Steven Weinberg: To Explain the World
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2015
- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg spoke about science and history, drawing from his book “To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.” Professor Weinberg painted a new and compelling picture of the development of scientific thought and exploration in a conversation moderated by Peabody Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry.
Original Program date: May 31st 2015
This program was presented in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society.
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will try to add arabic soon
If I understood this stuff better I might offer to translate it into English.
For consciousness, see my papers, like "Meaning and Context: A Brief Introduction".
sorry to hear of this remarkable man's passing today
COVID?
No :(
RIP
RIP to one of few brilliant minds of mankind.
While this guy is full of mathematical knowledge, I tend to see things in patterns, in the Bible it clearly states God made man in his own image. It very well could be that the study of space is virtually the same as the study of the brain 🧠. Therefore explains the box theory, and as individuals on this planet also have the same universal brain 🧠, it’s how we communicate with each other, without and within, this can also explain the multiverse.
I’ve been reading and studying Dr. Weinberg’s work for decades. In fact i share some of his great physics ideas with my high school and AP physics students. What great accomplishments you have had. Well Done Sir!!
Sad to hear that he died... Rest in peace Steven Weinberg.
Steven Weinberg will be reincarnated to a devoutly progressive Christian couple. Thus, his information on science will combine with Christian teachings.
@@BradWatsonMiami or buddhist or islam.
@@drblaneyphysics What?? What are you smoking? Bloody clown.
Whenever Professor Weinberg exposes, I know a good experience will follow. I never tire of hearing his lectures and most of them I watch more than once. A real pleasure.
I read Steven Weinberg's book, "Dreams of a Final Theory" in 1993, when I was still in High School. Although I strongly disagreed with some of his opinions in that book, and still do, that book nevertheless had a very profound impact on my outlook on the world.
Eugene Khutoryansky oh, i want to read it. which are the strongly disagreeable opinions in that book?
carryall69, I now believe that in many cases, drilling further and further into the subatomic nature of matter takes us further away from the answering the question we are asking. For example, understanding the properties of wave propagation is accomplished without understanding the subatomic nature of the medium through which the waves are traveling. Another point of disagreement is that Steven Wienberg says in that book that no scientist should ever waste their time examining the evidence for phenomena such as ESP, ghosts, etc. I believe no topic should ever be shut off from scientific inquiry.
Eugene Khutoryansky i agree, you don't have to really dig deep into the nature of phenomena to wittness them, but i would have thought that that's what physics is all about. ESP for extra sensory perception as in paranormal psychic studies?
I agree with your statements, Eugene Khutoryansky
Eugene Khutoryansky I disagree with your first statement, but I agree with the second.
I think that the question we are asking is "what is the universe, really?", and drilling further into the subatomic world can only help our quest. And with that in mind, it's easy to agree with your second statement, that no topic should be shut off.
Weinbergs books on Quantum field theory are still the gold standard
Rip ❤️🔥 May more like him, come and enlighten us.
Wonderful spending time with such a great and brilliant man
It has been said that "to learn well, one must learn to listen well." To the mind receptive to the subject-matter, listening to someone as learned, knowledgeable, intelligently insightful and well spoken as Mr. Weinberg, comes as easily and naturally as breathing.
Exactly! Everyone has something to say that I have never heard before. There is so much to be learned from those around us, and they will thank you for the privilege of letting you know. Later when I play it back, I wonder if it wasn't those who were silent to whom I should have listened to more.
Well spoken. And btw you have to address him as Prof. or Dr. Weinberg. Just saying.
its inspiring that the co-developer of the standard model has the humility to say that it is not the final word.
get some help with coherent sentence writing and paragraph structure.
What do you think happens to them in Amerikkka that they turn out like this character? Mental innit? I mean that's way out there crazy...
Let it be known the two preceding comments make NO sense ...
Sir Steven Weinberg
Rest In Peace, Legend.
You and your work will never be forgotten.
Ich denke er war gottlos...wie kan er dan in frieden ruhen?
What a lovely, gentle man with such an impressive intellect. His well thought out opinions and his carefully thought out responses show his personal reverence for the truth as he understands it. Admirable. That such unkind and crude verbiage are found in other comments leads me to believe that as a species we have much to work on in order to find peace among ourselves. Just tolerating an alternate view seems very difficult for many of us. Lashing out at a man who is so very tolerant is baffling to me.
+gail lilly people are real bigshots under cover of the internet. They say stuff they would never say in person
+gail lilly I would say that he has an impressive intellect in terms of the limited set of mental skills physics requires certainly, but he is philosophical and historically naive--to the point of sounding almost stupid. I haven't read the negative comments you refer to but perhaps it is this hubris people are instinctively reacting to.
