Einstein's Nightmare - America and the Degradation of Physics

Summary of my German book www.amazon.de/Alexander-Unzic..., Westend 2022. Polish translation, thanks to Zbigniew Koziol:
• Alexander Unzicker: Ko...

[@marko_duvnjak]

I agree completely. Before 1930 we had a mission of understandong nature. Later our mission shifted to describing nature. Quoite unfortunate.

[@problematic7993]

Now the mission is to describe fantasy and unreality.

[@debtanupatra3385]

Now it tends towards 10 dimentional nonsense and science fiction.

[@Gringohuevon]

Twaddle

[@ivoryas1696]

@@Gringohuevon What?

[@SnakeEngine]

What's the difference?

[@lindosland]

What you say about American thinking applies far beyond Physics. Americans are isolated in outlook. They like what is American, and buy what is American; understandable perhaps because they are a large isolated island with a society built rapidly on 'the American Dream' of progress without limitations. This outlook means they often do not even recognise developments in Europe. My own field of Audio Quality measurement is an example of this. When I founded a business in 1978 to sell my Audio Analyser, which made measurements based on European standards, I met with huge success. Our instruments are now regarded as 'the defacto standard' by many big broadcast and studio organisations, and many millions of pounds worth have been sold - in the UK, Europe, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong; but practically none in the USA. At a show I was told 'it's not sexy enough' - which shocked me as a scientist and perhaps sums up the issue! More specifically, Americans just did not recognise that European measurement methods exist and dominate because they are better. 'We use A-weighting for noise measurement', they will say. When I explain that it does not give meaningful results, dates from the 1920's and was superceded by CCIR464, now ITU-R-468 following research in the sixties in Germany and then the UK (BBC), they simply repeat 'we use A-weighting because it gives lower noise figures which are better for marketing purposes'. This is just one example.

[@christophertinklerart2020]

I really appreciate your efforts to clarify, contextualize, and elucidate not only the complexity of what physics and our understanding actually is but also the broader sociological issues. You are deeply appreciated.

[@richardkerner5817]

I forgot to mention the title of Johannes Stark's article in Nature (1938). It was (in English) "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics", by Prof. J. Stark, President of the Physikalisch-Technischen Reichanstalt, Berlin-Charlottenburg.

[@dharmverma7595]

I migrated to US from India five decades ago. I agree with you. I always tell my Indian friends that Americans are doers not deep thinkers. They are satisfied with enough knowledge of nature which enables them to exploit it for financial gains or defense. In physics, one can have a very convincing explanation of a natural phenomenon, but , the ontological reality may be totally different. We should strive to learn how really nature works.

[@janhemmer8181]

But should we share that knowledge with those who will only use it for military purposes or financial gain? I bet all European research institutes have the US militairy as stakeholders.

[@arthurrobey4945]

Musk springs to mind. He is advised to do research into gravity, lest his amazing engineering all be superseded.

[@Idkwhattonamess]

As an American, I completely agree with this.

[@blueturkey]

Paradigm change is the basis of the problem facing physics. The paradigm is broken and you can't fix it with a constant.

[@aaronchowdhury2706]

Looking forward to the English version of your book. Currently reading The Mathematical Reality. It's been a great read!

[@TheMachian]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@cesarjom]

Much of the focus and understanding in foundational physics vanished when natural philosophy got decoupled from the field of physics.

[@SoloRenegade]

logic used to lead the math (Faraday, Newton, Einstein...), now they lead with math and reject logic

[@algorithminc.8850]

Agree. Thought such for many decades ... and believe that more and more people are understanding the distractions. It's not that thought and math lack importance ... they lead to discoveries and understanding and what to look for ... it's that observations and experiments are important, and being set aside often for math alone. I look forward to reading your book.

[@SoloRenegade]

logic used to lead the math (Faraday, Newton, Einstein...), now they lead with math and reject logic

[@richardkerner5817]

A very similar analysis was made quite long ago by a German Physicist Johannes Stark, the recipiendary of the Nobel Prize in 1919. You can read it in his article published in the April 1938 issue of "Nature", Vol. 141, page 770-772.

