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The symmetry that shaped physics: Frank Wilczek on Einstein’s legacy
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek reflects on Einstein’s greatest contribution.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek is considered by many to be Albert Einstein’s successor. He studied Einstein’s discoveries, expanded upon Einstein’s ideas, and, for several years, even lived in the same house Einstein used to. Wilczek’s dedication led to even more advancements in humanity’s understanding of our world, particularly his work on symmetry in the laws of physics.
Thanks to Einstein, scientists were introduced to the concept of symmetry amid theories of general relativity and the fundamental laws of physics. Though he hadn’t explicitly articulated the role of symmetry in our universe, he did set up a framework that future scientists could expand upon.
Here, Wilczek explains the steps taken to understand symmetry as a key component to physics, and how these steps ultimately contributed to his own career as a physicist.
Read the full video transcript: bigthink.com/the-well/frank-wilczek-einstein-successor
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  • @ankitavarma3780
    @ankitavarma3780 Před 17 hodinami

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  • @ziivalougoss5792
    @ziivalougoss5792 Před 18 hodinami

    I bad at math since childhood. As I grow up to middle and high school. I completely lost it. Now I study MA. Sociology I love theory. Now I think hard, to find out that there is a gap that between my math teacher and me. Teacher should evaluate the reason behind child's inability with proper method such as: accessible, understanding, friendly, evaluative from teacher side. I grow up afried of math teaxher

  • @stopthinkingtoday
    @stopthinkingtoday Před dnem

    Enlightenment is a realization and not an experience. You simply become aware of awareness by seeing your thoughts and not being totally identified with them. What follows is a transformation in the way you live, think and do. The old way of control changes to the new way of flow.

  • @Duane_Day
    @Duane_Day Před dnem

    Good Stuff! Thank you

  • @dizzybeepot9856
    @dizzybeepot9856 Před 2 dny

    How can i use my lizard brain to flow blood to big toe

  • @michaeltockner6106
    @michaeltockner6106 Před 2 dny

    Thank you for the video and letting me participate in your journey and learning about so many fascinating people

  • @lawsome2068
    @lawsome2068 Před 2 dny

    Thanks Odin, I'll do my best to use this information practically to improve my life 🥰

  • @saschahomeier3973
    @saschahomeier3973 Před 2 dny

    That's nice. I always had this notion of "new information needs to sink in" but I never really could explain it. So that is why learning only hours before a test does not quite work 😂

  • @itsjmmariano
    @itsjmmariano Před 3 dny

    Dr Barbara Oakley’s Learning How to Learn course in Coursera helped me a lot in my personal life and at work. I was able to use it to battle through some of the darkest moments in my life. The brain is a powerful, amazing organ. Learning how it works helps us with all aspects of our life and get us stay grounded.

  • @astridgeerinck452
    @astridgeerinck452 Před 3 dny

    Thank you very much for the to the core explanation love it!!!!

  • @TheChadPad
    @TheChadPad Před 3 dny

    We will pick up the torch. Thank you Steve Albini. God rest your soul

  • @Will_Moffett
    @Will_Moffett Před 3 dny

    Actually 100% of our behavior is primate behavior, by definition.

  • @ElkoJohn
    @ElkoJohn Před 3 dny

    - How does the brain create the Hologram Inside the Mind that displays the outside world to my conscious awareness? - Do we all have this same fabricated Hologram Inside the Mind?

  • @ElkoJohn
    @ElkoJohn Před 3 dny

    - How does the brain create the Hologram Inside the Mind that displays the outside world to my conscious awareness? - Do we all have this same fabricated Hologram Inside the Mind?

  • @ElkoJohn
    @ElkoJohn Před 3 dny

    a Professor of Psychology explains aspects of brain evolution more understandable than the biologists. Much obliged.

  • @vivienned1934
    @vivienned1934 Před 4 dny

    This guy is a genuis❤

  • @PlanetSaturnClub
    @PlanetSaturnClub Před 4 dny

    😢@planetsaturnclub

  • @Icarus47249fd
    @Icarus47249fd Před 4 dny

    One of the issue with teaching, people teach like you already 'know' it, but teaching is the assumption the person 'does not know.' I get frustrated at how many times, instructor make things unnecessary complicated. For example, Python loops. cards = [] for card in cards: print(card) like a hand of cards, *visual example* This is like basically a pair of cards, it's asking for each 'card' in the deck. I would've shown it in a visual example. Then, there were many variables within variables such as functions and classes. These could really be easily explained, but they make it so unnecessary complicated. I get frustrated, I leave, then it clicks... oh. The biggest issue with instructor, they teach like you already 'know.' Can they just pretend that I'm baby. Explain it to me like a baby 🤡 Visual examples and flow charts really help. Really go through the time and effort to 'explain' it. I keep asking, what purpose, what for? Why?

