Binary star motion was successfully linked computationally to fundamental quantum mechanical structures without M- Theory. Some String theorist are aware of the discovery which is posted but Dr. Ed Witten and others are smart enough to know what happens to M-Theory if this peer-reviewed publication is covered by science reporters like the one who is talking to Dr. Witten. We don't have to wait another 40 years for the smartest man in the world to do what has been done but unreported.
Quantum mechanics is a branch that discusses the subatomic particles, where general relativity discusses the large scale universe; so from that, we know particles is what makes up our universe so in hindsight we can conclude that quantum mechanics makes general relativity. Am I right ???? Anyone??
@theyasin33 Well if you can prove that , you are in line for a nobel prize. Thats what string theory is all about , it's about the ultimate unification between the world of the very small and the world of the very big
@Ge4ce100 Thank you for clarifying that for me .. I am a physics major so now that you said that string theory unifies these two concepts, I know now that I need to study string theory lol.. Thanks again.
He needs a brain implanted chip to communicated with a device so that his thoughts and ideas are transmitted and expressed in the speed at which he thinks... His god given hands, vocal chords, mouth are very slow peripherals for Witten
Holy shit, did you guys hear what he said in the end? He talked about the notion of time and how gravity can have an effect on it. Don't you guys think this is a big hint towards understanding what happend in 'the beggining'? He suggests that the concept of 'a beggining' doesn't make sense due to the different time dilations. OMG why haven't I heard about this before, He is absolutely genius! If this hint were to be given to extreme conservatives they wouldn't really understand so..yeah GO ED!
@altjff15 Not too much, since there was a big mishap/explosion during early testing of the LHC, there's been some rebuilding and remodeling and playing it safe and thus we've only just begun to start testing it at full power. I did, however, recently read that some experiments done at the LHC has all but shot down basic supersymmetry theory, which is very important, albeit disappointing to many (including many physicists I know personally.) A new theory is in the works, I'm sure.
(I, personally, have always been rather skeptical about supersymmetry, never really cared for it. Nor string theory, for that matter, but I've been warming up to the latter, lately.)
@smogunner wow, someone woke up with shit in their diapers. I was just making a statement, I wasn't angry. Why did you have to get so angry from a difference of opinion?
The funny think in all the situation is how Ed look him at his eyes all the time, like he is not making any effort to talk all those things(which we know it is hard, even for someone who totally domains the subject). Its like Ed was merely emulating a human being during all the interview.
How did he learn math? How was he accepted into princeton physics grad school with only a BA in history? He wasn't a math olympian and I can't find anything on him doing a lot of math and science before going to grad school
@warwize He did his BA in history and linguistics, but he then applied to Princeton I think and there he just took all the courses required to get into an MA very fast, I think he took courses equivalent to three years in one year, and his MA in one year (usually I think it takes two). Then he did his P.Hd.
@warwize I remember seeing a program on science channel or something about modern physics where there was a short bio on him, but there is also an article on him on wiki. I think he is one of the few remaining polymaths out there, a man that not only excels in math and physics, but also in deep analytical thought. He was made for greatness. To bad there are so few of his type around. I feel below mediocre when I see people of his kind...
You certainly do not have to be a quantum physicist to appreciate the genius of Ed Witten. I've researched his lectures, and his work (along with other physicists like Brian Greene and Leonard Susskind) have inspired me to take up the study of physics as a hobby - something I never would have imagined I'd "relax" to in my high school days.
Science & spirituality are a beautiful union from the right perspective, and string / M Theory brings peace to my mind of the infinitely misunderstood. :-)
He's an intelligent guy, anyone who understands that theories are just that is obviously a thinking person. I do have one question though, what's the force that makes the strings vibrate?
@jimmyti9cer but if it it is "a thing" that causes oscillation, does that "thing" not have to be a force of some kind? I mean force is just a representation of energy isn't it? I'm not sure just asking.
Why does the media completely over look Edward? Why does it focus on for example Michio Kaku...no disrespect to Dr. Kaku, he is one of my favorite physicists, but I would imagine Edward being more exaulted by the media. *shrugs*
he is a jew and most of the prodigies are jew include einstein. i am starting to think that jews are came from space and they are superhuman Adolf Hitler knew this about jews but he could not destroy all of them
Scientists cannot even figure out why the gamma rays coming from the sun never get any higher than 500,000 eV after a CME. While we detect gamma rays in the Tera electron volts(trillion eV) coming from stars further away. Even gamma ray bursts from galaxies nearly 12 billion light years away contain higher electron volts(pushing force) than our own Sun and they cannot explain that either so this could be the culprit they are overlooking.
