The Joy of Science (Jim Al-Khalili)
Vložit
- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- The Michael Shermer Show # 261
In this conversation with quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help us all get the most out of our lives.
Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. In this brief guide to leading a more rational life, acclaimed physicist Jim Al-Khalili invites readers to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do. The scientific method has served humankind well in its quest to see things as they really are, and underpinning the scientific method are core principles that can help us all navigate modern life more confidently. Discussing the nature of truth and uncertainty, the role of doubt, the pros and cons of simplification, the value of guarding against bias, the importance of evidence-based thinking, and more, Al-Khalili shows how the powerful ideas at the heart of the scientific method are deeply relevant to the complicated times we live in and the difficult choices we make.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST
If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support by making a $5 or $10 monthly donation.
www.skeptic.com/donate/
#michaelshermer
#skeptic
Listen to The Michael Shermer Show via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.
www.skeptic.com/michael-sherm... - Věda a technologie
Jim’s content on CZcams is second to none. He explains complex science in layman terms. A gr8 guest!!!
great podcast, love Jim :)
My problem with Jim is he doesn't have more content to watch!! 😅 When I first moved to London, remember discovering his atom series and watching in the tiny room I was renting, been loving his shows, talks and interviews ever since.
Love this episode! I would love a talk with Mr. Jim and Neil DeGrasse Tyson too 8O
So good. Could have been 2x longer.
Saved the YT of Professor Jim with Brian Cox.
Loved this talk.
i love the doc with my anscestor order and disorder documentry! love you Jim
No one better than explaining physics than Jim. This deservers 9 million views. Check out his other books and online videos, and documentaries. He really is a first class educator. You Americans must check out his works!!!
Absolutely brilliant!!!
Long live Quantum Biology!
Só one CAN in principal be a good Muslim and a good Scientist!
Excellent conversation!!
Having a religion or not is not indicator of a good person. He is an atheist and a humanist by the way.
@Jimmy Jasi He said before that he’s an atheist.
love it!
Excellent what Al Khaini said about Bayesian being superior to Popperism!
It applies to even more speculative things:
For example Simulation Hypothesis: it cannot be falsifyed but it can become more and more probable in the Bayesian Way. The same is true about the Cosmic Inflation.
Or less probable, depending on the proper/appropriately weighted & designated phenomena,
What is the title of the essay by S.J. Gould mentioned at around 27:10?
Rupert sheldrake is legendary. Right on, Michael!!!
Hah hah, he´s (sheldrake) a f..ing joke! Where you get the idea that Shermer would appreciate that pseudo scientific nonsense?
Sure…
Life is an entropy catalyst. We speed up the process by creating a lot of disorder to maintain our bit of order.
Good video but I was dissapointed that you never talked about the double slit experiment!
I've loved Jim's documentaries! Sad we don't see him that often anymore but I guess diversity and inclusion means we can't have competent men displayed on TV anymore...
He's iraqi pretty sure he ticks diversity quotas...
@@djghoul6782 some people just have to bring the "omg everything is so woke nowadays" argument into everything. It's funny because they call everyone else snowflakes...
An amazing podcast! However, I think concepts such as the Drake equation and simulated reality is just another trendy idea located the edge of society's frame of reference. No one talked about the Internet in the 50's! Because the concept barely even existed. Poluting the galaxies with robots may not be the path of life, although Right Now it seems to be the ultimate goal, but perhaps 200 years from now we've created/discovered something else entirely different from the idea of taking over the galaxy. Likewise, the simulated universe is just one of the intruiging modern ideas that may be long forgotten 200 years from now.
So to sum up our current state of science and knowledge:"give me one free miracle(universe and life out of nothing),and i will explain to you everything else"..map is not the real territory guys,always remember that when you talk about science "facts" and reallity...
No one is asking for a miracle. Fact is we exist, so there must be a physical explanation. We are essentially getting to a point where we can explain everything up to the boundary of Plank time and no further back. We should just say we don’t know what happened before that; there’s no reason to say a miracle happened. No matter how much we want to explain that last gap we might not get it. So what?
any person ideas could be valid, anything is allowed for ideas as long it involves demonstrable information.
1:00:00 If CPT is invariant, and we know CP is violated (1956),
then T must be violated at the lowest levels of particle physics.
