i guess it is quite off topic but do anyone know a good site to stream newly released tv shows online ?

@Kye Terrance Flixportal =)

@Esteban Terrance thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I really appreciate it !

@Kye Terrance glad I could help =)

Me

You got me. I just had to see for myself. I hope my brain doesn't explode.🤣

Same here 😂

Yep, just saw a Joe Rohan short saying this guy is the Michael Jordan of Physics!!!

I am a member brother

Yep

he could work a bit on his intonation

If he changed his intonation then it would be just like everyone else, boring. Once you accept his intonation and try to see where it comes from then things become a little more interesting. Hell do you think Christopher Walken would have been famous if it wasn’t for his strange intonation?

Hahahahaaha...sure, he is a regular smooth talker!

His public speaking skills are made even more impressive because hes most likely autistic. You can see it in his mannerisms in the 1 on 1 interviews. His body language is very stiff, he always Is looking down at the floor avoiding eye contact.

He's an incredible mind. The closest thing we have to Einstein (albeit not quite at that level) imo. True genius. He studied history and journalism too; i think he may have dabbled in linguistics as well. He seems very well read.

Seriously? Yes he replaced them all with “so”.

you wanna check Robert Sapolsky to see what a master speaker is man.

He does say umm and even an uhh in the first minute.

He stumbled over his words more than a 13 year old boy talking to his biggest crush 😂

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Most physics students are also lay to his work, this is reality…

"to the layperson"

@@someone1059 No.

I would say he's the greatest _mathematical_ physicist today.

Un-arguably*

@@elidrissii No

Nope, anyone that still believes in string theory or Ed's theory, M theory, isn't the greatest!!!

I read an article about Witten in the 1980's, I think. It may have been in Discover magazine. The writer said that when very prominent physicists met him for the first time, some of whom thought they might win a Nobel eventually, they just gave up on the dream on the spot. They realized that Witten was so far ahead of them that they didn't stand a chance. This would happen at dinner parties!

He is capable i just know it😅

Yes. ASMR physics.

Absolutely he should. But don't bet on it. People are WAY too damn stupid to fully appreciate people like him. Instead, they'd rather look up to the Kardashians.

Mark SW same as china

@@marksw5499 I think people love Niel Tyson much more than Edward witten and Brian Greene

@Harsh Raval and he’d interrupt Ed the entire time

@Divyanshu Pandey well explain why do you think he’s an idiot?

Ed Witten has a more or less confirmed IQ of > 200. What's in a name, eh?

Nope, Chomsky is.

Bill Hampton No you're mistaken. Witten is.

+Neil McIntosh Even though it looks like supersymmetry is dead, something he was a big supporter of?

+Bill Hampton hahaha good joke man, made my day.

Not so sure about that. Many modern-day physicists are surprisingly ignorant about basic philosophical issues and you cannot really be considered smart, let aalone the smartest, if you lack a solid philosophical foundation upon which you base your reasoning. On the other hand, if you only have in mind formulaic and mathematical smarts then a large number of mathematicians would have to be in contention for the title.

And then get back to "average". No thanks :)

@@balf8215 Narcissist.

I would suggest watching the excellent NOVA series called "The Elegant Universe". It's a big time commitment, but it will prim you for Witten-level talks.

John Mitchell Do you have an idea what will prepare me? cause i want to be prepared to understand the near future if only to join the existential crisis that follows :P

twistedmezelf Sorry late for the reply but you'll need a lot of maths mainly in the fields of Algebra which includes Abstract, Linear and Lie Algebras lots of Algebraic Topology and Algebraic Geometry and sound understanding of Manifold Theory and Lie Groups and that just the Math part. For the Physics prerequisite you'll need sound understanding of Graduate level Physics which involves lots of GR and QFT , after that you can sufficiently ( although with a bit of hassle here and there) understand Wittens work on M Theory and follow papers from other great string theorist like Nimbu, Sen and Randall.

in math he could be even better than Newton and Einstein 😆

+Fernando De Leon he is probably challenger

Maybe intellectually, but until his theories are proven like their theories were, he can't be viewed in the same light.

I agree: I have much more respect for Dr. Witten after viewing some of his videos, mainly due to his clear and logical descriptions of the history of physics, but I still believe that "string theory" is bunk .....

Newton is in a class all by himself. There can only be one first. He was the primary builder of modern physics. He also did practically all of his work by himself, and the bulk of his work in a two year span. To top it off, he spent most of his time with alchemy and looking for secret messages and codes in the Bible. Who knows how much more he would have discovered had he devoted his entire life to science.

