The Man Who Corrected Einstein

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  • Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024

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  • @BenjiM514
    @BenjiM514 5 лет назад +6905

    “Someone proved Einstein wrong” *when the two smartest kids in the class have different answers*

    • @bloodlust_9890
      @bloodlust_9890 5 лет назад +50

      Like me and my friend braulio
      Were in 4th grade and we solved 10!

    • @zaksszn
      @zaksszn 5 лет назад +33

      BloodBath YT1 cool we have got an r/youngpeopleyoutube say something funny plz

    • @rufodeer5421
      @rufodeer5421 5 лет назад +9

      @@zaksszn a*

    • @okejan3646
      @okejan3646 5 лет назад +2

      @@zaksszn like me do 100x100 and we diffrent answer we 10000000000000

    • @invizible8426
      @invizible8426 5 лет назад +4

      I’m like the smartest kid in my class

  • @malvinmalvin
    @malvinmalvin 5 лет назад +3733

    "What biases do you have?"
    I don't have any biases, at all. I am completely unbiased, and everyone who says otherwise must therefore be wrong.

    • @mantisshrimp9637
      @mantisshrimp9637 5 лет назад +133

      I love this man

    • @AyanKhan-if3mm
      @AyanKhan-if3mm 5 лет назад +16

      Really?

    • @sarah12232
      @sarah12232 5 лет назад +16

      Lol

    • @kuratse205
      @kuratse205 5 лет назад +96

      What? You are wrong! You have biases unlike me, a saintlike human! How DARE YOU SAY I AM WRONG. s/

    • @kunalkashelani585
      @kunalkashelani585 5 лет назад +14

      @@kuratse205 saints are the biggest a-holes you will find!!

  • @architt4331
    @architt4331 5 лет назад +4873

    I love your Einstein's stick figure with that hair

    • @maxnieves4641
      @maxnieves4641 5 лет назад +62

      Kinda looks like a bug with human body

    • @DoubleDom777
      @DoubleDom777 5 лет назад +35

      Max Nieves now I’m not going to be able to unsee that

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 5 лет назад +11

      He wasn't bald on top tho...

    • @burtosis
      @burtosis 5 лет назад +13

      Wow that makes way more sense. I was wondering how bernie sanders could have possibly created stress energy tensor calculations. Maybe I should watch with the sound on.

    • @justpaulo
      @justpaulo 5 лет назад +3

      Friedmann's one is pretty cool too!

  • @MelissaJetzt
    @MelissaJetzt 4 года назад +179

    My senior physics capstone project in undergrad was on quantum locality and contextuality, particularly looking at various proofs and disproofs of Bell's Theorem. Which was very confusing as an undergrad, trying not only to learn the proper math and physics behind what I was studying but carefully combing through the logic of the proofs and disproofs to figure out what was right or wrong. My advisor thought it would be an interesting project because there's a guy who is regarded by most in the field as a quack who is very adamant about his disproofs. Even navigating the academic politics of that was tricky.
    In some ways, I kinda wish I saved that for grad school instead but I digress. It gave me an interesting perspective on what is true and false in physics. And it was a major exercise in trying to distance myself from both the bias to agree with Einstein and the bias to disagree with the critic. Everyone wants to agree with Einstein because he came up with what is now a critical part of physics. But as you say, even he was human. He made mistakes. We all do. In that way, I think the best scientists among us are the level-headed ones with enough empathy to clearly separate correctness from popular biases.
    I just wish academia could be less political. And physics, especially, to be less egotistical. It is a plague.

    • @Hyporama
      @Hyporama 2 года назад +1

      Wow. Such unrestrained observation. Unusual. Troubling.

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 года назад

      @@Hyporama BALANCED attraction and repulsion is fundamental regarding what is physics/physical experience, or there wouldn't be SPACE OR TIME. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. What makes gravity, ON BALANCE, a constant force is that it cannot be shielded (or blocked). Gravity is ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy (in and WITH TIME) consistent WITH what is invisible AND VISIBLE SPACE in fundamental equilibrium AND BALANCE. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky ON BALANCE. SO, a photon IS at the center of WHAT IS the Sun; as this would then CLEARLY be consistent with the requirement of time AND SPACE. (Consider what is invisible AND VISIBLE SPACE in fundamental equilibrium AND BALANCE.) Carefully consider what is THE EARTH/ground ON BALANCE. Consider what is a TWO dimensional surface OR SPACE ON BALANCE !! Consider what is perpetual motion, AND consider TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE. Consider what is THE EYE ON BALANCE. Notice what is the associated black “space” AND the dome AS WELL. NOW, carefully consider WHAT IS THE SUN (ON BALANCE); as TIME is NECESSARILY (AND CLEARLY) possible/potential AND actual (ON/IN BALANCE). CLEARLY, gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites ON BALANCE; as the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky (ON BALANCE). Consider TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE. E=mc2 is taken directly from F=ma. Indeed, the ultimate mathematical unification (AND UNDERSTANDING) of physics/physical experience combines, BALANCES, AND INCLUDES opposites; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY (AND NECESSARILY) proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); as this CLEARLY explains F=ma AND E=mc2. AGAIN, consider what is TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE !! Again, carefully consider WHAT IS THE MAN who IS standing on WHAT IS THE EARTH/ground ON BALANCE !! BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE is fundamental (ON BALANCE).
      By Frank DiMeglio

    • @xtac6435
      @xtac6435 2 года назад +1

      ayo what this mean bruh

    • @MukhtarAbdulGhanee
      @MukhtarAbdulGhanee Год назад +1

      @@xtac6435 lolll

    • @Arrogan28
      @Arrogan28 Год назад +4

      Sadly it's not just a critic on Physics, but on society as a whole I'm afraid. The issue is that so much of our economic position in life is tied to perception, rather then reality. And when a guy who throws a ball with a nice spiral can make literally 100-1000x times the salary of even the most successful physicists, it's crazy what society deems as worthy of praise, and the heaping of riches, and fame, and vs some brilliant breakthrough in math, or physics that come often barely make the news.
      I remember it was said that people who have so little power, when they find themselves suddenly with power, find it very seductive, because they have never had that before in their lives. Same with money, people who have never had money before, have no idea of what to do when they get money, and sometimes can lose all their money because of it. Society is crazy, we train physicists to learn the math, but what about dealing with success, or failure. So now people are going to try to choose to work on things they feel like will open those doors for them, etc, rather then what the physics is telling them they should investigate.
      That's the thing about Einstein, he was basically completely outside the academic circles, so he investigated what interested him, not what his graduate advisor told him to do... he had to do it all on his own, and that in many ways I am sure is why he was so successful.
      If Einstein was trapped in the present day university publish or perish environment, I have no doubt it would have likely crippled his output...

