You did a fine Job Sir.

You lucky guy!

It’s beautifully filmed. You really capture the human element of these men who push the envelope of what is possible with regard to human cognition. Thanks for doing a great job.

I too am forklift certified sooooo yea

Truly in the presence of greatness

..And Jamie 😁

Yup

So Dirac had already known that if super symmetry was authentic, it would have already been discovered. Reimer's tension scale was super close, but he didn't include time. Mr. Whiten had a moment to go in another direction and didn't listen to Dirac. Edit, Witten

And Joe

@@Perrydog101 agreed, if super symmetry was more than a concept, the tension scale would have included chronological intervals. The inclusion of the conception of time is indeed a dilemma with both Dirac and Reimer, and the tension scale in general. BTW I know nothing about Physics, (I hope I spelled that right)... I wanted to demonstrate how CHARLATANS like Deepak Chopra try to fake their own knowledge of Physics/Quantum Physics, with the sole purpose of appearing smart to sell more bullshit books. (I'm demonstrating it's not difficult to fake, because 99.99% of people cant tell the difference unfortunately)

He can speak, wow

@@Fabio-zd6oi Yeah good luck though. Only two Nobel Prize winners in the sciences have had their kids do so as well.

I'm only speculating, but I think he may have a photographic memory. He occasionally seems to drift off to another place and speaks as if he's reading from a paper.

@@lukelively8380 That's incredible to even contemplate.

He did get his undergraduate in history after all

+JINXED 63 Yup, and he's the only physicist to ever win the "mathematician's Nobel" - the Fields Medal. Super-mega genius he is.

+K Dub Ed Witten certainly is going places. According to quantum physics he can be in two places at once....

You what?

The man created M-theory unifying all former theories of String Theory into one and coming up with a result that produces gravity as a consequence.

Even if you take away all of his physics achievements, the mathematical consequences of his physics as well as his pure math papers (he's written quite a few) would make him one of the most reknowned mathematicians in the world. Amazing.

Not even close man

Alan Fertom Total futility, it went nowhere!

Beautiful analogy...

Hahahaha

i dint know what you guys saw but what i observed was that my buddy Witten scored 1 in the women's department and 0 for my men Salam

Ditto!

He studied history as an undergraduate

Indeed. Very interesting discussion. Would have been more interesting if Penrose's massless photon end,of our Big bang before the next eon.

Just amazing

But yet he was somehow blinded by the utterly ret*rded idea of string theory, and helped lead physics down a long road to nowhere for multiple decades... strange how smart people can be so stupid, in his case with massive negative repercussions that have even stagnated the progress of humanity

Or will...

sometimes unbelievable I mean our forefathers would never haver concieved such technological revolution as this digital revolution through which we are able to see the masters

Thanks to Claude Shannon for our new found immortality

Everything and everyone will fall into oblivion eventually. For some people like Witten, it will just take longer but zoom out on time and you won't see any difference between an ape, the average human being, Witten and any supposed super intelligence.

Wrong Ed written got field medal before this,get ur facts right!

@@kaatnikaatni9012 and you get your spelling right,it’s Witten.

@@kaatnikaatni9012 the description says the talk was in 1986 and he won fields in 1990

after his death his grave was desecrated and while he was alive he was forced to live as a non muslim in Pakistan. If the pakistanis knew theire historic lore they would know all the troubles thry face now is because of the bad karma acrrued!

@@AbhayPeshin why? what was the drama that caused them to treat him like that?

Martin Stojanovik Absolutely..

Martin Stojanovik This conversation is over 30 years old, and is mostly breakroom chatter

This is 33 years old. It still feels like the forefront though so I get why you say that.

You only partly understand this, yet feel compelled to comment on your lack of understanding. Weird.

​@@davismavis2834how so

Like The Rolling Stones...

LMAO

yes wtf xD

30:04

Lmao the guy got bored of staring at their faces I guess

Expression is in the hands.

Iitian??

@@CD-123 bet your sweet fatoot ; not

I wish we had equivalent Dirac, Schrodinger, Pauli, Bohr, Einstein, etc videos.

fuck yeah, that would be SO awesome!!!!

He took undergraduate studies of history, journalism and linguistics before moving on to Physics and Mathematics.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist and this is just a joke but if there is even one hyper-intelligent alien masquerading as a human on this planet I am certain Ed Witten is it. That was just a joke though. I did say "if" and that's an impossible if.

Nerd

​@@not_co_co nerd is new normal for gen z

Your name sir

Witten ain't the student here I wouldn't say.

@@robertpirsig5011 I am just trying to give analogy by seeing video. Like teacher questioning student

​@@robertpirsig5011r u fokn stupid

Salaam is the father figure here for sure testing his son, pushing him for answers. I love it

Yeah. Not many world class physicists have been successful at communicating to the masses. That's why Tyson, Kaku, et al get so much exposure. Feynman has probably been the BEST ever to communicate to the general public as an upper echelon WORLD CLASS physicist. I'm afraid that "today's youth" aren't that interested. Social media continues the dumbing down of the world.

Would it not be more accurate to say that we went from Sagan to Degrasse Tyson and from Abdus Salam, for exampel, to some of the many fine physicists of today who also primarily do scientific research?

Fredrik A Tyson has not published a paper in more than 2 decades. When he did publish a paper, I believe he was the 4th or 5th co-author... He does zero scientific research today.

***** Yes. I very much agree. Not only that, but social media has also made everyone into a scientific genius, so everyone thinks they know everything.

Ikjyot Singh Kohli There are some great physicist writing books out there for the masses (Weinberg, Lederman, etc), but the spokesman roles are consumed by Tyson, Kaku and a number of merely competent physicists. I think these spokesmen realized their limitations in the upper echelon of physics and decided to cash in instead. I don't have too much of a problem with that. We can still get great courses from Witten, Susskind and others. The thing that infuriates me the most are the quacks and utter crackpots out there who spread misinformation/conspiracy for profit. Many militant theists also add to the spread of misinformation.

Me, too. I like that discussion very much. Are you a physicist or just a physics enthusiast ?

Just a physics enthusiast, i am afraid, with a superficial knowhow on physics. ! I hope to delve deeper into these topics someday.

Harami Glm I am a physics enthusiast, too. I am going to study maths or physics some day and till that I try to get more knowledge.

i dont like indian men, i think they're annoying.

Why dont you teach 'your' men not to meddle in affairs of innocent people ? You are ofcourse free to have your opinion..

Humm...I don't want to be a fly on your wall.

Do you understand String Theory?

I agree. He would be confounded that people are marvelling at him rather than the ideas.

How you can watch any interview of Witten and not see that he exudes narcissism I do not know.

​@@SoundsSilverHe's literally just calmly stating his scientific imaginings. How can you take that as narcissistic unless you are one of those people that think intelligence is arrogance? That's a profoundly American idea, cultures in other places don't have that association.

Great observation, but I do not think it is partially sarcastic, I think he speaks from a very human perspective. To us he may seem the intellectual god, but to himself only a human with limitations to his comprehension. That indicates to me a very healthy dosage of humility and, as you accurately state, realism on his part. He does not assume that he'd understand or be proficient at just anything, especially not in physics (specifically "obscure" physics).

He may be much smarter than us, and he knows many things we don't know. But he doesn't know wayyyyy more things than he knows

Great call, wow.