Lol, I think the dark matter he was referring to is called neutrinos. It can't be dark matter because they travel into the Earth at great depths. They are not the culprit for the observed effect in the Milky Way, i.e. the outer stars orbiting the galaxy core faster than the inner stars. It would be more logical to assume it was an effect caused by a strong EM field. EM fields can force charged particles to nearly the speed of light. Electromagnetic is considered a force.
Another amazing thing about Witten is that while his IQ is higher then anyone in history, he has this passion and way of talking about math and theory and science that is just poetic and beautiful, he understands the human part of it, and understands the utter incredible beauty of the universe and revels in it, this we have in common. People like us who understand the universe (to a degree) know how much those in the dark are missing out on, especially religious people.
M-theory also describes membranes (it may be why it's called m theory), and when these membranes touch, it creates a huge energy event called the big bang and creates a universe, and depending on original conditions, the forces have different values. While there are countless universes completely different from ours, there are also countless very similar to ours, but m theory also says that "travel" between them is utterly impossible, by definition. Contact if interested.
The theory is incredible because it describes all the universes, and also explains why gravity "appears" to be so weak compared to the other two (electroweak and strong force) In fact, gravity is NOT weak at all, it is the only force that is everywhere in the universe, it is "spread" out throughout the multiverse, each universe having a little piece of it, but each universe has it's own fundamental forces of nature and each own value for gravity. Contact me for more info.
Ed Witten is so far beyond anyone else, it is like comparing Einstein to a monkey. He is the modern day true genius, any other physics/math geniuses of our time are but laymen when compared to him, he is truly one of a kind and we're very lucky to have someone like him in our time. If he lived 50 years ago, he'd be more famous then any other human being on Earth, but times changed and now people are not interested in science.
@freethinker4liberty Why are we so lucky to have him in our time if we can't even prove if the theory is correct? It would make more sense to be born 50-100 years into the future and maybe then we would know the answers. Plus, I don't think there is any real practical use for M theory with our current technology...
and so you think Terence Tao is a laymen in comparison to Edward Witten?
@Flows234 By no means did I mean to belittle anyone, by lucky, I just meant we're lucky that such thinkers still exist and are not silenced or demonized by the establishment, lucky that a person such as this is not afraid to share his hypotheses and theories even in the face of negativity. If he lived in the first half of the 20th century, he'd be on every paper's front page daily, but since the 80s, science has become a backwater subject for the fringe of society :-((((((
M-Theory describes the multiverse. One of those is ours, but there are countless (again, not infinite, but probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10^35 or more, a number too large to fathom). Some are similar to ours, where the fundamental forces are close to ours (strong and weak force, EM force, mass of particles, etc.), some are so different that they exist for only a split second, some never form stars and are just hydrogen forever etc. This is very different from quantum multiverse.
Just to correct some people on here. String theory alone says nothing about the multiverse (other universes with similar but different laws of physics (gravity is the exception, more on that later)), it is M-Theory that talks about the multiverse. Again, do not confuse this multiverse with the one in shows like Fringe which talks about quantum universes, in other words, conscious universes (choices that create universes with different quantum states, countless, but not infinite.
Time doesn't matter, because we don't tell time that way? And just what "way" might that be that wouldn't be the "way" we "tell time". Riddle me that Batman. Oh I think you know? The fuzzness won't matter? That passes for science now? Can we can chump this guy in less than 10 min? Is that because you can't fit the fractal into it or you don't want to becaue you wold have admit the unimaginable? haha
An interview between Ira Flatow and Alan Alda would be a riot, because they sound exactly like each other! Is this because they both grew up in the Bronx?
Anyway, I love guys like Witten, who are so far beyond the rest of us they could create a whole new species in a very short time with the right selective breeding program - and I wish they would. We'd be rid of TV preachers, Lady Gaga and all the other ridiculous freaks that make one embarrassed to be human.
Lol, just when his inner sets of eyelids were blinking you can see him thinking "as religion is obviously the best way to manipulate the will of this moronic species, lets replace it with my unified stringtheory ..one string to rule them all, one string to find them, one string to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.. ;)
@ladyboylizard String theory unifies, Strong matter, Weak Matter, Gravity and Electric Magnetism.
These are the four elements that make up our universe. String theory basically unifies all of these elements together. Before we had 2 different rules for the tiny things such as atoms and quirks, which was explained by quantum mechanics and the rules for the stars and planets which consisted of Albert Einsteins theory of gravity. These two theories had clashed severally because they didn't add up.
@BeepimajeepBeep Strings can turn into things called membranes, these membranes have parallel universes within them. They think that when a membrane collides with another the impact is so huge that within the other membrane the collision creates a big bang. We may indeed just be a little tiny insignificant part of this chain. Our Universe as we know it may not be unique at all. Just one of the infinite ones that exist. What made the very first universe, I cannot answer that.