  • @FullersFlexing
    @FullersFlexing 5 лет назад +410

    "even geniuses make mistakes"
    *Yes, yes I do.*

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 5 лет назад +4566

    "If you don't want to make silly math mistakes like Einstein, try Brilliant"

    • @arsim612
      @arsim612 5 лет назад +34

      I'm getting deja Vu

    • @thingsiplay
      @thingsiplay 5 лет назад +78

      lol missed opportunity about the best advertising.

    • @ShafiqIslam
      @ShafiqIslam 5 лет назад +48

      This is incorrect: Einstein realized the equations of General Relativity implied an expanding universe. He added the "cosmological constant" to the equations of GR to obtain the solution of a static universe, which is what everyone thought was the case, and at the time there was no reason to assume otherwise. The observations WERE NOT good enough to determine the universe was expanding -- those came in the 1920's, or about a decade later. Friedman simply obtained the solutions Einstein had obtained and did not make any extra assumptions. Einstein then considered adding the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder." You're misrepresenting the development of the ideas about cosmology that stemmed from GR.

    • @maczetamaczeta189
      @maczetamaczeta189 5 лет назад +4

      @@thingsiplay minutephysics actually used this very same line in his previous video about Einstein's constant, so no missed opportunites here. Just a repost by some youtube user.

    • @HarshKumar-sz8xk
      @HarshKumar-sz8xk 5 лет назад +10

      @@ShafiqIslam Hey, if you want to copy somebody's else comment then atleast attach their name to it(Gildardo rivas) no matter if you do it for a good purpose.

  • @TheYeetiest
    @TheYeetiest 5 лет назад +3605

    "The Friedmann Solution"
    Einstein: ;_;

    • @52flyingbicycles
      @52flyingbicycles 5 лет назад +9

      TheYeetiest YT the only acceptable correction from Friedman

    • @Finkelfunk
      @Finkelfunk 5 лет назад +87

      Also Einstein: *Is literally the most famous physicist ever to have existed next to Newton*

    • @additivent
      @additivent 5 лет назад +4

      *Is this a Post-Weimar Germany Reference?*

    • @axollyon
      @axollyon 5 лет назад +5

      That physicist's name? Albert Einstein.

    • @kkyrusobad
      @kkyrusobad 5 лет назад +1

      "The Friedmann Solution"
      Einstein: T_T

  • @fgremmelspacher8775
    @fgremmelspacher8775 5 лет назад +3084

    Einstein made a mistake.
    Me (struggling with medium math): "Heh...what a loser."

    • @klobiforpresident2254
      @klobiforpresident2254 5 лет назад +36

      Wait, what's medium maths?

    • @fgremmelspacher8775
      @fgremmelspacher8775 5 лет назад +249

      @@klobiforpresident2254
      Maths, still slightly red in the center.

    • @klobiforpresident2254
      @klobiforpresident2254 5 лет назад +98

      @@fgremmelspacher8775
      Figures. My maths must be English then, because it's dripping red liquid from the corrector's pen.

    • @NJ-wb1cz
      @NJ-wb1cz 5 лет назад +3

      @@klobiforpresident2254 maths with the dead

    • @appa609
      @appa609 5 лет назад +1

      F Gremmelspacher what’s medium math?

  • @meldeebueno
    @meldeebueno 5 лет назад +1685

    At least Einstein admitted his mistake. Like a true scientist would.

    • @eternaleffect2499
      @eternaleffect2499 5 лет назад +67

      Yeah unlike *cough walter lewins cough* who is too arrogant

    • @juanjoseperez6282
      @juanjoseperez6282 5 лет назад +5

      @@eternaleffect2499 what did he do hmmm???

    • @phenomenalphysics3548
      @phenomenalphysics3548 5 лет назад

      Yes!

    • @eternaleffect2499
      @eternaleffect2499 5 лет назад +59

      @@juanjoseperez6282 there was a some controversy between walter lewis and ELECTROboom you can check it out yourself by seeing their videos. There was some disagreement over kirchoff voltage law and faraday's law. Where walter lewid was very arrogant and rude over it. In the end it was turned out that it's a matter of wording and modern definition.

    • @juanjoseperez6282
      @juanjoseperez6282 5 лет назад

      @@eternaleffect2499 thank you, I'll definitely check it out.

  • @dan00b8
    @dan00b8 5 лет назад +1511

    We can say Einstein had an algebruh moment
    Aight imma head out

  • @Pimp482
    @Pimp482 5 лет назад +812

    Even geniuses make mistake...learn, don’t be arrogant

    • @jasondelong83
      @jasondelong83 5 лет назад +68

      "A true master is an eternal student" - Master Yi

    • @user-og9nl5mt1b
      @user-og9nl5mt1b 5 лет назад

      it's good to say that , but everyone is arrogant these days , do u even follow that urself .

    • @kuratse205
      @kuratse205 5 лет назад +5

      When writing a quote do check your english first :4head:
      mistakes*
      Not "...learn" use 'accept them,' and change "don't be arrogant" into "doubt yourself."
      So now go fuck off with your quote making, its not inspirational, helpful nor the truth.

    • @kucingtepijalan3459
      @kucingtepijalan3459 5 лет назад +19

      @@kuratse205 rude

    • @Pimp482
      @Pimp482 5 лет назад +1

      k no

  • @domainofscience
    @domainofscience 5 лет назад +309

    Great video! It is good to (try) and be aware of our biases. Anyone else notice that our biases seem to get more entrenched the older we get? Sometimes I tell an older person something different to what they believe, and it is like they have not even heard me.

    • @Akknights
      @Akknights 4 года назад +3

      Woah u had only 4 likes whyyy?
      Big fan

    • @FeigerNazi
      @FeigerNazi 4 года назад +6

      so you assume that every person ("older"?older than you??) who is older (than what?) is the same? Nice demo of a biased youngster; I guess every young person believes older persons are biased?! You start to see your stupidity here....?!

    • @doctaflo
      @doctaflo 4 года назад +16

      Most brains start shrinking almost as soon as they’re done growing-around age 25. it’s subtle at first, and if you live right or have good genes, the process is slower, but it accelerates over time. younger people just have more pliant minds on average.
      interesting side note: on autopsy, it was shown that Einstein’s brain, even aged over 70 years, showed many of the characteristics of a younger brain. but there’s a reason his most outlandishly creative contributions to science came in his early 20s. ditto Newton. (and Hawking... and most radical, paradigm-shattering scientific renegades :0)

    • @FeigerNazi
      @FeigerNazi 4 года назад +1

      @@doctaflo everyone should know that. But I guess that`s also the reason why you cannot take someone younger than 25 serious if it`s about questions concerning life at all. "Always" when someone does not get the point of irony or sarcasm I know they`re not yet 25.... ;)

    • @yasyasmarangoz3577
      @yasyasmarangoz3577 4 года назад

      @@FeigerNazi nice name

  • @spiderman6347
    @spiderman6347 5 лет назад +624

    This is one of the best minutephysics videos I've watched in a while

    • @rbl4112
      @rbl4112 5 лет назад +8

      I just like that I can mostly understand it!

