Steven Weinberg: To Explain the World

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg spoke about science and history, drawing from his book “To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.” Professor Weinberg painted a new and compelling picture of the development of scientific thought and exploration in a conversation moderated by Peabody Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry.
Original Program date: May 31st 2015
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@WorldScienceFestival 6 жыл бұрын

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@BasemSayej 6 жыл бұрын

will try to add arabic soon

@bozo5632 2 жыл бұрын

If I understood this stuff better I might offer to translate it into English.

@cosminvisan520 Жыл бұрын

For consciousness, see my papers, like "Meaning and Context: A Brief Introduction".

@ArtstradaMagazine 2 жыл бұрын

sorry to hear of this remarkable man's passing today

@leonardmukuhi4810 2 жыл бұрын

COVID?

@janna6539 2 жыл бұрын

No :(

@DB-MH11 2 жыл бұрын

RIP

@pjb8848 2 жыл бұрын

RIP to one of few brilliant minds of mankind.

@heartofthunder1440 2 жыл бұрын

While this guy is full of mathematical knowledge, I tend to see things in patterns, in the Bible it clearly states God made man in his own image. It very well could be that the study of space is virtually the same as the study of the brain 🧠. Therefore explains the box theory, and as individuals on this planet also have the same universal brain 🧠, it’s how we communicate with each other, without and within, this can also explain the multiverse.

@charlescouch5200 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been reading and studying Dr. Weinberg’s work for decades. In fact i share some of his great physics ideas with my high school and AP physics students. What great accomplishments you have had. Well Done Sir!!

@chriskindler10 3 жыл бұрын

Weinbergs books on Quantum field theory are still the gold standard

@miramarensis 4 жыл бұрын

Whenever Professor Weinberg exposes, I know a good experience will follow. I never tire of hearing his lectures and most of them I watch more than once. A real pleasure.

@Jipzorowns 2 жыл бұрын

Sad to hear that he died... Rest in peace Steven Weinberg.

@BradWatsonMiami 2 жыл бұрын

Steven Weinberg will be reincarnated to a devoutly progressive Christian couple. Thus, his information on science will combine with Christian teachings.

@drblaneyphysics 2 жыл бұрын

@@BradWatsonMiami or buddhist or islam.

@JthElement Ай бұрын

@@drblaneyphysics What?? What are you smoking? Bloody clown.

@EugeneKhutoryansky 9 жыл бұрын

I read Steven Weinberg's book, "Dreams of a Final Theory" in 1993, when I was still in High School. Although I strongly disagreed with some of his opinions in that book, and still do, that book nevertheless had a very profound impact on my outlook on the world.

@carryall69 9 жыл бұрын

Eugene Khutoryansky oh, i want to read it. which are the strongly disagreeable opinions in that book?

@EugeneKhutoryansky 9 жыл бұрын

carryall69, I now believe that in many cases, drilling further and further into the subatomic nature of matter takes us further away from the answering the question we are asking. For example, understanding the properties of wave propagation is accomplished without understanding the subatomic nature of the medium through which the waves are traveling. Another point of disagreement is that Steven Wienberg says in that book that no scientist should ever waste their time examining the evidence for phenomena such as ESP, ghosts, etc. I believe no topic should ever be shut off from scientific inquiry.

@carryall69 9 жыл бұрын

Eugene Khutoryansky i agree, you don't have to really dig deep into the nature of phenomena to wittness them, but i would have thought that that's what physics is all about. ESP for extra sensory perception as in paranormal psychic studies?

@macmos1 9 жыл бұрын

I agree with your statements, Eugene Khutoryansky

@itaialter 9 жыл бұрын

Eugene Khutoryansky I disagree with your first statement, but I agree with the second. I think that the question we are asking is "what is the universe, really?", and drilling further into the subatomic world can only help our quest. And with that in mind, it's easy to agree with your second statement, that no topic should be shut off.

@vaibhavbhasin3861 2 жыл бұрын

Rip ❤️🔥 May more like him, come and enlighten us.

@barbi520 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful spending time with such a great and brilliant man

@maxwellsequation4887 2 жыл бұрын

Sir Steven Weinberg Rest In Peace, Legend. You and your work will never be forgotten.

@a.g.solascriptura.6880 Жыл бұрын

Ich denke er war gottlos...wie kan er dan in frieden ruhen?

@truthsocialmedia 8 жыл бұрын

its inspiring that the co-developer of the standard model has the humility to say that it is not the final word.

