Charlie Rose - Lisa Randall / Edward O. Wilson

[mrqsilveira]

...Not only that time is a dimension!

How can I be so certain that time is one-dimensional stuff?

I take a special structure and I immerse time on it and time acquires more complexity by assuming two more degrees of freedom!

I want to consider human beings as this special topological structure. Isn't memory an extended possibility for new degrees of freedom for time when imersed in complex structures?

Think of it!

[nine9s]

What is a dimension? If we know there are three or four or ten of them, we must know what they are, right? How do we know that time is one of them?

This isn't meant to be a snarky question, I'd really like to know.

[mrqsilveira]

You can start seeing dimension as a degree of freedom an entity has got in relation to a certain property within a given physical structure (eg: height in space). I thow a ball in the eath's gravitational field. You can say that this ball - provided no other forces act on it - has got two degrees of freedom. Does it help you?

[shitbag139]

haha, u think she looks good here,lol she looks even better usually

[steamtrain1978]

shes so hot aswell

[aripnurwana]

wow prof. Lisa is very cool

[9Charnel]

yes ^^ she is...

[mrqsilveira]

Yeah... You always can get an awsomely beautiful and brightly complex-gödelian mathematical framework to sustain a Ptolomaic physical worldwiew...

You might as well upgrade to Copernicus's cosmology viewpoint!

It is amazingly rich the relation between mathematics and physics... Perhaps, it is like Jews and Christians... Sometimes they get wraped up in one another... Sometimes it is very painful...

But sometimes Grace comes in...

I love it!

[mrqsilveira]

Given mutation and speed of life nowadays, I am sure I am misquoting myself down there...! Sorry, I can't resist!

[mrqsilveira]

I really think that it is a must to read Lisa's book...! After all, ladies are supposed to tell fantastically beautiful tales to their little ones according to species evolution pathways...

Touching this point, when we "mutter" something about multidimensioned stuff let us not forget the subtle interwoven tissue of life!

Moral:

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Quantum Gravity without Species Evolution is no more than a sweet old fairy tale for really very young children to sleep!

[mrqsilveira]

I know what you mean... You look into those beautiful wide smart blue eyes... and you might think that... the roots of the zeta function are all crowned seats dancing on an waving DNA helix given by ACGT holy queens and kings... Tell me, is that it what you feel?

I mean, the lady is telling you to get a nice reliable physical intuition instead of getting lost into a mathematical maze...

Go for her!

[AdiZetaFunction]

She is brilliant! I sent her an email regarding the study of theoretical physics: I told her that I'm an undergraduate and need some advice (I elaborated).  She replied (informally, like IM style!) that I need to study mostly physics and a bit of extra mathematics, and not fully mathematics.

[HK83IE]

youre ez to impress

[mrqsilveira]

Funny... God is indeed very subtle... Like Moses, Einstein who helped hatch the cosmology egg, remained on the Sacred Horeb Mount to see from the distance the Holy Land!

Also, Spinoza who didn't accept prophetic revelation, helped founding psy-sci which - with the unconscious mind revealed by Freud - give some scientific meaning to all the symbolic content of religious miths.

Then, it is not surprise that Spinoza's most important influence on Einstein follows a clear unconscious pathway!!

[brianestoll]

Amazingly, I saw her lecture about her book "Warped Passages" on bookTV (don't ask why) & HAD to buy it.

If you have ever been interested in the possibility of multiple dimensions, the book may or may not help clear it up but does get your brain working. Lots of diagrams and analogies to help normal people get at least some grasp of string theory, quantum physics and multiple dimensions etc.

[Spaticle]

Umm...

[Spaticle]

i want to kill you

[jehnubis]

I agree, but i would do that with just my penis!

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

Certainly one of the most atractive Doctors of Physics I've ever seen. Well, not a surprise really. Most of them are male and have funny haircuts.

[stablish01]

i loved this interview i have only just this past week started to be intrested in string theroy and m theary.after 6 hours of you tube videos i am starting to understand it if only more people could grasp the idea.

[ubik123456789]

Its ironic that you have a physicist discussing serious advancement in our perception of the reality an the last batch of comments have all been posted by cavemen.

[jgwphilly1969]

Women have been locked out of science since the Greeks started it. People have assumed wrongly that women can't do science. Or that if a woman is going to be a scientist, she would have to be manly. Lisa Randall is on the cutting edge. Notice how people talk about how she's "hot," talk about Jenna Jameson, Ron Jeremy. This lady is a physicist not a porn star. Get it right.

[stevencda]

smart is hot...

[Letseatshite]

I can just imagine sucking Randalls feet. She's incredible. It would be almost cosmological.

[polymath7]

I'm quite fond of women's feet myself -particularly when they are attached to a beautiful world-class scientist. Is it just me, or has she slipped her shoes half-off under the table?

[Zeldovich]

You are both pathetic. Some physicist chick with a huge beak, and you guys want to literally send signals that she's a more worthy human being than you are. You aren't men. There has to be another word for you. Maybe jelly fish?

[crassiodorus]

Lisa Randall, to you, is "a physicist chick with a huge beak"? Michael Jackson must give you a hard on.

