Beauty in the Messiness (with Philip Moriarty) - Numberphile Podcast
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Experimental physicist Phil Moriarty works with temperamental microscopes and individual atoms. Today's topics include Ireland, mathematics, failing at university, microscopy, academic gripes... and music.
Professor Moriarty's university page - including links to some of his papers - www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/...
Phil's book: When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Meta - amzn.to/3rJvnjh
Some of Brady's videos with Phil - • Professor Moriarty - S...
The Golden Ratio music video - • Golden Ratio Song - Nu...
Phil's blog - muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com
Want more? Hear Phil with Brady on The Unmade Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
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With thanks to MSRI - www.msri.org
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I've been waiting so long for this. He is among my favourite personalities from UA-cam, and is the main reason for me getting into Sixty Symbols (the others are amazing too). Every time I watch his videos I wish he was teaching me physics in his amazingly enthusiastic style. Also have to thank Brady for getting under his skin and bringing the best out of Phil, for us all to enjoy
Smart man. I dropped social media completely and I've been happier for it and no less informed on the day to day. The only loss in my life was negative and that's the kind of loss I'm down for.
After all, a subtracting negative is a positive.
I was wondering for a while how that part of microscopy worked, lovely insights!
Been a fan of yours and Professor Moriarty for a looong time, but only catching up on the whole podcast side of things recently. This whole episope confirmed two things for me: You're an artisan question asker, and Philip is, to me, the perfect balance between grounded and genius. Both are qualities that are extremely valuable - especially when broadcast in such a pleasant manner.
Thanks to both of you for doing your respecitve work so exceptionally well, and sharing it with such high accessibility!
I also was not at all great at math but, loved it & science & especially programming, 1st computer a Timex / Sinclair, & favorate rock band Rush ! No wonder I always found this guy interesting.
Thank you Prof. Moriaty. Excellent Podcast and fun to listen to! :)
I've never loved math until I started the electronic engineering degree. Then I discovered what maths really were and Im now doing an Applied Math degree :)
6:12 I think Phil meant asterisks, not Asterixes - unless he coded the Flemish version ;) It was a pleasure to listen to this, and I am forever grateful to have had Phil be part of my University experience. It's not even been that long, but so much has changed since. Though now I'm working in Meteorology - so I still get to use Maths and Physics every day!
I did indeed mean asterisks -- thanks for spotting this. I'd have been overjoyed if I could have coded an Asterix character on a ZX81...
Thank you so much for the kind words. Delighted you're putting all of that maths and physics to very good use!
Philip
BRO! Rush, Kate Bush, Opeth, Metallica, Jellyfish!!?! Me and the Professor need to chat asap!!!
Fascinating discussion!
great interview
Ok, but consider this: Ghost Reveries, but it's a complete track-for-track reimagining by Kate Bush.
Ohhhhhh. That would be sublime. Thank you for that suggestion!
Philip
Great guest, great podcast, well done Brady for bringing us yet another absolute banger of an episode. This is my favorite podcast 👍
Such a wonderful podcast. Though I was expecting a Prof Moriarty joke somewhere
Would have loved to have taken physics from him. My undergrad physics professor had no passion for the subject. At least he never projected it
Cool. I remember that 1K coding era that Philip talks about, very well.. (1966 here, so about a decade older). Low on resources forces you to make efficient code. I still love the discreteness, presiceness and predictability of RISC.
Nowadays they need an MB to encode a fart, and before you hear it, some unknown amount of time has passed..
But i do like it, how much combined knowledge i can use today when making a computer program. There are libs and frameworks to download for almost anything you want to code. It's amazing how much math/algo is contained in a typical user device. In some more decades, one can download a dynamic-force lib, and atom-scan their mobility walker aid for yet unknown fingerprints. ..and that in just 137.42 GB!
woahh hes a rush fan. nothing less for moriarty
Nice to hear someone with an experience similar mine... except you must have been better at math than I was. I couldn't make it through intermediate.mechanics and had to switch majors. My study partner was a little better than I was and decided to stick it out. He got his masters, but the PhD was beyond his skill.
the vertical bars are too much visual chaos
Apply your handy dandy fouier transforms and separate the frequencies. It will be much less chaotic for you.
You can definitely hear the geordie underneath the brogue...
14:00 I'm going to take wild guess that he's talking about String Theory. Sabine Hossenfelder goes into detail about this in "Lost in Math" which imo is a very important book because it argues, I'd say clearly and convincingly, that a significant number of very highly regarded and highly rewarded scientists are no longer doing science.