[@stormtrooper9404]

I like the natural, rough and not lacquereed wooden shelf in the background! It looks beautiful, and it gaves me inspiration (nah 😅 not to solve any unresolved problems in physics), but to try and make one for myself.

[@dankurth4232]

Any inspiration is better than a lack of it

[@stefanocb6507]

I believe it to be the IVAR series from IKEA

[@rayoflight62]

Up to the first half of 20th century, Physics was developed by a number of very smart and genial people, which found a way to prove or disprove their theories and hypotheses. Lise Meitner just guessed what fission products were, she didn't need a particle accelerator to make such fundamental discovery. Personally I believe that, for understanding the inner structure of the matter and an unifying theory, we don't need bigger accelerators, just some better research and reasoning methods. The entire discussion about EU and US science isn't relevant. There are bright minds either side; just the approach to big monetary investments is different. Run 3 at LHC is 13.6 TeV actually and that number will be ever increasing in the coming years. I don't believe we are going to make any fundamental discovery on the structure of matter. I believe we have a problem understanding rather than measuring new particles...

[@curiousmind9287]

All branches of science started to degrade in the 30th of last century. Hans Selye attributed this to the fact that around that time science stopped being a pass-time of wealthy driven by curiosity and became a job of a middle class, funded by universities, businesses etc. Today this trend is coming to its logical end with by my estimate, at least 95% of scientific publications in any field being a scientific garbage. This makes it impossible not only solve a scientific problem, but even be aware that such problem exists.

[@mmotsenbocker]

Curious Mind, I agree with you' Every field of science is ruined. I explored this topic in the 1980s when I was a graduate student in an old department of very old professors, and learned that the problem (at least in the US) slowly began in the 1960s when patents became linked to the work of scientists and then became worse and worse as money became the dominating factor in all decisions for positions and prestige. In recent years you can see that 'science' is managed by rain-maker prominent science-politicians (Fauchi-friends of Fauchi for ex) who command large groups of employees or dependents, often spanning several locations, where the politician manager works full time promoting and advertising for money. Even back then, we would hold a press conference, timed to submission of a big grant proposal. Now that system is very professional, wherein schools such as MIT have well funded promotion departments. In the biotech arena, politicians at the very top manage the grift by working closely with Bill Gates, WHO, WEF and large corporations to give them what they want. Virtually all 'science' in America is merely a political response to money opportunities provided by captured politicians who decide on money flow. In the private sector we see the same thing, where 'scientists' who promote commercially desirable notions (neonicotinoids do not affect bees! eating eggs prevent heart attacks!) are funded and carried out via 'experiments' that are designed to provide data for companies such as BASF and the national egg board and that can be argued to support the sponsor. The churning we see in particle physics (give us billions to do more of the same without following evidence driven hypotheses ) is merely a symptom of a larger problem. After the collapse of the American empire, which is well underway, we need a new ethos, similar to what emerged from the dark ages after the collapse of Rome. We can start with a next generation communication system that promotes or rewards truth by employing truth sifting rules that have been hammered out by 200 years of experience in the legal system, (which similarly has been struggling with the search for truth). In this regard, the humanities and sciences can finally come together in a common quest for truth, elusive as that may be. Best regards from the Japan Islands.

[@nishantpatil1847]

Kind sir, i am just a newbie in the feild of physics. But, i am curious to know, whether the principle of least time and least action are valid in the quantum scale. Please answer sir. Thankyou.

[@georgemichelakis1202]

Very beautiful final message, well done my friend.

[@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

Excellent quick summary of the divergence of physics from reality in the last decades. Unfortunately, I don't speak German (German was optional in my high-school times - I still speak 4 languages though), so I'll have to wait for the English translation :-)

[@thephuntastics2920]

Not too different from German :)

[@mc2312]

Thanks for introduction. I'll buy it.

[@souvikchatterjee5105]

I have read your Higgs Fake book.It was just amazing.Waiting for this book's English version.

[@jonathanhockey9943]

The "shut up and calculate" quote of Feynman sums up the American attitude in a nutshell. Feynman himself at times shows greater awareness of the real problems, but still this will be the thing he is most remembered for with this betrayal of basic theoretical physical principles.

