Two things I like about Ed Witten, 1 - He is a living example of Einsteins mantra that if you cant explain something simply, it means you don't understand it well enough. He explains things beautifully. 2 - He is completely devoid of an ego. He has a passion for what he does and he's not doing it to be a famous physicist, very refreshing.
I am posting this comment on February 1, 2023 and it is so interesting to listen to Dr. Witten discuss how things were back then prior to the discovery of the Higgs and then to reflect on how things have progressed since then to this day. Happy to say he is still alive and well and contributing to the quantum Knowledge.
The resolution makes it hard to see but it looks like Paola Catapano. Nice little assumption about her just being "a woman with a microphone" but she's one of the female physicists working at CERN. I'm pretty sure that she's way above the intelligence of those writing crap about her here. And of course she's asking more general questions since this is intended for a more general audience.
Virtually all of Einsteins work with relativity had nothing to do with solid experimental evidence. It was largely predicated upon intuition, but it was so mathematically consistent that it warranted serious attention and has since been supported through observation.
As Witten observes: the entire history of physics shows innumerable instances " where theories that appeared impervious to testing were, in fact, eventually tested (he cites as examples gravitational waves, black holes, neutrons and neutrinos being big ideas during the thirties and practically in the category of science fiction, yet later in the sixties, seventies and eighties, due to new discoveries that werent foreseen and so on, they were eventually tested).
Aww don't say that. He's just smart enough to know that there's no need to visualize extra dimensions to understand physics, but if you're interested in it just for fun I'm sure it's possible.
Poor guy, trying to explain string physics to a woman with a microphone. Prof Witten is no ordinary genius ..he's a real down to earth guy, with a lot of class. He did a great job
Yes, chuckinator0, I agree with you. As Witten was saying, if they find supersymmetric particles, while that won't prove superstring theory correct, it is nevertheless very strong evidence in its favor.
Not really, the world don't need to be full of people with the highest scientific knowledge, there will always be distribution no matter what "level" humanity reaches. Speaking as a fellow physicist.
I think many people are hoping Ed gets his wish someday The fact that ST must incorporate gravity may be circumstantial enough to posit he was right all along ....albeit probably after he's gone
I think you win, JDHURF. Special relativity was based on laws being the same in all reference frames, which was supported by evidence, but general relativity was a creative breakthrough whose beauty happened to match that of the universe itself. If CERN finds supersymmetric particles, and if we can learn more about dark matter, then that will be strong evidence for string theory. Just because it implies 11 dimensions doesn't mean it is inconsistent with observations (obviously).
@Xerotaerg because the majority of the audience may not be professional scientists. Thus, in theory, a reporter should be able to tease information out of the interviewee and force the interviewee to explain things in a way that the audience finds accessible.
Can someone enlighten a mathematician... what does he mean by "We've wondered for a long time what there is at the energies of the electro-weak symmetry breaking scale?"
+bmxtra211 Its the energy level at which the electromagnetic force and the weak force decouple into separate entities. The energy scale is roughly 250GeV, so I think he is talking about the possibility that signs of Supersymmetry may reside around these energy scales.
You just repeated the false claim that I refuted in response and therefore shall only say that you need to actually read my comment. You can watch Janna Levin discuss this on the Colbert Report. The comment box won't allow me to post the link, but all you have to do is google "Janna Levin Stephen Colbert".
To again repeat, most of Einsteins theory was sheer intuition based upon little more than mathematical consistency (curved space time and so on) and had no observations to spur their postulation, as Ed Witten observes, as was the case in innumerable other instances (gravitational waves, black holes, neutrons and neutrinos and so on, Ive already cited all of this and you have ignored it).
