Dr. Don Lincoln - Peeking Through the Impenetrable Veil: The Hidden Scaffold of Reality

For millennia, curious humans have wondered why our world is the way it is. In this talk, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln tells us of the mind-blowing truths discovered by modern science.
Don Lincoln is an American physicist, author, host of the Fermilab KZbin channel, and science communicator. He conducts research in particle physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In 1995, he was a
co-discoverer of the top quark, and more recently, was a member of the team that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
Presented March 21, 2024 as part of the Beyond the Visible exhibition program series.

[@kumagoro]

oh wooow - Don lives also outside of Fermilab. Love it❤

[@drsjamesserra]

😂

[@JohnDoe-rm1kw]

How did he manage to escape fermilab? 🤣🤣

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

​@@JohnDoe-rm1kw easy, The two Dons just spin in the opposite direction and no one notices the Don at Fermilab is spinning the other direction than normal. Simple particle physics 😊

[@richardoldfield6714]

The key point is that whilst scientific discoveries in physics do not *prove* that everything 'woo-woo' is actually true, those discoveries are *consistent with the idea* that at least some of this 'woo woo' may actually be true.

[@TheSubpremeState]

Let fools believe what they want. They learn in their own time. I found out an interesting fact recently. Stalin believed all atoms were conscious and they had a program that was declassified after the collapse , where they had an organization doing remote viewing and the US also had success seeing secret weapons the soviets were trying to develop. One was found after the best American remote viewer was dead two years. I'm extremely skeptical myself but I see auras lol. It bothers me cos they behave in a way that don't make sense. I could tell you lots of stories that show I'm not hallucinating. I'll tell the most convincing. My friend who worked with me also saw them so one day the lightning in this house where we worked was good and his aura was very visible. The walls were pure white so I told him stand still and tried to see as much color as I could. A Brazilian who worked with us and used to call us crazy when he saw us looking at each others hair lol, he started gazing as well and exclaims.......Pink. Then the owners of the house drove in and the Brazilian came out of his trance in amazement of what he just saw. My friend was a class clown type of guy and had a large area of lavender/pink at one side of his head. We read from a guy who used to claim to see them accurately that it meant childish. That was a perfect description of my friend .

[@jocr1971]

i've never bothered to discern the colors but halos are seen around things if i stare at their boundaries.

[@wesstone7571]

@jocr1971 ever seen one light up?

[@richardoldfield6714]

@@wesstone7571 Ever seen one *what* light up?

[@wesstone7571]

@@richardoldfield6714 a halo or a glowing ball of light around a person's head.

[@alexdamman6805]

Don you rock! Thank you for this explanation of what is going on right here now in the world. We have been needing this, urgently.

[@amparocabal]

An extraordinary lecture, and such a fitting comment!

[@MeissnerEffect]

Dr ‘Photon Don’ is the man! Thanks for this talk ✨🌞

[@glenliesegang233]

Minds need simplicity, Nature does not. The verbal brain thinks thinking is enough to generate

[@liberty-matrix]

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration" ~Nikola Tesla

[@MichaelJones-ek3vx]

Patterns of energy excitation in 17 quantum fields make up all matter. Matter itself has no standalone identity. .

[@henvestments0-1productions28]

This entire reality assists in making whatever anyone believes comes true and the difficult fact to actknowledge is that it's only for the persons that believe in that belief it's as a gift that nature gave to humans as an remote controlled perceivable mechanism

[@TheBeatle49]

Rephrase please, that was kind of obscure.

[@joblo497]

​@@TheBeatle49 i never metanoia I didn't like ❤

[@wesstone7571]

The creator of that universe is who gave that gift.. he made us in his image so that his creation would listen to us as well. We're just too arrogant and self centered to accept it. We call our creator God, but most don't want to hear that.

[@terrieanndiehl58]

Language we use is limiting ~ Science will make a great circle back into what spiritualality of indigenous knew & practiced in energy form or how utilize fields for .....

[@TheBeatle49]

I guess you disagree with the speaker. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@kyletornow5781]

I do not believe he disagrees. I believe the statement is that science is coming full circle to what the ancients already knew or at least practiced. Correct me if I'm wrong

[@TheSubpremeState]

I'm always saying your first sentence but no one understands lol. We use the expression. I am.....for example, I am depressed, I am fat, I am in New York. It's lazy. Thats why Americans are almost at war with each other over transvestites ( they don't even understand what transgenders are). Anyway I am.....I am John. I forgot about that one. We use the words I am for a few different things and not many people even question that. When you think about those expressions, are they really true? I am depressed, no you're feeling depressed. I have ran out of time but really I am mostly empty space and fields

[@ericmaher4756]

Science will always hover on the edge of superstition, because it has always been on the fringe of the unknown. This doesn’t mean you can’t be a believer, but it’s easy to misinterpret what we perceive. As eloquently put by this scientist, the reality of the universe defies our perception of reality.

[@user-yt4oy9kp5w]

When we are dead they will be too,no use for anyone...in time. Wait and see.can be faster as AI said but also your demise.

[@NorthernChev]

Don is a fantastic science communicator. Which is why it pains me so to see him struggle to effectively explain these concepts to this audience. It seems like he’s unprepared or just not in the right mood. I guess we all have our days.