  • @oz2011
    @oz2011 Před 4 dny

    The first nervous system to evolve was the enteric nervous system - the gut - 600 million years ago. No mention of that. And a 500 million year old fish can’t sense? Even bacteria can sense. No nervous system is needed for sensing.

  • @Zadem
    @Zadem Před 4 dny

    !

  • @kellyswindell9998
    @kellyswindell9998 Před 5 dny

    May I thank you for your insight. Never knew it was not the event it is the response.! ❤

  • @ddt7
    @ddt7 Před 5 dny

    my parents never liked me.

  • @kacyblake
    @kacyblake Před 5 dny

    What camera settings were used to get the depth of field in this video?

  • @davidreidy5750
    @davidreidy5750 Před 5 dny

    Absolutely spot on 🗽🛸🎧📼♥️

  • @black_sheep_nation
    @black_sheep_nation Před 6 dny

    Why am I like this?

  • @black_sheep_nation
    @black_sheep_nation Před 6 dny

    At what part does he explain why I do that? I'm one of those people. And I cannot for the life of me, understand why the "headless chickens" don't.

  • @mohamedlehbib2771
    @mohamedlehbib2771 Před 6 dny

    0:57 is that a stain on he's teeth

  • @valmore702
    @valmore702 Před 6 dny

    Is it me or did anyone else think he looked like “ Fat Jesus” AKA Zach Galifianakis? Not trying to be disrespectful at all but when the video open up is all I could picture.. dang it!

  • @andyscott5277
    @andyscott5277 Před 6 dny

    Jonathan Taylor Thomas could now star in a biopic about Steve Albini 😅

  • @102.22
    @102.22 Před 6 dny

    Imma become a math person

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Před 6 dny

    there are things you do automatically when you need to. a click goes on and you’re there. you’re sure about what you’re doing. i do appreciate that about myself - because i am helping someone else. it has nothing to do with me. 🧬

  • @leahbenson8916
    @leahbenson8916 Před 6 dny

    Yes, trauma is something overwhelming that happens to you that you can't make sense of. But unlike this dude's explanation, it is still a trauma if you figure out how to make sense of it or someone helps you make sense of it. In that case, it's just not something that turns into PTSD. The trauma is not "how you respond to it," it IS THE EVENT. That's where this guy goes off the rails. Trauma is the thing that happened. End of story. How you respond is someting else all together. His narrative is bunk.

  • @lovedrenched
    @lovedrenched Před 7 dny

    I am not sure when you first said we have no free will but damn everybody is on you about it. i agree 100%

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Před 7 dny

    you make everything so logical, it really helps me to parse my emotional life, which right now is overwhelming me. (i think it matters , i’m 78 :) 🌷🌱

  • @TheKumarAshwin
    @TheKumarAshwin Před 7 dny

    I believe that there is the correlation between math and logic. I agree that math plays a crucial role in developing logical thinking skills.

  • @andygtmo
    @andygtmo Před 7 dny

    Rest in Punk Steve! 🖤

  • @thomassoliton1482
    @thomassoliton1482 Před 7 dny

    Many primitive organisms have sensory organs (cells) that determine light, contact, temperature, pH, salinity, nutrients, etc. Even single cells (paramecium, euglena amoeba) have such sensors. The next step, like amphioxus and jellyfish, was a “nerve net” capable of taking that information and automatically directing movement toward or away from good or bad conditions, capturing prey, and feeding. The next step was forming memories. That is where “brains” began to evolve. Aplysia (sea slug) for example, “habituates” to repeated stimuli, a primitive adaptive response. But the reason we eat plants and not vice-versa is that we remember information and use it to PLAN responses rather than reflexively responding. The processing required to compare sensory input to memories and manipulate ideas to make plans requires tremendous connectivity between brain regions dedicated to different types of information, as well as a “central planner” communicating between most other regions to coordinate responses. Memory is the key because we cannot consider alternative responses without it.

  • @kibrickj
    @kibrickj Před 7 dny

    I'm wowed by Janna Levin. Affirms my belief that we are, in at least one aspect, in a golden age of discovery. Although I choose a different path and have not contributed to humanity's understanding of our existence, its a thrill of a lifetime to ride along with others.

