Lisa Randall talks physics with Charlie Rose

[eastshawnee]

Because most male scientists are not hot or sexy except for the dude from CERN who is smokin sexy! I'm blanking on his name but it doesn't matter because you know who I'm talkin about, right?

[SoulMusic97]

Doesn't Lisa Randall's answer sounds like a borrowed one from another exceptional Physics who explained it more than 30 years ago? To this day, that is still the most genius way ever this question was answered.

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[MissAnnaVerona]

she reminds me of melanie laurent

[henkjanssen1510]

This Lady is so clear and compassionate in explaining a difficult subject really beautiful henk

[manwithouthat44]

@henkjanssen1510 handig dat je je naam er even achter zette henk, je hebt een hele mooie naam lol

[sanoonbs]

333

[Zendout1]

I can show you another dimension --it's kind-of like the twilight zone I call it--The Retarded Liberals dimension --where nothing that makes sense to me or you, is profound truth to them --A dimension where your head can explode if you listen to them blather --it's true!--- Here is a place where reality is twisted into knots up is down, that kind of thing You can see it too -just watch CNN, msnbc, or read the Times I hope your head doesn't explode

[mfentruck]

@Zendout1

Wtf? This is about physics not politics for fucks sake.

[cymbeli]

Clear evidence of the imbalance of society in its reactions and behavior toward men vs women. Look at this page and then compare it to the posts while Dr. Brian Greene is talking.....all there is on here is "she's hot" "she makes physics sexy" "milf"....lol....for heavens' sake.....can't she just be a recognized scientist for her actual work....no better or less than any man...just simply another productive mind working on this universe or universes rather..kinks.

[SickDream]

scientists can be MILFs too =D

[diees]

wha- the only woman studying m-theory?

[nsugathadasa]

Now this is one beautiful woman.

[FallofDarkness55]

i think she's hot too. not just because i think she's attractive but because she's like the only woman studying m-theory. i love women physicists.

[66Ricas]

It must be hard being a woman in this field. She is smart and has all this stuff to talk about but half the population are just interested in whether she is hot or not. For the record I think she's hot.

[JoeyMars1]

Imagine going on a date with a gal like her if you were into this stuff too!..I would bring a notebook and pen along!

[oOHanSoloOo]

She is one very good looking woman. I wish her a good time at CERN and many fantastic discoveries :-)

[angela1894]

I think she's gay.

[kalzone2112]

@angela1894 hmmm. 4th dimensional gaydar perhaps? 

[watersignwater]

i don't understand what shw is saying, but i feel smarter already just listening to her!

[thebookofself]

"Human senses and intellectual equipment evolved in a biological context, concerned mainly with survival and reproduction of human kind, the powers that such clever animals may possess are wholly inadequate to picture reality itself, which belongs to an order that utterly transcends their domestic concerns" Immanuel Kant

[Knepperify1]

So what would these 1st, 2nd and 3rd and Nth derivatives of these N+1 Dimensions look like in our dimension? That is the challenge - to determine what those other dimensions would 'look' like and then back out to what they would appear as here.

[Hengistnew]

She wrote exactley that there is no other reason to consider supersimmetry than the unifying idea. No experimental support, at least until now. And it is fundamentally true. You can imagine about the extra dimensions! Anyway, no doubt: LIsa Randall is a great physicist. And, why not, she is a very nice woman!

[DejectedPanda]

She's kind of hot for a physicist.

[AntiSchiff]

@DejectedPanda

She's weird looking. You have no taste.

[centerM87]

The theory that gravity might be felt from extra dimentional sources is interesting. Come on Higgs, let us know what is happening.

[hadronb4]

The collider had another failure on December 1st after setting a new record power limit on the 30th.

[LogInForPaper]

She makes physics sexy! Not that it already wasn't.

[curea229]

I was thinking the same thing. Nice to know I'm not the only politically incorrect bastard out there.