[@1234carolynb]

Pretty sure announcing the earth was round rather than flat was pretty woo woo back in the day.

[@wesstone7571]

Yeah we still can't form a consensus on that one, either.

[@iamwholewithmysoul547]

Fill your vessel with love❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@alchemicalvisionstudios3969]

solid- earth, liquid- water, Gas-air,plasma-fire. the four states of matter according to physics

[@arctic004]

very interesting and VERY nicely explained. thank you!

[@richardoldfield6714]

So, everything that exists is in reality a vibrating and invisible field, yet this, claims Dr. Lincoln, has absolutely nothing to with 'metaphysics'. I don't know about you, but the concept of totally invisible, vibrating fields that permeate everywhere and everything across the entire Universe, and create everything that exists ... sounds pretty metaphysical to me.

[@erichodge567]

The difference between physics and metaphysics comes down to your mistaken use of the word, "invisible". It is true, for example, that our eyes cannot see radio waves, but every middling physics department in the world has a device that will give out precisely the same answer for the frequency of a given source of radio waves. The apparatus makes the invisible, visible. Metaphysical investigations do not work this way. In fact, when a metaphysical method starts giving repeatable, consistent, and observable results, we just call it science.

[@richardoldfield6714]

@@erichodge567 Measuring frequency does not, contrary to your claim, make "the invisible, visible". It merely makes some aspects of some field-vibrations measurable .. big difference. The plain fact is that philosophical physicalism leads to a never ending series of logical causation questions: what caused the cause of the cause? And then, what caused the cause of that cause? ... etc etc. It's thus an approach that can never realistically hope to uncover ultimate truths about reality.

[@TheBeatle49]

I don't believe physicists are claiming anything like that. Remember Son himself said that 100 years from now there will likely be another iteration of physics, and in 200 another, . .

[@richardoldfield6714]

@@TheBeatle49 It's what Dr. Lincoln claims in the video (i.e. that metaphysics has nothing to do with fact that everything which exists stems from vibrating and invisible fields) - and that's what my comment refers to.

[@MizJaniceResinArt]

It's difficult to wrap the mind around the idea.... it's incredibly complex and we understand the tiniest fraction of these concepts. We should not dismiss the "woo" as ridiculous. There is a lot of science backing up many of the so-called woo ideas. See PEAR labs at Princeton for some really good examples.

[@seanmcdonough8815]

My favorite physicist: Don Lincoln Why? Gets me deep thinkin So much so my my processs start stinkin. 😅

[@dankuchar6821]

Thanks for pointing out that Great confusion arises when we take well-defined physics terms and use them in colloquial language To try and validate mystical hypotheses.

[@liamweavers9291]

Colloquial language that predates the science that proves it 😂

[@wesstone7571]

It only confusing if you refuse to accept it.

[@SpotterVideo]

What do the Twistors of Roger Penrose and the Hopf Fibrations of Eric Weinstein and the "Belt Trick" of Paul Dirac have in common? In Spinors it takes two complete turns to get down the "rabbit hole" (Alpha Funnel 3D--->4D) to produce one twist cycle (1 Quantum unit). Can both Matter and Energy be described as "Quanta" of Spatial Curvature? (A string is revealed to be a twisted cord when viewed up close.) Mass= 1/Length, with each twist cycle of the 4D Hypertube proportional to Planck’s Constant. In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately 1/137. 1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface 137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted. The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.) If quarks have not been isolated and gluons have not been isolated, how do we know they are not parts of the same thing? The tentacles of an octopus and the body of an octopus are parts of the same creature. Is there an alternative interpretation of "Asymptotic Freedom"? What if Quarks are actually made up of twisted tubes which become physically entangled with two other twisted tubes to produce a proton? Instead of the Strong Force being mediated by the constant exchange of gluons, it would be mediated by the physical entanglement of these twisted tubes. When only two twisted tubules are entangled, a meson is produced which is unstable and rapidly unwinds (decays) into something else. A proton would be analogous to three twisted rubber bands becoming entangled and the "Quarks" would be the places where the tubes are tangled together. The behavior would be the same as rubber balls (representing the Quarks) connected with twisted rubber bands being separated from each other or placed closer together producing the exact same phenomenon as "Asymptotic Freedom" in protons and neutrons. The force would become greater as the balls are separated, but the force would become less if the balls were placed closer together. Therefore, the gluon is a synthetic particle (zero mass, zero charge) invented to explain the Strong Force. The "Color Force" is a consequence of the XYZ orientation entanglement of the twisted tubules. The two twisted tubule entanglement of Mesons is not stable and unwinds. It takes the entanglement of three twisted tubules to produce the stable proton.