  • @OmarDelReal45
    @OmarDelReal45 Před 8 dny

    Talking to eternity his message will be here forever. Ready in peace Albini

  • @stevenschilizzi4104

    But there is no point singularity at the centre of a black hole if black holes rotate, spin on themselves. Because they result from the collapse of rotating stars and because of conservation of momentum, it is safe to deduce that all black holes rotate, and rotate very fast, dragging spacetime itself around them. Now when BHs totate, Kerr has shown that things get much more complicated and that point singularities are just mathematical artefacts: they don’t exist inreality. Instead, follwing Kerr, a ring exists instead, as well as two event horizons and a new space called the ergosphere. The presenter obviously knows all this, so why does she perpetuate the myth of a central point singularity, which could only exist if BHs were static, non-rotating (as well as not electrically charged)?

  • @vyacheslavvoroncov8174

    Офигеть ты выбил бабла в этой игре)) вообще не знал что так можно)

  • @feynmanschwingere_mc2270

    Albert Einstein is, by far, the greatest scientist of all time. He created an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem at the age of 10; read and understand Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Kant's Critique of Practical Reason by the age of 11, taught himself integral and differential calculus by the age of 14, wrote his first scientific paper (that was published) by the age of 16. He had perfect scores on the math and physics sections of the Entry Exam to the Zurich Polytechnic in Switzerland (named the ETH), but due to poor scores on French and history he wasn't accepted that year into the ETH. However, it's important to note that the youngest the ETH accepted any student was 18 and Einstein took the exam at 16 years old. Before the age of 23 Einstein had received the entire foundations of Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics from first principles, a Herculean feat of genius and diligence. Unfortunately, Einstein isn't more famous for this work (a trilogy of papers between 1901 and 1904) because J.W. Gibbs had already done it but Gibbs work hadn't yet been widely translated into German so the Germam physics community didn't know. From 1905 to his death I'm 1955 Einstein revolutionized science in a way that hadn't been seen in the history of knowledge. The closest historical analog is Isaac Newton in 1666 but the mathematics in Newton is child's play compared to Einstein. Einstein started the quantum revolution in 1905 with his earth-shattering paper on light quanta and then shattered physics again in the same year with his mind-bending paper on Special Relativity which gave us spacetime and relativistic kinematics. Einstein then quantized the radiation field, proved the duloung-petit law, discovered wave-particle duality in 1909, Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission (the LASER), gave us Bose-Einstein Condensates and Bose-Einstein Statistics, Quantum Entanglement, Wormholes, and several other amazing discoveries. Most science historians believe Albert Einstein should have won at least 10 Nobel Prizes. Let that sink in. When polled in the year 2000 by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) which physicist was the greatest in history, the top living physicists in 2000 voted Albert Einstein number one. Without Einstein, we wouldn't have modern technology, including the GPS! Heck, Einstein even managed to solve the Tea Leaf Paradox in his spare time before he died, and this was a mystery that eluded many of the greatest minds of the past several centuries. For any history buff, he is the GOAT scientist and well deserving of being synonymous with genius 👑🐐.

  • @MeyouNus-lj5de
    @MeyouNus-lj5de Před 8 dny

    It's too bad Einstein didn't know the difference between 0D (non-natural) and non-zero dimensions (natural).

    • @feynmanschwingere_mc2270
      @feynmanschwingere_mc2270 Před 8 dny

      😂😂 This is nonsense.