@truthsocialmedia 8 жыл бұрын

get some help with coherent sentence writing and paragraph structure.

@TheXitone 7 жыл бұрын

What do you think happens to them in Amerikkka that they turn out like this character? Mental innit? I mean that's way out there crazy...

@uploadJ 3 жыл бұрын

Let it be known the two preceding comments make NO sense ...

@gaillilly1 9 жыл бұрын

What a lovely, gentle man with such an impressive intellect. His well thought out opinions and his carefully thought out responses show his personal reverence for the truth as he understands it. Admirable. That such unkind and crude verbiage are found in other comments leads me to believe that as a species we have much to work on in order to find peace among ourselves. Just tolerating an alternate view seems very difficult for many of us. Lashing out at a man who is so very tolerant is baffling to me.

@brucehayman4206 8 жыл бұрын

+gail lilly people are real bigshots under cover of the internet. They say stuff they would never say in person

@JudeMalachi 8 жыл бұрын

+gail lilly I would say that he has an impressive intellect in terms of the limited set of mental skills physics requires certainly, but he is philosophical and historically naive--to the point of sounding almost stupid. I haven't read the negative comments you refer to but perhaps it is this hubris people are instinctively reacting to.

@jceepf 8 жыл бұрын

+Aaron Siering I would only say that what made Western science successful is precisely limiting it.....

@JudeMalachi 8 жыл бұрын

+jceepf I agree that is true, but what happens when because of its success in producing new technology we start to limit the very definition of knowledge, itself, to only that knowledge which can be turn into technology? What happens when we start looking at the people trained in this very limited way of thinking as being exactly those people who best epitomize scholarly education? I think science is important and I think the technology it produces is good, but I put it in its place relative to other ways of being in the world. I value the mythological mindset of literature to reveal truth just as much as I do the experimental confirmation of the numbers produced from mathematical formula...not only is scientism, itself, an obviously self contradicting philosophy, but if science cuts itself off from philosophical investigation more generally then it is cutting its own legs out from under itself, because science depends on the continuing philosophical investigations into areas such as epistemology, induction, mathematics, etc. and in the end is only as trustworthy as our confidence in the those things. So yes science took off exactly when we stopped asking questions about formal and final causation and looked only to material and efficient causation, but this success is not in and of itself a good argument that only material and efficient causation are necessary to give a complete description of a thing--in fact despite many people's best efforts the necessity of formal and final causation keep reappearing even in science. So we should not forget that no matter how successful science is creating new technology that it is still only a limited picture of reality.

@ind-hawky2515 8 жыл бұрын

+gail lilly Lovely man?? This foolish man pretends to be a Newton fan everywhere he goes, and then he says things like Newton was a bad man, he fought with Hooke and Leibniz and so on. Read his writings carefully and you will know that he doesn't have any clue about historical facts, but he has the audacity to belittle some one like Isaac Newton. It's very well established that Newton responded to his critics only after years of provocation, but Dr. Weinberg didn't bother to update his knowledge and tries to spread these outdated ideas. He doesn't even know how to be humble when discussing giants, so please don't get carried away by his 'impressive intellect'.

@frankciborski835 2 жыл бұрын

It has been said that "to learn well, one must learn to listen well." To the mind receptive to the subject-matter, listening to someone as learned, knowledgeable, intelligently insightful and well spoken as Mr. Weinberg, comes as easily and naturally as breathing.

@Boballoo 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Everyone has something to say that I have never heard before. There is so much to be learned from those around us, and they will thank you for the privilege of letting you know. Later when I play it back, I wonder if it wasn't those who were silent to whom I should have listened to more.

@diyaroso3806 2 жыл бұрын

Well spoken. And btw you have to address him as Prof. or Dr. Weinberg. Just saying.

@seandonahue8464 3 жыл бұрын

Very humble man! I wish I were as knowledgable. I admire his manner and his drive just to understand the world.

@oldskeptic1513 2 жыл бұрын

... only for the lack of trying...

@jeromerodriguez684 8 жыл бұрын

humble and so intelligent. thx M. Weinberg

@shirleymason7697 7 жыл бұрын

So very, very much enjoyed hearing Dr. Weinberg's thoughts. Will order "To Explain the World" now, to add it to my collection of physics/cosmology books for the non-scientist; many of which I've read and re-read. Thank you.

@mushkamusic 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute legend. He will be missed.

@auto_math 7 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful mind, this man's brain is a treasure.