@TheDanceForLyfe Along with that, the strings are a replacement for what they believed made up the quirks within an atom. Strings are all the same matter just different lengths, or using different vibrations. Watch "The elegant universe" thoroughly and you will find all the answers to the questions you have. Although I warn you if you really aren't particularly interested in physics it is 19 videos long each 10 minutes.
@ladyboylizard String theory unified Albert Einsteins theory by getting rid of quantum mechanics and replacing it with strings. Strings within atoms are what causes gravity to be different from the big things - such as stars - and the small things within atoms. Allowing the gravitational pull within an atom to make sense.
Professor Witten is obviously a very, very smart man. Easily ONE of the greatest physicists alive today but Hawking, Susskind or Kaku are arguably as brilliant physicists as him. He is unquestionably a great contribution to physics nonetheless. Go, Witten, go!!
String Theory, it probably originated from the Pythagoreans circa 2,500 years ago, a group of Scientists, Mystics, Mathematicians, and Musicians. They developed it from the Vibration and Oscillation of Strings. Unlike what Witten said, at the time there were no pianos, maybe not even Violins, but there were Ramifications of Lute instruments, such as The Guitar.
@johnzammitpace The Pythagoreans just made shit up that they thought made them sound cool. Witten got the math to back it up. Now if he actually had also the data...
M-Theory which he developed is very complex and very promising theory for understanding the universe, my personal opinion is that he might be the most brilliant mind ever...
"bla bla bla bla... strings of energy", mmmm... and energy is... what? where does it come from this "energy " the strings are "made" of? I mean what are we talking exactly about when we say Word energy? anybody here have a clue? :-))))))
@animhata there is more out there. just look up videos on string theory and m theory. takes a lot of time, if you have it, but one thing explains another which explains another...one video on youtube is the tip of the iceberg. theres a pbs special on m theory thats broken into like 10 parts on youtube. it covers a lot.
@pab7984 first you made the same question twice - what makes them and what are they made of is the same. The strings are actualy infinte small strings of ENERGY which vibrate in different patterns therefore making different subatom particles.
@Nukleozy Both matter and energy are human concepts to describe the world materially. You see strings don't really exist, the world is more like digital, it's just a relation structure. So they aren't made out of anything.
@pab7984 They have confirmed that mass turns into energy like in atomb bomb, and energy can also turn into particles like in cosmic rays. the idea that matter is not as solid as we think in our everyday life, it's mostly empty space is weird enough. these strings may indeed be the underlying mechanism of everything, it's only a theory so far, but it's based on proven facts
Sure, this guy might one day solve the worlds mysteries with an equation that is less than an inch long. But... He'll die a virgin. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather be a retarded man-whore than a super intellectual prude.
@mosshark If anyone is a tard it would be you, because you can't see a joke thats right in front of you. Tard. And by tard,I mean retard. You sir give humanity a bad name. Now, Suicide is your only redemption. REPENT.
Your next job interview, you should talk like this, not with his voice but in the manner of his speech. Confident in his wording, and presenting them as FACTS when it's a Theory.
The cleverest guy on planet earth right there
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Could you imagine if he had Sagan's voice? I wouldn't be able to handle how awesome that would be.
009SoundVEVO 4 days ago
He reminds me of Sheldon in Big Bang Theory
narhem123 1 week ago
Binary star motion was successfully linked computationally to fundamental quantum mechanical structures without M- Theory. Some String theorist are aware of the discovery which is posted but Dr. Ed Witten and others are smart enough to know what happens to M-Theory if this peer-reviewed publication is covered by science reporters like the one who is talking to Dr. Witten. We don't have to wait another 40 years for the smartest man in the world to do what has been done but unreported.
BinaryStars100 2 weeks ago
Edward Witten is Genius.
hauhau72 2 weeks ago
Quantum mechanics is a branch that discusses the subatomic particles, where general relativity discusses the large scale universe; so from that, we know particles is what makes up our universe so in hindsight we can conclude that quantum mechanics makes general relativity. Am I right ???? Anyone??
theyasin33 2 weeks ago
@theyasin33 Well if you can prove that , you are in line for a nobel prize. Thats what string theory is all about , it's about the ultimate unification between the world of the very small and the world of the very big
Ge4ce100 1 week ago
@Ge4ce100 Thank you for clarifying that for me .. I am a physics major so now that you said that string theory unifies these two concepts, I know now that I need to study string theory lol.. Thanks again.
theyasin33 1 week ago
This is the real Dr. Manhattan.
Romansteel13 1 month ago
We have the farther of string theory here in Denmark .
The name is professor Holger Bech Nielsen, and his just like Mr Witten
A nano-meter from insanity :)
bobobox1000 1 month ago
Ed creeps me out. Immense respect for the old chap however.