+Aaron Siering I would only say that what made Western science successful is precisely limiting it.....
+jceepf I agree that is true, but what happens when because of its success in producing new technology we start to limit the very definition of knowledge, itself, to only that knowledge which can be turn into technology? What happens when we start looking at the people trained in this very limited way of thinking as being exactly those people who best epitomize scholarly education?
I think science is important and I think the technology it produces is good, but I put it in its place relative to other ways of being in the world. I value the mythological mindset of literature to reveal truth just as much as I do the experimental confirmation of the numbers produced from mathematical formula...not only is scientism, itself, an obviously self contradicting philosophy, but if science cuts itself off from philosophical investigation more generally then it is cutting its own legs out from under itself, because science depends on the continuing philosophical investigations into areas such as epistemology, induction, mathematics, etc. and in the end is only as trustworthy as our confidence in the those things.
So yes science took off exactly when we stopped asking questions about formal and final causation and looked only to material and efficient causation, but this success is not in and of itself a good argument that only material and efficient causation are necessary to give a complete description of a thing--in fact despite many people's best efforts the necessity of formal and final causation keep reappearing even in science. So we should not forget that no matter how successful science is creating new technology that it is still only a limited picture of reality.
+gail lilly Lovely man?? This foolish man pretends to be a Newton fan everywhere he goes, and then he says things like Newton was a bad man, he fought with Hooke and Leibniz and so on. Read his writings carefully and you will know that he doesn't have any clue about historical facts, but he has the audacity to belittle some one like Isaac Newton. It's very well established that Newton responded to his critics only after years of provocation, but Dr. Weinberg didn't bother to update his knowledge and tries to spread these outdated ideas. He doesn't even know how to be humble when discussing giants, so please don't get carried away by his 'impressive intellect'.
So very, very much enjoyed hearing Dr. Weinberg's thoughts. Will order "To Explain the World" now, to add it to my collection of physics/cosmology books for the non-scientist; many of which I've read and re-read. Thank you.
Very humble man! I wish I were as knowledgable. I admire his manner and his drive just to understand the world.
... only for the lack of trying...
This pisses me off so much: why couldn't my professors in university be this humble and clear and patient and informed?? I had bitter assholes who didn't like questions or didn't like when you questioned THEIR answers, and definitely didn't like to spend time out of the classroom explaining things, in private (when you CORNER them) they gave you the same answers they gave in class, what made them think the same words would be clearer in private if they didn't work in class?? I had to make my small way into books of this sort by myself and they hated what they called "science books for the LAY person" as if writing for someone other than other professors was beneath them, and yet they they were eating from students' dish at universities. Most math teachers were like that too... why couldn't I have at least ONE of these guys as professors, the ones I had tried to discourage you from continuing with the field, they say This is good enough for now, from here on out it gets much harder so think hard if you want to pursue it... and shit like that.
Because not everybody is as smart as Mr. Weinberg, here. I've always watched, during my life, how really, actually smart people behave and what is their demeanor. What I found out is that really smart people are funny and kind, meaning, they also have the empathy to double down their intellectual prowess. These are the true geniuses, in my opinion. Not some weird, computer-like kind of guy that you can't talk to because he's either too arrogant or can't put two words together.
G. G. Much like teachers of art, as in painting. They become arrogant. Some have been known to enjoy denigrating to the point of tears a student's work.
Sounds like they are there just to get a wage. Such a shame
Such humility from such a great mind and great human being is a lesson not lost on many who recognize his greatness.
Such a beautiful mind, this man's brain is a treasure.
He's a GlobeTard! Watch RUclips Santos Bonacci! Santos will show you the eart is flat. This jew is part of the Vatican Jesuits who have suppresed the truth about the flat earth for years!!! His brain is a rotting treasure!!
humble and so intelligent. thx M. Weinberg
RIP to this brilliant mind! Rest easy Dr. Weinberg
Rest in peace? That my friend is a pointless statement!
Absolute legend. He will be missed.
Such a pleasure to listen to Dr. Weinberg. RIP
What wonderful wisdom. RIP.
I couldn’t have a beer with this man and listen to him talk all day. Truly a smart man
Very insightful talk,,,Thank you for posting this
One of the greatest and most insightful scientists of our time. May he rest in peace.
Humanity needs more ppl like Weinberg.
He's such a lovely person. So humble.
It's pleasure me to hear so interesting telling you about reality of world.
