World Science Festival 2008: Invisible Reality (Excerpt)

[andyrew001]

Mash came on the tv while i was watching this video =O

[JJBerthume]

This guy reminds me so much of will wonka it's not even funny.

[kirter23]

Brian makes me feel like banging.....

protons, that is!! God, he's sooo freaking cute!

[andreyprokopenko42]

There is no joke, it is reality you and me are in.

Just look closely.

[WhenTheNightMetDay]

wtff lol einsteins quote literally just boggled my mind.

[RAEHL1983]

BAZINGA!!!

[macmarty2025]

Brian Greene does an excellent job explaining difficult concepts.

[catpeople11]

alan alda + nonlocality humour = win

[G0BSRMFE]

Brian Greene = BEST

[Skullcandy]

dident understand a shit but im intreressed :P

[SteveOGallagher]

Max Tegmark looks a LOT like the actor Greg Kinnear.

[abemir]

oh man, i just pictured Sheldon Cooper walking in and shutting all of them up haha

[Sourzzz69]

wow this sucks... wasted 7 mins and 10sec of my life.

[SCHSTrumpet]

Whatever you do, don't divide by zero.

[colacadstink]

Alan Alda FTW. :D

[zeldamstr666]

genius's at work

[laserspatula]

a quantum joke! he he

[shanna1950]

Proof others to be "wrong"...????

scientists should be open minded enough to realize not everthing can be figured out in the lab. And I don't care if a Noble Prize Winner says he can do so....

[bizwapshiznitstain]

Things are figured out elsewhere--where theory is forumulated. Things are found to be incorrect or, for the time being, supported, in a lab. Open mindedness works only by allowing for all possibilities and eliminating imposiblities as they come up.

[xxgunsxx120]

@shanna1950 Scientists should always try to prove something wrong. Why? because you can never prove you'r right. Even something as simple as a desk is solid and will hold my computer up. That's not a fact Quantum mechanics says that there is a chance that the computers electrons will line up in such a perfect line that all the electrons will fly through the desk and therefor my computer will fall through the desk. As much as we think we know about science there is 5 times the about we do not.

[kilkennyfishblue]

aaa the dude from mash!!!

[guitaoist]

I met him at Rice in Houston and told him to see the movie π if he ever got a chance, he said he already had. the next guy wanted his signature so i moved on.

[SCHSTrumpet]

LOL. we don't want everyone using Windows.

:( I use Windows.

[ImthetrueMessiah]

@SCHSTrumpet I don't think Mac OS X is any better than Windows. But Macs sure are sexier than PCs

[BarbaraBrinkman]

Max Tegmark is so right. Americans - Everyone should embrace a non-ontological monoculture. Truly embracing individual uniqueness and contribution.

[inf0phreak]

Yes, we're all individuals!

[leemond09]

not really.... you're just shoving yourself into the 'individual' section, only a handful of people ever to exist will be truly individual

[SCHSTrumpet]

Do you proof read anything you post?

[leemond09]

yes, why?

[SCHSTrumpet]

@leemond09

lol, Sorry dude I clicked on the wrong user. Ironic, no?

[hellaskydon]

What happens when you open both boxes at the same time?

[No1CGIguy]

One would be facing up and another would be facing down. Using a box for the example was a bad idea. It gives you the impression that one has to go first, which it doesn't.

[ssrivastava]

The timing is irrelevant. The fact is that they will be in opposite spin. Even if you open both boxes at the same time, one would be up and the other would be down or vice versa.

[Bimm3rcc]

the universe explodes

[sgtghst007]

you still see one up and one down?

[ObsessiveSketch]

@hellaskydon Same thing as dividing by zero. Here, let's try i right no-OH SHIT*universe implodes*

[zapikachu]

@ObsessiveSketch You can divide by Zero but it'll end up being Zero. For example: 1 / 0 = 0+0+0+0+0+0+.... Infinity zeros. There is no amount of zeros that can add up to the number one. which is why it cannot be solved. But if you think about it logically. the number zero has no value (or better yet zero value) so in the end even if you add up all the zeros, it'll still be zero because if you look at the original problem, 1 / 0, zero multiplied by zero = zero. So therefore, you can say 1 / 0 = 0

[jasavina1]

@zapikachu you can't divide by zero. 6/3=2 why? because 3*2=6 similarly 12/4=3 because 3*4=12. so whats 6/0? well 0 times what number equals 6? NO NUMBER, there is no number you can multiply by zero to get a non-zero answer. Multiplication and division are reversible for all numbers but zero. Division by zero is impossible because multiplication by zero results only in zero.

