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What physics would a 12 year old girl be interested in? If symmetry is so prevalent, why haven’t we hit a state of equilibrium? Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek answers audience questions after his talk.
Watch the main talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbwki0qpQ4
Nobel laureate, Frank Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in the universe, using simple questions in an attempt to see the whole answer.
Wilczek explores how this quest has also guided the work of all great scientific thinkers in the Western world, from Plato to Einstein, and shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about perception, beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos.
Frank Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is currently Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Wilczek shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. As well as his academic work, he has written popular science books and is on the board for Society for Science & the Public.
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What an endearing exchange with the first questioner!
The upper class english woman with the fabulous hair standing by behind him in black adds a slightly surreal tone to the proceedings.
Her hair is just ridiculous lol
I Love the way he speaks
Still no gravity waves – right ?
As we've read further in the book… “The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve” in the words of Eugene Wigner.
Thanks for a wonderful talk. Looking forward to reading the book.
This guy is SO nerdy. Cool!
I liked her hair far better than this lecture. I'm glad I was able to stay awake to witness it. Her moleskine notebook was merely icing on the cake.
I hear 'notebook' lady is in the running for "Upper Class Twit of the Year." I like her chances.
Thank you for this talk, very inspiring and I have to humbly take a few steps back and let those people work in peace and just admire the beauty of thoughts they manage to bring to the rest of us. And I feel lucky and happy that I (hopefully) understand at least in a very oversimplified way what this talk and Q&A section were about. Thank you for sharing this for free with the world. A few things make more sense now, but at the same time, I feel even more puzzled as I start to see new patterns and ask myself the typical "why?". I guess that is why I am no physicist, they simply tell us "how", but it is not their job to tell us "why". At the same time I am very critical and do not believe in some explanations of "why" simply because somebody expects me to do so.
i wish i had that much insight when i was 12 ._.
8:12 the guy with the purplish/pink shirt and the woman to his right….. You know theyre married
I would 😉
@ 8:20 I don't think the audience realized that was a joke embedded in a practical example. I found myself, creeping out myself laughing while the audience in the vid didn't LOL
I love watching the Q&A first, and deciding to watch the lecture after. I can tell this is going to be a good one, the way he speaks and by the look in his eye.
more cowbell…..
Such humility in a brilliant mind
whats with that ladys hair?
Planck's constant E = hf
6 or 4
Kepler's third law in the microcosm
hundred years, no one was able to understand and find
https://youtu.be/VEjP7BdZWLY
http://vixra.org/abs/1610.0103
http://search.rads-doi.org/index.php/article/435/4913
3:10 The really amazing thing is, that this girl has a fairly good chance of still being alive in 100 years.
How cool would it be for her, at the age of 112, to bring that paper up and see how close he was to what actually came to pass.
Something to think about The oldest people alive in the year 2150 may have already been born.
Learning from the youtube makes you upset?
Whatever!
Archive.org 'Physics in 100 Years' PDF ~Frank Wilczek https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07735.pdf
Wow, this video just popped up, it’s 2019 now…. I am so happy to have found this, though I wish I could’ve seen it sooner, better late than never. Great content and concepts, it’s just perfect for my level of understanding of physics. Thank you ?