+Dan Howard The ones that have pictures are shown, the rest are just text of what he's saying.

Psybin Okee Dokee.

@@psybin Maybe, but in science it is common to show the science and not the presenter, since the facts are important and not the guy. The guy is anyhow well known from one picture at the start, but the formulas etc. are important.

Yes, many comments on the brilliance of the man, and they the Festival gets a couple of media undergrads on comms. - pathetic!

This comment is so stupid! Largely because it idolises and isolates what is significant from the rest making the assumption that the rest lacks the required knowledge or propensity for that knowledge.

Terence Tao is better.

Damn you might as well blow him while you’re at it

Yes brilliant math work. But string theory has a lot of problems. There's still no way of testing the theory, and the Standard model is basically complete - including all evidence of existence being of > 5 Sigma significance. The untestability says something about a theory. The math, as said is brilliant and Witten just saw the common components of 5 different string theories and combined them into one (Due to the complexity it required a mathematician with extreme intelligence to solve). That is pure math magic and has nothing to do with presenting any evidence or proof that string theory is correct. Bottom line: Witten made string theory "Elegant" with M theory, but that does in no way prove it - it is still likely it is completely wrong with respect to what it represents.

Dehydrated spittle of the vanquished...

They are pure energy with geometric shapes

I was wondering the same thing ... two dimensions of space and one of time.

What?

@@Leopar525 Yo, I was trippin'. I was dreaming when I wrote that and I think that it went astray. But when I woke up this mornin' Could've sworn it was judgment day The sky was all purple There were people runnin' everywhere Tryin' to run from the destruction You know I didn't even care 'Cause they say two thousand zero zero Party over, oops out of time So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 I was dreamin' when I wrote this So sue me if I go too fast But life is just a party And parties weren't meant to last War is all around us My mind says prepare to fight So if I gotta die I'm gonna listen to my body tonight Yeah, they say two thousand zero zero Party over, oops out of time So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 Yeah, yeah Lemme tell ya somethin' If you didn't come to party Don't bother knockin' on my door I got a lion in my pocket And baby he's ready to roar, yeah yeah Everybody's got a bomb We could all die here today, uhh But before I'll let that happen I'll dance my life away, oh They say two thousand zero zero Party over, oops out of time We're runnin' outta time So tonight we gonna, we gonna (tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999) Say it one more time Two thousand zero zero Yeah, yeah Party over, oops out of time So tonight we gonna, we gonna (tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999) 1999 (1999) Don't ya want to go (1999) Don't ya want to go (1999) We could all die here today (1999) I don't want to die I'd rather dance my life away by

*clap* *clap* *clap*

My mom says "Newton don't knows nothin'"

@@robbiejames1466 Newton invented the entire subject of calculus. Just saying.

@@gamerdio2503 god invented calculus

@@robbiejames1466 Evidence?

With Brian Greene

@@Tuntum1804 Brian Greene would find your comment hilarious

With NDT too

Eh what?

Are atoms heavy?

' field' after (his) - my typo

+Zoe TheCat it is part particle and part wave

G Ru We're all aware of this fundamental fact. Feynman remained fairly adamant that ultimately the photon is a particle. Please visit his lectures on QED (Auckland NZ) here on UKposts. He also mentions this in his wonderful book: QED - The strange theory of light and matter. The lecture series in NZ covers a small portion of that book. I personally like to think of an analog where a common phenomenon can resolve the wave-particle duality. A soap bubble has wave-like characteristics as a 2-D object embedded in 3-D. When it is popped (UKposts provides slo-mo shots of this), the bubble collapses to a point. I think QM strings might behave something like this. A closed string may have wave-like properties. But when it interacts with a photo-multiplier, it collapses to a distinct particle...probably in a manner that is still unknown to us. Nevertheless, I was somewhat surprised that Ed didn't acknowledge this. The video is so generalized (especially for him) that perhaps he decided not to bring this topic up.

+G Ru Light is particles which act in waves of probability, according to Brian Greene.

Aegis Nova Yes. the resultant calculations of QM produce only probabilities of what any particle will do. If we don't attempt to measure a particle (position, momentum, etc), then we can calculate a probability wave-function. This result will be much different than if we DO attempt to measure the particle - which will no longer produce a wave-like probability function. (ie: the particle will behave like...a particle ;-) This is what is frequently called the "Collapse of the wave-function."

John Mitchell Funny. Even Witten would agree with me ;-)

aliens gave it to the humans

@@FinnBaygan I'm sorry? The fuck?