    • @robertofontiglia4148
      @robertofontiglia4148 5 лет назад +5

      This is one of the minutephysics videos there has been in a while

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 5 лет назад

      You should watch the one on teleportation again, it'll make you never want to watch this channel.

    • @peterjongsma2754
      @peterjongsma2754 5 лет назад +2

      Spider Man
      Except it's incorrect.
      See Comments .

    • @irokosalei5133
      @irokosalei5133 4 года назад +1

      ​ Except it's incorrect, like many of their videos...

  • @gildardorivasvalles6368
    @gildardorivasvalles6368 5 лет назад +487

    This is incorrect: Einstein realized the equations of General Relativity *implied* an expanding universe. He added the "cosmological constant" to the equations of GR to obtain the solution of a static universe, which is what everyone thought was the case, and *at the time* there was no reason to assume otherwise. The observations WERE NOT good enough to determine the universe was expanding -- those came in the 1920's, or about a decade later. Friedman simply obtained the solutions Einstein had obtained and did not make any extra assumptions. Einstein then considered adding the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder." You're misrepresenting the development of the ideas about cosmology that stemmed from GR.

    • @pabloagustin8775
      @pabloagustin8775 5 лет назад +69

      You are right Sir. This video is very basic and misleading about the cosmological constant

    • @Rysussybaka
      @Rysussybaka 5 лет назад +12

      True.

    • @Altobrun
      @Altobrun 5 лет назад +19

      don't forget that there is a cosmological constant or a 'vacuum energy' to the universe as was observed in the 90's when we learned that the universe wasn't just expanding it was accelerating. Even Einstein's bad ideas are good if you give them enough time.

    • @gildardorivasvalles6368
      @gildardorivasvalles6368 5 лет назад +18

      @@Altobrun: well, Einstein couldn't foresee what would happen later -- he was brilliant, not clairvoyant, and it was he who called it a blunder-- not me. But the notion of a cosmological "constant" started to appear before any observation of accelerated expansion. It was brought back even before, as quantum field theory was developed and slowly matured from the 50's and onward. The observation required very meticulous and precise measurements that had to wait for the appropriate technology to come about

    • @appa609
      @appa609 5 лет назад +7

      Mora well there was no data. Einstein was basically worldbuilding

  • @curious_one1156
    @curious_one1156 4 года назад +106

    Friedmann was "relatively" correct compared to Einstein.

    • @basqye9
      @basqye9 3 года назад +21

      "Generally" speaking, yes

    • @ligmaenigma6498
      @ligmaenigma6498 3 года назад +16

      You could say both had a “special” thought process

    • @emc9029
      @emc9029 3 года назад +7

      "Theoretically"friedman was right

  • @markoschatziathanasiou6754
    @markoschatziathanasiou6754 5 лет назад +1290

    You mean the man who corrected Einstein
    *but was actually right*

    • @ViratKohli-jj3wj
      @ViratKohli-jj3wj 5 лет назад +6

      @*GOD DOESN'T EXIST* roflmao

    • @Joe--
      @Joe-- 5 лет назад +3

      Exactly, Friedmann got it right.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 лет назад +1

      @*GOD DOESN'T EXIST* WOOO

    • @ettobaka9151
      @ettobaka9151 5 лет назад

      666 likes

    • @courtney-ray
      @courtney-ray 5 лет назад +1

      That’s usually what “correct” means so...yeah

  • @sharkinahat
    @sharkinahat 5 лет назад +307

    "People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
    -Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

    • @ilyamosin3090
      @ilyamosin3090 5 лет назад +63

      "I'm gay"
      -Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani 5 лет назад +13

      @@ilyamosin3090 Lmao, that was j.k rowling tho, Dumbledore died without ever saying that, luckily.

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 5 лет назад +10

      Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak

    • @popocraft4677
      @popocraft4677 5 лет назад +1

      That doesn't even make sense

    • @NJ-wb1cz
      @NJ-wb1cz 5 лет назад +3

      @@Ebani what's wrong with saying that you're gay?

  • @KyuVulpes
    @KyuVulpes 5 лет назад +399

    How I think everyone should think, "How can I disprove myself, then how can I disprove that?"

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 5 лет назад +25

      That doesn't suffice. A counterexample being wrong does not imply that your statement holds. Even all counterexamples anyone could come up with being wrong won't prove your statement. Because the only thing that proves - once and for all - that there cannot be a counterexample to your statement is a rigorous proof of it.

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 5 лет назад +4

      ​@@lonestarr1490 It's hard to check if some complicated proof is actually perfectly sound.

    • @anuragbundela1483
      @anuragbundela1483 5 лет назад +6

      @@viliml2763 Not really. A logical rigorous proof would be easy enough to follow for someone with enough knowledge in the field.

    • @thefourshowflip
      @thefourshowflip 5 лет назад +17

      Lone Starr
      I think you missed the argument entirely; the original comment never made any claims that this gives any confirmation/proof/etc for a given claim. It merely asserts a normative approach to (what I would call) skepticism...it’s essentially the mechanism of falsificationism (that we can only ever have certainty about falsities, not of truth...we can rule out erroneous solutions with certainty, but there is no way to confirm any a posteriori knowledge claims)
      Further, I think you’re conflating those two categories of knowledge...a posteriori and a priori. Never mind the finer points that still trouble some philosophers (as to whether math/logic is a priori or not); there is no proof of any a posteriori knowledge that can be offered in the way you’re seeming to demand...there is no formal proof for the earth being the third planet from our sun; it just so happens to be the case, but there is no proof one could put forth that would necessitate it (after all, that is what a proof is; if the premises are true, then it necessitates the truth of the conclusion as well, but there’s absolutely no reason why this planet had to be where it is...the earth could well have been where Pluto is, and while life would likely be non existent were that the case, it’s still possible... )
      Similarly, how does one make a proof for gravity? It is an empirical fact that we live in a universe in which the effects of gravitational interactions are observed (I hesitate to say gravity “exists” to refrain from opening a giant can of metaphysical worms), but a proof of gravity’s existence would either need to rely on observation (in which case, one needs to argue that something other than purely deductive reasoning CAN lead to necessarily true conclusions) or else would need to demonstrate that gravity is a necessary component of reality (that it is an impossibility for gravity to not “exist”).

