I'm just a regular blue collar worker ,I was told once something to the effect- “you’ll never be bored watching a fire, watching waves crash or watching someone working” I’m going to add watching intellectual conversations to the list, I have no idea why the nuances of this conversation are important or even what they imply but it’s very interesting none the less..

It's so nice to see Ed Witten laugh and smile so much. He is such a wonderful man.

I don’t think people realize how smart this guy truly is. He’s a piece of history witnessing it right now.

"To me, it's implausible that humans stumbled by accident on such an incredible structure that sheds so much light on established physical theories, and also on so many different branches of mathematics, and that it's all an accident and it has nothing to do with real world."

Ed Witten is an incredibly humble guy as well as a genius. Not that I understand his geniusness, but I will just take the word for it!

It'll always be a lifelong dream of mine as a physics student to meet Dr. Witten.

Edward Witten is a fascinating man to listen to....i watched a history of his life not too long ago in an interview of him from his younger days on....his giant intellect is pretty awesome to see.

Wonderful! Thank You IAS

thanks you dr. dijkgraaf and dr. witten!!!!!!!

Love you both. Hope someday, i could visit IAS, and dream about working at there.

Thank you for this.

Nice to see you again Dr. Witten. Always an inspiration

Many Thanks!!

AdS table is very appropriate

Graham Farmelo was utterly brilliant - he puts it in ways that non-scientists can follow.

We hear you Edward. Understanding is another question

Smartest human alive. He is up there with Newton and Hooke.

damn he must be so deep in his understanding that it becomes isolating when trying to communicate on any meaningful level with anyone.

Witten is a giant but do not under estimate Dijkgraaf...hes a genious in his own right.

"I've accepted I'm presumably not a part of that generation." a little bit sad to see our hero getting older and older, though he is still one of the lion kings.

1200 he mentions classical is about geometry where st is what makes the shapes and fractals and constructs the quarks and other particles

I love Ed. The Allan Holdsworth of Physics.

His condition has improved so much compared to early interviews

Genius talking.

Ed Witten, the smartest guy alive

The way he speaks, makes him appear younger

He looks like me trying to explain English grammar to my dog.

That laugh 13:51 .

Never knew Rick could talk so calmly..

i want Borat to interview Edward...

This is a great meeting of minds! I think maybe Gauss's work on statistics highlights the underlying normal distribution of multiplication itself.

Edward Witten says some areas are too abstract for him. I suppose I have no hope in hell. From a math and physics major.

The Universe speaks in poetry.

Ed is dope.

If we were visited by aliens I'd send either Ed Witten and Frank Wilzcek to speak to them

wooww,It's Ed Witten!! The giant of Theoretical physics!one of the smartest person alive today.!! We are fortunate that we hear A human like Ed Witten!!btw,He is a mathematician as well.only physicist who won field madel (Regarded as Nobel prize in Mathematics) in Mathematics.!!

Why has virtually no one ever heard of this guy?

Smartest person alive.

7:43

A key to dark matter or no time for energy exchange short version Energy exchange limit or limit for two point to interact. it is a bit hard to write down this thought for me. if two points have relative speed more then speed of light, they not able to interact. but they can interact through the third point. (exactly like dark matter) 1)You know how space can expand faster then light? And it also can curve? soo, it most likely can curve true it selfe. and this how it not interacting with it selfe. (in black holes space curveture length is extremely small) 2) How many time need for Sun to exchange energy with you? soo every energy exchange take some "time". There for if two point have speed difference more then C, they will have no "time" to exchange energyx, have no "time" for exchange to occure. Even if they will share same place. also you may see it as, FLT parts in more then one place at a "time" compare to us. For FLT part we in less then one place at "time". (why mass go up) it more about interaction limin then about speed of light. can be tested, if we will represent a third point. long version -dark matter in our galaxy, (most likely particles emitted by central black hole) is particles that moving faster than light. (most likely you do not "belive" in this) if i assume it is correct, then big amount of hydrogen on edge of galaxy, is where this "dark matter particles" decay after losing speed. (decay like new particles from hadron collider) -parts of dark matter alredy found, but we do not about it. (perseption(particles from hadron collider)) -particles found with hadron collider behave like a dark matter after loosing speed. -most likely there is a energy exchange speed limit in betwen two points (not sound speed), most likely it is a speed of light. (that about why we do not see dark matter, but see it interction with other(slower for it/faster for us) particles) -particles from hadron collider will be stable if placed in faster then light speed. whant to tell more, I hope this is enough to contact me. the key is a energy exchange speed limit (i want my Nobel for showing you dark matter) Best regards, Dynin A.I.

didn't the double slit interference pattern explain

Greatest physicist like Newton...

👏💯❤👍😉

oh dear, I have the same nervous tics as Ed Witten.

Ed wittens biggest problem is time

Mr Ed appear little nervous .. :)

Joaquin Phoenix...

