Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson | Big Think

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[@MrPoutsesMple]

What a humble, gentle, wonderful man.

[@JacksonEverley-f2m]

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[@NennadS]

It's a pity he and his views aren't more popular.

[@AuburnCreed]

Hey BIG THINK. Some folks work and listen to the interviews in the background - can't watch. Having the questions appear in print makes this hard to listen to. Why not just ask the questions. Skipping this one - can't spend almost 40 minutes figuring out what he's asnwering.

[@Franciscasieri]

Hopefully in 9 years you have now learned to pause this video....and...incredibly the questions appear...

[@jdtaramona]

I love you Freeman Dyson, source of infinite inspiration!!!

[@mariorqmsilveira3270]

A beautiful mind... Yes! Indeed, a very beautiful mind: It seems that in a four-fold exciting message, Dr. Dyson wants to state something not easy to grasp about the near impossibility to detect a graviton and that enchants me. What would that be?

[@robertimmanuel577]

R.I.P. freeman you will always be in my memory

[@naimulhaq9626]

Ramanujan's divergent series' study provides a new perspective to reality, like strings (1+2+3...=-1/12) etc. Dyson was encouraged to pursue these series and became a master of the new perspective. Physicists are catching up and are discovering a new weapon/tool to frame new mathematics. Dyson did provide some insight, not well investigated. He should have been given the Nobel prize for this work alone.

[@milesbateman]

What a great man! I love his views on Physics and Theology! Bravo!

[@possumverde]

It's not so much the numbers he has a problem with, it's the predictive models they plug those numbers into. I saw a lecture of his where goes into detail about it, and he has some valid points. The popular models focus heavily on just a few well studied aspects and ignore or trivialize some of the less well understood factors which may have significant effects on the outcome. An intelligently formed alternative opinion is never a bad thing in science as it encourages further investigation.

[@mustafaawadelseed1962]

his title is mister , he is urging me not pursue a phd

[@Loomr]

You know it's pretty funny that when I talk to people who actually work in science with computer models and ask if they would be confident in predicting future of a planet size system on which no tests can be run, how confident are they on a prediction of two hundred years with a mathematical model. I always get the same knowing look and the "yeah it's pretty bizarre" type of an answer. So I don't know, I think it is pretty sad to hear the confidence in these "the numbers say this and that".

[@kaga13]

Atheism doesn't imply naturalism, there is no general atheists worldview because there is no general atheist.

[@kevinmoore2501]

RIP Freeman. Incredible mind.

[@GothAlice]

The Orion ship design featured as a "final option" in the Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle novel Footfall. Excellent book and a worthy interpretation of the design and its implications.

[@qigong1001]

Oh wow. Did u hear at 15:00???? That's crazy.

[@RoyBurnell-o6n]

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[@MrJohnA125]

What a stupid idea having a video with questions that cannot be here by people who are not haven't watched the screen. I've had to abandon after 10-minutes

[@ScotsmaninUtah]

brilliant

[@acershund1]

He is great!

[@brendansmith7842]

Anyone seeing this after the recent possible Dyson sphere discoveries?

[@Sylinic]

Wonderful man.

[@BigotesMcbuff]

Lol, in the first few seconds I could have sworn I was listening to Spike Milligan.

[@PurnamadaPurnamidam]

❤❤❤

[@acershund1]

Freeman is the best!

[@howardleekilby7390]

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[@igorimiola6942]

merci pour votre incroyable travail et oeuvre. J'espère sincèrement qu'on réussira à construire un essaim de dyson .Votre talent de visionnaire continuera de nous inspirer.

[@Zeropadd]

💚💙🤎💜❤️

[@stevenbray9056]

There is a design for a ship!!!!????

[@oodlesofnoobles4626]

Who down votes this?

[@philoso377]

What else a bright mathematician can do in a misunderstood-physics society? Virtual math products. Misunderstood-physics? Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

[@RiamWaewalee]

so glad i found this clip , thanks bigthink ^^

[@Igor-ps5cd]

Perfect gentelman.

[@TheWerelf]

"Sputnik" has two meanings: "companion", and literally "satellite".

[@eclipstar-inanutshell1543]

This guy is amazing

[@firstprinciples6414]

I would like to call him my grandpa. Love you and rest in peace!

[@mareverticale]

Nice tie.

[@Crumplepunch]

That is a preposterous statement. Many great geniuses throughout history have been devout believers. Freeman Dyson's work on QED and nuclear physics is internationally acclaimed. To call him an idiot is to badly misunderstand almost everything worth knowing. Maybe he just doesn't consider the question important. Some people don't. For goodness sake, get off your high horse, and learn how to construct a sentence before insulting anyone's intelligence.

[@DannyOvox3]

Thats who i want to be, be someone in life make great contributions to humanity and have great stories of key events.

[@firstprinciples6414]

My heart melts down the whole I am hearing him. Lots of Love...

[@johnrobinson4445]

"1,000 tons payload" = a small destroyer.

[@saniyagamer-xd2oq]

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[@Tonicwine999]

Great Video! only over 1,200 views, 2 comments? Come on!?

[@Crumplepunch]

He was born in Berkshire, England, and has lived for the last 50 years in Princeton.