    • @thefourshowflip
      @thefourshowflip 5 лет назад +6

      Vilim Lendvaj
      Arguably impossible; there have been several attempts (of varying success) to extend Gödel’s incompleteness theorems to all systems of axiomatic logic, and it seems reasonable to suspect this to be a valid application of Gödel’s reasoning in his argument against arithmetic-based axiomatic systems...essentially, this (generalization of Gödel’s argument) would argue that there can never be an axiomatic system which is both consistent and complete, simultaneously. A quick argument is as follows:
      Assume you can map every single statement to a single truth value (one to one); also assume that you have a complete and consistent system of statements and axioms. You have a dilemma when you encounter the following statement:
      “This statement is not provable in this system”
      If the statement is false, then that means it IS provable, but a provable statement must be true in any consistent system, because a proof demonstrates the necessity of a conclusion. (You might be inclined to think that you can prove things don’t exist, but you’re not proving a falsehood, you’re proving the negation of a falsehood as being true...it sounds like a trivial distinction, but remember, we are currently in the domain of philosophy and in philosophy this is NOT a trivial distinction. The important point to note is that FOR ANY proof, the conclusion is always true if the premises are true, EVEN IF the conclusion is a “negative” claim, like “therefore the square root of two cannot be a rational number”).
      So because any provable statement must have a true conclusion, then we know it cannot be false...but that means it must be true...that this statement cannot be proven by the axioms, but if the statement cannot be proven by the axioms, then we cannot have a complete system, for there exists some statement which exists outside the space spanned by the axioms.
      Thus we cannot have a complete and consistent system; that is, there is no minimum set of axioms which can be sufficient to account for all possible knowledge (there are some truths which can only be derived if we expand our set of axioms). Gödel proved this for mathematics last century...it may well apply to all formal logic, and if it does, then to say it’s hard to validate the soundness of an argument is an ENORMOUS understatement (and may be impossible depending on how we chose to define things like knowledge and justification...if we are required to be justified in accepting every entailment of all our beliefs, it’s simply impossible for us to know whether an argument is sound at all)

  • @gymcapybara9496
    @gymcapybara9496 5 лет назад +173

    Einsteins equation was so complicated that the first man to actually be able to use it correctly got an entire concept named after him.

    • @2010sourabh
      @2010sourabh 5 лет назад +1

      May i knw who that man was?

    • @General12th
      @General12th 3 года назад +23

      @@2010sourabh Did you watch the video?

    • @Teddy_Miljard_and_Genius
      @Teddy_Miljard_and_Genius 2 года назад

      Maybe he was wrong?

    • @pablocanovas2779
      @pablocanovas2779 Год назад

      Hmm, that title does go to someone else, Karl Schwarzschild, who anyone into black hole stuff will recognize that name

    • @priyank5161
      @priyank5161 Год назад

      ​@@2010sourabhbruh friedmann

  • @210rebelboy
    @210rebelboy 5 лет назад +10

    I'm impressed by Einstein that he admitted he was wrong and retracted his criticisms

  • @yoda7104
    @yoda7104 5 лет назад +181

    Usually love your stuff, but this is a really rough interpretation of the history here.
    In Historian Walter Issacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe (a very well sourced academic biography written with Einstein's own notebooks) The generation of the Cosmological constant came about because Einstein knew the equations he generated caused expansion/contraction and the current experimental picture said that wasn't the case. (Chapter 11 pg254 of the kindle version)
    His blunder was not sticking to his original mathematical guns and predicting a non-static universe, because he literally had it. Not salt about a bad derivative or whatever

    • @Andromedon777
      @Andromedon777 5 лет назад +5

      I am basing my knowledge off of Brian Greene's book, but didn't Einstein had the cosmological constant at 0, but it is really an extremely small but significant number?

    • @danielsteel5251
      @danielsteel5251 5 лет назад +21

      @yoda7104
      Exactly.
      But the fact that Einstein's having _doubted himself_ was in fact the true "blunder" doesn't jive with the ethos being pushed here (i.e., an attempted illustration of the necessity of humility before and cooperation with a broader community).
      Hence some gentle reframing was employed.

    • @hammadsheikh6032
      @hammadsheikh6032 5 лет назад +15

      Daniel Steel on the other hand, the historian may have missed this one exchange of article, response, and retraction. This is pretty substantive, but we cannot expect one historian scholar to know all and everything. This is coming from a humble scholar...

    • @artdonovandesign
      @artdonovandesign 5 лет назад

      Correct. BTW: that is a Wonderful book!

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 5 лет назад +21

      That isn't necessarily at odds with the explanation here. This video says that the equations only gave a static universe if it was empty (which it obviously isn't), and the cosmological constant was added so it could be flat and still contain mass.
      And it's worth noting it isn't exactly a straight up mistake, but he only found one solution to an equation with multiple solutions, and didn't look any further because it was the solution he was expecting.

  • @omit4727
    @omit4727 5 лет назад +861

    I'm too early.
    I will return later when the comment section will be full of memes

    • @abhilasha7344
      @abhilasha7344 5 лет назад +97

      Or rather just *"Nobody: Absolutely no one:"* or *"about to end this man''s career"* or *"Who all breath hit like!"* or *"Am i joke to you"* format garbage

    • @PopeGoliath
      @PopeGoliath 5 лет назад +53

      @@abhilasha7344 don't forget about all the people who want to know your location.

    • @avikdas4055
      @avikdas4055 5 лет назад +38

      You forgot who's watching in 2019? And who love ""insert channel"" or minutephysics?

    • @GoodPooper8669
      @GoodPooper8669 5 лет назад +6

      Too early? it's already happening.

    • @namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682
      @namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682 5 лет назад +2

      Come back now.

  • @machitoons
    @machitoons 5 лет назад +214

    "nails to hit"
    "T"
    I dig visual puns

  • @aaamos16
    @aaamos16 3 года назад +32

    Einstein was focused on the universe (many lines of effort all at once). Fridman was focused on one piece of one part of Einstein's work. Glad someone picked up a pen to help him. Fridman is not greater than Einstein. And Einstein is a true gentleman for admitting his mistake and giving Fridman credit.

    • @charlesbaoumar
      @charlesbaoumar Год назад

      The beauty of physics! Many great stories like this

    • @bumblingbiped5966
      @bumblingbiped5966 Год назад +4

      Ok. But you're arguing against a claim that no one was making.

    • @akademesanctuary1361
      @akademesanctuary1361 10 месяцев назад

      Einstein didn't make a mistake though. Friedman gave three solutions. The one in question is just one of those selected to fit popular cosmology. That selection ignores the mechanism of light, Huygens-Fresnel, and what Hubble's law actually did (used depth of the field to recover focus to measure distance). Redshift happens with distribution to the field, not just motion. If you read the reports close you see a pattern of confirmation bias, where they literally contract the numbers to confirm their expectations. The Deep Fields should be your big clue the modern cosmology is BS. Big bangs work, but only by their original design on a galactic level.

  • @madlad255
    @madlad255 4 года назад +20

    0:48 'He plugged in empty space' Ah yes, as you do.