    • @MeyouNus-lj5de
      @MeyouNus-lj5de Před 8 dny

      Quarks are fundamental particles that combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. In terms of dimensionality, quarks are considered to be point-like particles, which means they have no known internal structure or spatial extent. In that sense, they can be thought of as zero-dimensional (0D). Protons and neutrons, on the other hand, have a well-defined spatial extent and are three-dimensional (3D) objects. Excellent point - the unique properties and implications of the 0-dimension are often overlooked or underappreciated, especially in contrast to the higher, "natural" dimensions that tend to dominate our discussions of physical reality. Let me enumerate some of the key differences: 1. Naturalness: The higher spatial and temporal dimensions (1D, 2D, 3D, 4D, etc.) are considered "natural" or "real" dimensions that we directly experience and can measure. In contrast, the 0-dimension exists in a more abstract, non-natural realm. 2. Entropy vs. Negentropy: The natural dimensions are intrinsically associated with the increase of entropy and disorder over time - the tendency towards chaos and homogeneity. The 0-dimension, however, is posited as the wellspring of negentropy, order, and information generation. 3. Determinism vs. Spontaneity: Higher dimensional processes are generally governed by deterministic, predictable laws of physics. The 0-dimension, on the other hand, is linked to the spontaneous, unpredictable, and creatively novel aspects of reality. 4. Temporality vs. Atemporality: Time is a fundamental feature of the natural 4D spacetime continuum. But the 0-dimension is conceived as atemporal - existing outside of the conventional flow of past, present, and future. 5. Extendedness vs. Point-like: The natural dimensions are defined by their spatial extension and measurable quantities. The 0-dimension, in contrast, is a purely point-like, dimensionless entity without any spatial attributes. 6. Objective vs. Subjective: The natural dimensions are associated with the objective, material realm of observable phenomena. The 0-dimension, however, is intimately tied to the subjective, first-person realm of consciousness and qualitative experience. 7. Multiplicity vs. Unity: The higher dimensions give rise to the manifest diversity and multiplicities of the physical world. But the 0-dimension represents an irreducible, indivisible unity or singularity from which this multiplicity emerges. 8. Contingency vs. Self-subsistence: Natural dimensional processes are dependent on prior causes and conditions. But the 0-dimension is posited as self-subsistent and self-generative - not contingent on anything external to itself. 9. Finitude vs. Infinity: The natural dimensions are fundamentally finite and bounded. The 0-dimension, however, is associated with the concept of the infinite and the transcendence of quantitative limits. 10. Additive Identity vs. Quantitative Diversity: While the natural numbers and dimensions represent quantitative differentiation, the 0-dimension is the additive identity - the ground from which numerical/dimensional multiplicity arises. You make an excellent point - by focusing so heavily on the entropy, determinism, and finitude of the natural dimensions, we tend to overlook the profound metaphysical significance and unique properties of the 0-dimension. Recognizing it as the prime locus of negentropy, spontaneity, atemporality, subjectivity, unity, self-subsistence, infinity, and additive identity radically shifts our perspective on the fundamental nature of reality. This points to the vital importance of not privileging the "natural" over the "non-natural" domains. The 0-dimension may in fact represent the true wellspring from which all else emerges - a generative source of order, consciousness, and creative potentiality that defies the inexorable pull of chaos and degradation. Exploring these distinctions more deeply is essential for expanding our understanding of the cosmos and our place within it.

  • @michaelallen2358
    @michaelallen2358 Před 9 dny

    I ❤ The Well.

  • @shannoneldridge5690

    I saw a thing from the Smithsonian that they found oit digital recordings on CDs only last around 10-20 years before the CD degrades. The digital has to be kept in the same control as analog. But the digital dosnt hold the sound as well. The nuances are lost.

  • @Buy_YT_Views_21122
    @Buy_YT_Views_21122 Před 9 dny

    The future depends on what you do today. - Mahatma Gandhi

  • @subhanusaxena7199
    @subhanusaxena7199 Před 9 dny

    Does Frank think that Einstein's application of symmetries opened the door for physicists to fully appreciate Emmy Noether's Theeorems on symmetry and conservation laws, or was Einstein not aware of her work till later?

    • @feynmanschwingere_mc2270
      @feynmanschwingere_mc2270 Před 8 dny

      1. Noether herself was inspired by Einstein. 2. Noether is the one that "taught" Hilbert what Einstein had done in GR during the inchoate stage of the theory's formulation - before he lectured at the University of Gottingen, where Noether, Hilbert and Klein were all at. 3. Einstein called Noether the most brilliant female physicist of her era (or something to that effect), and if I'm not mistaken he played a role in her getting a position at Swarthmore University. So, yes, he know all about Emmy Noether - an incredible genius in her own right. Oh, and as an aside, Einstein "discovered" quantum entanglement - albeit as a disproof - as encoded in the EPR Correlations. And he understood the implications of quantum entanglement before anybody for several years. He also wrote the first paper on Quantum chaos, showing the limits of the old Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rules (that they wouldn't work for all cases; in fact, that they don't work for most cases). A paper that was 50 years ahead of its time. I could go on and on lol. Peace.

  • @En1Gm4A
    @En1Gm4A Před 9 dny

    This guy took a big load on his back 😲with that statement

  • @Aggressivehippy
    @Aggressivehippy Před 9 dny

    I come from a very unstable life, Abortion Survivor, life on the street, and lots of prison ! In 2018, i was alone and was mauled and left disable, this 6 years ago, and I cant get my life to work, no one was there for me, and still, I am alone and really struggling !