Can’t imagine ed has much time to dilly dally around with these questions, the interviewer might be rushing this to get all the questions in and, in turn, stepping on ed’s heels. It sucks but I’d rather have this than nothing.

I agree

It is one of the vital life skills you need to acquire!

This dude has a poor ability to interview or even make conversation. Maybe he came into the position of putting on this interview for reasons other than those that would facilitate a high quality interview. Last minute cancellation or somebody was sick or something.

He should have submitted the questions beforehand and let perhaps the greatest mind existing today answer them so we don't have to hear his voice....

Chess playing isn’t a sign of intelligence as much as it is a sign that one can appear intelligent. It’s never intelligent to waste resource.

The interviewer either wasn't listening or understanding what Witten was saying much of the time, causing redundant questions. That was frustrating for me, so I imagine it had to be at least a little frustrating for him, lol.

absolutely. his contributions are incredible and I think it's just a matter of time until he receives the Nobel Prize for his work

@@chriskindler10 i think that's highly unlikely. he's mainly known for his contributions to mathematical physics, for which he's been awarded a fields medal. there needs to be experimental confirmation of a certain theory or hypothesis to be awarded a nobel prize. case in point: einstein was actually awarded the nobel prize for his work on the photoelectric effect, and not relativity!

And yet on almost every job application there is a space for that.

Lol. I'll give that one a pass.

It is indeed. You know, it's the most remarkable coincidence, lately I've been playing sudoku a lot and I noticed a striking similarity between the game and how scientific discoveries are made (especially in theoretical physics). And I was thinking that these parallels between the game and science arise because of all these special constraints this game has, science has similar constraints and as you take these constraints away (which happens in sudoku if you increase the level of difficulty) it becomes more and more difficult to solve the games. Why? Because YOU CAN NO LONGER SEE THE CONTRADICTIONS! So most of your time is spent in building different hypotheses and proving them wrong (as the game becomes more difficult). And to mg surprise, after finishing a game, I opened up KZfaq and there it was, your extract of this video. Edward Written saying the harmonizing words. It's quite exciting to be honest. Haha.

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It's more Witten's decision than Lex's.

@@anthead7405 What a *brilliant* observation. Well, that just puts me in my place doesn't it. Cheers.

true

Yeah, as if he's in an interview for staff physicist or something. No one would dare scrutinize his pedigree - it's irrelevant at his level.

I think he was annoyed with the interviewer rather than ashamed. He seems to think that the History period is irrelevant.

I think he was a bit annoyed at the interviewer for bring up something irrelevant which happened a long time ago.

To be fair, he explains the reasoning quite clearly, as to why he did not continue with those subjects. He mentions that it was not going to be his area of strength, due to the required interpersonal skills. I believe your notion is based on projection alone, but I could be wrong.

lmao

Ha ha, Fun fact Einstein Brain is quite Smaller than common size. It not the Skull size 😂or Even brain Size. It's All about the COORDINATION OF TRILLIONS OF NUERAL CONNECTIONS IN THAT SPECIFIC BRAIN REGIONS WHERE HIS MATHEMATICAL REASONING ARE PROCESSED. It too Difficult to Understand, Like Consciousness

It's the rare person that isn't intimidated by Ed.

In what way?

Goes with the 200+ IQ .

Yeah, like he could have actually prepared for the interview. Like read his Wikipedia page at least. What a joke

Say What?

Exquisite subtlety 😂

Oh god, not that guy.

get over yourself. listen rather to this outstanding human being something you probably did not and even if you did, you would not understand a horseshit of it

@@YAS-dn6xn outstanding human answering shitty questions asked by an idiot

You're spot on. While I enjoyed listening to Prof. Witten, the interviewer lacked preparation to say the least ; not knowing Prof..Witten's advisor, for example.

It's not that his questions are all that bad iys just that the interviewer is trying to get a more personal view of witten and his life. However witten prefers not to get too personal. The interviewer didn't want to get too technical either so here we are.

Yes

Witten is a lot more important to recent developments in Physics than Tao is to those made in mathematics

@@UseQPixinDune Hmm, I am not sure about that buddy. Tao made huge leaps in math AND quantum physics.

@@Simon-xi8tb what huge leaps had tao made in quantum mechanics?

@@Simon-xi8tb what😂? Tao works on quantum physics but he has not made any huge contribution to the field while this guy has made huge contributions to pure math and physics. This is not to lessen tao in any way but if you're one of those who compares people like based on their mathematical prowess then I would say they are both on the same level. Tao made greater contributions in pure math while Edward witten made greater contributions to physics