[rideonwater2]

omg...she explains things sooo well...i read her book. REALLY INTERESTING SHIT

[Ripley01]

geezes crist ... if I had a physics teacher like her ... i would have been a physicist ... daayyyymm...

[ygustavo]

why i dont have physics professors like her? in a hot view of course.

[Fapsamup]

Hehehe, :p

[p1946]

She is much more attractive than Einstein.

Just saying.

[thehandsomedevils]

carl sagan explained this years ago? what is new?

[qed100]

Sagan did explain it years ago. Others explained it years and decades before he did. Nevertheless, not everyone knows about such things, and she's explaining it as the need arises. Her work relates to the dimensionality of space, and so she must go to the trouble of spelling it out.

[VannevarBush]

@qed100

I think it is time for a paradigm shift. Although she surely is a promising physicist I assume that many though patterns are still midst 20th century relics and need to be overcome for a new insight.

[braino2000]

I agree... This is old shit haha. btw Carl Sagan was the man!!!

[LogInForPaper]

It far harder to achieve breakthroughs in physics than it is in other sciences (excluding cancer research). This could explain why there isn't anything relitively new in physics.

[TheUniverse3000]

She speaks more intelligently in this interview than she did in the one with Michio Kaku.

[TheUniverse3000]

She's attractive. I purchased her book about a year ago.

[nevertheless123]

Wait...You puchased her book because she is attractive? That speaks to how she probably became famous.

laughable, really.

Why not get playboy?

[centerM87]

My interest in this is of the possibility gravity may be manifasting itself to us from another dimention. Quantum particle physics can't account for what causes a particle to have gravity or mass. Einstein could only explain it's effects. Quantum+General Relativity= ?

[neilzep]

Damn a good looking woman with brains...a first for me.

[silverberetta17]

what about Sarah Palin? Oh WAIT

[AbookOfverse]

All is inside our interacting brain hemispheres; right=parallel processor, left=serial. This (and prob the double helix structure of DNA) creates duality thinking and perception, e.g., polarity, matter/antimatter, yin/yang, etc. Right brain is sensitive to external waves, while left interprets them to comport with our senses; hence the illusion of sequentiality (time), for example. Everything "exists" in an eternal, pulsating, spherical wave singularity. Such is likely the physics of Reality.

[garciaalvin3]

im psychic!and i can prove it.

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

Lisa has to be a guest on the two CBS series "NUMBERS" and "The IIth Hour".

[bmcelhattan]

I'm in the middle Miss Randall's book right now and find it extremely fascinating trying to picture in my mind a five dimensional object passing through my own universe.

[mrqsilveira]

"Thinking is running away from wonder." (I forgot the author)

Think of the noisy scared monkeys in "2001 an odissay in the space"...

Imagine Jesus entering Jerusalem right before being crucified...

...Einstein uncovering the secrets of spacetime!

[maTs00ka]

what lisa randall is trying to say is that our "perception" of the extra dimensions are only manifestations of their effects, sliver windows if you will on their full form. just as a 2d would see a sphere as a circle, we perceived time as "passing" or "going from past to future", and gravity as being "attractive".

We must advance beyond the security of seeing the "parts" with our primate senses, to "deducing" the whole with our logic and science.

[mrqsilveira]

Our primate senses are at the root of our intuition. Intuition - be it a metaphor or not - is connected to our souls. I am not sure our 'primate senses' are always guided by the search of security even though the idea of a 'soul' reminds me of a placenta. Anyway, would you say, then, that the 'Gedanken' wherefrom emerges Einstein's principle of equivalence helped the theoretical genius feeling safer? After that, 10 years till GR!

"Thinking is running away from wonder." (I Forgot the author)

[maTs00ka]

there is nothing "soulful" about our senses. our senses are the results of a millenia of evolution, all guided at the singular purpose of passing on our genetic codes.

given this, there's no surprise it is hard to comprehend extra dimensions (try to imagine the challenge of the passage of time w/o a mirror or clocks). we simply were not evolved to perceive them, and our language is barely able to describe them.

in time, we will get there, but first we must acknowledge our inherent limits.