He also wears nice sweaters.
gwildor 1 month ago
this guy looks like the he shits integers
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He needs a brain implanted chip to communicated with a device so that his thoughts and ideas are transmitted and expressed in the speed at which he thinks... His god given hands, vocal chords, mouth are very slow peripherals for Witten
tskrdjym 1 month ago
interviewer: smile nod smile nod nod nod smile
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Holy shit, did you guys hear what he said in the end? He talked about the notion of time and how gravity can have an effect on it. Don't you guys think this is a big hint towards understanding what happend in 'the beggining'? He suggests that the concept of 'a beggining' doesn't make sense due to the different time dilations. OMG why haven't I heard about this before, He is absolutely genius! If this hint were to be given to extreme conservatives they wouldn't really understand so..yeah GO ED!
JademanX 2 months ago
what has the LHC revealed so far?
altjff15 2 months ago
@altjff15 Not too much, since there was a big mishap/explosion during early testing of the LHC, there's been some rebuilding and remodeling and playing it safe and thus we've only just begun to start testing it at full power. I did, however, recently read that some experiments done at the LHC has all but shot down basic supersymmetry theory, which is very important, albeit disappointing to many (including many physicists I know personally.) A new theory is in the works, I'm sure.
m8cct 1 month ago
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(I, personally, have always been rather skeptical about supersymmetry, never really cared for it. Nor string theory, for that matter, but I've been warming up to the latter, lately.)
m8cct 1 month ago
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primusfreak96 2 months ago
This guy is the smartest man in the whole world. I would like to be like him.
smogunner 2 months ago 7
@smogunner smartest in physics doesn't make you THE smartest.
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@EPICT0ASTER I said he is the smartest man in the whole world and you seem to be the most stupid asshole in the world. Watch your business.
smogunner 1 week ago
@smogunner wow, someone woke up with shit in their diapers. I was just making a statement, I wasn't angry. Why did you have to get so angry from a difference of opinion?
EPICT0ASTER 1 week ago
The funny think in all the situation is how Ed look him at his eyes all the time, like he is not making any effort to talk all those things(which we know it is hard, even for someone who totally domains the subject). Its like Ed was merely emulating a human being during all the interview.
MultiGalmeida 2 months ago
That's one smart mother fucker.
flatpat 2 months ago
i swear every time the camera is on the interviewer when witten speaks the interviewer looks so confused.
OprichnikiIuda 3 months ago
i no edward is so cleaver but his voice, come on
funnyspider999 3 months ago
How did he learn math? How was he accepted into princeton physics grad school with only a BA in history? He wasn't a math olympian and I can't find anything on him doing a lot of math and science before going to grad school
warwize 3 months ago
@warwize He did his BA in history and linguistics, but he then applied to Princeton I think and there he just took all the courses required to get into an MA very fast, I think he took courses equivalent to three years in one year, and his MA in one year (usually I think it takes two). Then he did his P.Hd.
astroboomboy 3 months ago
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cool thanks, where did you get this info from?
warwize 3 months ago
@warwize I remember seeing a program on science channel or something about modern physics where there was a short bio on him, but there is also an article on him on wiki. I think he is one of the few remaining polymaths out there, a man that not only excels in math and physics, but also in deep analytical thought. He was made for greatness. To bad there are so few of his type around. I feel below mediocre when I see people of his kind...
astroboomboy 3 months ago
Dr. Kaku brought me here.
caltrof 4 months ago
You ever get the feeling Ed knows everything, and is just screwing with us?
bdogshredder 4 months ago 20
@bdogshredder this guy reminds me of my own physics professor... only less dry, less sardonic and shorter hair
rmp0518 4 months ago
@bdogshredder I think he may be a robot.
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@bdogshredder Haha,yeah,he`s got this calm way of speakin and misterious smilin
sintemanijak 1 month ago
You certainly do not have to be a quantum physicist to appreciate the genius of Ed Witten. I've researched his lectures, and his work (along with other physicists like Brian Greene and Leonard Susskind) have inspired me to take up the study of physics as a hobby - something I never would have imagined I'd "relax" to in my high school days.
Science & spirituality are a beautiful union from the right perspective, and string / M Theory brings peace to my mind of the infinitely misunderstood. :-)
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I think if we have a creationist say string theory is just a theory they would have a point in this case.
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TheAntinode 4 months ago
He's an intelligent guy, anyone who understands that theories are just that is obviously a thinking person. I do have one question though, what's the force that makes the strings vibrate?
cambell1308 4 months ago
@cambell1308 they're quantum oscillations, they're not forces, that are used to explain the strings vibration.