[@user-kj7pg8tz3f]

Glad we smart enough to know that science, religion, and esoteric go hand and hand😊. How many breadcrumbs we need.😅

[@seanmcdonough8815]

A world without religion woul behave just fine actually. Just look around the north Pole or deep in a jungle, or the subterranean ocean of Jupiter's moons, not a sandel in site, yet everything's working fine

[@user-kj7pg8tz3f]

@seanmcdonough8815 Hold on lemme read my comment and yours again........yep, definitely, you debating with yourself about a point that has nothing to do with what I said but the usage of the word religion....so here's my point again....."how long before we as a people realize science, religion, and the esoteric go hand and hand"...but go ahead and continue with your rant about the world's behavior and religion 😉 maybe the highlight worthiness off it will make it worth $0.02 ✊️😎

[@afd5231]

All I needed to know 🙏🏻🕊

[@reversefulfillment9189]

Namaste Sunya. 🙏 many thanks for sharing your truth.

[@liamweavers9291]

This is one of the funniest things I've watched in ages. Thank you, Don Lincoln for showing how blind the scientific community can be. Thousands of years of ancient wisdom told you that this was the case, but when you prove it to be the case, you suggest that your science is being hijacked by woo woo 😂

[@wesstone7571]

Because even though science is proving that light creates sound and sound creates light, that at the center of every atom is merely a frequency that tells it what to be or how to behave and bond, that it's not empty, but contains light, which even explains how manifestation works, they just cannot bring themselves to accept it. I, however, understand it as fact and know that it is true. Does that make this world a hologram? Absolutely not. This is the physical material realm where matter ≈ mass. A hologram is only light... there is no matter, and that's where we come from, and where we go back to, an earth made only and completely of light. That place by definition is a hologram. What should really get you thinking is, does an led bulb create artificial light? What would we call the light if it did? False light?

[@DougMayhew-ds3ug]

Eddy currents seem to highlight the common denominator to all action, reciprocity of opposites and also periodicity, or closed loops of action, and like a fractal, more closed loops within a given closed loop. The meta-relationships of standing waves, and how nearly static natural forms can be found within the proportions of standing waves and harmonic relations, speaks to the reason why mysticism overlaps with physics. Look at the Rosslyn Chapel standing wave figures, like the standing wave figures formed when a vibrating plate is sprinkled with sand. Literally the breath of god, vibration of periodic form, causing static form. This transform, in different numbers of dimensions and expressions, is likely where all the action is situated, just like how eddy currents form closed loops of periodic opposites. Superconducors can use eddy current to levitate a magnet, because there are no energy losses, this feels like how matter manifests; each atom is ether a superconductor-like perpetual motion, or is somehow re-fed energy from an outside source, like the pilot wave theory based on vibrating silicone droplets. The vibration keeps them existing and bouncing for a very long time. Particle-wave behavior, like eddy currents in 3d and nested epicyclic structures, might be knowable without actually seeing them, it might take a creative computer model parametric sandbox search for interesting phenomena at certain assumptions and sub-assumptions. The top people should be able to search a very large combinational space by sticking to known principles, boundaries,, and constants. I would look for a trifecta of nested relationships based on a common theme, as a minimum trigger threshold. I would start with relativistic eddy current math, resonant 3d field models with relativity taken into account. We are likely missing something big, but at least such pursuits would lead to hints on what principle might be missing from consideration.

[@craigstiferbig]

Superfluous and harmonic phase wave pressurized, superchilled neutrino permiable field set - essentially a QCD bifurcate, relative in phase reordering, neutrino ocean in strange attractions via pulsation casting, resonant, electromagnetic, dual wave to particle point electron pairs in convergence - skirting, tunneling in Vortexing frequencies, assimilate to navier stokes actions, producing refractional spaces and eddy to neutrino phase flow - engulfing, and vertexing turbulence to slipstreaming magnetosphere concentrations, with evolutions inverse in perception to entropic wave sets, and making inertial gains in Von Karman Vortex streets with orbital exchanges in oppositely oriented electron pairs helixing needlecasting pulsation streams/beams as they collide resonant transversals at neutrino phase pressure points of superpositional synaptic weaves, imparting through quarks as they flip in magnetic momentum around atomic nuclei and carry out phase states in quantum tunneling current paths of frequency evolutions... maybe 🤷‍♂️ A neutrino ocean fluid dynamic qcd imparted phase wave congruence as a dual mechanical relative spacetime system.. both sides resonant, but basically inverse to eachother.. evolving in spight of one another, reinforcing eachother as a closed field reaction, whether the boundary is the end of mass and energy phases or simply encasing or universe and parallel planes, or entire dimensional sets.. a simple solution allowing special and general theories of relativity and gravity as displacement

[@lifeunderthemic]

@@craigstiferbig Best descriptions ever. No explanations in the lot of it. I wish this was on paper so I could throw it away.

[@SuperKing521]

Albert Einstein said, "The more I study science, the more I am amazed by the complexity of the universe and the more I believe in the existence of a creator." If a scientist doesn't believe in God, does it mean s/he didn't study science enough? ❤️‍🔥

[@SuperKing521]

What is the connected universe theory? "This idea suggests that everything in the universe is interconnected in a way that is beyond the physical and that we are all connected on a deeper level. In conclusion, the interconnectedness of all things is a principle that suggests that everything in the universe is interconnected and interdependent."

[@SuperKing521]

Nassim Haramein completed Einstein's lifelong work of attempting to unify the universe in a unified theory. "protons are black holes." Nassim is a master of understanding the unified universe, in its entirety.

