Steven Weinberg and the Quest to Explain the World

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  • @maxwellsequation4887
    @maxwellsequation4887 3 роки тому +91

    RIP Sir Steven Weinberg. We are grateful for your work.

  • @MrBendybruce
    @MrBendybruce 3 роки тому +90

    I can't say how much I appreciate you making this tribute to Steven. I struggle to find the right word, but I think "unsettling" is as close as I can get, that the passing of such a giant of the scientific community garners so little attention by the wider public. It says something about our society I don't much like, but the WSF is one of the key movements in trying to address that.

    • @gadzooks12
      @gadzooks12 3 роки тому +4

      Well said!

    • @TshaajThomas
      @TshaajThomas 3 роки тому

      It doesn't bother the religious sector. Mr. Weinberg most likely failed to protect his soul.

    • @cityman1111
      @cityman1111 3 роки тому +4

      @@TshaajThomas Having imaginary friends goes against sanity.

    • @TshaajThomas
      @TshaajThomas 3 роки тому +2

      @@cityman1111 LOL...
      I say the other way around.

    • @AllSun369
      @AllSun369 3 роки тому

      I'd very much like to know if you guys are interested in speaking about my high temperature quantumly entangled superconductors?

  • @markmitchell6179
    @markmitchell6179 3 роки тому +12

    Much thanks to Brian Greene and John Preskill for pulling together this extraordinary tribute to the great Steven Weinberg. It was in equal parts moving and informative.

  • @Goldslate73
    @Goldslate73 3 роки тому +16

    He'll be celebrated forever. An eternal gem. Thank you for everything, professor.

  • @TheEeshan
    @TheEeshan 3 роки тому +22

    The last few minutes brought tears to my eyes. A beautiful tribute to a beautiful man.

  • @The22on
    @The22on 3 роки тому +3

    wow. just wow. The last 2 or 3 minutes are the most profound and beautiful thing I've heard in ages. Greene says that a collection of particles following the Standard Model formed into Steven Weinberg on whose shoulders we now stand so we can see farther. That is the ultimate tribute to any person, in my opinion.
    I love how Weinberg, giving his final summation of the pointlessness of life, closes his eyes while he speaks. It's like his heart is pouring out with a desperate wish to get the words exactly right. He wants to clearly convey the philosphy he's been developing all his life and tell it to us.
    wow. just wow.

  • @jiggarpatel6760
    @jiggarpatel6760 3 роки тому +15

    RIP Weinberg, Thank You Brian for the insight into his work!

  • @GaneshGunaji
    @GaneshGunaji 3 роки тому +12

    He has been an inspiration to me for many years in my studies. I will miss listening to his talks. He was a true giant in science. Great man and scientific legend.

  • @davidhoracek6758
    @davidhoracek6758 Рік тому +1

    I was always deeply inspired by Steven Weinberg, but what most impressed me in this video it was the obvious intellectual clarity and insightfulness of Dr. John Preskill. What a well-chosen guest!

  • @starlettetwinkles6933
    @starlettetwinkles6933 3 роки тому +6

    RIP Steven Weinberg. You gave us so much insight into physics. Your legacy will always live on. Thank you for everything.

  • @OceanAir815
    @OceanAir815 3 роки тому +9

    As someone who only now is coming back to science by randomly coming across Brian’s “Space, Time, and Einstein” six months or so ago as a 32 year old I am very interested to learn more about how Steven Weinberg has been influential. Thanks for doing this from Cherry Hill, NJ.

  • @Lorenzano
    @Lorenzano 3 роки тому +2

    Im electrical engineer and I started for a few two years ago, and read about the Physics , relativity, and here I´m with two big bosses because Brian Greene inspired me too much about this beatiful topic, Who we are, Where incoming all this materail, expansion universe, quantum mechanic, string etc etc etc. Thanks a lot Mr. Brian!

  • @RobVollat
    @RobVollat 2 роки тому +2

    Shoutout to the graphic design team and the entire team who worked on this videos production. It's beautiful.

  • @giovannapatriciamoscoso7150
    @giovannapatriciamoscoso7150 3 роки тому +13

    What a great way to say goodbye to an amazing person and scientist.