[Zeno1999]

Laguages like sanskrit has words to describe things that now English learned scientists trying to understand.

What if our values and belief systems are our limitations in understanding other dimensions.

[nblumer]

That's right - senses are built in 3D . If we can imagine bugs in 2D not being able to contemplate and thus see a curvature on a flat board, then we might not be so hard on our senses inability to perceive 4D in a 3D universe. Not only are our senses built for and thus limited to 3D, it may also be that the passage of light in our 3d universe may be trapped, preventing us from seeing it. Perhaps the only sense that perceives some interaction might be touch - we can feel gravity.

[TaylerKnox]

@maTs00ka Good comments. Thanks for sharing.

[kamalmichael]

gravity may be weak on earth because we are at the edge of our galaxy and bounce up and down as we spin. when we are bouncing down our gravity may be weak and strong when we bounce up

[Spaticle]

I'd posted a much longer version of this comment previously -- but complications arose with the whole registering thing, so I'm not sure if it got through. At any rate, I can't believe the level of comments about this video. A couple of points here: A. Lisa Randall is a world renowned physicist and she deserves your respect. B. She is a beautiful woman -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with science -- and anyone who says otherwise deserves to have his ass kicked.

[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.

[leverageeverything]

The clearest description I ever heard about different dimensions was from the teaching company (TTC) lectures - I think it was from the 'joys of math'. It's a useful primer.

[plato2014]

"demension" is a mathematical term that laypeople can not fully understand without math education

[moltasonti]

i would love to penetrate her while she whispered this stuff in my ear

[superfisto]

Why am I so attracted to both her and Jana Levin?

[openuniverse2003]

What a piece of a@@! She never got married? Has no kids? She's not a freaking DYKE, is she???? She is truly 1 in a million, she should have been FORCED to breed more genius-hotties like herself.

[alexander291]

shush up with your god

[feeldpowe]

Am I right 2 say that v can't see the other dimensions per se BUT v can hear, feel and acknowledge their presence in an abnormal or weird behaviour of tranced human beings, animals, plants etc.

[jhstrega7]

Google "Terence McKenna"!

Don't ever doubt your own thoughts when it comes to questioning science. Keep reading and stay abreast on the latest in scientific thought from all parties - you will find yourself and your "weird" ideas in very good company :)

[KowalczykAlexander]

Lisa Randall is so hot. Forget Charlie Rose, she can talk physics to me all night long.

[mjn76]

I thought scientists abhor anyone who believes in God or is religious. Randall is essentially asking us to take ON FAITH the existence of multiple dimensions.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)

[graywolfz10]

Yeah i got that one to but shh its to hard for people to understand there are those of us who are firm believes in science but also believe in a god.

[fattyhidalgo]

She said 'spacetime is the 5th dimension' if you listen closely. That's not true. Spacetime comprises the 4 dimensions we already know of. The three coordinates of Euclidian space and then time. Not smart. Musta got job based on affirmitive action. I'd still bang her though. It would be a big bang! hehe.

[paulfeakins]

Hahaha yes, I'd like to educate her on the big bang!

[runeaam]

No she made a reference to the "fifth dimension of spacetime". You clearly didn't listen very well to what she was saying.

[enterthewired]

And that's why I hate religion. It brainwashes millions of weakwilled people, who throughout their whole lives keep saying 'God this, god that'. It is so stupid to believe into something that has been invented by some geeks two thousand years ago... Instead of spreading the religious crap, you'd better be quiet and try to understand what Lisa Randall is saying.

[orsiorsi186]

Science believes this crap????But they scoff at people who say there is a God.A God is lot more sensible than

this hogwash.Math is not the truth only man's attempt to explain the truth.Science has become a way for a bunch of lazy overeducated bastards to keep from working.

.

[siph0n]

What are you, amish? Get with the century. Science has always and continues to push humanity forward, something no religion can hope to accomplish. You're so brainwashed by that babble, you can't even register the amount of clear evidence held before you. What will you do when science engulfs the bible's claims completely?