THE THEORETICAL, TOP DOWN, CLEAR, SIMPLE, AND BALANCED MATHEMATICAL PROOF OF THE FACT THAT E=MC2 IS F=MA OF NECESSITY: Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. Very importantly, outer “space” involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. NOW, carefully consider what is THE SUN; AS it does (and it must) exist in both time AND SPACE. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky !!! E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma ON BALANCE. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=MC2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy !!!! Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma ON BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense. Carefully consider what is THE MAN who IS standing on what is THE EARTH/ground. Touch AND feeling BLEND, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! (Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE.) Objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches it's revolution. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. The sky is blue, AND THE EARTH is ALSO BLUE !!! Carefully consider what is THE EYE. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. TIME DILATION ULTIMATELY proves ON BALANCE that E=MC2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. This CLEARLY explains the cosmological redshift AND the black hole(s) !!! AGAIN, gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma IN BALANCE !!!! Think QUANTUM GRAVITY !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense ON BALANCE !!!! Great. By Frank DiMeglio
@MrDiamondcut lol this guy is a much more important physicist than Stephen Hawking imo. If you ask any working physicists who they consider the most influential living physicist, most will probably say Witten. I would be surprised if anyone at all would mention Hawking.
Secularism They didn't waste cognitive energy over thousands of years praying to an invisible person Hence their education moved as a culture 1B Muslims - how many Nobel prizes in physics? 13M Jews - many many more Math doesn't lie
Witten had to be a big man to harmonize with a needed startling profile: to find out supersymmetry as is his profound desire (0:36) one needs this very ancient abrahamic artifact - a king's nose! - to sniff into the recesses of mind. Just a nature's supersymmetric quality!
cyberdaemon I pretty sure we haven't detected black-body emissions from a blackhole but Hawking radiation is pretty a solid idea due to "proofs" of the dynamical Casimir effect they did on a program.
Ed Witten needs nothing from your world to visualize the extra dimensions. Almost all of the phsicists on the world (not half phsicists) are aggree with the idea that Ed Witten is possibly the most successful man with an extraordinary insight of extradimensions, and other bizarre looking concepts of the quantum world.
i think Ed was genuinely amused by the black hole question at the LHC. amused, as in like, as giddy as a tween-age girl would be over the topic of, lets say, justin beiber... can you imagine Ed watching family guy with a totally straight face? i just did.
Your claim that string theory has already been tested and shown to be wrong is not only false, but a contradiction of your previous claim that it was impervious to testing. How can something be impervious to testing and yet also have already been tested and proved wrong?
At0.49 "well it`s hard to assign probabilities.." your "..." stand for the logical abordation of the question, not scientific as u called it - ".. to something that only happens once and our oppinions have nothing to do with what the answer turns out to be!" In other words there is no need to call out for probabilities in a matter that has a very low chance to have happend in the first place and above that, the result cant be forseen or predicted even by the Smart Guys beacause it`s a premiere.
@cdzrherntphpqjwetxeq I don't think the distinction you're drawing is relevant. Scientists investigate and organize aspects of the physical world. In the case of physicists and mathematicians, the aspect of the physical world under investigation is the set of physical laws governing matter and energy or the logical truths before which the physical world stands in submission. Physics is quite definitely a science.
(5:40) Feel extra-dimensions? I cannot visualize extra-dimensions... Just look at themselves! The Strong Principle of Equivalence states a connection of Life and Extra-dimensions, doesn't it?
She just received too much information for the moment, don´t blame her, no person that is not inmersed into the particle physics field would be able to understand every single word that Eddie´s saying. Leave the debate for rational things people.
Definitely, and the CERN still hasn't found any evidence for supersymmetry. So it's not ruled out, but that tends to decrease the likeliness of the theory being true. As for black holes, there's really almost no physicist that would deny their existence. There is plenty of evidence for them, because we know how masses affect each other through gravity. So, although we can't see black holes directly, we can detect them by their gravitational influence on neighboring stars. This is especially true for supermassive black holes, more mass implies a bigger gravity field. There is probably a supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy
Im sorry, but that is just plain false. A large bulk of Einsteins work regarding relativity was absolutely predicated upon intuition and mathematical consistency when, at the time he was formulating these theories, there were no observations to have led to their postulations. His notion of curved space was based upon no observation, it was motivated by intuition and mathematical consistency, it was only later verified (during the solar eclipse of 1919).