  • @JimGobetz
    @JimGobetz 3 роки тому +6

    Wonderful tribute to a man who deserves wonderful tribute.

  • @alanpotts3297
    @alanpotts3297 3 роки тому +1

    Professor Green: this is a great service to the memory of Steven Weinberg.
    Steven has been my hero and driving force for the last 40 years.
    A Jewish genius, like Einstein. May be a connection.
    Electroweak unification was brilliant. It may not be correct as time progresses. But the road to Unity may be a false mirage.
    Stevens's books on Cosmology and QM are masterful.
    But...what inspired me as a 17 year old boy was 'The First Three Minutes'.
    The 1st 3 mins changed my world.
    Steven was a genius of communication (like you Brian!)
    But the best of the best!

    • @alanpotts3297
      @alanpotts3297 3 роки тому

      BTW...only just discovered of his death. I cried for the first time in maybe 50 years.
      My hero is gone.

    • @alanpotts3297
      @alanpotts3297 3 роки тому

      At least Leonardo is immortal . . .

  • @RobertSmith-pw9io
    @RobertSmith-pw9io 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you Professor Greene, Greatly for this testimonial of Steven Weinberg. He would have enjoyed the Honor and Respect that you showed how much he was valued by Science.. Again Thank you, I feel you will pick up the baton and continue this relay to understanding..

  • @tomneedham1937
    @tomneedham1937 3 роки тому +6

    Richard Dawkins: “You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick, Weinberg and their colleagues."

  • @KP_Oz
    @KP_Oz 2 роки тому +1

    Enlightening, so well prepared, articulate, well structured, and honest reflection. Love Brian's style. Well done again!

  • @rwgeorgetube
    @rwgeorgetube 3 роки тому +1

    This video is a truly meaningful tribute that could have only come from unconditional love. So happy I got to see it.

  • @cirusrome4086
    @cirusrome4086 2 роки тому +1

    Very insightful, enjoyable and humbling. Thanks for sharing.

  • @walkingandroid1389
    @walkingandroid1389 3 роки тому

    Thank you Brian, John, and all the WSF and benefactors. As a former physics student, Steven Weinberg was a hero and your tribute is really heart warming. We send our warmest thoughts to his family and friends.

  • @crescentejr2006
    @crescentejr2006 3 роки тому +1

    Brian Green is very poetic indeed, that I shed tears.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 3 роки тому +70

    I'm an atheist... but a part of me hopes he's in a place where he finally knows all the answers he's ever asked.

    • @svenbertilsson6172
      @svenbertilsson6172 3 роки тому +2

      Then you need to wake up, you are your soul your body is just a vehicle. Do you think matter can move without a driver? A car does´nt!

    • @blackholedividedbyzero
      @blackholedividedbyzero 3 роки тому +9

      @@svenbertilsson6172 I'm not trying to make fun of you but how about self driving cars?

    • @poeutpoch9496
      @poeutpoch9496 3 роки тому

      SW is the heart and soul of a scientist. We know..

    • @tomsmith4542
      @tomsmith4542 3 роки тому

      no there is not

    • @tomsmith4542
      @tomsmith4542 3 роки тому

      @@svenbertilsson6172 many cars are driverless

  • @shaneculkin7124
    @shaneculkin7124 3 роки тому +1

    This was very, very sweet. I enjoyed this very much!!!!
    Thank you for making this.
    We ALL lost an important man.

  • @JustAManifold
    @JustAManifold Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this masterpiece Brian

  • @ideliversoftontario4976
    @ideliversoftontario4976 3 роки тому +4

    A great man, so sorry to hear the news. Condolences to the family.

  • @kagannasuhbeyoglu
    @kagannasuhbeyoglu 3 роки тому +2

    We sent a giant physicist. I bow respectfully before you...
    Thanks a lot for this content Mr. Brian Greene.

  • @mamaseeds
    @mamaseeds 3 роки тому +1

    Colour theory showed us the connection between physics and chemistry, we stayed with it even though some said they were 'different'.
    Thank you for the firm laws Steven Weinberg!

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 3 роки тому

    It is so enjoyable to listen to people who can express themselves in an erudite manner. If we have to go to news sites for some information about current events, it is so annoying to have to listen to all those semi-literate journalists and commentators bloviating.

