Edward Witten on modern physics I

Edward Witten is Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton NJ).

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[spsiman]

The problem for physics is that light is not an object (wave or particle) that moves from one point to another but is an action at a distance between electrons (not known in Maxwell's time) that requires TWO times - this is a complication that physicists (who are deeply conservative wrt math) were not prepared to investigate. Hence relativity, QFT, string theory & all the other nonsense that results from creating equations BEFORE understanding the physics.

Oh, well.

[x1x2x3ct]

@spsiman alright Einstein

[nckey42]

Wow Ed, your smart... but next time, write all this down and have Morgan Freeman read it for you!

[mindoes1983]

@nightreaper999 I don't care, back in the university years I have professors with all their normal voice teaching me, they did't achieve much IMO. Given a choice again I would want this man to teach me, you have no idea how extremely fabulous is his math skills and his insight to modern physics. But I have an impression that he dislikes lecture times, this man is all research.

[Matzes]

@spsiman yea too bad the real smart physicists like you are busy trolling the youtube comments

[beeforiginal]

@spsiman Photons interact with neutrons (and other hadrons), not just charged ones.

[nightreaper999]

i dont like your voice. but i admire your intelligence.

[blah87241]

you can just tell when he hesitates at 0:58 that 5 million equations just went through his head in eleven dimensions.

[Singetally]

@spsiman Have you studied relativity? Do you know why the equations work? Because you are completely wrong about much of what you said. Your saying that we have relativity etc because we didn't understand the physics so went to making equations? Re-think all of that.

[ephidapoon]

@spsiman Nonsense it may be, but without we have no chance of making sense of it all.

[Romansteel13]

This guy is the real Dr. Manhattan.