Thank you both
"All of the energy and matter that existed still exists. Matter does not create energy of itself. It is the actions of matter that enable energy to become manifest".
When I look back on my life I have been lucky enough to be alive to be present in something like magical world of mystery.
Simply brilliant. Steven Weinberg beautifully exposes the contributions of the Greeks (Alexandrians), Arabs (Abbasids), up to the modern age. But, he doesn't discuss in length the quantum interpretation (of which he is a master), except that QM does not provide a complete picture, he did in fact emphasise that consciousness and quantum nonlocality does not need divine intervention, claiming instead that the atheistic attitude provides 'free will' and is glad it is so. Even as he fails to explain 'fine tuning', thinks self-organization and self-simulation made fine tuning (FT) possible naturally, perhaps. He even went on to appreciate Everette's multiverse or consciousness, but like Einstein and Schrodinger thinks QM still needs perfect formulation, like Lindblad equation.
Elsewhere, Steven admits simplicity and symmetry, must have a limit as a lower bound of our quest to explain the world as against complexity that may have no bound.
QM does open the possibility of a self-simulating intelligent conscious 'observer' that collapses the quantum field (QF) into fine tuned (FT) particles, producing phase transition of life out of non-life matter, implying divine purpose or proving the Anthropic Principle, as Everette suspected by did not quite reach the conclusion.
QM leads not only to QC, multiverse, consciousness but much more.
As for multidimensional aspect of quantum computation of superposition of states, Steven suspect a connection with reality, but thinks QM is not quite there, although Maldecena claims, and many physicists agree with him, that the universe is a QC, just like life is a QC (we repair and regenerate 50-70 billion damaged cells daily, with 99.99 % efficiency and at lightning speed), what Steven agrees as an unknown aspect of reality. His idea however, implies not only free will (which he treasures), but holds that mathematical reality exists independent of us, implying reality is independent (perhaps indicating, but not recognizing the 'mind of god'). Steven believes god is assumed by the humans.
I would like to 'assume' ID is responsible for FT and divine purpose. Man and god are entangled.
Always a pleasure to listen to Weinberg
Everytime an artist make something social and intelligent it has artistic integrity. That only possible in a created universe.
What a fantastic and inspirational human being 😊👍🏻
If they ever did a poll of "who would you like as a neighbor?" I suspect that Weinberg would come out on top. I don't think I ever heard a nicer, gentler, more reasonable sounding person. The tone of his voice, the words he uses, his body language all shout "Nice Guy!"
It's quite startling, given his strong beliefs and disagreements with most of the world on science vs religion.
At 57:04 he says we are inventing, presumably principals of nature. We are discovering, not inventing.
Good stuff Mr. Weinberg
Thank you.
great program
sitting in my kitchen eating soup with the washing machine running watching steven weinberg talking; when he's talking about reality as fluctuating quantum fields i look around and think "what the fuck *is* this reality i'm living in?"
quantum boredom
Riposa in pace Steven Weinberg, grandissimo fisico ed intellettuale, e grazie del tuo magnifico "I primi tre minuti" che ha segnato la mia gioventù
More public and charismatic scientists, such as Tyson, Greene, Kaku are great in their own ways, but for the most clear and deep, accurate but understandable, talks about science: Weinberg and Sean Carroll are the best to learn from.
Watched all of it
loved it..
God bless you all!!
Genius!
+VCR Games Indeed :)
the presenter did a great job for this interview.
R.I.P. great mind, the world is little darker today
Sorry Steve, but a catenary is the shape of a free hanging cable. A uniformly loaded cable, like a suspension bridge, is a parabola. But I remember the epiphany I also had at 14 when I started learning the power of math and physics.
What an amazing person he was.
Great interview, particularly on the philosophy of science from one of our greatest physicists. Also recommend his interview I think his memory may have slipped a little when giving an example about the intellectual power of mathematics/science (see 43:30). He recalled the the shape the cable of a suspension bridge is a catenary, but it's parabolic. Very thoughtful, well-read scientist.
actually he is right; it is a catenary. why do you say it is a parabola?
👍thank you again.
Fascinating!
Rest in Peace and Blessed Be, Dr. Weinberg.
That was a great explanation
Stand up and give Steven Weinberg a round of applause!!! Oh, wait....
I wish I could hear such words
I so badly wished I was taught in school that everything connects.
Rest in peace
Don't let people wash your mind with their thoughts
IMPRESSIVE, one of our Greatest Minds of our times !
RIP Steven ✨
Rest in peace, Mr. Weinberg. The physics community will miss you greatly.