  • @das250250
    @das250250 2 роки тому +1

    That was a lovely tribute and another giant rests and becomes the shoulders we will rest upon .

  • @NONDUALITYtheopenway
    @NONDUALITYtheopenway 3 роки тому +2

    I got to see him in an intimate setting when he spoke in a classroom when I attended University of Maryland in the early 80's. It was amongst my early glimpses of what exists beyond what this appears to be.

    • @someone1059
      @someone1059 3 роки тому

      wow you were so lucky mr corey I wish I could also interact with such intellectual giants one day

  • @rhmcvay
    @rhmcvay 3 роки тому +3

    Brilliant. Thank you professor Greene.

  • @jayeshunde1481
    @jayeshunde1481 3 роки тому +1

    RIP. Steven Weinberg. 😭. He really inspired me to do more and more Physics.

  • @NaudRuun
    @NaudRuun 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for this wonderful video, journey into one of the most fascinating minds of our time

  • @gazsibb
    @gazsibb 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you all. Makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Such a privilege to be alive to hear and read his work.

  • @shaneculkin7124
    @shaneculkin7124 3 роки тому +1

    Bless you Mr. Weinberg. We needed you sir !!!

  • @Random_qubit
    @Random_qubit 3 роки тому +2

    Rest Easy Professor Weinberg , one of the great thinkers of the last 100 yrs

  • @thorntontarr2894
    @thorntontarr2894 3 роки тому

    What a wonderful and fascinating view of Professor Weinberg presented by Dr. Greene. Profound ending lines about 'pointlessness' .

  • @SChinmay
    @SChinmay 3 роки тому +2

    A great biography of a great scientist. Thank you Dr. Greene.

  • @sachinb9228
    @sachinb9228 3 роки тому +1

    RIP Sir Steven Weinberg for your great contribution to physics.

  • @narasimhasithurea2271
    @narasimhasithurea2271 3 роки тому

    Meaningful tribute to great the Steven Weinberg. RIP 😪

  • @sulekhasreenivas3279
    @sulekhasreenivas3279 3 роки тому +6

    He will still through his scientific discoveries and his books.

  • @RunFast64
    @RunFast64 3 роки тому +1

    How do you extrapolate from the development of the Standard Model and GR to understanding the underlying reality of everything, the origin of the Universe and infinity, and the meaning of life? Last I checked our understanding ends abruptly at the limits of the superficial models we use to help us understand reality.

  • @equalat
    @equalat 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks Brian, wonderful bio. As for the solution to a unified field, the truth is more simple or fundamental than thought.
    Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I’ll meet you there.
    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about. Rumi
    =

  • @mehdibaghbadran3182
    @mehdibaghbadran3182 3 роки тому

    Weather we liked or not , as long as we’re alive and the life’s is continues, we’ll need to go forward, and support each other’s, and let’s, smart minds showing themselves.

  • @brainpain5260
    @brainpain5260 3 роки тому

    Gone but not forgotten. Steven you were a scientists scientist.

  • @CHIRAGnagar007
    @CHIRAGnagar007 3 роки тому +2

    Love and respect from 🇮🇳🇮🇳INDIA❤

  • @mehdibaghbadran3182
    @mehdibaghbadran3182 3 роки тому

    The minds is the only things , which nobody cannot, takes it away from you , that’s why we should be ourselves, and expanding our own minds to the world, and this keeps justice stable.

  • @keithdow8327
    @keithdow8327 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks! This is a fantastic presentation!

  • @explainingphysicsandmathematic
    @explainingphysicsandmathematic 3 роки тому +3

    RIP Steven Weinberg...😔

  • @StaticBlaster
    @StaticBlaster 3 роки тому

    I periodically have looked at his Wikipedia page. The last time I looked at it was at least a month ago. And I legit just finished re-watching the Brian Green Fabric of the Cosmos documentary and then came here and discovered the sad news. Very sad! RIP to the legendary man, Professor Weinberg!!!!

  • @skepticsapiens4149
    @skepticsapiens4149 3 роки тому +2

    I am currently reading fabric of the cosmos.

  • @jonathanpope81
    @jonathanpope81 3 роки тому +1

    THANK YOU.GOD IS IN US ALL !