@transfoby Trolls are hard to impress not even M-theory would impress a troll thats whats amazing, the objective of his experiment is on the video , if you dont understand it yet go troll on some other videos which match your IQ levels. The objective is exploration and discovery is it not obvious enough.
ok, the interviewer doesn't know a thing about physics, would it be so hard to get someone who has actually studied physics to do the interview, so (s)he can ask i duno "realevant" and "usefull" questions... she is like isn't it exciting?! what the hell is that?
@@Franciscasieri On the contrary Fest, I am one of maybe 3 people in the world who know exactly what the Dirac equation really means, and what the 5 gamma matrices really are. My critique of mainstream US physics (that they charged into ridiculous high dimensions because Witten told them to) is exactly accurate. Instead they should have studied what it really means to have ONE "compactified" dimension. You can read Peter Woit on the excess and hubris of string theory . His critique becomes more accurate every year. More later, superbowl-dude-man....
@@adamkadmon6339 Peter Woit, oh dear is that the best you can do. "Maybe 3 people understand the Dirac equation on the planet?" I take that list is Witten, you and who else? Are you Brian Green, Sir Roget Penrose, Sabine Hossenfilder, Eric Weinstein, you smarter than Musk? Or are you a nobody with an ego the size of the sun? Just because we don't have the tools to prove M_Theory extra dimensions doesn't mean they do not exist. Almost all of Einstein's work was theoretical until proven at much later dates. "Wittens research has been a failure". Well lets take a look at the list of awards Ed has received on wikipedia and compare them to Woit's or even yours, or anyone else's award list on the planet.
I would assume he's an atheist. He seems very comfortable in the purely logic realm, so there's probably no drive in him, for "spiritual science" a là Einstein.
Two things I like about Ed Witten, 1 - He is a living example of Einsteins mantra that if you cant explain something simply, it means you don't understand it well enough. He explains things beautifully. 2 - He is completely devoid of an ego. He has a passion for what he does and he's not doing it to be a famous physicist, very refreshing.
No one has ever sounded quite as excited in quite such a monotone voice
Each sound bite from him is as spontaneous, natural and thoughtful as anything artful can ever be
This guy is literally a computer in human form. From just watching him you know he is going to go down in the history books !!!
I am posting this comment on February 1, 2023 and it is so interesting to listen to Dr. Witten discuss how things were back then prior to the discovery of the Higgs and then to reflect on how things have progressed since then to this day. Happy to say he is still alive and well and contributing to the quantum Knowledge.
Still working on string theory unfortunately, but that doesn’t halt my pure admiration of his intellect.
Show this to anyone who says science is arrogant.
This is so awkward, I love it. Also ''don't take it too seriously'' is great advice
Edward Witten says he cant visualize extra dimensions. So I will officially stop trying...
The resolution makes it hard to see but it looks like Paola Catapano. Nice little assumption about her just being "a woman with a microphone" but she's one of the female physicists working at CERN. I'm pretty sure that she's way above the intelligence of those writing crap about her here. And of course she's asking more general questions since this is intended for a more general audience.
it comes across like she is a physicist working at CERN, she's just asking general questions for benefit of most of the audience
Virtually all of Einsteins work with relativity had nothing to do with solid experimental evidence. It was largely predicated upon intuition, but it was so mathematically consistent that it warranted serious attention and has since been supported through observation.
Just like Ed
That’s what THEORETICAL physics is, to be fair.
@@r4v4g3r All of Science, to be clearer
@@JDHURF Just realized you replied to me 14 years after your comment, pretty awesome lol
As Witten observes: the entire history of physics shows innumerable instances " where theories that appeared impervious to testing were, in fact, eventually tested (he cites as examples gravitational waves, black holes, neutrons and neutrinos being big ideas during the thirties and practically in the category of science fiction, yet later in the sixties, seventies and eighties, due to new discoveries that werent foreseen and so on, they were eventually tested).
He's an absolute genius... If HE can't visualize extra dimensions, then I can stop trying !
Aww don't say that. He's just smart enough to know that there's no need to visualize extra dimensions to understand physics, but if you're interested in it just for fun I'm sure it's possible.
@@jeffb3741 Why in the world would you be sure it’s possible?
