its been a wonderful journey on this channel. Much love from Kenya!

  • @JacenLP
    @JacenLP 6 лет назад +11

    Have any of you read "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely? Together with Thinking fast & slow from Kahneman give some tools to fight personal biases or at least be more aware of them :)

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +1

      Sounds good, I haven't read it but i'll have to add it to my list of things to read

    • @funkahontas
      @funkahontas 6 лет назад +2

      Tibees you should make a video of your favorite books! Your favorite physics books, fiction, non-fiction, I honestly would love to see a vid like that :)

  • @nestorv7627
    @nestorv7627 6 лет назад +29

    why do people care about being first in a video on physics? Why dont you rather comment on how good this video was and give constructive feedback? Very shameful.
    PS: I liked his personality

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 6 лет назад +5

      It is usually because those people have nothing relevant to bring to the table and to put it bluntly RUclips comment sections rewards edgy memes, those are my 2 cents on that matter.

    • @funkahontas
      @funkahontas 6 лет назад +2

      NestorV S FIRST!

    • @thevitruvianman9781
      @thevitruvianman9781 6 лет назад +5

      NestorV S Chill Out.

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +11

      I don't mind the 'first' comments, i'm just glad that people are excited to watch the video

    • @Merlin-sn1sl
      @Merlin-sn1sl 6 лет назад

      well said tib

  • @oukid2633
    @oukid2633 6 лет назад

    love your enthusiasm!

  • @mateusmacedoquintano5693
    @mateusmacedoquintano5693 6 лет назад +5

    Hi, Toby! Have you got any insights to share about Chemistry majors who found out their "Physicist side" and happened to change to Physics after graduation? The most famous example I know is Robert Oppenheimer, but we don't see it very frequently these days. I will earn my degree in Chemistry in June, and I've had some sort of experience with the theoretical branch of Physical Chemistry through Statistical Thermodynamics (my undergraduate thesis will be on that). However, it is tough to be confident and push on in such field in Brazil as the majority of chemists is more interested in the experimental areas. A few of them claim to be theorists, but they only know how to run some fancy computational chemistry softwares. Theoretical Chemistry rooted in Math is a pretty rare thing in Brazil. Therefore, I humbly ask you some kind of advice on that to encourage me and others who might be in the same dilemma. Thank you for all the information you post here!

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +3

      People certainly cross over to physics from chemistry and vice versa. You might have to talk to physicists and see how you can help their research with your chemistry skills. I have one friend doing a PhD on NMR of proteins in a chemistry department but using a lot of math and physics knowledge.

  • @ulyssestapley5469
    @ulyssestapley5469 6 лет назад +1

    I often wonder how physics applies to a squirrel running across a road full speed stops on a dime and change direction in a split second. It’s an amazing site.

  • @eduardohenriques3362
    @eduardohenriques3362 6 лет назад +6

    I'm glad I found your channel. Make more videos please

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +4

      Thanks for watching!

  • @jonshonjohn4756
    @jonshonjohn4756 6 лет назад +8

    Nice hello internet reference :)

  • @BlueDoBeDo
    @BlueDoBeDo 6 лет назад +9

    SO glad I only have deal with measurements in the μm scale (at most).. :)
    Keep your ångströms and femtometres you pesky physicists! ;)
    Tangible scale = less headaches. :D

    • @MG2-_-
      @MG2-_- 6 лет назад +1

      Blue Portal is that even a problem lol... It hardly takes 1 week to get comfortable with all the prefixes. It is much easier to solve questions when you know most of the prefixes/values than to convert it all into microns or meters.

    • @BlueDoBeDo
      @BlueDoBeDo 6 лет назад +1

      Yeah I was mainly joking about 4:23 . Engineer here. :)
      Working in a scale I can see and feel and there's still plenty of "rough estimates" going on here. :)

  • @qmzp2
    @qmzp2 6 лет назад +4

    That HI reference

  • @sriyamadarapu7250
    @sriyamadarapu7250 6 лет назад +1

    It would be awesome if you did a part-2 of this video ☺☺☺

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +2

      What would you like to hear about in a part 2?

    • @sriyamadarapu7250
      @sriyamadarapu7250 6 лет назад +1

      How does a theoretical Physicist deal with complex Mathematics? And does one need to have a high IQ to think like a Physicist? And do all Physicists think similarly in a general way? Thank you ☺

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +3

      Those are some good ideas, the one about IQ is partially address in this video of mine ruclips.net/video/uYN9euMvd_U/видео.html

  • @honeymartin9120
    @honeymartin9120 6 лет назад +1

    Thanks for this

  • @NFM1337
    @NFM1337 6 лет назад +1

    Going from studying physics to doing biology means having biologist think you're an idiot when you are extremelyt happy with a result of 50% to 200% (or even 10% to 1000%).

  • @dppid083wk7
    @dppid083wk7 6 лет назад

    very enlightening!

  • @broncojonnes
    @broncojonnes 6 лет назад

    for sure for sure

  • @lockon936
    @lockon936 6 лет назад

    Really cool video, you two are really interesting :)

  • @NoxmilesDe
    @NoxmilesDe 6 лет назад +5

    You are so pretty ☺️

  • @rambojohn9041
    @rambojohn9041 6 лет назад +1

    I have noticed physicist cross their legs a lot. why is that? Must have something to do with thinking alot idk. Nei tyson doesnt do that or kaku. My physics teacher did it

  • @MrBaldenegro
    @MrBaldenegro 6 лет назад

    Oh my God, I liked the Hello Internet reference!!!