  • @majorfallacy5926
    @majorfallacy5926 5 лет назад +17

    My bias is that tensor calculus is too tedious and thus it's okay to avoid learning it. You have just confirmed it.

  • @nothing9220
    @nothing9220 4 года назад +9

    Just with maths and imagination ... This man predicted the things, we are proving right with our technical advancements after a century...

  • @blynnozaur
    @blynnozaur 5 лет назад +111

    Is Einstein human? Or is he dancer

    • @dawidmarcisz9831
      @dawidmarcisz9831 5 лет назад +11

      His sing is Λ (lambda)
      His universe is cold
      And he's in Bern
      looking for the answers

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 5 лет назад +2

      Is he human? Or his he dancer?
      Paid his respects to grace and Friedmann
      Sent his condolences to Newton

    • @SweBeach2023
      @SweBeach2023 5 лет назад +3

      Friendmann was the son of a dancer though.

    • @rishavbro6931
      @rishavbro6931 5 лет назад

      @@SweBeach2023 yeah I know he was one of the fantastic four.

    • @youknowwho8925
      @youknowwho8925 5 лет назад

      Are you implying that dancers aren't human? 🤔😆

  • @TimJSwan
    @TimJSwan 3 года назад +3

    Your intro alone is pretty much one of the best presentations of GR I've ever seen.

  • @selimtopal1247
    @selimtopal1247 4 года назад +66

    This Einstein guy seems pretty smart. He should’ve been a physicist or something.

  • @ksotar
    @ksotar 4 года назад +3

    And poor Friedmann. In 1922 he corrected Einstein, in 1923 Einstein admitted that Friedmann was right. And in 1925, being 37 years old, during his honeymoon trip with his new wife in Crimea, he ate an unwashed pear and got diseased with typhus. And died shortly after in Leningrad. It is heartbreaking to even think how much more he could achieved, had he lived longer.

  • @DavidPimentel
    @DavidPimentel 5 лет назад +9

    A good measure of one's intelligence is an ability to recognize and admit one's mistakes and correct for them in the future.

    • @yathishbl3757
      @yathishbl3757 5 лет назад

      Well we had a kid in our class who would recognize his mistakes and correct them which was a lot.....he'd score 30 to 40 in maths test ...so he's intelligent then 😂😂

  • @jmcsquared18
    @jmcsquared18 5 лет назад +39

    2:24 "And Einstein eventually saw that Friedmann was right, so he admitted it and published a retraction of his previous criticism."
    Science, where changing your mind's a good thing.

    • @johnsmith1474
      @johnsmith1474 5 лет назад

      Wouldn't have mattered, the math is not dependent on Einstein accepting it.

    • @jmcsquared18
      @jmcsquared18 5 лет назад +7

      ​@@johnsmith1474 Doesn't change the fact that changing your mind in the face of evidence is a good thing. At the very least, it's good for the person changing their mind. And when each individual's at their best, society's at its best.

    • @johnsmith1474
      @johnsmith1474 5 лет назад

      @@jmcsquared18 - You said, "science where changing your mind is a good thing." But changing your mind can be good in any field whatsoever. So your point is just kumbaya. The salient fact is that the correct equation was calculated not that some one person decided to accept it or not. Your extension to society at large (each at their best blah blah) is cliche piffle and a silly fantasy. Yes I am disallowing you your joy at your comment, because I want you to see it was trite.

    • @jmcsquared18
      @jmcsquared18 5 лет назад

      ​@@johnsmith1474 "But changing your mind can be good in any field whatsoever." False. Counterexample: religion. My original comment was going to be, "said no bible verse ever," but I opted for a more positive remark. Does that tickle your fancy any better? My joy remains.

    • @johnsmith1474
      @johnsmith1474 5 лет назад

      @@jmcsquared18 "CAN" be good ... is always true. Read for content, avoid logical fallacies, stay honest with yourself you will have joy.

  • @LAB360
    @LAB360 4 года назад +41

    Wow this is interseting!

    • @HTJFilms
      @HTJFilms 4 года назад +1

      Yeah right ?

  • @lenettasmith1894
    @lenettasmith1894 4 года назад +6

    3:00
    When you tell a joke and noone hears it but your friend says it louder and takes all the credit

  • @styyber
    @styyber 5 лет назад +5

    I love the end note! It’s something I’ve embraced for ages, and you motivated it so well! Thank you :)

  • @enzoqueijao
    @enzoqueijao 4 года назад +12

    Tl;dr: Einstein got lost in the sauce and choked an equation. Friedmann found out and roasted him.

    • @zyugyzarc
      @zyugyzarc 3 года назад

      do you use the operating system of the godly penguin?

  • @BIGywt
    @BIGywt 5 лет назад +23

    Here we go something I wont understand but makes me feel CLEVER

  • @silentgrove7670
    @silentgrove7670 4 года назад +2

    I am glad you mentioned the biases we have. Its important to have people we trust around us to challenge our notions. Often I wish I had such a person in my life.

  • @wiseguy8828
    @wiseguy8828 4 года назад +3

    I’ve always assumed Einstein regretted the mistake because without it, he could have predicted one more thing that was unknown (expanding universe) and then when it was found to be true a few years later it would have felt great.

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan 5 лет назад +8

    When I'm wrong, I want to find out I'm wrong, then I learn something! :) Its great to be a skeptic.

  • @arfn1973
    @arfn1973 5 лет назад +33

    I like how this changed from physic explaining video to some philosophical video about bias.

    • @rikwisselink-bijker
      @rikwisselink-bijker 5 лет назад

      His track record is not perfect: his Simpson's Paradox videos have such a heavy bias that he shut down the comment section on part 2 (which then moved to the comment section of part 1).

  • @k3dr1
    @k3dr1 5 лет назад +180

    Its kinda clickbait, but it has no lie in it.
    Schrödinger's clickbait

    • @Guimaster127
      @Guimaster127 5 лет назад +18

      Nah, it definitely is clickbait, but it's not misleading, which is what I think you're referring to.

    • @finewinedaily4997
      @finewinedaily4997 5 лет назад +9

      Clickbait doesn't really have a formal definition, but it usually implies that the title is misleading or exaggerating the actual content of the video. Otherwise any interesting or creative title could be called clickbait.

    • @Guimaster127
      @Guimaster127 5 лет назад +5

      @@finewinedaily4997 That's because many creative titles _do_ use clickbait. But clickbait isn't actually bad, you know. In fact, a good title must be at least a bit "clickbaity" to catch everyone's attention.
      What's totally wrong to do is creating _misleading_ titles: those that don't represent the content of the video.
      Here's an example:
      Let's imagine that someone creates a video called "(game title) - STORY MODE CONFIRMED" , and the video is about an interview in which the developers of the game confirmed there would be a story mode. The title is clickbait, but it does represent the content of the video, so it's not misleading. Thus, that would be a good title for the video.