@thomasp.crenshaw185 2 жыл бұрын

He's a GlobeTard! Watch KZfaq Santos Bonacci! Santos will show you the eart is flat. This jew is part of the Vatican Jesuits who have suppresed the truth about the flat earth for years!!! His brain is a rotting treasure!!

@litestuf 7 жыл бұрын

Such humility from such a great mind and great human being is a lesson not lost on many who recognize his greatness.

@bendavis2234 2 жыл бұрын

RIP to this brilliant mind! Rest easy Dr. Weinberg

@rubenanthonymartinez7034 2 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace? That my friend is a pointless statement!

@ggrthemostgodless8713 8 жыл бұрын

This pisses me off so much: why couldn't my professors in university be this humble and clear and patient and informed?? I had bitter assholes who didn't like questions or didn't like when you questioned THEIR answers, and definitely didn't like to spend time out of the classroom explaining things, in private (when you CORNER them) they gave you the same answers they gave in class, what made them think the same words would be clearer in private if they didn't work in class?? I had to make my small way into books of this sort by myself and they hated what they called "science books for the LAY person" as if writing for someone other than other professors was beneath them, and yet they they were eating from students' dish at universities. Most math teachers were like that too... why couldn't I have at least ONE of these guys as professors, the ones I had tried to discourage you from continuing with the field, they say This is good enough for now, from here on out it gets much harder so think hard if you want to pursue it... and shit like that.

@Raptorel 7 жыл бұрын

Because not everybody is as smart as Mr. Weinberg, here. I've always watched, during my life, how really, actually smart people behave and what is their demeanor. What I found out is that really smart people are funny and kind, meaning, they also have the empathy to double down their intellectual prowess. These are the true geniuses, in my opinion. Not some weird, computer-like kind of guy that you can't talk to because he's either too arrogant or can't put two words together.

@shirleymason7697 7 жыл бұрын

G. G. Much like teachers of art, as in painting. They become arrogant. Some have been known to enjoy denigrating to the point of tears a student's work.

@dbrad5197 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they are there just to get a wage. Such a shame

@vgrof2315 2 жыл бұрын

What wonderful wisdom. RIP.

@cirusrome4086 2 жыл бұрын

Such a pleasure to listen to Dr. Weinberg. RIP

@blakemirabito9563 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t have a beer with this man and listen to him talk all day. Truly a smart man

@FingersKungfu 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest and most insightful scientists of our time. May he rest in peace.

@hyunsikjung387 8 жыл бұрын

Humanity needs more ppl like Weinberg.

@ericjane747 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you both

@majorravindran8084 7 жыл бұрын

Very insightful talk,,,Thank you for posting this

@danielash1704 2 жыл бұрын

When I look back on my life I have been lucky enough to be alive to be present in something like magical world of mystery.

@gerrynightingale9045 8 жыл бұрын

"All of the energy and matter that existed still exists. Matter does not create energy of itself. It is the actions of matter that enable energy to become manifest".

@mattychase 2 жыл бұрын

He's such a lovely person. So humble.

@chrisms6446 9 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Mr. Weinberg

@VipulCrGames 8 жыл бұрын

Genius!

@anamika287 8 жыл бұрын

+VCR Games Indeed :)

@maheshanigol8657 2 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure to listen to Weinberg

@SvetlanaKurjak 3 жыл бұрын

It's pleasure me to hear so interesting telling you about reality of world.

@naimulhaq9626 5 жыл бұрын

Simply brilliant. Steven Weinberg beautifully exposes the contributions of the Greeks (Alexandrians), Arabs (Abbasids), up to the modern age. But, he doesn't discuss in length the quantum interpretation (of which he is a master), except that QM does not provide a complete picture, he did in fact emphasise that consciousness and quantum nonlocality does not need divine intervention, claiming instead that the atheistic attitude provides 'free will' and is glad it is so. Even as he fails to explain 'fine tuning', thinks self-organization and self-simulation made fine tuning (FT) possible naturally, perhaps. He even went on to appreciate Everette's multiverse or consciousness, but like Einstein and Schrodinger thinks QM still needs perfect formulation, like Lindblad equation. Elsewhere, Steven admits simplicity and symmetry, must have a limit as a lower bound of our quest to explain the world as against complexity that may have no bound. QM does open the possibility of a self-simulating intelligent conscious 'observer' that collapses the quantum field (QF) into fine tuned (FT) particles, producing phase transition of life out of non-life matter, implying divine purpose or proving the Anthropic Principle, as Everette suspected by did not quite reach the conclusion. QM leads not only to QC, multiverse, consciousness but much more. As for multidimensional aspect of quantum computation of superposition of states, Steven suspect a connection with reality, but thinks QM is not quite there, although Maldecena claims, and many physicists agree with him, that the universe is a QC, just like life is a QC (we repair and regenerate 50-70 billion damaged cells daily, with 99.99 % efficiency and at lightning speed), what Steven agrees as an unknown aspect of reality. His idea however, implies not only free will (which he treasures), but holds that mathematical reality exists independent of us, implying reality is independent (perhaps indicating, but not recognizing the 'mind of god'). Steven believes god is assumed by the humans. I would like to 'assume' ID is responsible for FT and divine purpose. Man and god are entangled.