[@space-timegambit.by-abdull4052]

Nice ❤

[@DougMayhew-ds3ug]

The electrical properties of free space seem like they cause refraction and then reflection of energy at increasing frequencies, this could explain all particle formations perhaps. Light can escape atoms because it is less-reflected than the higher frequencies found in say, electrons, and finds an opportunistic window proportional to its wavelength.

[@mrslave41]

27:20 what was donn showing with the “gizmo”???

[@glenncurry3041]

If fields are everywhere, does that include outside the current area in which our universe exists? If our universe is an expanding bubble, do the fields already exist in the region we are expanding "into"? Or do fields expand? If so do they expand by stretching or multiplication?

[@TheBeatle49]

My understanding is that space itself is expanding. That there is no region outside of space.

[@glenncurry3041]

@@TheBeatle49 Yes the current theory is Universe expansion. But I am not aware of any claims to know what might exist outside the bounds of our universe that we are "expanding into". Expansion would either require the field(s) exists we are expanding into or the field is stretching with the expansion (which would weaken the local field energy as it stretched), or new field of same density is being created with the expansion.

[@MizJaniceResinArt]

Excellent question! Made my brain hurt 😁 ....love it!

[@robertnewhart3547]

It seems that the fields are a property of spacetime.

[@donrayjay]

If solid matter is the name we give to a certain kind of “mainly empty space” then I don’t think it makes any material difference. It’s a conceptual and linguistic curiosity rather than an ontological one

[@davidthomas9190]

Wake n bake just got deep 💚✌🏻

[@jatigre1]

Start by rotating the Michelson Morley interferometer vertically. Ubiquitous, but anisotropic in the presence of a mass body, the Aether shall set us free.

[@dorothygorska-tyas6958]

☆ Rivetting! ☆

[@alfreddaniels3817]

How does he explains the remaining 4 pounds? How does he explains the eagerness of electrons to reject eachothers nearby presence ?

[@OzGoober]

Thanks! More stuff for me to learn. -Why an individual field for each particle? Surely some of the fields would be just manifestations. -empty space ain't, role of quantum foam on fields and particles.

[@susanbarrackman8832]

So our fields are electromagnetic and repulsing other fields. I figure insects can see when things are dead because the dead thing's field is down. I have observed my own field. I did this in a pool on a sunny day I looked carefully and could see its shadow. It even has a flower of life like pattern.

[@scottmagnacca4768]

That’s true. He just hates saying it out loud because it’s true

[@glenliesegang233]

We arenot made of empty space, we are full of fields

[@richardoldfield6714]

It's interesting how keen Dr. Lincoln is to emphasize the non-applicability of the ideas he explores to anything 'metaphysical' - when it's blindingly obvious that some of the ideas do indeed relate very strongly to various 'metaphysical' conceptions. There seems to be a fear among some scientists of anything that contradicts - or might contradict - the philosophical physicalism which they insist, as matter of quasi-religious 'faith', must sit at the root of all explanations. This attitude is not science - it's scientism (including a set of pre-determined cultural assumptions, of which belief in philosophical physicalism is one example).

[@tomdorman2486]

OK I had to watch a second time to under the difference of what he is saying and what the so-called mystics are saying. I understand that our words aren't perfect, and Don does say the words he is saying, and the words the mystics are saying are the same, and he implies they are different in meaning. I think I would enjoy a video explaining what he he believes is the difference. This is a mystery to me.

[@raycar1165]

- Ric Flair approaches - The words are the same the concepts are the same but in practice anything on the other side of the metaphysical tracks is to be ridiculed into oblivion and forever known as “Woo”.

[@twonumber22]

That's what pseudoscience is. It's something non-scientific that appears to be scientific, purposely or not.

[@raycar1165]

@@twonumber22yeah, that’s right. Like black holes and dark matter. ;)

[@twonumber22]

@@raycar1165 yikes

[@markkens9]

...the concept of totally invisible Universe-permeating mathematics...may reach the scale of metaphysics.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

What we need to do is place all these different fields into a working structure, a process that form temporal existence. A one-way process with potential photon ∆E=hf energy, of what might happen, exchanging into the kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of matter, in the form of electrons. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion of what is actually happening. This forms an irreversible probabilistic process with an uncertain future coming into existence photon by photon with the absorption and emission of light waves.

[@kokopelli314]

Somewhere deep in the cosmos, Deepak Chopra smiles....

[@InterdimensionalWiz]

2 electrons repel eachother, what is the repelingness constructed of and how is the motive force imparted? what is the mechanism that causes the movement?

[@lucascritchi]

I think they are imparting photons. Photon is the gauge boson of the electromagnetic force.

[@InterdimensionalWiz]

@@lucascritchi so,what is it carrying, if it isn't mass?(photons are massless,yes?)and how does it deliver it's payload? what mechanism does that payload trigger that causes movement in the object?