[@samlazar1053]

By the time write brothers first took of in a plane...Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was dreaming about Space exploration and SATELLITES. Elon Mosk recently eluded to that fact when he congratulated Konstantin Tsilovky on his birthday

[@craigbrown3617]

Physics, and science in general, in the US has suffered since Reagan. At that time, funding became available only based on return on investment as judged by greedy politicians. Thus, the philosophical value of science was totally disregarded by mainstream (well-funded) science.

[@jgunther3398]

from reading the comments i see this is one of those channels were any opposing comments are deleted, certainly a good thing for science...

[@Gunni1972]

I blame Hollywood. Where everything is possible in a movie, and 25 years later, the USA announces a company that researches to MAKE it possible.

[@thephuntastics2920]

I still See the true Problem of physics trying to describe nature/reality in the attempt to do so while ignoring 99% of said reality. Without psychonautic, physics will never ever get to the truth.

[@seditt5146]

You think physicist are a bunch of squares that never thought to explore inner space? That's cute lol.

[@kirbyurner]

Curious about your views of How the Hippies Saved Physics (book). Physics was having problems recruiting given how unsexy the bomb and nuke power had become, but Bell’s Theorem and deeper mysteries in quantum mechanics reignited next generation interest in the subject.

[@titanicisshit1647]

His entire message is that there's nothing "weird" in physics and that such things are BS

[@markl4593]

Alexander, sadly you are correct. Our American theoretical physicists have diverged from healthy collaboration and created clay foundations without basis rooted in sound principles. I’ve bought into the standard model and exotic theories myself until subscribing to your channel. We need to ponder thought experiments once again to move forward constructively.

[@lachezarkrastev7123]

You are just awesome!

[@lalalalaphysics7469]

Will the book ever get an English edtion?

[@TheMachian]

Yes, but not very soon...

[@l.rongardner2150]

The degradation of physics is not surprising given the degradation of virtually every aspect of modern civilization. When you live in a society wherein many people think that men can get pregnant and that math is racist, it only figures that physics would also go wacky.

[@TheMachian]

Indeed I link these absurities in my new book.

[@helifynoe9930]

Different places, different thinking. However, overall, the educational system is currently designed to keep you off track, to keep you off of the path of truth. For instance, most people think that the phenomena described via Einstein's theory of special relativity(SR), are bizarre or complicated, when in fact even if you are a school dropout, you can discover the cause behind the SR phenomena all by yourself, if your mind is on the path of truth. In other words, throw everything that you have been taught, out the window, and then start from scratch. In this case, start by analyzing motion to figure out exactly what it is, and before you know it, you will have figured it all out, and at the very same time will have derived the SR equations.

[@stevenhanaway920]

As an American physicist in training, who speaks and reads writes in German a little bit, I would love a copy of your book in both German and English, though Im sure my German comprehension will increase by reading your book in German, it is going to take me significantly longer to get through it as a result, but perhaps thats not such a bad thing. I am in complete agreement with your statements on the state of physics in America, and I think we need to return to the type of fundamental thinking that that led to discoveries like brownian motion for example, and proof that atoms exist. I am of the opinion that we need new mathematics or to change our mathematics in order to more accurately describe nature in ways that doesn't require renormalizations which are mathematically illegitimate. Dogma like "shut up and calculate" is perhaps the most harmful because it prevents the fundamental analysis of our logic and reasoning.

[@edwardlarson6110]

Was Dirac's seminal theoretical work one of last great exemplars of the European physics tradition, or did he just get lucky with Anderson's discovery of the positron? Was there anything inherently more down-to-earth and compelling in Dirac's reasoning or style of research than the numerous failed models in particle physics that predicted supersymmetric particle pairings?

[@xxxYYZxxx]

The problem with modern Physics is the utter lack of a Reality Theory to which Physics refers. Imagine electromagnetism without poles, or a Theory of Gravity without the Heliocentric model of the Solar System ... they simply DON"T MAKE SENSE, which is exactly the position of today's Physics. In lieu of coherent models we get politics. The only thing to which Physics consistently refers is the scientific "expertise" and hence political "authority" of its celebrity proponents.