Poor guy, trying to explain string physics to a woman with a microphone.
Prof Witten is no ordinary genius ..he's a real down to earth guy, with a lot of class.
He did a great job
Hey Ed !!! Coolest guy at Princeton
Edward is AMAZING!!!
i like to listen to ed witten speak but it's hard to watch interviews where the people are no where near his level.
Yes, chuckinator0, I agree with you. As Witten was saying, if they find supersymmetric particles, while that won't prove superstring theory correct, it is nevertheless very strong evidence in its favor.
you can tell this guy lives, eats, sleeps, physics.
the fact that this video has 40,000 views and Gaga has 100 million + shows the state of humanity in it's current level.
Never underestimate the power of tweens.
Not really, the world don't need to be full of people with the highest scientific knowledge, there will always be distribution no matter what "level" humanity reaches. Speaking as a fellow physicist.
Maxwell Cao I can tell you are a physicist due to your humbleness.
every big idea has its critics
@@lupita3689 if only the distribution of geniuses to idiots was a reasonable ratio
@MrBeef79 is that what you took from that video?
I think many people are hoping Ed gets his wish someday
The fact that ST must incorporate gravity may be circumstantial enough to posit he was right all along ....albeit probably after he's gone
@gringoroko This whole interview is charmingly awkward.
I think you win, JDHURF. Special relativity was based on laws being the same in all reference frames, which was supported by evidence, but general relativity was a creative breakthrough whose beauty happened to match that of the universe itself. If CERN finds supersymmetric particles, and if we can learn more about dark matter, then that will be strong evidence for string theory. Just because it implies 11 dimensions doesn't mean it is inconsistent with observations (obviously).
What's up with the strange and generally awkward zoom-ins? Just look at 0:54 and 2:30 as for example.
why do they send her as an interviewer???
6:50 dat laugh 😄
@Xerotaerg because the majority of the audience may not be professional scientists. Thus, in theory, a reporter should be able to tease information out of the interviewee and force the interviewee to explain things in a way that the audience finds accessible.
Great video. Beautiful weather. And lovely interviewer. ;)
“There is a reasonable theory but it’s completely unclear if the theory is right….” My issue with physics summed up by Edward himself.
@ialvarez357 you forgot 1, you forgot 'dreams physics'... he is brilliant
Love witten
Were the coordinates he was giving correct? I assume he wasn't talking out of his ass, cause these guy is pure genius
Can someone enlighten a mathematician... what does he mean by "We've wondered for a long time what there is at the energies of the electro-weak symmetry breaking scale?"
+bmxtra211 Its the energy level at which the electromagnetic force and the weak force decouple into separate entities. The energy scale is roughly 250GeV, so I think he is talking about the possibility that signs of Supersymmetry may reside around these energy scales.
You just repeated the false claim that I refuted in response and therefore shall only say that you need to actually read my comment.
You can watch Janna Levin discuss this on the Colbert Report. The comment box won't allow me to post the link, but all you have to do is google "Janna Levin Stephen Colbert".
Love this guy. She doesn't deserve to stand next to him
To again repeat, most of Einsteins theory was sheer intuition based upon little more than mathematical consistency (curved space time and so on) and had no observations to spur their postulation, as Ed Witten observes, as was the case in innumerable other instances (gravitational waves, black holes, neutrons and neutrinos and so on, Ive already cited all of this and you have ignored it).
THE THEORETICAL, TOP DOWN, CLEAR, SIMPLE, AND BALANCED MATHEMATICAL PROOF OF THE FACT THAT E=MC2 IS F=MA OF NECESSITY:
Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. Very importantly, outer “space” involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. NOW, carefully consider what is THE SUN; AS it does (and it must) exist in both time AND SPACE. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky !!!
E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma ON BALANCE. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=MC2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy !!!!
Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma ON BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense. Carefully consider what is THE MAN who IS standing on what is THE EARTH/ground. Touch AND feeling BLEND, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! (Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE.) Objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches it's revolution. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. The sky is blue, AND THE EARTH is ALSO BLUE !!! Carefully consider what is THE EYE. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. TIME DILATION ULTIMATELY proves ON BALANCE that E=MC2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. This CLEARLY explains the cosmological redshift AND the black hole(s) !!! AGAIN, gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma IN BALANCE !!!! Think QUANTUM GRAVITY !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense ON BALANCE !!!! Great.