[@lucascritchi]

@@InterdimensionalWiz that’s correct, photons are massless. Photons are the force carrier particles that transmit the electromagnetic force. Electrons interchange photons each other. Particles also has a property called spin which I believe it make them a little magnet. Photon is a elementary particle of the standard model, a force carrier particle. (One of the 4 gauge bosons known) If you are asking what is a photon or where it came from, well, in that case I don’t know. I think nobody knows that. 😆

[@InterdimensionalWiz]

@@lucascritchi Best answer yet! Tesla was into Radient Energy coming from spark gaps... then of course 'the Aether'so is a photon a waving particle,or a particulating wave? an interdimentional bump thing that lights up in the dark... ?

[@InterdimensionalWiz]

@@lucascritchi what is a magnetic field made of?what mechanism causes attraction and repulsion?

[@timothyjohnfarr6544]

Scientific inquiry requires the shut up and calculate method to ensure the best possible result in the search for an accurate description of our ongoing experience etc etc. I'm not looking to move forward on any temptation which may result from my unconscious biases should they hold sway over cold logic

[@razvanpastor3615]

He's like that one: "I'm not saying it was the aliens .... but it was the aliens"

[@cx-researchlaboratory7679]

👍👍

[@Libertariun]

27:20 "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." -- Nikola Tesla.

[@rmschindler144]

I would preface the list at 27:37 by ‘0. matter exists’ . that is to say, modern science comes with the belief that there _is_ something called matter . it is true that then we say, ‘well, it’s not really matter per se but field vibrations’; and here we simply move the assertion of _existence_ to ‘fields’ consider a totally different way to go about the exploration of reality . consider: what exists? . what do I _know_ exists? . not what I have heard, not an opinion; but what do I know first hand? . in other words, what is the very core of existence? . is it not existence itself? . do ‘I’ exist? . feel into that ‘I’ . how does it feel to exist? . do you _know_ it? . hmm... I seem to have lost my train of thought . hope this fragment means something to someone

[@space-timegambit.by-abdull4052]

❤

[@davec4276]

Without consciousness….. nothing can be seen , it would happen .. no one would know? 🦋

[@nealshields6373]

If a water molecule is .0000003 mm in size it takes a lot more than 3000 side by side to make a mm?

[@americanninja9163]

he did say meter, however picture shows mm

[@phaseencode4911]

It would take 3 million to make a millimeter, and 3 billion to make a meter

[@americanninja9163]

@@phaseencode4911 I believe he meant 3*10^-7 m which is the same as 3*10^-4 mm. So if u multiply that with 3000 it equals approx. 1mm. It is not correct but it is an honest mistake.

[@kennethreese2193]

Its easy to make stupid mistakes like that when you are speaking in front of an entire room like that. Its also much harder to correct yourself on the fly. Obviously, he knows because he is correctly rattling off other large numbers.

[@joehopfield]

"The only difference is that there is no cat.” ;-)

[@RealProfessionalHumanBeing]

Physicists who do physics > mathematicians who do physics

[@summondadrummin2868]

The 4 elements are not metaphysical, they're very tangible and always present

[@milemarker301]

too many ads!... but good lecture

[@mrtienphysics666]

There are many descriptions in the 5th Canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam about places to which we have no immediate access. This begs the question: What is the mechanism which prevents us from perceiving these worlds? One such possibility could be that standard human senses can only pick up information within a limited range of guṇa combinations. To formalize this idea, a sketch of a phenomenological mathematical model will be presented based on certain assumptions. The purpose of this sketch is to show possible research avenues for developing a proper mathematical model that can describe intuitive notions of Sāṅkhya philosophy as more information becomes available concerning the nature of these apparently inaccessible worlds. At the heart of the sketch is a tantalizing similarity between certain elements of Sāṅkhya and quantum fields, as suggested by Akhandadhi in his “Atma Paradigm” presentations. We will touch upon the collapse of the wave-function, the influence of the guṇas, and the connection between the elements of Sāṅkhya and atoms as described in Vaiśeṣika philosophy.

[@AlanMcBride-yw6in]

Srimad Bhagavatam ki jai

[@directdemocracy133]

Scientist is a modern name for shaman

[@rmschindler144]

I want to offer an idea - idunno, maybe someone will find this interesting . the idea is that it is a human capacity (faculty, whatever)... to form a personal relationship... with _anything_ . I can meet a particular person & we can work together on the story of our friendship, or our love, or our romance... and so on . but the idea that I offer is that _anything_ is available . & now consider: is it a kind of self-deception? . perhaps . or perhaps there is something more to it, that it would be tremendously shortsighted to call it a self-deception . we do not say that someone in love is deceived - well, some may say that, but I suggest they have never themselves been in love . there is tremendous _truth_ in it (- first word that popped into mind); tremendous _weight_ to the story, the interpretation so, again: the idea I offer is that there is something unique & wonderful about a human being: that she can form a personal relationship with anything at all

[@1234carolynb]

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. The mind is the matrix of matter." Max Planck, theoretical physicist

[@seabud6408]