[paulfeakins]

This is the most intelligent post I've ever seen on YouTube! Touché dude.

[runeaam]

It's so funny your bashing physics on a computer that couldn't have been invented if it wasn't for quantum physics. Stupid people are so cute :)

[orsiorsi186]

I was bashing the string theory.Its claims are

are hogwash,but you brainwashed idolators of

science don't question anything any more. I heard a well known science professor

on TV say its been twenty years since a student

has challenged anything he's taught.And it

sort of frightened him.

[runeaam]

I agree that string theory could be bunk, but there are a lot of physicists that are critical of it. Smolin is one of the more famous.

"Science has become a way for a bunch of lazy overeducated bastards to keep from working."

That's just ignorant.

[orsiorsi186]

Runeaam,I agree,but we must not allow the high priests of science think their shit don't stink.Most

of them did their best work when they were 23 and

live off of of it for the next 50 years..

[stretchyrubberbands]

"but you brainwashed idolators of

science don't question anything any more."

"I heard a well known science professor

on TV say..."

Irony, anyone?

[orsiorsi186]

Have you ever heard of the ether? Sounds

like dark matter to me.Science is right back

Where it was when Newton wrote about the ether. I was quoting a scientist not licking his

boots!

[Remagoen]

"Science believes this crap????" Funny, the religious whistled the same tune when Galileo was almost burned at the stake. Silly little Galileo...

[orsiorsi186]

Galileo wasn't killed was he? They knew it was

true, they didn't know how it would affect the people.Almost, only counts in horseshoes and

hand grenades. Professors today are being forced out of their teaching

positions because of their anti-politically

corrects views.People go to prison for like

2 years for killing chickens, when one can

go buy cooked chickens at the store.Are we

much better? Ask Bridget Bardot,facing

prison for telling the truth?

[Remagoen]

If you're going to debate with me, don't switch topic. We aren't talking about political views, are we? We are talking about "science believing this crap".

Galileo wasn't killed because he "recanted" to save his skin, not because "they knew it to be true".

[orsiorsi186]

Remagoen:Excuse my French,But the Christian world kept civilization alive from 800 to 1500

AD.The world will collapse into barbarism and

hedonism when Christianity dies. The people in Galileo's time were crude and evil,but they understood the truth. They did know he was right and kept the truth alive.How do we know about his trials and troubles if the Christians are so backward? Because they

respected truth.Shakespeare was a Catholic

who hid it also,But his plays survive.

[Remagoen]

Correction: Christianity kept civilization in a state of stagnation from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the Medieval period. The fact that the "Christian world" you speak of was in decline and science on the rise when Galileo was almost burnt should tell you that people were starting to wake up out of that sleep.

Who cares who believes in fake gods, it doesn't mean a thing in the long run. Stop throwing up strawmen. It's weak.

[orsiorsi186]

Remagoen:Okay, I'll tell you what I think.The

string theory is hogwash and is the last dying

gasp of modern science to explain nature without

absolute space.Space cannot warp, and time is absolute.The clock slows down not time.

[Remagoen]

And you would know, if you actually studied physics instead of listening to that people who don't know about physics tell you, that the Theory of Relativity is separate from String Theory. I'll admit that ST is on shaky ground, but so was a lot of other things before they were proven, such as warped space, which HAS BEEN OBSERVED multiple times.

Out of curiosity, where are you getting these conclusions from? What books have you read? What websites have you visited? What classes did you take?

[orsiorsi186]

I must admit you have true spirit.Thanks for responding,most people on You tube give up after five minutes.

I know the string theory is different than the

theory of relativity.But, they come from the same 'no truth' basis.The observations of warped spaced could be a disturbance in the Dark matter.Or the ether which Newton spoke of.

Not space it self,which contains the dark matter.99.9 of the universe is filled with it. I have a BS in Biology,but

"I'm a voice crying in the wilderness"

[Remagoen]

You're welcome and thank you.