  • @Joao50297
    @Joao50297 6 лет назад

    I struggle with some tier2 and all tier 3 haliday problems, how do i solve this?

  • @JacenLP
    @JacenLP 6 лет назад +1

    I think you mean Dark from Vestiblum, right? It's easy to get wrong.

    • @dibenp
      @dibenp 6 лет назад

      Tims are everywhere.

    • @sciencepetr5179
      @sciencepetr5179 6 лет назад

      This is amazing. It's a pleasure being in the same community as you all.

  • @qilinxue989
    @qilinxue989 6 лет назад

    so basically Veritasium 2.0?

  • @vahidy2002
    @vahidy2002 6 лет назад

    Can anyone suggest me a good calculus book and book for computer learning ,
    I am basically doing my bachelor's in electrical, currently in 1st yr , but wanna learn calculus and computer system on my own.

  • @sumanachakraborty3573
    @sumanachakraborty3573 6 лет назад

    can you please tell me how and what we should do to be an astrophysicists

  • @mattematte2551
    @mattematte2551 5 лет назад

    Damn what a nice campus :O

  • @venanciorodriguez9050
    @venanciorodriguez9050 6 лет назад

    Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply can give you courage, I wonder what physics law or phenomenon is behind this power of Love.

  • @MatthiasYReich
    @MatthiasYReich 6 лет назад

    I think she mispronunciation his name.. . Shouldn’t it be „Tim“?

  • @restitutororbis964
    @restitutororbis964 6 лет назад

    Lol forgot about time zones, its morning over there, its night time here at Texas.

  • @tarunaspiringphysicist5539
    @tarunaspiringphysicist5539 6 лет назад +2

    Tibees make video in collaboration with simon clark on you tube.

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +2

      I'm a big fan of Simon's channel!

  • @manasa530
    @manasa530 6 лет назад

    I.e. a problem solving approach?

  • @st0ox
    @st0ox 6 лет назад

    4:14 as an computer science guy I would keep the 4 as 4 just saying. PI is also = 4 :D

  • @addis11100
    @addis11100 6 лет назад

    imagination is more important than knowledge

  • @user-hh2is9kg9j
    @user-hh2is9kg9j 6 лет назад

    make physic great again

  • @CbriaRules1
    @CbriaRules1 6 лет назад

    Bench thoughts

  • @unknown360ful
    @unknown360ful 6 лет назад

    Can anybody here tell me some of the jobs that help in gaining experience after a bachelor's in theoretical physics?

  • @kittenhero568
    @kittenhero568 6 лет назад

    Wait, you're in usyd? I'm in usyd!

  • @lesselp
    @lesselp 6 лет назад

    The Summer is now waning in Australia because a proto-planet collided with the Earth 4.5 billion years ago and made it tilt.
    It only affected Australia.

  • @user-he7dh4xd2m
    @user-he7dh4xd2m 6 лет назад

    I love most of your videos, but I have to say that this video should be taken with a grain of salt. Physicist all have their way of thinking, and the way they comprehend something.

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +1

      For sure, this is just one approach to thinking about things

  • @kishanmadhoo7729
    @kishanmadhoo7729 6 лет назад +24

    ...who is paying for it. LOL

    • @mikedang3613
      @mikedang3613 6 лет назад +4

      This is a valid facet to account for when scrutinizing data. Many studies are funded by organizations who seek to incorporate bias into the data to bolster their sales and public image. One of the very first things you should consider when analyzing data is by whom it is funded.

  • @akramfaiza3017
    @akramfaiza3017 6 лет назад

    Hey

  • @zbeubbzbeubb9742
    @zbeubbzbeubb9742 6 лет назад

    I love quantum beauty of smart blond girls physics !!

  • @FortyTwoAnswerToEverything
    @FortyTwoAnswerToEverything 5 лет назад

    Trying to deconstruct his accent: I'm guessing he is from Ireland, maybe lived in America for a while, then moved to AUS?

  • @tajpa100
    @tajpa100 6 лет назад +1

    You should be a Hollywood star. You are very very beautiful.

  • @joebender3662
    @joebender3662 6 лет назад +1

    Imagine if these two fine thinking young people had grown up reciting religious texts .What a waste that would have been and how many equally intelligent people are wasting their talent right now doing exactly that.

    • @ericzeigler8669
      @ericzeigler8669 6 лет назад +1

      Excellent point. Click on Dirac and read the Wiki paragraph about religious beliefs. He said a mouthful. Every word true like your statement.

  • @Hobbit183
    @Hobbit183 6 лет назад +1

    physics= applied math

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +3

      chemistry = applied physics?

    • @Hobbit183
      @Hobbit183 6 лет назад

      Yeah probably, I remember my physics teacher said that too. heh

    • @ely_mine
      @ely_mine 6 лет назад

      seems legit xD

  • @PreciseVids
    @PreciseVids 6 лет назад

    I always question everything, I like physics but my major will be in engineering because there are no physics jobs in my country (usa)

    • @tibees
      @tibees  6 лет назад +1

      engineering can involve a lot of physics too