The field is in a standstill for over 40 years, and even with minds such as Wittens we cannot move the needle forward. It's time to procure new grounds of exploration and concede the current toy theories have been just that: giant mens little toys.

Eric Weintstein just told Joe Rogan that this gentleman is the brightest person on the planet.

(unifying theory + key to darm matter adn fater the light communcation) i want to share with you, something i wasted my time on. The “First rule” of this universe. Eh…. it sound strange, but stay with me for a second. It deep, it really deep. This rule is - when energy exchange between two relative points occur, it happens along the path of least resistance. Everywhere, every time. The depth here - everywhere, every time. Even in black holes, the guide for evolution, for human behavior, every energy exchange, every time. Understanding this depth allow me to predict tomorrow much more precisely. Just think about it, how you move through your life, how the brain works. the behavior of animals and insects, any science. This rule in the core of absolute all. No one else can show it to you now. I want to shout about it from the highest bell tower! It will help people to move forward!

16:40

que pendejadas, esa permanente necedad de querer comparar matematicas y fisica, No se porque Witten se presta a estas comparaciones

no it doesn't

Uh.

If the universe were only created by a mathematician then we would all be in trouble....

Anyone else here because of Eric Weinstein?

He looks uncomfortable

some woman in the audience was having braingasm

If e-Pi-i is self-defining "physical" properties of continuous creation connection functional Principle, ..cause-effect existence, then Pi^Pi is suggested to be "completeness" of universal sync positioning/integration of Zero Difference, probability ONE, because it's the ultimate expression of antilog Ln-> Curl, and so the Actuality positioning, .dt, here-now-forever. (Major Prep's T-shirt Formula suggested Pi² = g..?, ie same Principle) Is "too much" over-specific mathematical language a diversion of attention off continuous creation connection Principle => Mathematics/Everything? Because in assessing the meaning of particular modules and abstractions, the fundamental proportioning/measuring methodology is assumed to be constant and immutable, so therefore the expectations that Spacetime is not the the source of "Emergence", and that is logically inevitable because it's Quantum Operator Fields Modulation Mechanism Mathematics-> probability ONE here-now-forever.., cause-effect existence Eternity-now.

Unfortunately string theory is not generally accepted as physics. The reason is it lacks experimental verification.

This is what happens when you let a history major loose in the physical sciences. Witten needs to get a grip.

The Elementary Physics of Time Duration Timing holographic/mathematical substantiation is physically quantifying the mathematical abstractions of material coherence in quantum-modulation compositions, ie the mathPhysics cause-effect of Spacetime? If it's accepted that the Actuality of Time Timing Cosmology was developed by astute observation of natural phenomena to serve as a means of predicting the past to navigate to future destinations, then it's practical development mathematically and geometrically is automatically a combination of measurement, mapping, materials and Geometry in all the applications necessary to Civilization. The diversity of applications and necessary specializations linguistically is due for revision, always. The universe is constant "mathematically analytical" creation, the calculus of timewave connection principle. The only difference between Mathematics and Physics in practical terms is the approach, either from the numerical/measurable patterns in phenomena or the reiteration of the general context of those concepts in qualitative and quantitative pre-operative observations, both together are the dualistic possibilities of differentiation and integration of this relative timing connection. (This would be a philosophy to mathematical pre-analysis of circumstances.., or, Math-Phys-Chem and Geometry in Spacetime is The Calculus in principle)

*Mathematics is not the source of physical phenomena* Physics is not mathematics. Mathematic is the language used by the physicist to describe the phenomena. *Nervous giggles of uncertainty and the implications* God (nature) does not care what Mathematicians/physicist think how the universe should be. *Maybe purpose and intention is more fundamental then mathematics or Physics.* The question should be; what generates intent and purpose?

Awkward dialogue

These idealistic interpretations of mathematics are hurting science. Especially Dijkgraff is really pushing this beauty of maths idea which is what I referring to.