The luminous ether has nothing to do with Dark Matter (look at even the names!). They're two completely different things. I suggest even Wikipedia to show you the difference, as it is vast.

The ToR isn't a "no truth", because, as I said, it was observed. And since it didn't have anything to do with the ether, you can't claim that.

You seem to be speculating based on assumptions of Dark Matter. Have you tested these theories of yours?

[orsiorsi186]

Remagoen:I haven't thought about these things probably for ten years,but at one time I studied this

stuff quite extensively. The ether theory you dismiss is that it is the ' medium' for the propagation of light. However,

Newton thought light was a particle so it needs no medium to propagate itself , does it? Think about this stuff,If you're young your

brain is still fresh. Einstein did all his stuff in 1905,when he was in his twenties,

After that it was all downhill.

[Remagoen]

You didn't answer my question: Did you test them?

[Remagoen]

Have you tested these hypotheses*?

Sorry, I mixed the words up.

[alexander3131]

I guess I am off to an excellent start. I can't visualize branes, extra dimensions etc.

[kaffeemitzie]

LR is awesome for hand-holding and giving us even a chance at understanding our physical universe. I don't perceive her as condescending. You're just not used to people from Queens. She's delivered a slice of special relativity, particle physics, a method for holding a mental model of higher dimensions, and that all too elusive thing called Gravity. Her book is a God-send, so exciting and fun. Thank you * (Plank length)**-1 Frau. Prof. Randall. Next stop, "Gravitation", Kip Thorne

[wdeboer0]

From her book to Gravitation? Talk about a quantum leap :) (and yeah I know, nothing quantum about general relativitry)

[winrx]

I suppose experiencing orgasms would be way too mundane for someone of her depth..? (pun unintended)

[winrx]

Ah, I see she's made up like a cocktail waitress here - she's learning..lol

[AnvilCrazy85]

Her book is nice... a little condescending but nice.

I think the fifth dimension and soforth might explain gravity.

[mywomansfromtokyo]

By your logic, the not-hot stupid ones are always married?

[wdeboer0]

No. By his logic, the married ones are always either not hot or not smart. Contrapositive, you see.

[ultraollie]

Yes, but hot, stupid ones are a dime a dozen. It is the mix.

Witten? I don't know; my wife would probably leave me for him if she got the chance. :-)

[born68]

Lisa. you have illucidated thee topic of extra dimensions very elloquently. But can you repeat everything youve just stated while screwing me to death in this dimension. My pajamas just went from flatland to the eigth dimesion in a nano second. Thank you.

[betta144]

I would take her to a diffrent dimention,lol

[badpilgrim]

I think Coxeter can picture dimensions above 4. Here, a picture _is_ worth a thousand words. To go higher, I would imagine that you have to reach what Colin Wilson calls consciousness level 7 - or Faculty X. The higher dimensional levels contradict experience of the senses; and even mathematics as it now stands. So in a sense, it makes more sense to develop consciousness, rather than model what is beyond the realm of symbolic expression. IE forget size language. IMVHO

[rpn313]

Lisa Randall is a professor of theoretical physics at Harvard. Her works on extra dimensions, also termed "RS1" and "RS2" are the most cited papers in the physics community over the past 10 years. Her brain makes her hot. Yes she is single, but she's usually thinking about various mathematical and conceptual approaches to the Hierachy problem while on a dinner date!

[shaq786]

The HOT smart ones are always single, guys like me are too intimidated to bust a move on em. My dream girl is a hot smart science girl.

[octamember]

what was that, a woman with a brain? Ive heard of them before, but only in legends...

[adwaith2neo]

I'M IN LOVE....

[warehouselarry]

The book Flatland she mentions is really cool.

[tippingpts]

that's so hot, a sexy physicist, what a contradiction, but nevertheless banging hot.

[stm]

Rawr... she's hot.

[dragoonthief]

I love this stuff.... To bad Im not smart enough... I should just go jump off a bridge.