[AZURA888]

Maybe gravity isn't really a force and there isn't graviton.

[Onesnowbal]

I wish Lisa had half my brain....i mean she must have a great body too....i mean......man....she confuses me!

[asseeninYOURDREAMS]

I like Lisa's voice she sounds hot

[debunker1905]

There's still a lot to discover, and as Isaac Newton once said: "What we know is a grain of sand, and what we ignore is an entire ocean".

[SchmokinJoe]

Damn right. We're barely scratching the surface.

[ILovePhysics10689]

No, we haven't even found the surface yet! Right now we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the ocean. We know almost next to nothing about physics, but that's why it never ceases to amaze us.

[SchmokinJoe]

Yes. We try to understand the Universe in ways that are familiar to us which is incredibly limited.

[kubikmaster]

Randall deserves to be fucked by Ron Jeremy and also by ...fuck, i forgot XD

[closedmouth]

What the fuck?

[kubikmaster]

Jenna Jameson, I would watch, i feel so randy ROFL

[kubikmaster]

"What we know is an idea of the delight of heaven, and the heavenly pussy we have yet to explore remains untainted like a clear ocean". Muhammad ;)

[debunker1905]

By the way, I remenber of Stephen W. Hawking saying in a conference to publish his book in 1974, that: "Physicists are about to read the mind of God".

We're currently in 2008 (34 years later), and we of course advanced in technology and physics theories, however we're still way too far from "reading the mind of God", and I can affirme that even with the LHC's experiments that are about to come.

[gichuru28]

Ed Wilson's as cool as (if not cooler than) Lisa. Knowing how many dimensions there are (or aren't) won't save us from environmental disaster.

[FeelOfFriction]

shes old enough to be my mom but shes hot!

[mozart20dlubos]

Damn, lisa randall looks like a man, I've been looking at full pictures of her, and she's built like a man, everything from the wide shoulders to the thin waist. I guess it's true, the claim that a high level of testosterone is connected with better performance in spatial tasks and mathematics. She probably has a very high libido cos of her unusually high testosterone level.

[th3d3wd3r]

Yesh, the more problems we solve in particle physics, the more questions we have. Lisa Randall is quite hot in an odd way, and is clearly at the forefront of her field, but remember, she's a theoretical physicist, and so far she hasn't proved anything at all by experiment. Although I really hope she has her day. I also hope one day I will meet and pound her ;)

@kosai - what are you talking about man, that makes little to no sense, unless you are referring to the already disproven big crunch?

[hypatia2001]

She is my hero. I hope to become a physicist one day and work in academia like her. :-) We need more women within physics like her.

[aesrp]

no, we need more people as passionate as her and people like michio kaku and brian greene.

[hypatia2001]

They are idols of mine as well. All of them are talented and brilliant people.

[AcousticSaloon]

Prof. Randall, your intelligence is only matched by your beauty. It is as much a pleasure to look at you as it is to listen to you. Thanks.

[doseryder]

slightly outta sync

[superfisto]

This is an awesome CR show. Two great scientists!

[kosai19]

What I also thought about is that this explains the big bang theory. What we think about as the entire universe could just be a very small super cluster of galaxies that at one point in time had the gravity membrane extremely close. That exertion could be so strong that it brings all matter in the super cluster to a single point. Eventually the force is so great that it counteracts the gravitational force and explodes.

[debunker1905]

Still doesn't prove a thing. You see, the big problem with the Big Bang is that it doesn't tell us what "banged" and "why" it "banged".

If you come telling me that our universe was created due to the collision of multiple branes or universes, the question remains, where did the first ones came from in the first place?

It's not that easy pal, many brilliant minds (even Einstein) tried to work this out, and no one acomplished a satisfying result, and this for 53 years.

[kosai19]

Some good points. Search on google video for Nassim Haramein. He has an 8 hour video where he puts forth a unified field theory that has a lot of scientific merit. With his new understanding of the universe it does solve quite a few problems. Himself, and other scientists that I've looked at also believe that the origins of our universe may not even be a big bang, but a black whole that emits matter from a singularity into our universe. It's not as crazy as it may sound. Worth taking a look.

[ILovePhysics10689]

Yes, but the reason M-theory is given so much exposure is that IF (and right now it is an incalcuable if) proven true it would remove the singularity problem of the big band. The only problem is that it creates another one.

Also, the "big bang" is a misnomer. It wasn't a bang; it was a massive expansion of space-time. A difficult concept to understand, even for the brightest of us.

[kosai19]

It's not that hard to grasp. Take the dimensions we understand: X,Y,Z, and time and image that all of this as a 2-D surface like a piece of paper. Add another parallel piece of paper and call it gravity. Now, imagine these are bent at different areas along the surface. Some areas closer or further apart. We live in an area of the universe where the gravity paper is far apart so it's weak while other parts of the universe are much closer and feel greater gravity.

[Drewdog2323]

Wow. There is nothing sexier than a woman of her intelligence and hotness.