@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 7 жыл бұрын

More public and charismatic scientists, such as Tyson, Greene, Kaku are great in their own ways, but for the most clear and deep, accurate but understandable, talks about science: Weinberg and Sean Carroll are the best to learn from.

@arakashmahale1 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@ooofuture0970 7 жыл бұрын

great program

@robertmcclintock8701 2 жыл бұрын

Everytime an artist make something social and intelligent it has artistic integrity. That only possible in a created universe.

@rossco12 2 жыл бұрын

What a fantastic and inspirational human being 😊👍🏻

@Rico-Suave_ 2 жыл бұрын

Watched all of it

@carryall69 7 жыл бұрын

loved it..

@Al.Mo. 2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. great mind, the world is little darker today

@The22on 5 жыл бұрын

If they ever did a poll of "who would you like as a neighbor?" I suspect that Weinberg would come out on top. I don't think I ever heard a nicer, gentler, more reasonable sounding person. The tone of his voice, the words he uses, his body language all shout "Nice Guy!" It's quite startling, given his strong beliefs and disagreements with most of the world on science vs religion.

@septicwomb4394 7 жыл бұрын

sitting in my kitchen eating soup with the washing machine running watching steven weinberg talking; when he's talking about reality as fluctuating quantum fields i look around and think "what the fuck *is* this reality i'm living in?"

@ktxed 2 жыл бұрын

quantum boredom

@ferdinandoclarelli1447 2 жыл бұрын

Riposa in pace Steven Weinberg, grandissimo fisico ed intellettuale, e grazie del tuo magnifico "I primi tre minuti" che ha segnato la mia gioventù

@CoertVisserPF 9 жыл бұрын

Fascinating!

@mytaichi5945 2 жыл бұрын

God bless you all!!

@Trp44 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could hear such words

@mdwoods100 2 жыл бұрын

What an amazing person he was.

@muditracks3640 2 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace

@naturally_rob 2 жыл бұрын

I so badly wished I was taught in school that everything connects.

@shirleymason7697 7 жыл бұрын

👍thank you again.

@TheSWolfe Жыл бұрын

Rest in Peace and Blessed Be, Dr. Weinberg.

@MrBendybruce 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Steven ✨

@StaticBlaster 2 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace, Mr. Weinberg. The physics community will miss you greatly.

@inkland2003 Жыл бұрын

the presenter did a great job for this interview.

@qualquan 2 жыл бұрын

At 57:04 he says we are inventing, presumably principals of nature. We are discovering, not inventing.

@StermaPerma 8 жыл бұрын

Very kind guy.

@trinajska 8 жыл бұрын

yo what's up Jesus

@StermaPerma 8 жыл бұрын

Trinajskaa Not much, kinda boring up here so I watch these videos you guys make.

@nenora 2 жыл бұрын

That was a great explanation

@runningbob 8 жыл бұрын

Sorry Steve, but a catenary is the shape of a free hanging cable. A uniformly loaded cable, like a suspension bridge, is a parabola. But I remember the epiphany I also had at 14 when I started learning the power of math and physics.

@WatchfulHunter 2 жыл бұрын

Skepticism is the only bridge to truth.

@DialogueWithProfNirmalGupta 5 жыл бұрын

WOW.

@Aiakaksjjajaj 2 жыл бұрын

Don't let people wash your mind with their thoughts

@Crazy__Canuck 6 жыл бұрын

Stand up and give Steven Weinberg a round of applause!!! Oh, wait....

@NEWDAWNrealizingself 2 жыл бұрын

I SALUTE THE MAN OF THE STANDARD MODEL . THANKS !

@mastuerzo8559 6 жыл бұрын

WOW!

@praaht18 8 жыл бұрын

High point: 33:50

@lokeshparihar7672 2 жыл бұрын

Loved it

@inesmercier1948 7 жыл бұрын

wow.