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@jimmyti9cer but if it it is "a thing" that causes oscillation, does that "thing" not have to be a force of some kind? I mean force is just a representation of energy isn't it? I'm not sure just asking.
cambell1308 4 months ago
The guy interviewing him is a smiley little douche.
alexander92648 4 months ago
STRING THEORY IS NOT EVEN WRONG!
nontheistdavid 5 months ago
that huge forehead is jam packed.
reinux 5 months ago
you might not think it from how he looks and sounds, but when he ejaculates... edward witten ejaculates with the force of 10,000 suns.
volound 5 months ago
@volound If that's true...how did you survive such an event in order to publish your findings?
comanchio1976 5 months ago
@comanchio1976 tinfoil hat.
volound 5 months ago 2
@volound Haha brilliant comeback! In fact, it's the best I've ever seen. If I had a cap, I'd doth it too you!:)
comanchio1976 5 months ago
M Theory is a BEAST.
ClamCrunchy 5 months ago
does anyone know what this guy thinks about religion?
volound 6 months ago
@volound he thinks its super gay
andig97 5 months ago
he can do math
jmm1233 6 months ago
What a strange brilliant man.
Samingtonsenshire 6 months ago
lol he has such a composed personality, like "yeah, I know how the world works"
shredftw 6 months ago
He looks as if he's suppressing a brutal rampage
JoshJamesification 6 months ago
Fucking genius
Zander101084 6 months ago
Edward's cranium is literally twice as large as the interviewer
Zander101084 6 months ago
8:13 Ja! I love it!
aldebarankanon 7 months ago
Why does the media completely over look Edward? Why does it focus on for example Michio Kaku...no disrespect to Dr. Kaku, he is one of my favorite physicists, but I would imagine Edward being more exaulted by the media. *shrugs*
Singerazboi100 7 months ago
@Singerazboi100 Because he talks funny and isn't quite the showman which is BS. Maybe people tend to trust asians more for some reason lol
Hotboiruben2 7 months ago
@Singerazboi100 ...And Dr. Kaku defers to Edward... Go figure.
SonnyAMan 6 months ago
the reporter looks like he is lost....LOL
bluedrangon69 7 months ago
Edward Witten: I'll eat your live with some fava beans and a nice Chianti, fchfchfchff...
Reporter: o shi-
debunker1905 7 months ago
hes so lifelike!
LOCUkDk 7 months ago
he is a jew and most of the prodigies are jew include einstein. i am starting to think that jews are came from space and they are superhuman Adolf Hitler knew this about jews but he could not destroy all of them
realmoonwalker 7 months ago
THIS BRO ROCKS THE MATH ON MY SOCKS!
xXDJcapdabblerzXx 8 months ago
Lol his voice surprised me, i don't know why but i find it very comical/funny
MrInfinite09 8 months ago
Scientists cannot even figure out why the gamma rays coming from the sun never get any higher than 500,000 eV after a CME. While we detect gamma rays in the Tera electron volts(trillion eV) coming from stars further away. Even gamma ray bursts from galaxies nearly 12 billion light years away contain higher electron volts(pushing force) than our own Sun and they cannot explain that either so this could be the culprit they are overlooking.
GateMessenger 8 months ago
Lol, I think the dark matter he was referring to is called neutrinos. It can't be dark matter because they travel into the Earth at great depths. They are not the culprit for the observed effect in the Milky Way, i.e. the outer stars orbiting the galaxy core faster than the inner stars. It would be more logical to assume it was an effect caused by a strong EM field. EM fields can force charged particles to nearly the speed of light. Electromagnetic is considered a force.
GateMessenger 8 months ago
m theory could be the one
FIGHTFANNERD3 8 months ago
Another amazing thing about Witten is that while his IQ is higher then anyone in history, he has this passion and way of talking about math and theory and science that is just poetic and beautiful, he understands the human part of it, and understands the utter incredible beauty of the universe and revels in it, this we have in common. People like us who understand the universe (to a degree) know how much those in the dark are missing out on, especially religious people.
freethinker4liberty 8 months ago
no its not higher
wasdwasdedsf 1 month ago
M-theory also describes membranes (it may be why it's called m theory), and when these membranes touch, it creates a huge energy event called the big bang and creates a universe, and depending on original conditions, the forces have different values. While there are countless universes completely different from ours, there are also countless very similar to ours, but m theory also says that "travel" between them is utterly impossible, by definition. Contact if interested.
freethinker4liberty 8 months ago
The theory is incredible because it describes all the universes, and also explains why gravity "appears" to be so weak compared to the other two (electroweak and strong force) In fact, gravity is NOT weak at all, it is the only force that is everywhere in the universe, it is "spread" out throughout the multiverse, each universe having a little piece of it, but each universe has it's own fundamental forces of nature and each own value for gravity. Contact me for more info.
freethinker4liberty 8 months ago
Ed Witten is so far beyond anyone else, it is like comparing Einstein to a monkey. He is the modern day true genius, any other physics/math geniuses of our time are but laymen when compared to him, he is truly one of a kind and we're very lucky to have someone like him in our time. If he lived 50 years ago, he'd be more famous then any other human being on Earth, but times changed and now people are not interested in science.
freethinker4liberty 8 months ago
@freethinker4liberty Why are we so lucky to have him in our time if we can't even prove if the theory is correct? It would make more sense to be born 50-100 years into the future and maybe then we would know the answers. Plus, I don't think there is any real practical use for M theory with our current technology...
and so you think Terence Tao is a laymen in comparison to Edward Witten?