(Historical analogy: The idea that the orbits of the planets were related by Platonic solids because that would be beautiful.)
The whole field suffers from it, although string theory is the most blatant offender. We've essentially plateaued and are struggling to find new threads to tug on to find new math and new physics.
Brady, you forgot to ask him about entropy!
I miss chatting with professor Moriarty via comments and emails. Thanks for the upload.
Great interview, just a little too short.
Sir could you please make me understand a theorem
Any prime number greater than 3 is of the form 6k+1 or 6k-1 where k is a natural number
Break it down to how (6k+n) can be factored for different values of n.
- n = 0 will always be divisible by 6 (and other factors)
- n = 2, n = 4 will always be be even, so at least divisible by 2
- n = 3 will always be divisible by 3
The 2 left over are n = 1 and n = 5 (or -1). All other values for n are multiples of either 2 or 3. Therefore all other numbers, including all prime numbers, can be written as 6k±1
@37:04 No Tool Album? This guy doesn't math music. 🤪
Tool is not a math band.. at all. Now, Meshuggah... THAT is a mathematical band. Just listen to clockworks by that band and you'll hear what I mean.
Thankyou G‘spot Research.
giggle giggle SORRY.
Thanking G Research got out of hand.
giggity giggity..
Should have asked him about Neil Peart RIP
naughtingham
I've been a Moriarty fan for (apparently) a decade, and while I never made it into science I DID end up in Ireland and let me tell yis:
His accent is easy to understand compared to half this island lmao
Hola soy español y entiendo perfectamente a moriarty, de hecho su libro a cambiado mi manera d tocar la batería, solo un problema , debería escuchar mas funk !!!
Por cierto me gustaría contactar con el, estoy preparando una charla sobre la dualidad tempo /pulso musical y creo podría interesarle !!!! Muchas gracias 😊
@@antoniodiaz3896 Hi. This sounds really interesting. My contact details are at the university page Brady links to in the video information. Philip
Hi from the Entire Condensed Collected Stupidity of Humanity
Woo
I'm glad Phil dropped off social media because he had tapped into a pretty heinous conflict. Even for months after he stopped being a part of that, i would still see people in comments lay into him despite the video being purely about math. In the end, you just can't be that passionate about something online. There is always someone with no stakes who is willing to spend more time than you to make you upset just for the sake of it. Its an asymmetrical warfare thing. Phil's goal was to have a debate about various topics, and other people's goal was to upset Phil as much as possible.
Thank you for saying that. As you might expect, I agree completely, utterly, and entirely. I was exceptionally naive. There's a lengthy post on this available via the link under the video, entitled "Growing Up In Public". I should have copped on much sooner.
What I find particularly amusing about it all, and as I say in that post:
"Similarly, what I have always found striking throughout my time online is that those who claim vociferously to be solely driven by reason, logic, science, rational debate, and/or individualism - aka the F Your Feelings (FYF) brigade - are often among the most hypersensitive, overwrought, tribal, and emotionally driven out there. The type of over-emotional response that the FYF tribe attribute to the big, bad bogeyman of “The Left” is equally, and often more, prevalent within their own ranks. (There are key parallels here with the deeply intolerant patriotic correctness of the right.)"
(Expletive deleted to make it through the YT filter. Hopefully.)
Thanks again for your comment. I appreciate it.
Philip
I would add that a lot of people get money and notoriety from drama. Whether or not they initially intend for their to be drama, their criticism or comments (not all the criticism is fair or unfair, in my view) would tend toward dramatic and hyperbolic and then the conversation goes nowhere with people flinging insults about each other and being presumptive. I've seen it from "both camps" (to simplify things a bit).
On the other hand, some people become a bit pompous because of their expertise (or perceived expertise) and if someone makes an argument of some sort publicly, then it is a natural reaction (although not the most logical) to rush to defend one's ideas rather than to clearly understand the opposition and honestly engage.
That all might sound a bit vague but I'm not trying to point any fingers and most of this drama is about 4 years removed at this point.
@@ThePharphis Fair points. I say much the same thing in the blog post to which I refer in my previous reply.
All the best,
Philip
Disappointed this was not recorded "at the falls". /joke
how owuld i improve any lecture module? make the lecturer MORE irish. that student doesnt know what theyre talking about
Moriarty please call me 🙏
Waeaves
Being popular in twitter isn't very nice
so... when is hello internet gonna return??
Jellyfish! That was unexpected
Eyyy! My jaw dropped when he named them!