Skepticism is the only bridge to truth.
Loved it
I SALUTE THE MAN OF THE STANDARD MODEL .
THANKS !
The gravity is a big difference between the readings there getting build it in a none gravity environment and see a totally different situation than the Hadron collider in gravity waves and the other energies that have an affect on the situation.
Very kind guy.
yo what's up Jesus
Trinajskaa Not much, kinda boring up here so I watch these videos you guys make.
おはようございます。大変勉強になります。
WOW.
We're the universe realizing itself. Weinberg is not wrong in knowing we don't need an external source for purpose.
Nice talk, but I have to interject regarding the issue of the decline of science in the Byzantine world... The Byzantines were not in the least anti-scientific, they were simply bad at keeping their bastions of science (and culture in general) from falling into the hands of Muslims. Alexandria was the preeminent center of Greek science, Beirut was an important center for the study of Roman law, etc, while Constantinople (being a relatively new metropolis) was primarily designated the role of an administrative center for the empire as a whole. The decline of Byzantine science and culture was thus directly caused by the loss of many of these major centers of learning in the Near East, add to that the fact that survival of the empire became a far more pressing concern than patronage of the arts for what little remained of Byzantium after the Muslim conquests.
The 5th and 6th centuries AD were actually chock-full of intellectual activity and learning. The early 6th century Christian Neoplatonic philosopher-theologian John Philoponus is a great case in point of what might have been, had Byzantium successfully defended Alexandria and the Levant from the Muslim onslaught and had this burgeoning Christian Neoplatonic tradition not been abruptly interrupted by these other historic events. Philoponus, who was the first Christian head of the Neoplatonic academy in Alexandria, had to deal with the complicated issue of reconciling Christian and Neoplatonic doctrines in a time of increased tensions between the two world views. In response to this task, he formulated (among other things) the first major critique of Aristotelian physics in antiquity, in which he rejected Aristotle's concept of aether, arguing instead that the same laws applied both in the heavens and on Earth as well as proposing a theory of impetus which was a precursor to and an important first step towards the law of inertia (i.e. Newton's first law of motion). Philoponus in true scientific spirit even dropped objects from a tall tower in order to refute Aristotle's notion that heavier objects fall at higher velocities, something which has since incorrectly attributed to Galileo who was very familiar with Philoponus' writings and who extensively quoted him in his own writings.
Another example of the scientific spirit in 6th century Byzantium is Anthemius of Tralles, who was one of the two main architects behind the construction of the Hagia Sophia. Apart from partaking in the construction of the largest domed structure until the 16th century, he also experimented with steam power and derived important new mathematical formulas for elliptic and parabolic surfaces. His architect colleague in the construction of the Hagia Sophia, Isidore of Miletus, was also an important mathematician who made the first comprehensive compilation of the works of Archimedes and whom we have to thank for the survival of the majority of Archimedes' works.
A few decades earlier, in the late 5th century, there was also the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus who among other things constructed an important mathematical device for astronomy that we've come to know as the Tusi couple, after the Muslim astronomer Al-Tusi. This mathematical device was later used by Copernicus in his formulation of his heliocentric system and some modern historians have used this fact as a point to highlight the advances made by Muslim astronomers and their influence on later European astronomers, yet this method originated with Proclus and not Al-Tusi. So, to summarize, there was nothing inherently anti-scientific about late Roman / Byzantine Christian culture, quite the contrary, it just didn't get the opportunity to evolve in peace.
+neuralvibes Wonderful comment! Thanks!! I'd like to learn more about Byzantine science. Any suggestions?
Yes, I just finished a book on Byzantium, and it became clear to me that its later history largely disproves the Enlightenment paradigm that Weinberg pushes of the necessary opposition of religion and science.
The final decline in the remains of the scientific culture of later antiquity is due to the rise of Islam and, in particular, the militant and mystical form that it took in the 1200s and 1300s. Within a century or two, the scientific and philosophical culture that the early classical Arabic civilization had inherited from the late Hellenistic-Greek Christian culture permanently evaporated, leaving the Islamic part of the Mediterranean and Levant the stagnant backwater that it has been ever since. The leadership of the Islamic world passed to the Turks and Persians, who had no interest in science and looked on philosophy with suspicion and contempt.
OTOH, the remaining figures of the later Greek-Byzantine humanistic culture took their knowledge and manuscripts west, to Venice and other cities, in the 1400s, where they seeded the Renaissance, amplified by the printing press. The Byzantine philosophical/scientific culture was vibrant until it was crushed and eventually destroyed by the pressure of Islamic conquest (and let's not forget the western Christian army of crusaders sacking Constantinople during the third crusade).