By Frank DiMeglio
@MrDiamondcut lol this guy is a much more important physicist than Stephen Hawking imo. If you ask any working physicists who they consider the most influential living physicist, most will probably say Witten. I would be surprised if anyone at all would mention Hawking.
What is it in the Jewish genes that creates the like of Einstein, Witten and so many other ground-breaking scientists?!
Discipline .. hard work ....
তোমার মাথা
Jews were forced into intellectual occupations for hundreds of years. Probably favored the survival of the most intelligent individuals
Secularism
They didn't waste cognitive energy over thousands of years praying to an invisible person
Hence their education moved as a culture
1B Muslims - how many Nobel prizes in physics?
13M Jews - many many more
Math doesn't lie
guesser7, I hear you on Dark Matter!
BUT, Ed Witten is brilliant!
;P
But honestly, you can really see how his intellect affects his behavior. An unusual specimen of homo sapiens.
Yes, i wasn't trying to imply anything beyond deism.
Witten had to be a big man to harmonize with a needed startling profile: to find out supersymmetry as is his profound desire (0:36) one needs this very ancient abrahamic artifact - a king's nose! - to sniff into the recesses of mind. Just a nature's supersymmetric quality!
@mitrasoroosh even though stephen hawkings is smart and paralyzed, he still surely comes off as really cocky.
can u feel extra dimension???lololololol
Did anyone notice during the interview the interviewer (the woman) was just like ".......what the ...." lol?
"do you feel black holes"
But he says "not many people can." What kind of freak would be able to do that? I'm curious.
Of Fools & Kings grigori
Wasnt the hawking radiation just a theory ot theoretical thing rather than just a fact ?
cyberdaemon I pretty sure we haven't detected black-body emissions from a blackhole but Hawking radiation is pretty a solid idea due to "proofs" of the dynamical Casimir effect they did on a program.
Ed Witten needs nothing from your world to visualize the extra dimensions. Almost all of the phsicists on the world (not half phsicists) are aggree with the idea that Ed Witten is possibly the most successful man with an extraordinary insight of extradimensions, and other bizarre looking concepts of the quantum world.
i think Ed was genuinely amused by the black hole question at the LHC. amused, as in like, as giddy as a tween-age girl would be over the topic of, lets say, justin beiber... can you imagine Ed watching family guy with a totally straight face? i just did.
yeah thats like his version of an extremely childish joke
Your claim that string theory has already been tested and shown to be wrong is not only false, but a contradiction of your previous claim that it was impervious to testing. How can something be impervious to testing and yet also have already been tested and proved wrong?
🙏
At0.49 "well it`s hard to assign probabilities.." your "..." stand for the logical abordation of the question, not scientific as u called it - ".. to something that only happens once and our oppinions have nothing to do with what the answer turns out to be!" In other words there is no need to call out for probabilities in a matter that has a very low chance to have happend in the first place and above that, the result cant be forseen or predicted even by the Smart Guys beacause it`s a premiere.
@cdzrherntphpqjwetxeq I don't think the distinction you're drawing is relevant. Scientists investigate and organize aspects of the physical world. In the case of physicists and mathematicians, the aspect of the physical world under investigation is the set of physical laws governing matter and energy or the logical truths before which the physical world stands in submission. Physics is quite definitely a science.
I wish I was 1/100th as intelligent as Witten
XD exactly my thought
(5:40) Feel extra-dimensions? I cannot visualize extra-dimensions... Just look at themselves! The Strong Principle of Equivalence states a connection of Life and Extra-dimensions, doesn't it?
agreed :D
She just received too much information for the moment, don´t blame her, no person that is not inmersed into the particle physics field would be able to understand every single word that Eddie´s saying. Leave the debate for rational things people.
Nice
nah it was 11 times one for each dimension
Or Dr. Strangelove--
"Spiffy"
So, supersimetry is far more elusive than dark matter....