Flows234 7 months ago
@Flows234 By no means did I mean to belittle anyone, by lucky, I just meant we're lucky that such thinkers still exist and are not silenced or demonized by the establishment, lucky that a person such as this is not afraid to share his hypotheses and theories even in the face of negativity. If he lived in the first half of the 20th century, he'd be on every paper's front page daily, but since the 80s, science has become a backwater subject for the fringe of society :-((((((
freethinker4liberty 5 months ago
M-Theory describes the multiverse. One of those is ours, but there are countless (again, not infinite, but probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10^35 or more, a number too large to fathom). Some are similar to ours, where the fundamental forces are close to ours (strong and weak force, EM force, mass of particles, etc.), some are so different that they exist for only a split second, some never form stars and are just hydrogen forever etc. This is very different from quantum multiverse.
freethinker4liberty 8 months ago
Just to correct some people on here. String theory alone says nothing about the multiverse (other universes with similar but different laws of physics (gravity is the exception, more on that later)), it is M-Theory that talks about the multiverse. Again, do not confuse this multiverse with the one in shows like Fringe which talks about quantum universes, in other words, conscious universes (choices that create universes with different quantum states, countless, but not infinite.
freethinker4liberty 8 months ago
I imagine Ed Whitten is used to seeing faces like the interviewer's at 5:32 at dinner parties.
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TheDanceForLyfe 9 months ago
Put that string theory on a yoyo.
oldlite 9 months ago
Time doesn't matter, because we don't tell time that way? And just what "way" might that be that wouldn't be the "way" we "tell time". Riddle me that Batman. Oh I think you know? The fuzzness won't matter? That passes for science now? Can we can chump this guy in less than 10 min? Is that because you can't fit the fractal into it or you don't want to becaue you wold have admit the unimaginable? haha
Bezz80 9 months ago
An interview between Ira Flatow and Alan Alda would be a riot, because they sound exactly like each other! Is this because they both grew up in the Bronx?
Anyway, I love guys like Witten, who are so far beyond the rest of us they could create a whole new species in a very short time with the right selective breeding program - and I wish they would. We'd be rid of TV preachers, Lady Gaga and all the other ridiculous freaks that make one embarrassed to be human.
hznfrst 9 months ago
Wow he seems like the ultimate human vessel for an alien ;)
koenraad72 9 months ago
Lol, just when his inner sets of eyelids were blinking you can see him thinking "as religion is obviously the best way to manipulate the will of this moronic species, lets replace it with my unified stringtheory ..one string to rule them all, one string to find them, one string to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.. ;)
koenraad72 9 months ago
This guy has an unbearable voice. lololololololol
PhazonElitist 9 months ago
i have strings at home..how does this explain the universe?
ladyboylizard 9 months ago
@ladyboylizard String theory unifies, Strong matter, Weak Matter, Gravity and Electric Magnetism.
These are the four elements that make up our universe. String theory basically unifies all of these elements together. Before we had 2 different rules for the tiny things such as atoms and quirks, which was explained by quantum mechanics and the rules for the stars and planets which consisted of Albert Einsteins theory of gravity. These two theories had clashed severally because they didn't add up.
TheDanceForLyfe 9 months ago
@TheDanceForLyfe So our universe is made of yarn??? who made the strings!!!????!!!??
BeepimajeepBeep 9 months ago
@BeepimajeepBeep Strings can turn into things called membranes, these membranes have parallel universes within them. They think that when a membrane collides with another the impact is so huge that within the other membrane the collision creates a big bang. We may indeed just be a little tiny insignificant part of this chain. Our Universe as we know it may not be unique at all. Just one of the infinite ones that exist. What made the very first universe, I cannot answer that.
TheDanceForLyfe 9 months ago
@TheDanceForLyfe Along with that, the strings are a replacement for what they believed made up the quirks within an atom. Strings are all the same matter just different lengths, or using different vibrations. Watch "The elegant universe" thoroughly and you will find all the answers to the questions you have. Although I warn you if you really aren't particularly interested in physics it is 19 videos long each 10 minutes.
TheDanceForLyfe 9 months ago
@TheDanceForLyfe Our universe is one giant amoeba... gobbling things up and doing random stuff.