[@someoneontheinternet3090]

I've seen a few of Unzicker's videos and most of what he says goes over my head. Is it safe to say that he doesn't respect particle physics, possible to the point of considering it a pseudiscience? That's the impression I am getting but not sure it's correct.

[@TheMachian]

Quite correct :-) Feel free to ask other questions.

[@prbprb2]

I would say that the architects of the Manhattan project were geniuses in their own way, but in a different way than the other luminaries from Europe that you mention.

[@eytansuchard8640]

Right now, there are two urgencies. 1) To shift from particles-based physics to chronon-based physics. Sam Vaknin's work from 1984 has been ignored for too long. My work continued a new direction in 2003. In a chronon based physics, a scalar (Not a coordinate) field of time is deconstructed into quantum states i.e., chronon wave functions. In the full description there are systems of 1,2,3 and even 4 Reeb vectors describing non geodesic alignment of these events as the reason for forces and thus matter and of gravity as the response of an observer manifold to the misalignment. One Reeb vector is sufficient to describe the electromagnetic phenomena. 2) One of the results is that not only inertial mass generates gravity, but also electric charge does. Charge is, however, coupled to a non-geodesic 4-vector and is therefore not equivalent to inertial mass. Negative charge generates a weak anti-gravity field and positive charge generates a weak gravity field. That can explain why the hot positively ionized gas of the Bullet Cluster is misidentified as Dark Matter. Electrons on the other hand have light mass and are easily accelerated to relativistic speeds and escape galactic gravity. These free intergalactic electrons cause a "Dark Energy" effect. So not all the DM and DE effects are weakly interacting particles. Corroboration of this effect is very difficult but possible. It is easy to come up with null results when testing high voltage capacitors for an Inertial Dipole effect with low capacitor area or with an insulating material which is too light weighted. The H4D lab in Brazil used an improvised balance in order to allow wide area capacitors and to reduce the weight of shielded capacitors due to limits of the scales they used. Scales lose the high resolution as the weight grows. Martin Tajmar (sounds Taymar) from Dresden, on the other hand, botched the experiment and my analysis of his experiment shows weight loss which is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude less than his highest resolution (0.1 mg scales and 0.3 mg sensitivity of the experiment). It is best to use an insulating layer with as low as possible dielectric constant because anti-aligned dielectric dipoles oppose the external polarity and destroy the effect. This is said although (14) in my paper, shows that higher charge on the plates or lower relative dielectric constant work the same way. Higher charge and higher dielectric constant therefore should cancel out, however, (14) makes some dangerous assumption about how uniform is the distribution of induced dipole. You can see my 2022 paper Electro-gravity via geometric chronon field and on the origin of mass in ResearchGate. This 2022 paper is beyond comparison more advanced than my IARD publication from 2017 and has a breakthrough that is not included in the arXiv publication.

[@illogicmath]

The world needs more non mainstream people like you who try to think out of the box. I guess it should not be easy for you to deal with the physics community.

[@eytansuchard8640]

@@illogicmath Thank you. The first idea was in Sam Vaknin's doctorate dissertation from 1982 which he completed in 1984. My later work also predicts exact mass ratios e.g. Muon/electron and the exact inverse Fine Structure Constant. There is also a surprise which is an unexpected exact relation between the pole energy of the Bottom Quark and the Muon (33). The pole energy of the Bottom Quark by A. M. Badalian is 4.778 GeV and this value appears in my paper as 4.7787.. GeV. The Muon energy from the electron energy fits the 2014 value of 105.6583745 MeV. In theory it is 105.65837455 MeV. The CODATA value is 105.6583755 MeV. These results should cause a Tsunami. Instead, they are ignored.

[@illogicmath]

@@eytansuchard8640 what you say literally amazes me. OMG, perhaps you should try to publish your work as a book

[@eytansuchard8640]

@@illogicmath Also look the following: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaTNmKembr2NrtE . The only way out is a theory which is based on events and not on particles. The system has a universal observer. Geometry itself becomes quantized and the equation of gravity bridges between an observer and an observed geometry. In this way, no artificial devices such as ADM, Wheeler - de Witt a are required. The chronon field itself offers a way to deconstruct spacetime.

