A mind-blowing explanation of symmetry | Frank Wilczek

Basic and breath-taking - Dr. Frank Wilczek addresses symmetry’s critical role in nature’s laws and what we consider to be beautiful.
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Dr. Frank Wilczek is the newly announced recipient of the 2022 Templeton Prize, which, valued at over $1.4 million, is one of the world's largest annual individual awards.
Dr. Wilczek is celebrated for his investigations into the fundamental laws of nature that have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe. In this video, Dr. Wilczek explores the question, ‘does the world embody beautiful ideas?’ through science and humankind’s relationship to (and love for) symmetry.
"We can look at the record of what people have found beautiful, what they were hoping for in their understanding of the world with what the remarkable understanding of the world we've achieved in recent years looks like. And we can therefore frame a meaningful discussion and a meaningful question, a meaningful meditation, on the issue.”
The Templeton Prize was established by the late global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton. It is given to honor those who harness the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place and purpose within it.
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[@The-Well]

Do you think the world embodies beautiful ideas?

[@MicahScottPnD]

I surely think so❤

[@bluesque9687]

Why don't his videos have more views? He belongs to the absolute gold standard of scientists out there!! And, he is uniquely interesting too!

[@MicahScottPnD]

I hope this note isn't trite. I was just momentarily rejoicing in the time of my life when I came to understand the difference between invention and discovery. It's been fun and useful to know all these years!

[@faqtum]

What a wonderful gift from Templeton! Thank you!

[@The-Well]

So glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

[@vviimmi]

look at the tree. What does it mean? That tree is magnificent, I wont lie.

[@The-Well]

It is amazing to stop and think about the many levels of miracles that go into making something as ordinary as a tree.

[@VaughanMcCue]

As long as you throw some religiosity or spurious nonsense, it will help the Intelligent Design Religious Corporation use to quote mine. Give it a few months, and the good doctor will be pointing out the things he did not say. A proper scientist taking money from the Temptation Foundation is commendable and good for him for getting money into circulation and away from superstitious sources. It is troubling that anyone should ask him what the meaning of life is as it makes as much sense as asking a kangaroo why it doesn't walk properly. Yes, the world is beautiful. If you shut one eye. Childhood cancers, tsunamis, animals in the wild torn to shreds by each other, and the earth that is only a few per cent inhabitable. If someone finds leprosy beautiful, they might need to talk to an adult.

[@CGMaat]

Love this priest of the new religion; the universal mystery !

[@JauzaFIN]

5:57 "We have a systematic, although unconcious, knowledge of projective geometry so that we can recognize that the same thing seen from different positions represents the same object." Terminators (from the movie) have the exact same cabability with the difference of a gridded overlay! :D

[@nil1473]

👌👌👌❤❤

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[@cumaraxmed3107]

Symmetry

[@roselotusmystic]

TheDeepMysteryOf . . . TransSymmetry BOTH 'Symmetry' AND 'Nonsymmetry' 🙏 ChaOrder ☯

[@CGMaat]

New priest of the universal religion - truth, beauty, goodness ; moral law - symmetry - most with least-conservation of energy equals beauty, the just right for life. Holy holes !

[@jeven9309]

World is a beautiful nightmare