It turned out that you are honest man!
they don’t wonder about Time anymore, they say we already know, about one year ago they was saying that Time is one of the most mysterious thing in existence!
they even working on attributing what I have written to unknown ancient people or to Einstein, or ,….etc
what’s going on?!
why Time isn’t a wonder anymore?!
is it a revelation from the sky or COVID-19 epidemic disease effect?!
that movie: planet of the apes!
... it has occurred to me that it would be ironic if we become the first "Extra-Terrestrial" life-form in the galaxy or the universe ... we could travel to a distant inhabited planet and teach them how to create TikTok, Reality TV and Pizza with Pineapple ... an idea for a science-fiction novel ...
No « true scientist » would do that b how many are true scientists?
could consciousness be a field?
Thé «invisible rubber and »; the morphology of space-time; fields
Atom
49:00 or the apes are not able to comprehend ! they say: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but what about extraordinary minds to comprehend instead of extraordinary evidence to convince the apes? isn't that possible ?!
Possibility is not evidence. His point about checking how the video is generated is similar to the issue that overturned the “faster than light neutrino” data. Confirming if the existing data is good data must occur before drawing conclusions.
Karl Marx was a theorist with no power over anyone, and Churchill was a leader of an empire that was racially divided. After the atrocities of WW2, Churchill still wanted to promote Imperialism based on race. .
LIGO testing gravitational waves from another universe to demonstrate a multiverse. Hmm.
The misuse of the term "Bayesian" by scientists has now reached epidemic proportions.
storytellers
1.21.00 is there a prime mover.... most likely yes ....."I would much rather live my life as if there is a god than live it without" Albert Camus. Apart from which the world in the last 20,000 years has reflected the Christian state of things more than anything else..... suffering and death more suffering and death and all started by a huge mistake
Midwit évolution on Middle Earth (Dawkins).
As a theist i must say there are very intelligent atheist's. Hope i don't sound patronising.
What has religion ever discovered about the universe?
I’m not so sure we can categorically say that consciousness is or can be explained by chemistry & physics ? That to me has a slight hint of science arrogance. I mean are we saying we are able to know for a fact consciousness emerges from physics and chemistry ? Are there things in the universe that might be out of reach of our understanding ? I’m not saying I know either way but to say consciousness can or will definitely be explained by science really does have a hint of arrogance. Unintentional I’m sure but all the same.
I love JAK but you guys lost me when discussing the hard problem of consciousness
I love how Shermer wishes he was a physicist. Ask him what his degree is in lol. Not physics. ;]
Used to enjoy his BBC4 documentaries back when. Unfortunately he's gone severely woke of late as his twitter attests to.
Jim does not apply his Bayesian thinking to Islam. Watch his BBC-sponsored episodes when he propagates the Islamic myth.
may be he did
I think we should not adopt the doctrinal skepticism, we should do more research on the scriptures of religions (an alternative way to get to the right religion if it exists) and test whether this book matches what we have found out about God through our minds and the universe around us. I tried this with the Qur'an, the "Holy Book of Islam", and it was very a interesting experience
@@alaaoraby-1349 All religions are man-made. People should learn to live and let live. There is nothing holy about the Quran.
@@Seekthetruth3000
So why doubt and research if we are sure of everything?!
How do we know?
The opposite may be true
Let's give it a try
@@alaaoraby-1349 In a culture where Islamists are not in charge and where there is freedom, people are free to investigate and ask questions. Sadly, wherever Islam rules, people are not free to question Islam.
59:00 give your clown this:
time strongly related to space, humans need space as arena to calculate time, time travel to the past is not possible, why it is a long story, basically if that is possible humans in future would come to me directly ! unfair!
your brain makes continuous calculations for dimensions and change thus "time", the cerebellum plays main role in that process, but you are unaware of that, that is why speed, acceleration, velocity,... are strongly related to space and time and how we measure them.
reference, memory, ..... it is a long story! the clock and hour, minute hands are the reference and memory, ticking is the measurement, ....
the story is in space itself, they have misunderstanding, there is a process of space creation and there are two cycles not only one cycle, still too early for that.
that does not mean that time does not exist or just an illusion, it only means: there is no time without space.
they can use thievery as patching techniques as usual "it is an old habit".
Idk why you pretend we have bodily autonomy in the west. drug war, euthanasia laws, vax mandates, and abortion laws off the top of my head.
Disgusting! Engineers are trained in science, WTF??