[@migfed]

Pragmatism as U.S. oficial philosophy it's an non scientific approach that limits the science endeavour as a whole.

[@YawnGod]

I feel like Unzicker should listen to Alan Watts lectures.

[@josiaphus]

You’re talking about post modernism. We confuse truth for “whatever we can make ourselves believe” And then fortify it by fooling others. But truth remains truth

[@devfromthefuture506]

What do think about octonions?

[@TheMachian]

See my rectent video kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKmkeXqtrrlgY5Y, one of the questions at the end.

[@peterplotts1238]

Since I began learning German forty years ago, I have been bumping into the word "superficial" to describe this or that aspect of American culture. I don't necessarily disagree with you, and I have been thinking about this question for a long time - only superficially, of course. I assume your book explains how this damaging phenomenon came to be and offers solutions. Anyway, I hope it does because I am going to buy it. Thanks.

[@TheMachian]

Thx. The English title is "Make Physics Great Again"

[@peterplotts1238]

"MPGA" - that's perfect. Thank you.@@TheMachian

[@dianasitek3595]

Waiting for the English translation!

[@paulwolf8444]

Just the title of the video says it all.

[@amityaffliction4848]

I think in some cases, blatant dishonesty for funding is a problem. Also, creating pseudo problems for example the matter antimatter asymmetry. There has been much success with symmetry but no specific logical reason it has to be a perfect 1 and since our theories use differential equations and there’s no way to know the initial conditions “pre Big Bang”, a pseudo mystery of why there is more matter than antimatter is created and they can ask for more money to solve it. Anyway, thank you, I enjoy your vids 🙏🏻

[@TheMachian]

Good points, I fully agree.

[@aminomar7890]

Why Dirac was wondering about the mass ratio of the electron and Proton?! that seems familiar to me!

[@tenbear5]

I've just commented on an earlier talk of yours on the same subject, and will add here i believe it's because American culture is based on materialism, and the current paradigm is embedded in a reductionist, materialist world-view. There's zero intellectual integrity with that. As a new traveller in the US I was quite shocked by this very real observation. Also, just wanted to add: Loved the chat with Disney, and this idea of logarithmic time; how a child of 9 perceives a year of one's life as opposed to someone of say 90... that for a child it would be a 9th of their existence, but a 90th of a mans. That surely shows how relative time works depending on the experience of the observer, but it also implies time is experienced as speeding up, because that old man will notice the years fly by while the child will pain over it longing for the day he is older. I'm getting older & I certainly experience time accelerating, but i had a recurring dream as an infant, where a metronome could be heard ticking only to accelerate to a frantic pace. It was quite terrifying. It would always start the same way, and end abruptly in a deathly silence. I have never been able to forget it & today I see many things speeding up to some kind of convergence... (we have a lot of convergent technology already: yesterday you needed a sat-nav now it's all on a phone). As we stare deeper into the universe, the faster it escapes us. I've wondered that if it were true that we are all linked, as the Vedas & many ancient traditions attest, then maybe it is our own consciousness mirrored in the universe itself...as if we really are all part of the same thing... an extension to Gaia Theory I suppose. Just a thought. Thanks for yours. Please keep up the good work. Stay safe.

[@darkmath100]

Degradation is too strong a word, too polarizing. I think the problem is there is so much money now in Physics any and all ideas get investigated simply because there's plenty of money around to do it. People's intentions are pure but previously the lack of money helped filter out bad ideas. Einstein did his best physics working as a patent clerk. Full Stop.

[@TheMachian]

Not quite. let's say hi did excellent work in 1905, yet... what he developed later in 1911 I think dwarfs those first insights.

[@ivanniyeha4229]

@@TheMachianI think the problem is media , scientists today are seeking in media to become celebrities through Einstein's ideas something which is wrong , if you were to ask Luis de Broglie in his days what was his aim of pursuing physics his answer would be somehow different to most of scientists today !

[@nkchenjx]

@@ivanniyeha4229 I think it is the average life of scholars is lack of attraction both in public and personal rewards. We worship heroes and forget that true heroes are just one of us.