BeepimajeepBeep 9 months ago
@ladyboylizard String theory unified Albert Einsteins theory by getting rid of quantum mechanics and replacing it with strings. Strings within atoms are what causes gravity to be different from the big things - such as stars - and the small things within atoms. Allowing the gravitational pull within an atom to make sense.
TheDanceForLyfe 9 months ago
@TheDanceForLyfe Correct me if i'm wrong, but the 485 words you tube limits you to is slightly frustrating.
TheDanceForLyfe 9 months ago
Professor Witten is obviously a very, very smart man. Easily ONE of the greatest physicists alive today but Hawking, Susskind or Kaku are arguably as brilliant physicists as him. He is unquestionably a great contribution to physics nonetheless. Go, Witten, go!!
TheeVoiceOfReason 9 months ago
Edward Witten is the Elvis ladies man of the physics community.
crud4 10 months ago 2
love his voice....its quite unique
uniquecreature77 10 months ago
@uniquecreature77 lol i watched this video just to hear his voice - it's awesome
auomu 9 months ago
This guy rocks.
gatesindustries 10 months ago 25
Edward witten, is considered to be the next Einstein, shame he has the voice of a 6 year old!!
788mark 10 months ago
Matrix ... Really, if Edward Witten shaved his head, he would look like Morpheus =)
SCPF 10 months ago
Man i am going to try and be a physicist just to understand that shit!
SCPF 10 months ago
String Theory, it probably originated from the Pythagoreans circa 2,500 years ago, a group of Scientists, Mystics, Mathematicians, and Musicians. They developed it from the Vibration and Oscillation of Strings. Unlike what Witten said, at the time there were no pianos, maybe not even Violins, but there were Ramifications of Lute instruments, such as The Guitar.
johnzammitpace 10 months ago
@johnzammitpace The Pythagoreans just made shit up that they thought made them sound cool. Witten got the math to back it up. Now if he actually had also the data...
TomFynn 9 months ago
maaan, i cant understand a thing from what is he saying, he sacrificed his ability of speech to be a physics geek
TheZman47 10 months ago
Isn't time just our sense of the random organization and disorganization of atoms and light?
Linusknollhouse 11 months ago
Nod and smile, nod and smile lol
MMicro99 11 months ago 31
@MMicro99 Come on. We all had to watch it many times. jajaja
aldebarankanon 7 months ago
Just a pity string theory has something like 10 to the power of 500 or 1000 solutions. About as useful as a chocolate fireplace.
MisterSimnock 11 months ago
damn, thought he was gonna draw an elephant
MorrisonEnterprise 11 months ago
M-Theory which he developed is very complex and very promising theory for understanding the universe, my personal opinion is that he might be the most brilliant mind ever...
zenmorke 11 months ago
Sure physicists find it tiring to talk to laymen.
csatimaci 11 months ago
This guy talks like he's the smartest man in the world!
ryanrenesis 11 months ago 3
@ryanrenesis ive heard this guy has been named "the smartest man on earth" by scientific america :D
sirsagan 11 months ago
1:22 I guess we never get too old to draw penises...
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MatsEP 11 months ago
is it just me or does everyone think that this guy looks like the smartest guy in the world?
british123able 11 months ago
@british123able Well shit, he has both a Nobel and a Fields metal, he sort of is "the smartest guy in the world".
Baustrophedonic 11 months ago
@Baustrophedonic pretty sure stephan hawkings will destroy him in terms of being the smartest
british123able 11 months ago
@british123able if Witten can dodge the punching glove then he'll have the edge ;-)
Edfiki86 10 months ago
At 9:03 the interviewer is thinking "???"
jacobu321 11 months ago
is he gay? i cant tell
hallway3 1 year ago
@hallway3 I had a lot of questions watching this video, but "Is he gay?" wasn't one of them. :-) Actually, Professor Witten is married and has kids.
sanfrancisco1967 1 year ago
@sanfrancisco1967 hahaha ya listen to him bro
hallway3 11 months ago
That dude is a robot.
OopsYouFailed 1 year ago
This dude is a lot smarter than most people.
Bob8199 1 year ago
pause @2:37 and look at how much bigger Witten's brain is compared to flatow...lol
tofusauce 1 year ago
@tofusauce lol its like a cantelope and an acorn
whatitduz23 1 year ago
@animhata
They aren't 'made of' anything; they are, in essence, movement.