+Stephen R Ferg I seem to somehow have missed your question, so this will be a late response... Well, I think that the key here is to reject the artificial "Byzantine" classification of science and instead look into philosophical and scientific developments of the entire era of Late Antiquity. While the term "Byzantine" does make a lot of sense for explaining political developments that followed the breakup of the Roman Empire, it's completely misplaced when it comes to dealing with issues of science and philosophy. Even the term "Late Antiquity" is somewhat hard to pin down but it deals roughly with developments from the 3rd to the 6th or 7th century AD and, unlike the term "Byzantine", the term "Late Antiquity" actually coincides with certain new intellectual developments and schools of thought of that time.
The period of Late Antiquity has often been characterized in terms of science as having a commentary tradition on classical works of science and philosophy without producing many original works. There is some truth to this in the sense that most intellectual activity of Late Antiquity did indeed take the form of commentaries on earlier texts but the value of these commentaries has been reappraised by at least some historians of science who recognize that these commentaries were not mere reworkings of existing knowledge but that at least some of these commentaries provided important new scientific tools and insights, some of these commentaries proved absolutely vital and formative for later developments during the Scientific Revolution.
Most of these commentaries were written within the Neoplatonic tradition which was a distinctly Late Antique development of the earlier Platonic tradition. The Neoplatonists tried to combine Platonic and Aristotelian ideas into one harmonious whole but, whether despite or because of this, they also produced some original strands of thought that went outside or beyond what either Plato or Aristotle . It's within this tradition that for instance John Philoponus produce his theory of impetus, the precursor to the concept of inertia.
As for books, well, there's a 3 volume set on these Late Antique commentaries called "The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD" which features modern translations and commentaries on these works and which puts them in context of both earlier and later developments. This 3 volume set is however not a treatment for the lay audience, you would need to have pretty good knowledge of Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy as well as some contextual understanding of the developments preceding and following these commentaries in order to fully appreciate these works.
weinberg by combining present and historical thought produces a powerfull description of what we know and where to find the basic structure ? as to what the purpose of the basic structure is god knows except there appears to be no evdence of a god although by saying that the word god describes the quantum void you can get closer to the real fundamentals ?
math analysis .........it's all in the hands of a "supernatural" high school student on a level "above" us. Or else it's the Spaghetti Monster.
Absolute genius!! Much love RIP
"Fine Tuning", the Epicyclic Solution, is how you know, with absolute certainty, that the Observable Universe is a singular-superimposed Mathematical Modulation objective of Time Timing in Eternity-now, Actuality - Principle.
I have his book "Gravitation and Cosmology" on my shelf but still don't have the maths to really get into it.
High point: 33:50
WOW!
Rest In Peace Mr. Weinberg
excellent book
Great.
8:11 so smart that he doesn’t even need to open his eyes to perceive the world
It is so ironic to read all the ‘Rest In Peace’ comments. 180 out from the worldview he held.
An the right question is?
surely life cannot be pointless as a deterministic evolutionary process going from the starting point A to the final point B and permitting for the universe to aware of itself..
I drove Steven Weinberg to Logan Airport in Boston from Newton, Mass. We had a fascinating conversation while stuck in traffic on the Mass. Pike. I asked him, based upon his research, does he believe that God exists.
And what was his reply?
العرب يحبون ستيفن واينبرج ..!
RIP DR. STEVEN ♥️ ⚛️
Dude had a good and strong style as an orator..
Our purpose in being here is to experience the completion of Joy in form as co-equal creators in collaboration with the all-inclusive Absolute.
That which is nothing in particular (actual), is by definition everything in general (potential).
Every choice we make generates a corresponding timeline of experience. Each moment of the day is 'both' the fruit of yesterday 'and' the seed of tomorrow. To change the narrative, change perspective. Is it a limit or a creative guideline? No wrong answer - only a choice.
Nature only counts up to 3. Centripetal convergence, centrifugal divergence and pressure mediation.
Consciousness is what something does, not what something is.
What appears as separate is in Reality, Continuum of Being.
Wave = right hemisphere = peripheral attention.
Particle = left hemisphere = focused attention.
wow.
I am roughly 20 minutes in it, and why don’t they consider the marriage of music and mathematics by Pythargoras?
Because they got divorced.
He's a walking encyclopedia.
k-now hum on this video compared to other please adjust your set worlds science festival 'the limits of understandings' would have been nice to listen to.
"Einstein was not real, he was just a theoretical physicist."
Wonder stuff!
RIP
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