The only person I’ve ever seen who seems like he’s reading from a teleprompter, but it’s literally him uploading from the files in his brain to us

Witten is a man who thinks in mathematics and translates it into English in real time.

I put one of this man's talks on yesterday, and _slept like a bloody_ *corpse.* Havent had sleep that good in a very long time. ❤

I like his voice, soft and smooth

It's amazing how such a brilliant mind understands the world! Thank you Mr. Witten.

Wonderful content! This is my first stumble upin your channel and I am very impressed by the offerings I see here...thank you!

You can literally see the dude uploading the next paragraph with a extended blink.

Thank you Dr. Witten for taking your time to explain this from your valuable perspective.

One can write a book for general physics by these subtitles 🔥🔥🔥

1:00:39 - my favorite Witten quote "but we weren't consulted when the Universe was created."

Nice Interview, his voice communicates peace. I listen him while i was doing my stuff. Vibes from the far Perú.

Caught some of his stand-up in a Cambridge dive, killer!

I need to hear more, the concepts are so mind altering that it’s almost calming. His father was a physicist..epigenetic’s anyone?

thank you for the upload

Your voice and thought processes soothe

Thanks for this brother ❤️🙏love and RESPECT

26:11 Should be most watched. Fantastic insight from Prof.Witten.

Has anyone noticed he never once sayed "aaaa..."...he just pauses and takes a breathe...what a calming voice as well

This guy is Awesome. I wish i could under his mind.

Where is this from? Can't find it anywhere else on the Internet. What a gift for you to have shared it, thank you!

You have and are the most amazing mind.

fantastic. would be amazing a to make a new version of this in a similar way, with Witten talking about more recent work etc

I’m not sure when this was recorded, I would say at least two decades if not 3 to be honest. Eventually the fact that the super large hadron collider did not come up with any single slightest signs of super symmetric particles since then we’ve been left with you know not much in fact. That doesn’t take away the brilliance and sharpness of this guy’s mind to be honest, but fundamentally and I think he knows it we have been wrong and possibly we have been wrong for quite awhile.

What a truly brilliant man.

would be nice when the available automatic subtitles would include all spoken languages in the video. is this something that one can configure as creator, or is it solely on youtube? this would be a nice fix!

That string theory enables us to unite gravity and QM is in itself a miracle, giving us an insight into the reality that is related to hologram, counting entropy etc. Loss of information in a BH that reappears when the next cycle of CCC is indeed shown by Penrose as indispensable.

Gracias 🙏

A TRUE LEGEND!

"Ever learning,yet never coming into the Knowledge of Truth..." 2nd Timothy 3:7

Anyone reading this to you I admire your hunger for knowledge as my vibrations become more collective. I’m starting to be able to understand more complex ideas.

Thanks

People can lament all they want about Witten... But at least he teaches sth to the common people who don't get all that deep into the matter.... Very "not expert friendly" but very well targeted for people like, who tried to study physics but didn't know "what the fuss was all about".... Excellent teacher in my view.... ( Highly opinionated opinion)

I find it fascinating that time and gravity are related. What stops time in a black hole or why it slows down at the event horizon.

Love from India❤️❤️

His genius is contagious. Light always travels at the same speed cz maybe it travels independent of the geometry of space we're used to? I know gravitational lensing but then there's the doppler effect to counter it at macro level. So why is the universe 'expanding' ?

Ahhhhhhh, my favorite ASMR video 🥱😇

Sir, How contact you, I am working in Quantum gravity

I can’t understand what is difference between electric and magnetic fields. What is the carrier of the magnetic field. And why light is an electromagnetic wave if there are no electrons there

I had to pause 1:30 in. Perhaps a better explanation of how speed is additive (at low speeds) would be those moving conveyor belts at airports. When you hop on those, and then walk, when you get to the end you get a wild burst of speed, both speeds added together.

Ok, so I get it! "Stuff" is crystalized "spacetime! There you go! I figured it all out! (lol) See - there is just SO MUCH spacetime, an INFINITE amount, so much of it that there's a tiny bit of "residue" from it all - and that "residue" is "matter"

this is grand admiral thrawn

Dr Written, I have a question..when you blow a balloon, and when we say that balloon is expanding, then something is expanding it which is air in this case..but when we say that space is expanding..what is expanding it? What is the fabric of space made up of? If the space of fabric is made of something then it means that the big bang is still happening and there is a fundamental energy or force that is pushing everything and creating time as well. If we could figure it out I think we would be able to find different dimensions of time as well.

even if some times the rules make now sense they might be the rules after all

How can you translate the Spanish narratives?????

starts at 0:22

41:00 how can one speak of left and right objectively?

Wow! This gentleman is absolutely brilliant!

It is actually sad that the public learned of Witten only after the JRE Weinstein interview...

The striking thing is to realise that when Physicists ‘discover’ various particles that super-unify various string theories, these phenomena have all always existed and have been in operation since the dawn of time, we only just became aware - and when i say ‘we’, i mean Tesla, Einstein & Edward Witten, not me and nearly all of you.

He Knew things humans doesnt. Enjoy more the life, the moment. Start living.

When was this recorded?

I came here after knowing he is a Michael Jordan of physics

@39:00 one could equally _legitimately_ say that if your theory requires supersymmetry _and_ extra dimensions for consistency it is a hint telling you your theory is likely wrong and you are not using the correct physical constraints. Is the hint saying your theory is more likely wrong than not? I could not say, I'm "just sayin". The fact a theory has gravitons is a pretty mild favourable result, since gravity occurs in any theory which is generally covariant (respects position and rotation gauge invariance). I think strong theory is the right conceptual idea, but it is not well formulated, and finding alternative extended object models for matter that are minimalist (4D spacetime, no supersymmetry) is something more people should be working on.