[sn1pe352]

Edward O. Wilson is by far the most blunt yet truest speaker Ive seen so far..too bad he's not a politician

[sn1pe352]

One this that amazes me is when I ask physics majors what is gravity and they give the textbook answer and truely believe we have everything figured out.

[SpaceCarnivora]

then become a physicist and prove them wrong.

[danger0usknowledge]

Reminds me of my least favorite religious

popup adverts. Big Hook; Scientists Cannot Explain Gravity-here's why>>>then you click

on the link and they give you the big

graphics and words to the effect 'scientific

theories of cosmology come and go

but God is the constant beyond the ebb and flow'...something like that.

[ILovePhysics10689]

That's why he/she don't have his/her Phd or D.Phil yet.

[myroseaccount]

This is very exciting around 19.18. Here she outlines the real fundamental questions. As Einstein once said sometimes the hardest part is to ask the right questions, and it looks like Ms Randall is doing just that.

[Osa23]

to understand her - and her concepts - you must be willing to suspend how your mind thinks about 'reality' as your immediate senses inform you of - but consider the reality revealed when you attune your immediate senses to the expansive qualities of language itself. when people talk about how difficult what lisa randall talks about they are not willing to consider how to upgrade how their minds considers language. i recommend not trying to 'understand' as much as i recommend just receiving.

[yravni]

You're right it's not a dead science Milo Wolf (physicist) recently discovered the spherical wave structure of matter it opens up alot of questions and ANSWERS ot previous paradox about what matter really is (David Hume) ...write back but be polite please

[kindheartatheist]

wooow this stuff is intense, i find it sooo difficult to imagine. This chick is so intellegent i just dont get it. This is really interesting but bloody hell its hard to apply to everyday life.

[donvee2000]

I think the true mark of a genius is the ability to be able to explain complex theories. I have read her book, and though I had to re-read several sections, I was able to understand complex theories that I previously could not.

[yravni]

Hi there I want to choose or weigh my words carefully before I speak, anyhow I'm also an avid reader of physics books etc... did you know that Milo wolf a physicist is going to one day win a Nobel Prize, he discovered the spherical wave structure of matter, I just wanted to know if string theory is an extension of quantum theory (Milo wolf says that quantum theory has serious errors etc...Hope to hear from ya s

[yravni]

Hope to hear from ya soon

[warrenstargazer]

Yes, String Theory is not true science yet. But it is well within the sphere of possibility.

[themightycelestial]

If I only had a brane.

[4ourthofjuly]

Pretty dumb, but it does seem that logic dictates that discoveries will be less frequent.

[Zeldovich]

What logic? When you have no idea what the problem space is, how can you say that?

[4ourthofjuly]

Well, if we're this close to a unified field theory in physics, most of the discoveries will be minor, or take a lot of money (larger particle accelerators, etc). That may be a model for the other sciences as well, less frequent major discoveries, at least.

I happened to have read an article on the idea, it seemed reasonable, but maybe not rock solid.

[Zeldovich]

To assume an ebb in theoretical progress is permanently asymptotic is ridiculous. Progress ebbs and flows and no one can ever know what the problem space is. There can always be "unknown unknowns." Physics seems to be approaching an asymptote in the late 19th century in the eyes of many, only to enjoy the revolutions in the forms of relativity and quantum mechanics.

[4ourthofjuly]

True enough, but we have to place this within a context, and that context will be present economics. If we have to start spending millions of dollars for details, we may just stop and spend all of our money on practical applications - which I wasnt really including in my statement.

I agree there should be enough to learn to keep people going for millenia, though.

[Zeldovich]

I think you completely missed my point. The point is that science has always ebbed and flowed. There is no reason to believe we are at anything like an asymptote in physics research. In fact, mnay physicists are now grappling with string theory, which is barely understood, but suggests there could be far more to the universe than was ever anticipated.

[coolyah1]

When we prove that we can repair the damage we've done to Earth... just maybe we'll be given an opportunity to investigate the universe and even do so (without) damaging it.

[ncbookz]

1 Corinthians 2:9 (King James Version)

King James Version (KJV)

9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him

[gusb232]

During the early 20th cent After Maxwell and before Heisenberg Most Physicists were saying, Physics was over except for a couple loose ends.

And today the Pop science of say Brain Green tells us that a T.O.E is eminent.

[sangogio]

There is always something that doesn't fit to the current theories and thus a new revolution in sciences is starting...I don't think science will be ending in the next million years...

[Zeldovich]

One can never say that there is a final theory. To say so would not be scientific.

[piceras]

physics is a dead science??? Has this joker ever turned on a computer? what a moron! even if he is just setting up the stage for her interview, my god, use something a little less insulting to her, and revealing of his total ignorance. what a jerk.

[phxfreddy]

Annoying MMGW religious adherent follows a great talk by Ms Randall.

[MrFrankBullitt]

Pretty cute chick

[waltermodel43]

Oh it's true: during the whole time slot from 33:12 to 34:12 Lisa's interaction is quite amazing.

[waltermodel43]

What could mean Lisa's look in 34:09 ?

[Dirus23]

Great interviews. Lisa Randall was fascinating. E.O. Wilson was, as always, brilliant.

[SuperTightKiller]

She is so hot.