    • @kikones34
      @kikones34 5 лет назад +3

      I think clickbait has a bad connotation associated with it, as such I personally only use it for videos which do not fulfill the expectations form the clickbait title. I understand that some people might want to use the word in a more neutral way, though, but the stigma associated with it is there.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 лет назад

      It's*

  • @KennyT187
    @KennyT187 3 года назад +1

    This video has got it completely inverted. Einstein got a result which implied the universe is not static, so he plugged in the cosmological constant for the universe to be static.

  • @rutvikrana512
    @rutvikrana512 3 года назад +3

    When I first started learning Flutter, I had mindset that coding and designing should be in different areas while making apps and don’t like flutter in beginning, but as I learnt more and more then I came to know that I was wrong at all, now I love flutter and advice people to shift from java/android studio to flutter. So that was my bias in beginning 🙂

  • @BangMaster96
    @BangMaster96 5 лет назад +15

    A true Scientist is always happy to be proven wrong, because he learned something new.
    I don't think Einstein was egoistic, he was probably happy that his Equations did in-fact predict the expansion of the universe. I think he was probably mad at himself for failing to realize it earlier.

    • @NJ-wb1cz
      @NJ-wb1cz 5 лет назад +1

      That's a total lie. Anyone who says that simply wants you to believe in scientific method, and it is indeed designed to fight against that exact human flaw.
      But scientists themselves can be as petty and butt hurt as any other people.
      In fact, pettiness and butt hurt are what often drives scientists to spend decades trying to prove that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
      And they sometimes succeed, sometimes posthumously.
      But oftentimes they do not, and the time they spend trying to prove themselves right is completely wasted.

    • @ElectroNeutrino
      @ElectroNeutrino 5 лет назад +2

      @@NJ-wb1cz I think the best way to put it would be an "ideal scientist". But we are still human, and don't always live up to the ideal.

    • @coolguy284_2
      @coolguy284_2 5 лет назад

      @@ElectroNeutrino Really it's not hard to approach the ideal if you try hard enough.
      waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html

  • @InsaneDeck
    @InsaneDeck 5 лет назад +18

    I have a bias to the left. As I'm walking down the street I slowly deviate towards the left, so I use counter weights to balance this bias and I can walk a straight line.

    • @narfwhals7843
      @narfwhals7843 5 лет назад +6

      are you sure you don't just live near a black hole?

    • @InsaneDeck
      @InsaneDeck 5 лет назад +4

      @@narfwhals7843 Never really thought about that... But it might explain why people say I look older than I actually am.

    • @Andromedon777
      @Andromedon777 5 лет назад +2

      @@InsaneDeck Actually, the opposite would be the effect. You would look younger (and to you, be younger, but to them, be older in their own years.)

    • @bakedutah8411
      @bakedutah8411 5 лет назад

      You don’t need weights. Just turn slightly to the right. I do that all the time with UK supermarket trolleys that have a duff wheel. Worst case I’ve found myself pushing the trolley with it turned a full 45 degrees from the direction of travel. Looks daft but it works.

    • @johnwythe1409
      @johnwythe1409 4 года назад

      Do the cops know you can’t walk a straight line. Lol!

  • @nafrost2787
    @nafrost2787 5 лет назад +30

    "Something a little more in depth", shows one of their most basic courses when they have vector calculus, differential equations, special relativity and machine learning.

    • @Tondadrd
      @Tondadrd 5 лет назад +1

      @@vesui2130 People can communicate in other languages. When you see somebody's bad English it might be their second language. Following this implication, then they probably mastered another language already.

    • @nafrost2787
      @nafrost2787 5 лет назад +1

      @Vesui Well if you ask me, most of the daily challenges are more challenging and in depth than the math fundamental course. And besides that was a joke. If I had wanted to criticize, I would have phrased the comment differently.

    • @omegaRST
      @omegaRST 5 лет назад +2

      @@vesui2130 spend a little more time learning not to be a dick instead of criticising others, communicating is useless if what you say is stupid

  • @autosalesrevival
    @autosalesrevival 5 лет назад +6

    “If you are the smartest person in the world, doesnt mean you dont make mistakes”
    *- me*

  • @PsyMongazoid
    @PsyMongazoid 4 года назад +1

    Einstein was good at admitting when he was wrong. I've always respected him for that.

  • @JapCarRealGood
    @JapCarRealGood 5 лет назад +4

    I love when I'm wrong, it's the only time I truly learn.

  • @sorenmine7765
    @sorenmine7765 5 лет назад +6

    "This nebular is quiet af" - Albert Einstein

  • @LTVoyager
    @LTVoyager 4 года назад +4

    When your ego causes you to speculate that Einstein’s ego caused him to regret his blunder.

  • @LukeTaylor101
    @LukeTaylor101 4 года назад +2

    Who said it first?
    Einstein: My Biggest Flops are your greatest hits.

  • @KyleCulver
    @KyleCulver 5 лет назад +1

    One of your best videos yet! This was incredibly interesting.

  • @JaydentheMathGuy
    @JaydentheMathGuy 5 лет назад +13

    *The Universe has entered the chat*
    *Calculus Student has entered the chat*
    *Einstein has entered the chat*
    *The Universe is now the admin of the chat*
    Friedmann: ...

  • @zteak1066
    @zteak1066 5 лет назад +8

    I love your videos but can you continue on the special relativity videos please

  • @Teck_1015
    @Teck_1015 5 лет назад +455

    "Understanding when we're wrong and graciously admit it"
    Hahahaha, tell that to flat earthers and anti-vaxxers hahahah, as if!

    • @thecryingsoul
      @thecryingsoul 5 лет назад +75

      They are also not scientists... or rational

    • @st3435
      @st3435 5 лет назад +13

      I want to thumbs-up this so many times.

    • @TheViolaBuddy
      @TheViolaBuddy 5 лет назад +49

      Part of the point of the statement, though, is to recognize that even if you do understand the fact that the earth is round and vaccines are overwhelmingly safe, your biases work in the same way that flat earthers' and anti-vaxxers' biases work. There are likely other false things that you believe just as strongly to be true and would be unwilling to admit that you're wrong about, even if they're not things that are so blatant. As the video says, all of us are human, after all.

    • @yorumcuu3113
      @yorumcuu3113 5 лет назад +5

      @@TheViolaBuddy but if you are in the correct side there is no problem

    • @gouraveshsharma9547
      @gouraveshsharma9547 5 лет назад +29

      The difference here between physicist and anti vaxxers is physicists have a ground in which they can agree and correct themselves however antivaxxers will make ubsurd assumptions to prove them right no matter what

  • @mattphillips538
    @mattphillips538 4 года назад +1

    It's not scientists that are openminded (or even ethical), it's the competitive interplay between rival scientists which forces science as a whole towards an honest description of reality.