"The Universe Speaks in Numbers." The title is so misleading but it is a mistake made by the entire scientific world and consequently by everyone else. Indeed in the interview they never speak of the universe in Numbers but of mathematics. They are too separate things! Mathematics explains relationships between "objects," and has nothing to do with a pure 'number-based theory' as believed by the ancient civilizations and mostly recognized by Pythagoras saying "All is Number." The universe DOES speak in Numbers, and mathematics in physics is only the beginning of the story. The universe is indeed based not only on numbers but by a very specific mathematical structure. We know already, and confirmed in countless of ways, that the Fibonacci sequence of the base-10 is the basis or foundation of many natural structures, such as found in plants, flowers etc etc. Even the stock market, which is the result also of the collective human emotions, is affected by it! We also know as a fact that the golden ratio or phi, which emerges, not coincidentally, from the Fibonacci sequence also is found to be fundamental in innumerable physical phenomena from the micro to the macro scales of the universe. It was obvious to me that if so many natural phenomena were based on the 'outer-dimension' of the Fibonacci sequence, the same mathematical structure would have to be fundamental in some way in the "inner" phenomena of nature as well, such as the atomic structure, the genetic code, etc. However, the inner dimension of nature was to be found in the inner-dimension of the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence in digital root indeed produces a 24-repeating pattern (ad infinitum). How can it be possible that no one is looking into this amazing property of the Fibonacci sequence? That's what I asked myself many years ago. I knew the answer. Science has DECIDED without any scientific basis that numbers were an invention of the human mind and not an intrinsic property of the universe as instead practically all ancient civilizations believed or better, knew. The first step in the evolution of the discovery of the Fibonacci based Menorah Matrix was finding that to be complete the 24 repeating pattern required a second (female) 24-structure. Indeed when a second 24-repeating pattern is added to the first (staggered like bricks) all adjacent digits of the tow sequences sum 9 (1 next to 8, 2 next to 7, etc) and the digits 9 always paired in the two repeating sequences. I thought, this amazing property, which is based on duality (male and female), which also reflects how nature is structured, cannot be wasted by nature, it must relate to the inner workings/structures of nature. Subsequently I found amazing properties of the two (named X and Y) sequences of 24 repeating patterns, such as that the Fibonacci sequencing (third digit is the sum of the previous two digits) worked also in the 24-repeaing pattern (in digital root). Moreover, the pathways of the sequencing were also produced across the two staggered sequences! The pathways motion from X to Y, then back from Y to X and continuing ad infinitum, designing a regular crisscrossing pattern, which in three dimension form the basic "points' for a spiral pathway! Furthermore, the dual-24 pattern motioned in the opposite direction as well. Indeed, to motion backwards, the subtraction operation is adopted! In other words, moving backwards the third digit is the difference of the two previous digits! The inner-dimension's subtraction always gives a "positive number," normally such as 7-1=6 but also when in the form 1-7, because in this case 9 is added to 1, thus 1-7 (1+9=10) - 7 = 3. This subtraction method is confirmed by the fact that it works both in the linear and crisscrossing patterns. In addition, the crisscrossing/spiral pathways is calculated opposite to the linear sequencing: Moving forward the sequencing is by subtraction and moving backwards by addition (perfect symmetry again). The spiraling pathways of the 24-repeating pattern produce both torus and dual-torus dynamic pathways, which is another fundamental propriety found in nature at all scales. This cannot be expanded on here. The next step in the formation of the Menorah Matrix was the discovery that when the digits of the base-10 are raised to power, they all produced repeating patterns ad infinitum as well! Among the nine digits, the largest repeating pattern produces six digits. When these digits from the power-repeating patterns are added to the X and Y 24-repeating patterns it forms a structure of 24 + 288 = 336 digits, or one dual-sequence of 24 + 24 = 48 digits plus six dual-sequences derived from the power repeating pattern for a total of seven dual-sequences. This 1+6 structure and much much more that cannot be added here for space was a perfect match to the biblical 7-branched Menorah, from which the name Menorah Matrix (MM) stems from. The original sequences X and Y are placed at the center of the six-repeating dual sequences, which is supported by mathematical properties that also cannot be explained here. The central lampstand in the Menorah is indeed the source of the other six in the biblical Menorah, just like in the MM. After years of studying this I found the MM structure to predict the atomic and subatomic structures as explained by quantum mechanics. However, the MM predicts, contrarily to QM, three subquarks to each quark, instead of the necessity for the "colors" of quarks. The pathways of the X and Y sequences predict the indivisibility of the electric and magnetic forces. The MM also provides a prediction for the DNA's dual helix and the 64 codons of the genetic code and predicts the mathematical limit to 20 universal amino acids out of the 64 codons. The Menorah Matrix predicts the dimension and ratios of the Earth/Moon's blueprint and the tropical and sidereal cycles (365.242 and 365.256, respectively) of the Earth to the third decimal digit as well. These and many, many more empirical correlation provide more than enough evidence that nature is indeed based on numbers and that the MM is the basis for the Theory of Everything. Studies should be continued in this direction by the scientific community, which will take as to a quantum leap in the understanding of nature and for technological development. For more detailed information, the basis of the MM theory (about 50 pages) can be found on Academia and Research Gate. In comparison, the book that is in the workings will be 500-600 pages long to cover the different aspects of the MM and the inner-dimension properties of the base-10 number system, which also connect perfectly to geometry.

Einstein was a genius. This is just a very very smart guy

Pointless robot-like regurgitation.

Later you will find God.

Math is logic. Quantum field theory is propaganda.

Universe doesn’t speak in numbers or tongues for that matter. Numbers are human inventions, to make sense of a Universe that just is. Numbers could only prove to be ex nihilo a priori if they could explain the WHY of the Universe, not just the WHAT of it.