You may have read “The Science Delusion” by research biologist Dr Rupert Sheldrake, which is his reply to “The God delusion” by, of course, the biologist/geneticist Dr Richard Dawkins. Consciousness is the other side of the coin 🪙 that is life. No one knows how chemistry 🧪 became conscious 🧬 🐸 . biology… Google it. No one. Dr Dawkins assumes that the Universe is and was, a dead unconscious mechanical entity. However any physicist will tell you that there are no particles only fields .. and that there is ultimately only one field of energy .. The unified quantum field .. which IS what the Uni-verse .. IS. What no physicist (if he/she is also a materialist) will tell you, is that you can show that Life and consciousness are intrinsic qualities of this field … which IS everything. Ask yourself if you are alive and conscious. As you are continuous with this field .. this means that life and consciousness must be qualities of this field .. which you are inseparable from. The Universe is a nested holon just like the human body m, which it is continuous with. (nested atoms, cells, molecules, organs, body-organism - nested in the environment… The Earth 🌍 … The Universe ) Atom/energy .. to molecule, to Cell to 🥚 to 🐣 to 🐓 Big Bang 💥 .. to super hot expanding plasma .. to 💨 gas to stars ✨ to black holes 🕳️ galaxies, planets 🪐 🌍 … seas 🌊 cells 🦠 and animals 🐸 💃🏽 Einstein, Dali, Disney and Mickey 🐭 Same process … growth .. AND .. evolution. Scientists deny that the Universe has GROWN in that common sense sense … because it can’t be organismic .. can’t be alive. That is just the assumption part of the guiding dogma that is … materialism. the Universe appears to be eternally cyclic (living and dying and living being born again .. like us) Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel Laureate) has a theory regarding cyclic cosmology and a theory of how the brain may mediate consciousness via quantum processes in the brain 🧠. He does not have any theory as to what consciousness IS (No one does) .. adding “Perhaps in 500 years time, we will be able to make a start on that” Evolutionary theory has nothing to say about the only real mysteries .. outlined above. Materialism - “Give us one free “miracle” and we’ll explain the rest”? If interested please read “The Science Delusion” by research biologist Dr Rupert Sheldrake … this was his reply to Dr Dawkins book .. “The God Delusion” Also .. The Tao of Physics by particle physicist Dr Fritjof Capra. Deep Physics/deep perennial philosophy. (Materialism would just say deep woo .. of course)

[@user-bl8je7vq9p]

Excellent talk but he should have dressed as a Magician!🧞‍♂️🧞‍♀️🚶🏾‍♂️‍➡️

[@Libertariun]

27:22 isn’t that what Tesla wrote?

[@piehound]

Egg-cellent.

[@rmschindler144]

Dr. Don Lincoln, you say “I don’t want to make fun of these guys/gals” - but you are making fun of them . I am simply pointing out something perhaps very human & commonplace: we mock those that see things differently . why do we do this? . what’s in it for us? . of the great things a human being is capable, I do not think that ‘those who know more’ deriding ‘those who have got it wrong’ is a part of that greatness

[@kellyschlumberger1030]

An atom is a tenth of a micron? That sounds kinda huge. Gotta aks Google, but maybe he meant nanometer? I always enjoyed science.

[@Pegasus4213]

Forgive me for asking, but did you explain on the subject of REALITY where consciousness can be found in matter or its interaction? I may have missed that! You know; the consciousness with which you were explaining the nature of reality being merely physical. I don't think you touched on that. I feel it may have something to do with the nature of reality, don't you think?

[@cottawalla]

No.

[@Pegasus4213]

@@cottawalla Consciousness IS reality, there is no other kind!

[@cottawalla]

@@Pegasus4213 consciousness is our mental model of reality. It's not reality itself.

[@Pegasus4213]

@@cottawalla The fundamental basis of all reality, is an expression from one source which manifests as a multidimensional creative expression of consciousness. Language and symbolic representation cannot do it justice, but consciousness is the causative basis of reality. We may all view this in our own way!.

[@cottawalla]

@@Pegasus4213 what you claim as the fundamental one consciousness is better explained as an effect generated by the combined effect of many individual consciousnesses, because the latter doesn't require magic. A true perception of reality requires the corroboration from many independent perceptions. Alone and isolated our models become limited and weak. That can also happen in groups that enforce dogma, because they exclude access to other perspectives. And when that is intentional it's called a cult.

[@jamesraymond1158]

Don, the information density of your talk is rather low. However, you seem more natural and relaxed in front of a live audience than you do in your science videos.

[@johnryan2193]

Not sure anyone at fermi lab has a clue about emptyness and form. Scientists are terrified of calling it what it is . Intelligent spirit becoming.

[@TheBinaryUniverse]

So, why can't we have just the one field that exhibits all the behaviour we observe? Maybe I'm a reductionist, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Logic tells me that fundamentally there must be only the one field.

[@andrewroberthook3310]

If you do the art of Yog Properly ,you will see. However might be a bit much for some.

[@natashapope3785]

impenetrable??Too right. It is accessible though.

[@glenncurry3041]

Loved your intro warning about possible woo woo misinterpretations. Which is exactly why I thought the title was click bait that successfully dragged me in! Then I see Don and.... it's going to be all right!