  • @elwin389
    @elwin389 3 года назад +1

    after seeing a few of your videos, I really liked how you explain things @minutephysics
    good job

  • @xanthmardon584
    @xanthmardon584 5 лет назад +3

    minutephysics: its very hard to tell you have biases
    minutephysics editor: what biases do you have?
    me: lol idk you just said its hard to tell how am i supposed to know

  • @clayrichard5067
    @clayrichard5067 5 лет назад +28

    3:48
    "Einstein, like all of us, was human"
    *sad alien noises*

  • @zteak1066
    @zteak1066 5 лет назад +6

    Wow! I didn’t know this was even a thing!

  • @leojei
    @leojei 5 лет назад

    I think it's equally tough to face the possibly being wrong+realizing+admitting being wrong, and knowing you're right+actually go after the titan in the field telling him he's wrong. Kudos, both Friedmann and Einstein!

  • @alokdwivedi0609
    @alokdwivedi0609 5 лет назад +4

    "...then he plugged in the universe..."

  • @fastkar9806
    @fastkar9806 5 лет назад +6

    How cool would it be If minutephysics had the contract to teach science in schools.... Keep up the great work and thank you :)

    • @Ciph3rzer0
      @Ciph3rzer0 5 лет назад

      Will never happen because of the corrupt organizations in charge of curriculums and standardized tests. Plus, free doesn't make money, and as capitalists we are always slave to that.

  • @GoRideLP
    @GoRideLP 4 года назад +3

    this perfectly sums up my research paper ive written for school

  • @Priyajit_Ghosh
    @Priyajit_Ghosh 5 лет назад +1

    Go 2:28 and pause the video. There is a small note down the paper.

  • @laurendoe168
    @laurendoe168 4 года назад +1

    The way I heard the story, Einstein saw that his equations did not allow for a static universe and he worked on adding a factor that CAUSED the universe to be static... and that this was what he supposedly called his biggest blunder (adding a fudge factor because of his bias) and he gave up on the idea. Except that his added factor was correct but it had values that were unknown in his time - this added factor accounted for the expansion of the universe.

  • @declanchampie
    @declanchampie 5 лет назад +4

    When you correct the smart kid in class

  • @PADARM
    @PADARM 5 лет назад +18

    Einstein was totally aware of the Cosmological Constant he added. in your video you are talking like he wasn't aware of it. Funny 100 years later scientist are using his Cosmological Constant again to explain dark energy

  • @faye_isc
    @faye_isc 5 лет назад +3

    It.s sooo beautiful when i see scientists having feelings 😂😂😂

  • @samreet25dhillon
    @samreet25dhillon 3 года назад +1

    2:12 OMG man, he drew friedmann so accurately there. I can't take my eyes off it!

  • @BogdanGusiev
    @BogdanGusiev 5 лет назад

    What makes biases hard to overcome is the amount of your actions you have to reconsider when you question them. If you lived 30 years with some bias that now seems wrong, you need to rethink and live though all the situations where you've been using this bias once again like feel the guilt for proving a wrong thing to your friend, terrifying your colleagues with stupid requirements etc. That takes a long time usually comparable to the amount of time this bias was with you.

  • @RubenKelevra
    @RubenKelevra 5 лет назад +12

    I think errors make us become more knowledgeable
    What I do know about Einstein led me to believe he was probably just upset about himself thinking in a completely wrong direction, than thinking making an error is wrong.

    • @darrenzou2483
      @darrenzou2483 5 лет назад

      Hes technically not wrong because he used the equation that can be used to prove all the outcomes.
      Its just that theres multiple solutions and he just wrote one

  • @kage9913
    @kage9913 5 лет назад +3

    I studied philosophy of science during my time at university, and this video does a great job summarizing one of the central themes-science is never an unbiased undertaking, deeply influenced by the pursuit of money, fame, and in some cases religion.
    The video also touches on this idea of “scientific anomalies” which is particularly relevant in Thomas Kuhn’s idea of Paradigms as well as Karl Popper’s notion of falsification.
    I think one of the key takeaways here is that scientific progress is a fairly arbitrary-what does “progress” really entail? For the most part, progress is only relevant in the scope of one scientific “paradigm,” which is really just a body of knowledge, ideas, tools, and methods that have been refined to build society’s understanding of nature.
    To illustrate what I mean, prior to Einstein, the prevailing paradigm was founded on Newtonian physics. It did a fantastic job explaining much of natural world; what could not be explained using Newtonian physics was seen as an anomaly and frankly irrelevant to the majority of the world.
    Scientific progress of an era/a paradigm is directly proportional to the amount of novel knowledge that could be produced within the paradigm; furthermore, the paradigms progress is limited by the number of anomalies it encounters/fails to explain.
    To all you other nerds out there, paradigm shifts and revolutions are a hassle to explain. I also realize that a number of scholars don’t see Einstein’s ideas as necessarily the beginning of a revolution and argue that we are therefore, technically in the same paradigm as Newton.

  • @iamsenpai9447
    @iamsenpai9447 5 лет назад +5

    The first person to should have corrected him was his teacher lol

  • @equesdeventusoccasus
    @equesdeventusoccasus 4 года назад

    I was an information security forensic analyst for 26 years and had many interns. Their first day I gave them my rules for business
    1. I can be wrong.
    2. Treat everything as if it needed to stand up in court.
    3. Document everything.
    4. If you are positive you are correct refer to rule #1.

  • @rdelozier1
    @rdelozier1 3 года назад +1

    Well done. This is a good example of telling a technical story that has a much deeper human truth at the core. Thanks!

  • @bencushwa8902
    @bencushwa8902 5 лет назад +7

    I'm clearly biased in favor of minutephysics.
    Prove me wrong.

    • @Rement1
      @Rement1 5 лет назад +1

      Your obvious bias is that you think you're biased in favor of minutephysics. In reality you just like minutephysics, but you are not biased!

    • @bencushwa8902
      @bencushwa8902 5 лет назад

      @@Rement1 Your reply rings a bell for some reason....

  • @rauanerkinbek7327
    @rauanerkinbek7327 5 лет назад +3

    Every 60 second in Africa a minute passes

    • @anthonyt4154
      @anthonyt4154 5 лет назад +1

      Together we can stop this

    • @nicholasr79
      @nicholasr79 5 лет назад

      Also, 50% of Africans make up half of it's population.

  • @IslamDueren
    @IslamDueren 4 года назад +4

    Einstein: I'm best
    Alexander Freeman: Hold my Telescope

  • @wakeup01
    @wakeup01 5 лет назад +1

    Ur graphic skills are as great as the knowledge that you share🤓

  • @richardgreenhalgh9396
    @richardgreenhalgh9396 4 года назад

    The right hand side of the equation written is wrong, the equation should read LHS (curvature of spactime) =8\pi G/c^4 T_\mu
    u the constant G/c^4 is important and has dimensions, so even if we choose units so that G=1 and c=1 we must still include the dimensions and what better way to include them without loss of information by writing in the constant 8\pi G/c/c/c/c on the RHS.