[@SirMrMcMsMrs]

its nice to hear someone intelligent talking; and accepting my stupidity.

[@firstprinciples6414]

Pure bombs of wisdom. OMG!

[@eelijjahh]

Eighty nine years old.

[@ZacksMetalRiffs]

95 now.

[@AlstonDsouza-jl7ow]

A true rebel without PhD

[@sheph1145]

A great, great man.

[@89alexzander]

transatlantic

[@David-sp9vd]

he is a mathematician not a physicist.

[@uplightuk8924]

David He's both.

[@David-sp9vd]

run_crywolf in practice not education.

[@dirkdugan]

Isn't that what matters?

[@David-sp9vd]

James Siene Mathematicians who work with physicists, or assists them, are different. They differ in their way of thinking.

[@dirkdugan]

And then you have physicists like Ed Witten who think more like a mathematician much of the time. The work you do defines who you are, not your training. PS. I am in mathematics and I also do physics, and I can say there is no clear difference besides care for details.

[@imamalam4971]

I get a heavy feeling in my heart looking at the toll time has taken on poor old Freeman Dyson

[@edwardjones2202]

He's had a lucky life. Blessed with genius. Cushy, enjoyable, well paid jobs. His first wife was hot and super smart. He got good cards

[@mercij7517]

Lol

[@Franciscasieri]

​@Edward Jones and he played those cards beautifully

[@Joeofiowa]

Putting a price on carbon is hardly "tricks and schemes." If you want to cost-effectively incentivize markets to start reducing carbon, pricing it via a tax or cap-and-track system is the best way to do so. I agree that carbon sequestration is exciting, as are dozens of other current and future technologies, but how do you propose we incentivize their use? A carbon price does just that, allowing the most cost-effective technologies to win out.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Can someone explain his accent to me?

[@miguelteixeira2730]

English.

[@tonyoak2230]

American

[@chripranqe]

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[@charlesbeaudelair8331]

No doubt, you made your point.

[@johnnonamegibbon3580]

I like him a lot. His views on climate change are a bit strange, though. I sorta hope he's right. But I'll prepare for/assume the absolute worst. Since most other intellectuals have a much more pessimistic view of the whole thing.

[@johnnonamegibbon3580]

Because as far as I can tell, most scientists agree that the amount of carbon in the air is throwing off the original balance of gas in the atmosphere and that is and can have devastating consequences on the environment. Where we live what we eat, etc.

[@bvdek]

+John NoNameGibbon Even Dyson himself acknowledges that fact during this interview, strangely kind of contradicting himself. He talks about reducing carbon dioxide emissions by changing cattle farming and agricultural practices, as a practical measure against climate change. He straight up acknowledges co2 emission are a factor, even from human practices like cattle and agriculture, but somehow doesn't think the rest of the emissions from human activity - burning fossil fuels for energy - are having any effect. Indeed it is a very strange view, to disagree with human activity being the cause, yet advocating for some (minor) changes to human activity to reduce co2 levels. It's actually quite bizarre

[@TimothyMusson]

A great chap, but unfortunately mistaken on climate change. For rebuttals by climate scientists on that topic, please see here: www.realclimate.org/wiki/index.php?title=Freeman_Dyson

[@larryschultz7517]

Timothy Musson ......mistaken because he doesn’t agree with you views?

[@TimothyMusson]

@@larryschultz7517, no - he was mistaken on climate change because on _that_ topic he was a layman who disagreed with established scientific consensus. Taking him seriously on climate science is like taking the Flat Earth Society seriously. You're welcome to do it, but... ;) [Edit: And like I said, he was a great chap - I like him a lot, and I was sad to hear he died in February :/ ]

[@larryschultz7517]

So....Freeman Dyson is a layman? You’re way off...

[@TimothyMusson]

Fine - whatever floats your boat ;)

[@scenFor109]

The title 'mister' is a colonial fiction rooted in the word 'manure.' Same with Miss and Mrs. The concept is to posses land by "colonising" it, from the colon, on behalf of your makers or owners. Freeman is the opposite of a bondnam(e). Mr is his chosen bond to a sovereign state. The name his mom and dad gave him is his title. By rejecting the title they gave to him, he rejects their gift of their land. By taking the colonial title of 'mister', his inheritance must then come from the so-called sovereign state instead of from his maker, his mother. To accept to be addressed by colonial title is to accept to be the property of the colony. The term 'sovereign state' is not a secular statement. It is a statement of an anarchist institution that uses force to practice monarchy over a community. A sovereign state is a forced religion. A forced religion is a cult. Cults rename their 'members' as a sign of ownership and control. Think about that the next time you use a colonial title on a signed form. There is an ancient scripture that puts these concepts into a short phrase. "Call no man on earth Father." By which I take it to mean, call no one and nothing on earth your owner. The next time some colonial officer asks, "where do you come from?" Look them in the black of one eye and say, "I come from my mom and dad. Where do you come from?" Mister free man die son: #EndGlobalApartheid

[@armanika]

He lost me on Climate Change, it's not a matter of belief, numbers are there, sir! You the great fond of numbers, do your homework, it's called longitudinal analysis. Disappointed!