[@seabud6408]

Read “The Science Delusion” by research biologist Dr Rupert Sheldrake, which is his reply to “The God delusion” by, of course, the biologist/geneticist Dr Richard Dawkins. Consciousness is the other side of the coin 🪙 that is life. No one knows how chemistry 🧪 became conscious 🧬 🐸 . biology… Google it. No one. Dr Dawkins assumes that the Universe is and was, a dead unconscious mechanical entity. However any physicist will tell you that there are no particles only fields .. and that there is ultimately only one field of energy .. The unified quantum field .. which IS what the Uni-verse .. IS. What no physicist (if he/she is also a materialist) will tell you, is that you can show that Life and consciousness are intrinsic qualities of this field … which IS everything. Ask yourself if you are alive and conscious. As you are continuous with this field .. this means that life and consciousness must be qualities of this field .. which you are inseparable from. The Universe is a nested holon just like the human body m, which it is continuous with. (nested atoms, cells, molecules, organs, body-organism - nested in the environment… The Earth 🌍 … The Universe ) Atom/energy .. to molecule, to Cell to 🥚 to 🐣 to 🐓 Big Bang 💥 .. to super hot expanding plasma .. to 💨 gas to stars ✨ to black holes 🕳️ galaxies, planets 🪐 🌍 … seas 🌊 cells 🦠 and animals 🐸 💃🏽 Einstein, Dali, Disney and Mickey 🐭 Same process … growth .. AND .. evolution. Scientists deny that the Universe has GROWN in that common sense sense … because it can’t be organismic .. can’t be alive. That is just the assumption part of the guiding dogma that is … materialism. the Universe appears to be eternally cyclic (living and dying and living being born again .. like us) Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel Laureate) has a theory regarding cyclic cosmology and a theory of how the brain may mediate consciousness via quantum processes in the brain 🧠. He does not have any theory as to what consciousness IS (No one does) .. adding “Perhaps in 500 years time, we will be able to make a start on that” Evolutionary theory has nothing to say about the only real mysteries .. outlined above. Materialism - “Give us one free “miracle” and we’ll explain the rest”? If interested please read “The Science Delusion” by research biologist Dr Rupert Sheldrake … this was his reply to Dr Dawkins book .. “The God Delusion” Also .. The Tao of Physics by particle physicist Dr Fritjof Capra. Deep Physics/deep perennial philosophy. (Materialism would just say deep woo .. of course)

[@claywright1100]

Sure spent a lot of "energy" explaining that what he said was not what he meant and that his judgements weren't judgemental. Would've been easier just to present the information.

[@wonder7798]

If you want people to trust you and what you are speaking on don't push a certain product.

[@jaydils9680]

Lol😂 they know.

[@Libertariun]

29:30 they used the same words that I just used. Actually “they” used them millennia before you existed. I’d say you stole their words and ideas and repackaged them for an atheist and materialistic age. Let’s see what your fellow scientists are saying in 100 years. My guess is it will be very different.

[@RoBear-bv8ht]

😂

[@jasonshapiro9469]

Well on the bright side..if you're not a genius materialist at least you still have mumbo jumbo..lol

[@craigstiferbig]

Ying yang isn't mysterious, or mystical...it's the balance of an inversely resonant, dual mechanical, liquid phase wave dynamic, wave to particle point resonant casting energetic electron pairs bifurcational to a phase wave harmonically pressurized neutrino ocean.. Vortex streets, strange attractions, permiable transfer, navier stokes assimilate actions, and electromagnetic "magnetosphere" concentrations engulfing neutrinos in refractional space.. together makeup gravity as displacement and reconditioning phase flow, in evolution towards,in spight of one another, skirting their individual entropic properties in a dance of attempts at gain over the other congruence. The superfluous phase dynamic neutrino field, seemingly instantaneous in reordering phase transfers across unlimited distance (and time). The electron pairs set together to create evolving resonation pulsates and exchange oscillation patterning in convergence with superpositional pairs moving inverted through time, at paradoxical pressure points (entanglements of pulsation weaves applying dimensional synaptic bridging under superpositional rippling at convergent concentrations and impact orientations). Their exchange continues atomic nuclei spinors in wave concentrations of harmonic vertices/vortices in polar pulsation turbine excitations of cymatic energy spheres engulfing neutrino harmonics. Pulsate ripples in congruence as wave casts at their refractional tips where electrons orbit and flip guiding expansion of space-time in resonant evolving pulsation casting wave density held in by slipstreaming neutrino phase, transversing out through the neutrino ocean in harmonic beams from quasars at the center of every galaxy.

[@marcariotto1709]

I've been saying almost exactly the same thing for years. It's nearly self-explanatory once you learn some basic physics and a little maths, but nobody will listen to me😢

[@craigstiferbig]

@marcariotto1709 because they still think neutrinos are created by nuclear fusion... instead of merely excited out of phase harmony with ourselves locally (relative) ..most of our conceptualization with space-time as a fluidity is confused because we essentially evolved in spaces over curved 2 dimensional assimilate planes - if we were water based intelligent lifeforms, and the oxygen never rose from the oceans, leaving a water world almost completely to orbit, and there wasn't miles of ice separating us from space in such an occasion.. we would likely have understood this concept long before Feynman created probability sets that don't involve direct determinism ( by using passive observations ), and wouldn't be hanging onto a theory, Einstein knew was incomplete and suffered over this - constant - until his passing, in being reinforced locally through many technical processes testing the mathematics successfully approximate } as facts { instead of the highly repeated assumptions of close approximation around ^ and uncertainty principles shrouded in "dark" terminology, which allows the short ordered historically local repetition in successful real world applications