[@nkchenjx]

I think our belief that math is the language of universe and forget that our stage is to understand the universe and math is just one of the tools.

[@xxxYYZxxx]

Language is more general than math. The formal structure of Language (Theory) is the formal structure of reality.

[@michaelperrone3867]

I disagree strongly: there are many americans I know who think very deeply about physics (Check out the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference): they just have no career path which allows them to bring their ideas to the forefront without lots of ridicule and defunding and no social safety net to catch them if they are brave enough to come forward anyway, so they leave and work for Google or some startup company to make trade secret technology, or they go to ITAR military projects that they can't ever talk about. In short, economic and political trends of the past few decades have kept all the best ideas away from public discussion. Also read Merchants of Doubt for better context.

[@TheMachian]

I am making a historical discussion here, and it is about thinking traditions rather than nationality. Then, in today's glöbalized world, these categories do not apply any longer. Yet, it is true if you consider the period 1880-1920, there is a considerable difference in scientific culture.

[@michaelperrone3867]

@@TheMachian That makes more sense.

[@0xPulcra]

We dont even understand electrodynamics. Where's the "super symmetric" theory at higher energy levels which introduces the magnetron and anti-magnetron to explain the asymmetry at current energy levels of there being electric monopoles but no magnetic monopoles?

[@richardwachniewski4256]

I wonder if Dr Unzicker has read or heard about about Dr Milo Wolffs Wave Theory Of Matter seems to me the best theory I have read to date I am interested why there is no discussion or mention about his theory by anyone.

[@shashankchandra1068]

Theres always a quantum field in it's ground state in any point in universe,there's no such thing as absolute emptiness anywhere in the universe even if we remove all the air,molecules,atoms,elementary particles (fermions and bosons) right?

[@l.rongardner2150]

Scientists cannot create an absolute vacuum devoid of subatomic activity. Nature abhors a vacuum.

[@ReigninAmazin17]

When can we expect to see an Unzicker + Eric Weinstein project out? This would definitely be worth watching and I believe you both would have very interesting things to say.

[@TheMachian]

feel free to propose to him.

[@thephuntastics2920]

Still wouldnt be a conversation about the true nature of reality.

[@thimkful]

The original warning to the U.S. of the possibility of German development of a war-winning fission bomb was done by former Europeans who left due to Hitler, supported by Einstein, a German. Thus the Manhattan Project. A large project, with those big machines, was necessary, if for no other reason was that two methods of mass separation had to be tested in parallel. Large, expensive efforts and machines became accepted and productive in the U.S. Europe was also quite accepting of this. To such an extent that it looks as if a successor to the LHC will be built at CERN, though there is no case for new particles before the Plank scale. I'm glad Europe doesn't mind large expensive projects. I suspect that the next fundamental physics is likely to appear in the astrophysics community, where Europe is building wonderful equipment. Frankly, I don't know what you're on about, but I don't think I'll be buying your books.

[@TheMachian]

You are perfectly right about the contributions of Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, to the Manhattan project. I am talking about cultural differences in how science was done after WWII. No doubt that the American way of thinking, nowadays called 'Western', dominated.

[@christophershelton8155]

I read something earlier that Lenard actually said the same things about Einstein, and thought Einstein's approach to physics was dangerous and too 'hyper-theoretical and hyper-mathematical'. One could argue that maybe Einstein is what started physics to end up the way it is today

[@TheMachian]

Hm... no. Lenard, with due respect for his findings, just could not grasp relativity and quantum mechanics and polemized against Einstein. That's quite contrary to what I am saying.

[@christophershelton8155]