Energy is the ability to change something - to interact. So when we get down to the level of strings, what we're talking about is pure function.
taicleis 1 year ago
@taicleis thanks a lot for explanaitions, really appreciate it!
animhata 11 months ago
"bla bla bla bla... strings of energy", mmmm... and energy is... what? where does it come from this "energy " the strings are "made" of? I mean what are we talking exactly about when we say Word energy? anybody here have a clue? :-))))))
animhata 1 year ago
@animhata there is more out there. just look up videos on string theory and m theory. takes a lot of time, if you have it, but one thing explains another which explains another...one video on youtube is the tip of the iceberg. theres a pbs special on m theory thats broken into like 10 parts on youtube. it covers a lot.
joeblivian 11 months ago
@joeblivian thanks for the tips! down in the comments I already got some explanations as well, thanks!
animhata 11 months ago
That reporter must feel so stupid.
littlemc4441 1 year ago
"Nod and smile"
adrastea99 1 year ago
He looks like a robot programmed to speak about string theory, yet I wish I had that much passion about anything.
NeverMind9132 1 year ago
wat da fuck do this nigga be talkin bout
MrWalterBritley 1 year ago
9:18 just keep smiling m'boy
emporerXevious 1 year ago
But what makes the strings and what are they made out of? I feel an infinite regression coming on...
pab7984 1 year ago
@pab7984 first you made the same question twice - what makes them and what are they made of is the same. The strings are actualy infinte small strings of ENERGY which vibrate in different patterns therefore making different subatom particles.
Nukleozy 1 year ago
@Nukleozy Both matter and energy are human concepts to describe the world materially. You see strings don't really exist, the world is more like digital, it's just a relation structure. So they aren't made out of anything.
Atlantean24 1 year ago
@pab7984 They have confirmed that mass turns into energy like in atomb bomb, and energy can also turn into particles like in cosmic rays. the idea that matter is not as solid as we think in our everyday life, it's mostly empty space is weird enough. these strings may indeed be the underlying mechanism of everything, it's only a theory so far, but it's based on proven facts
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LeconsdAnalyse 1 year ago
Hi, my name is Ed. I don't even have a Bachelor's degree in physics.
joehenger 1 year ago
@joehenger Ok I apologize if I was mean, but a man of this sophistication
intellectually shouldn't be insulted like that.
netminderxp 1 year ago
HA HA, string theory aint workin out, HA HA!
joehenger 1 year ago
On behalf of netminderxp, I would like to invite Dr. Witten to go FUUUUCk himself, ya know what im sayin
joehenger 1 year ago
@ flipflopx24 hahahahah you're a funny s.o.b
visualart139 1 year ago
проблема в том что мат аппарат теории струн настолько ахуевши что он под силу только узкому ряду спецалистов ....
bestbboymusicchannel 1 year ago
FANTASTIC! he explains a lot in an easy to understand way. Thanks for posting!
superduperbird 1 year ago
There is something seriously wrong with this guys brain, I do not believe a word this weirdo has to say, I could care less what his status is.
joehenger 1 year ago
@joehenger
I couldn't care less.
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netminderxp 1 year ago
i'm dislike number 13.
oryxfreeride 1 year ago
@oryxfreeride its hurts mah branes!
Edfiki86 10 months ago
Jewish pride!
bluewhale18 1 year ago
Sure, this guy might one day solve the worlds mysteries with an equation that is less than an inch long. But... He'll die a virgin. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather be a retarded man-whore than a super intellectual prude.
PurpleNurpleUrple 1 year ago
@PurpleNurpleUrple he has a son. but i'm sure he fathered it by figuring out a way to deposit his sperm using string theory. tard.
mosshark 1 year ago 2
@mosshark If anyone is a tard it would be you, because you can't see a joke thats right in front of you. Tard. And by tard,I mean retard. You sir give humanity a bad name. Now, Suicide is your only redemption. REPENT.
PurpleNurpleUrple 1 year ago
Your next job interview, you should talk like this, not with his voice but in the manner of his speech. Confident in his wording, and presenting them as FACTS when it's a Theory.
Guys a total bad ass.
hahaokayman 1 year ago
This guy was Jack the ripper.
VegasSkateCulture 1 year ago
Boom. At 1:36 the interviewer bails. He's like "Yeah okay buddy".
JayJayAbels 1 year ago
He could probably pull quite easily.
pengo2007 1 year ago
he looks so egyptian
farouqnimer 1 year ago
i just love the elephant theory!
bboyzjimmy1 1 year ago
That's like, an older version of Sheldon!
fureddosan 1 year ago
@fureddosan But not as... snitty =)
ubom2 1 year ago
@ubom2 , yeah of course I'm just kidding, he's quite the oposite actually, really humble guy. But he does have a very particular way of talking =)
fureddosan 1 year ago
5:32 ... ... "What the shit is he talking about?"
TubeSaki 1 year ago 19
@TubeSaki superunification.. i think :)
neallasta 1 year ago
@neallasta I know, I was just commenting on how lost the interviewer looked, which is why I put it in quotation marks. lol
TubeSaki 1 year ago