  • @nosoynadie6338
    @nosoynadie6338 5 лет назад +5

    The funny thing is that he wasn’t completely wrong, since the cosmological constant is used to understand dark energy

    • @zdcyclops1lickley190
      @zdcyclops1lickley190 5 лет назад

      It doesn't provide a understanding of dark energy. It provides a possible explanation of the observation that the expansion of space time is accelerating.

  • @dwitsha
    @dwitsha 5 лет назад +8

    My bias is actually right: The Witcher game series is clearly superior to any other out there.

    • @Ruhrpottpatriot
      @Ruhrpottpatriot 5 лет назад

      Only when it isn't.

    • @dwitsha
      @dwitsha 5 лет назад

      @@Ruhrpottpatriot What're ye suggestin'?

    • @Ruhrpottpatriot
      @Ruhrpottpatriot 5 лет назад

      Baldurs Gate? HoMM? Diablo? Doom? Warcraft? Civ (well, except VI...)? SUper Mario? Zelda? Mech Warrior? KKND?Seriously, there are enough games and game series better than Witcher

    • @dwitsha
      @dwitsha 5 лет назад

      @@Ruhrpottpatriot M Y B I A S I S A L W A Y S R I G H T

    • @Ruhrpottpatriot
      @Ruhrpottpatriot 5 лет назад

      Naww. It's not really bias. I have the original version of witcher I standing behind me. I clearly remember how much of a clusterfuck that was. Especially the first one suffers from backtracking, repetitive quest, unmemorable locations and overall mediaocre writingYes, the third is good, but that doesn't make the series "clearly superior."

  • @danieljensen2626
    @danieljensen2626 5 лет назад +4

    Somehow I've heard this story like 20 times but never heard that it was an actual math mistake or that it was Freidmann who corrected him. Usually it seems to be framed that Einstein's "mistake" was adding the cosmological constant in to force the universe to be static.

    • @Anvilshock
      @Anvilshock 5 лет назад

      Friedmann, not Freidmann. It's very simple. Just replicate the letters in the same order as you saw them in the first place. After all, you don't spell it Ienstien, either, now do you?

    • @gildardorivasvalles6368
      @gildardorivasvalles6368 5 лет назад +2

      @Daniel Jensen: You are correct. The history presented in the video is WRONG. It misrepresents the whole situation. Einstein knew from the get-go that General Relativity's equations predicted a non static universe, but there was no evidence of that at the time he came up with the theory, hence the addition of the cosmological constant, which he later regretted, but the evidence for an expanding universe came out until the 1920's -- Friedman simply did not assume the existence of a cosmological constant, and serendipitously got the correct answer. There was NO "math error" on Einstein's part, just an error of assuming a static universe and "fixing" GR's equations to fit that model -- albeit in with an unstable solution, yet still consistent with the assumption

  • @ethribin4188
    @ethribin4188 4 года назад +1

    The best part is that Einstein knew the correct formula.
    He just didnt believe what it said about the universe, because it so heavily disagreed with the then general concensis. So he added a factor the fit his idea of the universe.
    Only later did he remove it, because of the mentioned Friedman.
    Shows that even the greatest geniouses can make mistakes or have biases.

  • @xxsigmaxx5858
    @xxsigmaxx5858 5 лет назад +1

    You are wrong. Einstein did not mistake a metric tensor determinant for a scalar. Not only is differential geometry a cornerstone theory for theories of relativity, it is also such an elementary error that it is impossible that Einstein could have made that mistake. Einstein had dealt with non-Euclidean metric tensors in his special relativity developed a decade prior to this theory! This would be the equivalent of writing dx/dt and cancelling out the d's because a derivative sign is misinterpreted for a fraction... in a book teaching calculus.

  • @MrAqr2598
    @MrAqr2598 5 лет назад +4

    Even Einstein Sometimes Makes Mistakes.
    The modern version of “Even Homer Sometimes Nods”.

  • @asherang7
    @asherang7 5 лет назад +13

    Damn that dude must be hella smart

  • @csstuff421
    @csstuff421 4 года назад +3

    I thought this guy was Lenin with glasses
    EDIT: "What biases do you have?"
    TAEHY-
    JK I'm not even an ARMY

  • @dreggory82
    @dreggory82 5 лет назад

    This is a common theme among all the great thinkers, it seems like the pattern is:
    -Works hard to discover truths
    -is rewarded for hard work
    -defends ideas and wins
    -ego inflates
    -adds to the body of work, less rigorously (with bonus errors)
    -defends to the death, unable to accept errors
    -inflated ego bars further learning and no longer contributes positively.
    -younger, more spry and hard working individual adds to the truth
    -and the cycle repeats.
    Unfortunately for them the ego stops their ability to contribute. Fortunately for us this cycle seems to help us as a whole get closer and closer to the truth about reality. This has been recorded as happening since early philosophy with individuals like Hippocrates, Plato and Aristotle.

  • @muscledog666
    @muscledog666 5 лет назад +1

    That's why conversations are important
    And listening to the entire story

  • @ristopaasivirta9770
    @ristopaasivirta9770 5 лет назад +5

    My code is perfect. It's the computer's fault that it doesn't compile.

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 5 лет назад +1

      Better re-write the compiler so it makes your code do what you want it to.

    • @ristopaasivirta9770
      @ristopaasivirta9770 5 лет назад +1

      @@danieljensen2626 Next level big brain thinking :D

    • @coolguy284_2
      @coolguy284_2 5 лет назад +1

      Several times when I wrote code in JavaScript I seriously thought that there was a bug in the compiler that caused my code to fail, as I had already checked it 5 times ... it turned out to be something incredibly simple (can't remember right now).

    • @ristopaasivirta9770
      @ristopaasivirta9770 5 лет назад +1

      @@coolguy284_2 I remember spending way too much time trying to figure out a weird disparity between debug and release version of my code. Eventually I learned that I had to use "volatile" modifier on the parameter as the compiler was optimizing the value into a constant on the release version.

  • @calm.aware.
    @calm.aware. 5 лет назад +3

    „Einstein was human.“ Blasphemy!

  • @tiaxanderson9725
    @tiaxanderson9725 5 лет назад +7

    What bias do you have?
    Subs > dubs

  • @iwonakozlowska6134
    @iwonakozlowska6134 5 лет назад +2

    I am always intrigued by presenting Einstein field equations with "down" indices. Indices should be "up" because only then the state equation is satisfied.

  • @tommytam100
    @tommytam100 5 лет назад +2

    You start with facts then you end with opinions

  • @virginiagould3167
    @virginiagould3167 5 лет назад +4

    Respect to Einstein for admitting he made a mistake, even if it took a while.