  • @nowhereman8374
    @nowhereman8374 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks Brian, Par Excellence!!!

  • @tomsmith4542
    @tomsmith4542 3 роки тому +1

    Rip to the GOAT of Electroweak understanding !!

  • @rishavagrawal6347
    @rishavagrawal6347 3 роки тому +1

    The bliss of unveiling the work of God is unparallel in my opinion.

  • @sethconnor1018
    @sethconnor1018 3 роки тому

    A beautiful tribute, certainly not the end of the story.

  • @robertkarr9792
    @robertkarr9792 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent...simply Excellent !

  • @dr.hosamaneprabhakar4722
    @dr.hosamaneprabhakar4722 3 роки тому

    one of the other great giant who deserves mention but rarely mentioned is Dr. Satyendranath Bose whose paper on Bose Einstein condensation is one of seminal papers in physics laying the basic premise for the development of super conductivity which led to the great advancement in electronics and Boson talked in this video is named after him . I think that some of the greatest scientists in the world not born in US and Europe outside USSR tend to be ignored either accidentally or intentionally .The noble prize although is considered as the greatest accolade in the filed of science is not necessarily so and a lot of scientists who do not get the Nobel Prize for one reason or the other fail to be recognized. It should not be the Nobel Prize but the their work that needs to be recognized . Dr. Satyen Bose is just such an example.

  • @mehdibaghbadran3182
    @mehdibaghbadran3182 3 роки тому

    He was belongs to the old community of science , and wish him a safe journey.

  • @debbiepollard119
    @debbiepollard119 3 роки тому

    Thank you.

  • @remcovanhengst6716
    @remcovanhengst6716 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant mind.

  • @andrewross2247
    @andrewross2247 2 роки тому

    Dear Brian, if what we observe from the most distant parts of the universe is roughly the same, suggesting that our view of the universe is isotropic, how is it the we don't see the first observable event inflation in a particular location. How is it that this "moment" and potential locale is seen to surround us evenly?

  • @FlockOfHawks
    @FlockOfHawks 2 роки тому

    A Worthy Tribute to a Noble Mind

  • @robertrodneyuplinger6046
    @robertrodneyuplinger6046 3 роки тому

    I carried the same blue-bound edition.., and reveled in it. Thanks.

  • @staroshchuk
    @staroshchuk 3 роки тому

    A great video. Thanks!

  • @dr.satishsharma9794
    @dr.satishsharma9794 3 роки тому

    Excellent... thanks.

  • @hrshah8260
    @hrshah8260 3 роки тому +5

    RIP sir

  • @wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165
    @wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165 2 роки тому +1

    When he was talking about the standard model not being able to include gravity with the three fundamental forces which seem to be unified at a certain point in the early universe, I wondered about Einstein's assertion that gravity was not a force but was the result of the curvature of space. So, if gravity is not a force why are we still looking to include it with the strong, weak and EM forces? And why look for a graviton as a carrier of force? Then again, I wonder how a curved space can impart mass to an object? That seems to require a force.

    • @connyespersen3017
      @connyespersen3017 Рік тому

      Maybe you understand, why matter and particles moves i curved spacetime, but if there not was a gravitational force, what would then be the reason to why movements of natter changed and why is spacetime being curved?
      I'm asking because I think their is a force which make matter curve spacetime and vice versa make curved spacetime determ how matter should move!
      What do you think?

    • @wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165
      @wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165 Рік тому

      @@connyespersen3017 Yes, I agree that gravity is a force. I would clarify one thing that i said in my post about imparting mass to an object. That was incorrect. Objects do have mass but have no intrinsic weight. The force of gravity makes things heavy. I don't see how mere curvature could do that.

    • @connyespersen3017
      @connyespersen3017 Рік тому

      @@wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165 And the Higg's field in space are a part of what we see as inertia - but only a very small part!