[@herrweiss2580]

Rubbish 😂

[@craigstiferbig]

@herrweiss2580 you must mean how you communicate with strangers. Maybe take a time out and try again. We can be better. You can too. Then we'll be better together... try some banana pancakes, maybe. Unless there's a college freshmen physics student that you need to stifle somewhere ( before they prove your next publishing wrong) (better hurry)

[@shanebailey9128]

Like he said Craig, You’re on your own! I Sincerely Hope you seek some Professional help, be it Psychological or for Drug dependence or Both.👍

[@mykrahmaan3408]

Science is NOT different from conventional religions. The latter want us to believe GOD is everywhere because the priests say so, while the scientists want us to believe FIELD is everywhere because they say so.

[@TheBeatle49]

No it's because their existence is detectable and falsifiable. BTW, if you buy a GPS based on religious doctrine it will not work.

[@jamescollier3]

not "scientists say so" but that the theory is fantastically accurate, ubiquitous and very predictive of reality.

[@blaiseutube]

If someone has been using a word before Don did, then he is using their words. Don is hijacking the woo woo metaphor, not the other way around. Physicists are sloppy in their language then blame others for not understanding.

[@TheBeatle49]

I think physicists have gone a little overboard in some of their naming. But he is right in that "quantum" has been mis-usued by the new age crowd. By the way, "quantum*" was not borrowed from mysticism. Also that the words of the scientists and the same words by the mystics do not mean the same thing. And also, mystics are uncritical in assuming that the words that physicists use must correspond to their own use of the word.

[@Horsepowered]

I can't help but feel that this gentleman would be a much better physicist if he paid for the therapy to heal the hurt he experienced at not being invited to the "cool" table in the cafeteria. Even though it's a simple presentation of general concepts in modern science it is clouded by his psychological immaturity and his need to insult other views. Refuting his perspective and training is too easy to make further mention of here. Only to say: how many quarks compose the desire of the students to eat cheese after the lecture? Surely a causal explanation would need to grant some status to the experience of the eater although the reality of same cannot be measured by any of the particles or forces mentioned. And lastly, what did Einstein experience when he received his greatest insight? Where did such a thought come from? This presenter needs to humble himself with what little he really knows or understands. It's okay, your colleagues won't like you less.

[@christophergame7977]

Ahh! now I understand: physicists are very clever, and the ordinary man is utterly dumb.

[@Clessandra]

Nothing new. SOSO, 😢

[@lc2c177]

Well done he tried. Just listen to Donald Hoffman for a better take.

[@markus4013]

Me thinks he protests too much . . . .

[@monnoo8221]

just as arrogant as almost all physicists. First, QT is incomplete, Astronomy is incomplete, despite your beautiful theory. 35+ free arbitrary parameters is not how intellectual beauty could be conceived. Second you completely forget about transcendental conditions. You are just talking about 1 out of four aspects of reality, and that's the (abstract) model. Intellectually faint, I would say.

[@nnonotnow]

Mystikal mumbo jumbo...

[@RoBear-bv8ht]

28 minutes and still saying nothing other than condescending remarks about women…

[@user-yt4oy9kp5w]

Sorry but this has used my life my ideas, weaponized them ,my being, without informed consent.

[@jdlawbooker3938]

Ur, uh. What? You own particle physics somehow?

[@RoBear-bv8ht]

Something disingenuous about this guy, from the very beginning. Likes to think of himself as some Aristotle persona to give meaning to who he is and what he has to say. 8 minutes in and he says nothing 😂

[@tomdorman2486]

Very nice speaker, quite wonderfully presented. But the paranoia of being mistaken for being woo is funny. I would speculate he has never spent any time or expended any efforts to see if the woo may have merit. I believe if an honest person looked at all the evidence, one must conclude that science is missing the boat.

[@Tricyklist]

Science can always be reconstructed entirely from scratch. Burn all the books? Forced global amnesia with an "alien" EMP? Science can be resurrected. Given enough time, intelligence and freedom of thought. Science is not invented. It merely waits patiently and completely indifferently to be described. While a faith dies [forever!] The microsecond there is a break in transmission of corrupted information.

[@wisdomugonna6529]

🤣🤣

[@skyemac8]

Life is strange and it reveals itself sometimes as woo an all is fields in reality.

[@christopherhamilton3621]

Glad to see you qualify your statement with ‘speculate’…😂

[@marcariotto1709]

Some woo is like some myths and legends in that science is indeed proving them to be facts. There are reasons so many great minds also follow a spiritual path and not simple reductionist materialism.

[@user-ct9dc4zt6h]

God

[@christopherhamilton3621]

😂

[@user-ct9dc4zt6h]

@@christopherhamilton3621 GOD

[@Gringohuevon]

Fields fighting with one another..like kung-fu?

[@Gringohuevon]

Childish nonsense...I am born from nothing and I need to understand how the universe works? hilarious

[@RealProfessionalHumanBeing]

Physicists who do physics > mathematicians who do physics