[zapikachu]

@jasavina1 You're explanation just further proved my point that 1 / 0 = 0. This is what you said: "Division by zero is impossible because multiplication by zero results only in zero." <- exactly. 1 / 0 = 0. So the division can/will occur.

[pomodraw]

@zapikachu isn't that called indetermination???? XD

[zapikachu]

@pomodraw Me and jasavina both said that the answer will only end up resulting in Zero. We both gave you a result. Indetermination means there is no result whatsoever. Zero is still a number so it isn't indetermined. The answer will only result in zero.

[pomodraw]

@zapikachu yeah....and my teacher would said...if you have a cake, and you need to give it to 4 kids then you have 1/4=0.25, but if you have a cake that needs to be given...and you have no kids, wath do you do??? you can't just dissapear it or keep it. XD haha i know it souds crazy, but thats wath she said, at least on diferential calculate (dunno the name on english) anything/0=indetermination, thats why we work on values that aproach to 0 but never 0. and to do it we need some extra math.

[zapikachu]

@pomodraw Your teacher's example is very weak. "If you have cake that needs to be given and you have no kids" The cake is divided into 0 subsets. Therefore each kid (which there were none) got NO CAKE. Because the subset was zero to begin with and No cake would be given out. It would still be zero. If yuo do the reverse, There is no amount of "zero-cake" if you wanna call it to add up to cake itself. However, non of the cake was given out in the first place so there nothing to add up to. = ZERO

[pomodraw]

@zapikachu well in theory all is great, but how do you divide by zero in the real world? do yo just say SHASAM!! and wait for things to dissapear?, it is obvious that if you at the end of a proces have a product to be divided by zero, the only meaning is that the proces is allready over and you have nothing to do in there or you got somenthing wrong. and again if dividing by zero where real, limits would be much easier, we just indeterminate everything and voila!!

[firufunk]

@zapikachu Actually the result isn't zero because the same word imply specifically that you have to separate something (to divide) and how can you separate something in zero pieces? How with a knife you can slice a cake into zero pieces?

[zapikachu]

@firufunk You seem to forget that Zero is a real number, it exists. You can feel it when you're broke right? Don't try to take the essence of a number away. The result is zero and it is legitimate.

[jasavina1]

@zapikachu sorry I'm late. Graph Y = 1/X into your calculator. Look at the graph. whats it really graphing? its graphing X*Y= 1 No where along X or Y can either equaling zero solve that equation. That's the equation you actually solving when you do division. There is no solution where either equal x or Y = zero. Furthermore if 1/0 = 0 then you should also be able to say 0*0=1 which it clearly doesn't. I take it you don't study math, most people don't. Divison by zero isn't a dig deal (mostly).

[23GrandMasterK]

@hellaskydon It might be impossible to open them exactly at the same time.

[l4l01234]

@hellaskydon /0

[bunnykill100]

@hellaskydon they snap to opposite spins

[chatisaac]

@hellaskydon well there is no "same time" for different points in time. Einstein shattered the illusion of simultaneity. So if the 2 boxes are seperated by space, then its not possible for them to be opened at exactly the same time.

[chatisaac]

@hellaskydon well there is no "same time" for different points in space. Einstein shattered the illusion of simultaneity. Thus your question is null. :)

[vampineze]

@hellaskydon One's facing upwards, one down?

[hestheman929]

@hellaskydon One of the universes will implode?

[MusicnStuffs]

@hellaskydon you fall into the dilemma of Einsteins theory of simultaneity. AKA theres is no way to know for certain whether those actually open at the "same time." therefore there had to be one that opened before the other somehow even though it was perceived that those boxes were opened at the same time

[agrielaios]

@hellaskydon You won't be able to do it at the same time. (only in 'lalala theory land') There will be - even very small - difference in time.

[bathinthefountain]

@hellasky I don't think you can open them at the exact same time. but i'm no quantommechanic.

[kpsimon189]

@hellaskydon you cant because even if you get really really close...there come the heisenberg uncertainty principle and therefore u will be uncertain which u open first lol