47:12 that smile was terrifying

Say I’m going the speed of light and hypothetically turned on a flash light, if my eyes were good enough and body resilient enough, would I see the tail end of that beam of light as I chase it? What does it look like to be chasing light at the speed of light?

It's odd that the parts where Witten isn't speaking are in Italian, but Witten's parts aren't subtitled.

Imagine 8B Ed Witten brains on one planet...since there are billions of possibilities for planets like ours...it could exist now...imagine that society, that world...

Edward Witten throwing a ball lol

A atom is to the entire observable universe, as a string is to an atom, so small is a string. And a string is a filament vibrating. But is it possible that a string is just energy vibrating knot’s. And how can the know how small a string is. Is I possible that they are let’s say only 1/1000 of an elementary particles?

We need to get Edward Witten on the Lex Fridman Podcast 👌🏻👍🏻

50:45

He is trying his best to dumb it down. He must think we are all adorable little ants. What a brain.

if he’s so smart, why don’t we have a theory of everything yet

I wish someone would post a version of this without the foreign language parts. I’m wearing my fast-forward button out.

59:10 causes the (expansion) of the universe to accelerate

Why suddenly UKposts is pushing this person in the mid of the show ? Do you really believe things happens out of causality ? I think here is a reason and someone who has the power to do it is pushing him in the social media.

Witten for president.

greatest physicist of this era the modern day einstein

Why do tenured professors at MIT hide under their desks when you visit the campus?

i lose it every time he makes an expression like he’s suppressing a giggle

Wtf are the brown books in the background?

If you take, for example, the periodic table Alpha=Sigma squared, you have the mass of all the gases. 18 times 18 = 324.; X .Z.Y axis is each 108. . You live in the 6th house. 18 in the periodic table.

The LHC did not reveal any evidence for super symmetry.

when you tell a tv producer to make some elliptical orbits, but their focus is questionable...

Does Witten understand the implications of what he says himself?

Combining Eninstein theory of Relativity with Quantum Mechanics is not a problem of Nature.

HELLO! *Edward Witten ET Al.! Never ANY mention of *Karl Friedrich Gauss! ( *Gauss!* ) Albert Einstein - fell into and *discovered *Gauss! You KNOW.! WELL? *Gauss was THE TOP RUNG of the physics LADDER that *Einstein utilized! WELL.?

This would be better without the slide shows. 1:13:38. He answers "I can't see the future"? So he just does the math. It Is no concern of his what actions taken now would lead to the accomplishment asked about. "Just keep your head down and do the math". Was Feynman's response to premature questions about theories. It seems this concept is being abused.

I've noticed how something loses it's rarity by becoming commercialized..

I came here from j. R. E podcast with eric weinstein.

profound lack of confusion

All are one

Well, where the fuck them particles at dog? I though me and my ex were super symmetrical too, heartbroken

hello and this is Sheldon coopers fun with flags

Doc, Marylin (Norma Jean) Monroe understood the power of sex so well, she probably never thought of it. That was in the 50s. Today, she might not get a second look. Same for Liz Taylor. I like Weinstein's style of intellect. Not that I 'understand' either his, or Witten's genius. But more because I don't enjoy laboring over a technical construct, finally getting the idea (string theory), only to walk away wondering, 'What is it?' Even Witten says, 'We have five pieces, and another smaller part. Maybe that smaller part is what makes it 'super string theory', and that makes it worth the Fields Medal. 'Norma Jean' probably knows, but doesn't think about it.

I see strings in my context

but...HOW?

So for anyone that has been following Eric Weinstein from JR, which is why I'm here, would know that Weinstein said ON JR that Edward Witten is the one intellectual that he is terrified of, and that is stating alot as Weinstein is an intellectual heavyweight himself. What I dont understand is why Weinstein (presently 2023) is railing against string theory. Most notably, bashing Michio Kaku openly? But Edward obviously gets a free pass, not that I would want anyone to be bashed..... I mean seriously, Dr. kaku builds a particle accelerator in his garage as a teenager but is now reduced to being chastised by colleagues for all to see?

MAYBE ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS RIGHT, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY?❤

For some reasons I just don't like the peculiar string theory including the so-called black hole theory until one day direct proof becomes available.

This guy seriously needs to donate his sperm. 100 Ed Wittens i believe have the collective power to create a utopia for all.

Is there a full English version? I can see all you JRE people didn't even make it to the Italian(?) lmao 🤣.

Why

Honestly, how has Witten helped you on an individual level? Physics is a great subject, but it’s a distraction. And if it’s true that it hasn’t progressed in the last 40 years makes things even more interesting. Anyhow, what the world needs is more people like Linus Pauling. The priorities are soooo off with people. It’s such smoke and mirrors.

Is this the real witten???or some fanpage..

Why Italian in a science video?

Just seen a comment on string theory and now I can't watch this.

Thus so far 33:00

He would school Michael Jordan In physics

They say there is no such thing as a real purpetual motion machine, but isn't an atom basically a perpetual motion machine? That is what always blew my mind, that atoms spin for billions of years but never run out if energy....... Oh- and something else that stumps me is why are atoms are all the size that they are and not all some other size? Like if the vacuum of space is basically NOTHING with no properties, then the size of an atom could be any arbitrary size? No? Why have they all "chosen" to be the size they ended up being? Isn't everything "relative"? Could not all the atoms could be the size of basketballs, or all the atoms be the size of golf balls? Why should it matter what size they all are? Was it all decided by a higher being?