  • @johnnyq4260
    @johnnyq4260 Рік тому

    4:13 Same thing happened to me, but it was the small-angle formula for the period of a simple pendulum. That was a profound personal experience. Alas, my career has been nothing like Steven's though 🙂

  • @elisabethkulbingerneebobvo7229
    @elisabethkulbingerneebobvo7229 2 роки тому +1

    Impressive

  • @mahadlodhi
    @mahadlodhi 3 роки тому +1

    Absolutely wonderfull

  • @avinashbandpatte3630
    @avinashbandpatte3630 2 роки тому +1

    How can people think physics is end
    Our main goal is why we are exists 🧐

  • @mitchkahle314
    @mitchkahle314 3 роки тому +1

    Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Feynman, Weinberg

  • @Ypres02
    @Ypres02 3 роки тому

    Truly a GIANT, as scientist and human being

  • @keithcampbell7820
    @keithcampbell7820 3 роки тому

    I just recently received my second copy of “The First Three Minutes”
    Gave my first one away.

  • @48737jdkd
    @48737jdkd 3 роки тому +1

    Sir, can you please explain how string theory describes black hole mathematically.

  • @science212
    @science212 3 роки тому

    Steven Weinberg was a great atheist and rational man. A science hero for all of us.

  • @cheyennealvis7899
    @cheyennealvis7899 3 роки тому

    The Diamond Sutra does a pretty good job of it if you're willing to give it a listen. It was a dissertation given by a Brilliant psychologist and neuroscientist to one of his senior students many many years ago. It highlights many of Donald Hoffman's current ideas only delves even deeper into the subject if you're interested.

  • @Ilham-mw7lc
    @Ilham-mw7lc 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for this amazing insight of an amazing man ❤️

    • @sofronsofroniou3023
      @sofronsofroniou3023 Рік тому

      Weinbeg, a deep scientist and a man of great humanist culture.

  • @muhidulislam5661
    @muhidulislam5661 2 роки тому

    They are the real superstars..

  • @newlander11
    @newlander11 3 роки тому

    High school student reading Steven Weinberg's books

  • @timunderwood4314
    @timunderwood4314 3 роки тому

    Powerful sermon

  • @WatchfulHunter
    @WatchfulHunter 3 роки тому

    "I don't collaborate well.' The best scientific results are obtained by working alone, able to focus without distraction. School teachers didn't think Einstein was very bright either. Why parents shouldn't let teachers hold down our genius kids.

    • @RobVollat
      @RobVollat 2 роки тому +1

      Yet he collaborated with others and was directly influenced by the works of others throughout his entire professional life. I do not believe your statement is reasonable.

  • @KirksReport
    @KirksReport 3 роки тому

    Great man. I had the pleasure of corresponding with him. I was so surprised when he wrote back. Big loss.

  • @gabrieldunn7384
    @gabrieldunn7384 Рік тому

    So many interrupting commercials 😢

  • @Anar10n
    @Anar10n 3 роки тому

    Truly one of the Titans

  • @vittoriamaria603
    @vittoriamaria603 3 роки тому

    Grazie ❣️
    THANK YOU ❣️

  • @mehdibaghbadran3182
    @mehdibaghbadran3182 3 роки тому

    The consciousness is very important, and that will be reached during your lifetime, if you won’t reach your consciousness, by the ages that you should, even if you model it is not fully understandable, not for you and not for others

  • @stephenzhao5809
    @stephenzhao5809 3 роки тому +1

    Here are the three fundamental laws (principles): Second law of thermodynamics, Natural Selection the Fittest Survival and ABCDE.

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 3 роки тому

    I'm sorry for your loss.

  • @manuelcasanova5698
    @manuelcasanova5698 2 роки тому

    ...listening.

  • @jansegal6687
    @jansegal6687 3 роки тому +1

    an uncle lend me my very first physics book 'the first three minutes"

    • @StaticBlaster
      @StaticBlaster 3 роки тому

      I've been wanting to read that book. maybe my local library has it.

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy 3 роки тому +1

    The meaning of "Steven": Crown

  • @devad8216
    @devad8216 3 роки тому +3

    Rest In peace

  • @szclimber
    @szclimber 3 роки тому

    What a beautiful man.

  • @ericsalles1424
    @ericsalles1424 3 роки тому

    R.I.P. Steven Weinberg

  • @SalesforceUSA
    @SalesforceUSA 3 роки тому

    RIP WEINBERG !

  • @sorayarosedemirakos
    @sorayarosedemirakos 3 роки тому

    He will be missed! 💔