Definitely, and the CERN still hasn't found any evidence for supersymmetry. So it's not ruled out, but that tends to decrease the likeliness of the theory being true. As for black holes, there's really almost no physicist that would deny their existence. There is plenty of evidence for them, because we know how masses affect each other through gravity. So, although we can't see black holes directly, we can detect them by their gravitational influence on neighboring stars. This is especially true for supermassive black holes, more mass implies a bigger gravity field. There is probably a supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy
Im sorry, but that is just plain false. A large bulk of Einsteins work regarding relativity was absolutely predicated upon intuition and mathematical consistency when, at the time he was formulating these theories, there were no observations to have led to their postulations. His notion of curved space was based upon no observation, it was motivated by intuition and mathematical consistency, it was only later verified (during the solar eclipse of 1919).
Witten looking funny
Bitch ownage starting at 0:44
Dumbest questions to smartest guy in the world
lmao, yea was thinking the same thing. She is way too enthusiastic.
@ballersack then 2=4 , which means that 1=4 so the idea isnt logically consistent
he seems a bit akward lol almost most like hes flirting but hes talking about the lhc and physics :P
man this guy is so hard to talk to. . .
@transfoby Trolls are hard to impress not even M-theory would impress a troll thats whats amazing, the objective of his experiment is on the video , if you dont understand it yet go troll on some other videos which match your IQ levels.
The objective is exploration and discovery is it not obvious enough.
6:50
ok, the interviewer doesn't know a thing about physics, would it be so hard to get someone who has actually studied physics to do the interview, so (s)he can ask i duno "realevant" and "usefull" questions... she is like isn't it exciting?! what the hell is that?
@akalchev Umm no
@madzane94 hahaaaahha. oh that made my day, very good joke
go M
hehe, what an awkward interview
he seems like he cud read a kids story and kids wud pay attention...
she's so confused :)
And so are you!
haha that girl doesn't seem very interested
@MrDiamondcut
ed witten could beat up your god.
Guys, his research program has been a failure, and the ideas are not that good. Stop the hero worship about things you don't understand.
Man you haven't got a clue...
Take out your Bible and pray
@@Franciscasieri On the contrary Fest, I am one of maybe 3 people in the world who know exactly what the Dirac equation really means, and what the 5 gamma matrices really are. My critique of mainstream US physics (that they charged into ridiculous high dimensions because Witten told them to) is exactly accurate. Instead they should have studied what it really means to have ONE "compactified" dimension. You can read Peter Woit on the excess and hubris of string theory . His critique becomes more accurate every year. More later, superbowl-dude-man....
@@adamkadmon6339 Peter Woit, oh dear is that the best you can do.
"Maybe 3 people understand the Dirac equation on the planet?"
I take that list is Witten, you and who else?
Are you Brian Green, Sir Roget Penrose, Sabine Hossenfilder, Eric Weinstein, you smarter than Musk?
Or are you a nobody with an ego the size of the sun?
Just because we don't have the tools to prove M_Theory extra dimensions doesn't mean they do not exist.
Almost all of Einstein's work was theoretical until proven at much later dates.
"Wittens research has been a failure". Well lets take a look at the list of awards Ed has received on wikipedia and compare them to Woit's or even yours, or anyone else's award list on the planet.
damn learn proper english
their crashing protons not photons ...
I would assume he's an atheist. He seems very comfortable in the purely logic realm, so there's probably no drive in him, for "spiritual science" a là Einstein.
this woman has literally no idea of what he is talking about
seems like he can't make good analogies, he just recites physics back to the reporter thinking people know physics jargon...
He is no Physics-popularizer or mass-communicator. He can't feel advanced Physics is alien to general people.
terrence tao owns this guy at math :)
Why are there so many 'intelligent' people here, making even smarter value judgements regarding the interviewer? Stupid thoughts occupy stupid minds.
Chris Langan is smarter than this guy.
Lol. Chris Langan is a fraud who has been debunked on Quora already. Don't you know that he had lied about his IQ?
Ed don't laugh at people scared of black holes. It's not cool!