@mohamed.s.elnaschie1697 6 жыл бұрын

excellent book

@panootis729 8 жыл бұрын

Great interview, particularly on the philosophy of science from one of our greatest physicists. Also recommend his interview I think his memory may have slipped a little when giving an example about the intellectual power of mathematics/science (see 43:30). He recalled the the shape the cable of a suspension bridge is a catenary, but it's parabolic. Very thoughtful, well-read scientist.

@MH-mc3pp 4 жыл бұрын

actually he is right; it is a catenary. why do you say it is a parabola?

@aslimlines3069 9 жыл бұрын

An the right question is?

@javiergonzales8487 2 жыл бұрын

IMPRESSIVE, one of our Greatest Minds of our times !

@yushi1368 3 жыл бұрын

Great.

@saad.11mmm90 5 жыл бұрын

العرب يحبون ستيفن واينبرج ..!

@Dlrealife 6 жыл бұрын

I drove Steven Weinberg to Logan Airport in Boston from Newton, Mass. We had a fascinating conversation while stuck in traffic on the Mass. Pike. I asked him, based upon his research, does he believe that God exists.

@ozztam Жыл бұрын

And what was his reply?

@philmerlot9074 2 жыл бұрын

I have his book "Gravitation and Cosmology" on my shelf but still don't have the maths to really get into it.

@jasone42683 8 жыл бұрын

9:43

@ElSmusso 2 жыл бұрын

RIP DR. STEVEN ♥️ ⚛️

@flugschulerfluglehrer7139 2 жыл бұрын

RIP

@michaelwalsh9920 8 ай бұрын

Absolute genius!! Much love RIP

@dahawk8574 2 жыл бұрын

It is so ironic to read all the ‘Rest In Peace’ comments. 180 out from the worldview he held.

@user-sq6lu2ry2s 2 жыл бұрын

おはようございます。大変勉強になります。

@danielash1704 2 жыл бұрын

The gravity is a big difference between the readings there getting build it in a none gravity environment and see a totally different situation than the Hadron collider in gravity waves and the other energies that have an affect on the situation.

@wackyfours 2 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace Mr. Weinberg

@georgeangles6542 4 ай бұрын

We're the universe realizing itself. Weinberg is not wrong in knowing we don't need an external source for purpose.

@TheChiliconkarma Жыл бұрын

Dude had a good and strong style as an orator..

@davidwilkie9551 4 жыл бұрын

"Fine Tuning", the Epicyclic Solution, is how you know, with absolute certainty, that the Observable Universe is a singular-superimposed Mathematical Modulation objective of Time Timing in Eternity-now, Actuality - Principle.

@hongyuzhang5631 3 жыл бұрын

8:11 so smart that he doesn’t even need to open his eyes to perceive the world

@chrisgale5634 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder stuff!

@Moronvideos1940 7 жыл бұрын

I love brilliant intellectual people. My dog is very bright as well ... her name is Daily...

@shirleymason7697 7 жыл бұрын

Moronvideos1940 .......is she/he working on a final theory, along with the other bright guys?

@gmshadowtraders 8 жыл бұрын

Is the book worth buying yo?

@walterbishop3668 8 жыл бұрын

Newton remind me of myself minus his intelligence

@jakelabete7412 2 жыл бұрын

LOL you're not alone.

@makor2817 5 жыл бұрын

At least someone that talks about the past and the "past geniuses" with a centered mind. Textbooks always make them look like God's but they had flaws and as well not so many real contributions as everyone say.

@andjon3535 2 жыл бұрын

not so many contributions? wow... where would we be if they did not make the mistakes?

@makor2817 2 жыл бұрын

@@andjon3535 somewhere not hiding behind sarcasm

@Lord_Flashheart_Woof 2 жыл бұрын

RIP Steven Weinberg

@thomasvieth578 4 жыл бұрын

I am roughly 20 minutes in it, and why don’t they consider the marriage of music and mathematics by Pythargoras?

@jakelabete7412 2 жыл бұрын

Because they got divorced.

@silent00planet 8 жыл бұрын

weinberg by combining present and historical thought produces a powerfull description of what we know and where to find the basic structure ? as to what the purpose of the basic structure is god knows except there appears to be no evdence of a god although by saying that the word god describes the quantum void you can get closer to the real fundamentals ?

@shirleymason7697 7 жыл бұрын

math analysis .........it's all in the hands of a "supernatural" high school student on a level "above" us. Or else it's the Spaghetti Monster.