@@TheMachian I found something else interesting. Look up an individual by the name of Carver Mead if you want. He was the founder of VLSI engineering but has other theories also: Now, in the opening years of the new millennium, Mead believes that it is time to clear up the philosophical and practical confusion of contemporary physics. He revisits the debate between the Copenhagen interpreters of quantum physics--Niels Bohr, Alfred Heisenberg, John von Neumann, Richard Feynman--and the skeptics, principally Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger. Pointing to a series of experiments from the world of microelectronic and photonic technology that still lay in the future when Bohr prevailed in his debates with Einstein, Mead rectifies an injustice and awards a posthumous victory to Einstein. During a lifetime in the trenches of the semiconductor industry, Mead developed a growing uneasiness about the "standard model" that supposedly governed his field. Mead did not see his electrons and photons as random or incoherent. He regarded the concept of the "point particle" as an otiose legacy from the classical era. Early photodetectors or Geiger counters may have provided both visual and auditory testimony that photons were point particles, but the particulate click coarsely concealed a measurable wave. Central to Mead's rescue project are a series of discoveries inconsistent with the prevailing conceptions of quantum mechanics. One was the laser. As late as 1956, Bohr and von Neumann, the paragons of quantum theory, arrived at the Columbia laboratories of Charles Townes, who was in the process of describing his invention. With the transistor, the laser is one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century. Designed into every CD player and long distance telephone connection, lasers today are manufactured by the billions. At the heart of laser action is perfect alignment of the crests and troughs of myriad waves of light. Their location and momentum must be theoretically knowable. But this violates the holiest canon of Copenhagen theory: Heisenberg Uncertainty. Bohr and von Neumann proved to be true believers in Heisenberg's rule. Both denied that the laser was possible. When Townes showed them one in operation, they retreated artfully. In Collective Electrodynamics, Mead cites nine other experimental discoveries, from superconductive currents to masers, to Bose-Einstein condensates predicted by Einstein but not demonstrated until 1995. These discoveries of large-scale, coherent quantum phenomena all occurred after Bohr's triumph over Einstein...

[@lolololalala8225]

Quite a few went to america in the 40's.. I wonder why.

[@hackmedia7755]

with enough review and modification, James Maxwell's theories probably could explain gravity.

[@lemenyves34]

There is something valid in your videos. Thank you. However, the standard model of particles has astounding merits, and I am afraid that your critic would profit from some more moderation in this respect. Congratulations in any case.

[@Oliveir51]

Fully agreed. We are obnubilated with money that comes from technology and not understand the basic science. High tech without caring large scale use. Best way to destroy everything

[@davidwilkie9551]

So if we were to view the field of Physics as a direct consequence of natural mono-dualistic predator-prey arms races, what, if anything, is unusual about Germany? The Universe it's Self is "made-of-making" Mathemagically, meaning we "try it and see what works", and how we describe our activities by Math-Physics in precise terms is subject to change and interpretation. Luck with your book..

[@markuspfeifer8473]

It’s kind of similar to the Greek/Roman difference

[@TheMachian]

Yes! I make this comparison in the book.

[@kludgedude]

European: Why? American: who cares about why… how is the critical question. As in how do I practically apply this theory. Is that about it?

[@michaelpieters1844]

You first need to understand nature to be able to make applications. If you are merely describing nature with models (and multiple models can describe the same thing), you will not gain the insight to do something useful with it.

[@glenn07777]

The huge American projects you mentioned, and others as well, are reminiscent of the Egyptian projects of pyramids. The ancient hieroglyphs understood only by priests became the raw data of colliders, the so-called Big Data, and Baez style science with Categories and Strings and Calabi-Yau manifolds. Egypt with its bureaucracy is parallel with America and its corporatism. High priests and CEO's, the hierarchy and people becoming poorer and poorer. But who is the Pharao?

[@TheMachian]

Not a bad comparison. Somehow, Europe and the US also resemble Greek and Roman philosophy. Well, there were some Pharaos I guess, a good candidate is certainly Witten :-)

[@ronaldjorgensen6839]

you can run a set through plank unit collapse then catch it on the other side tell durak i finished the books did not collect my diploma yet still know

[@BiswajitBhattacharjee-up8vv]

Good wish for new book and new year but not for a nightmare. You are thinking for mass ratio and many fundamental problem like gravity and protons parameters. I have derived a satisfactory relationship with protons parameters with gravity have ingredients of decay (not) and quarks origin Many more on Newton - Mach - Einstein. Very cool , flying using brain as good as solving a good theoretical model because Math is good when it applied in sense . Need fundamental quest of science

[@nasirfazal2787]

Abdul Salam was boss of my boss . Could you please discuss his work sometimes Thanks Prof.Dr.Nasir Fazal Cambridge USA 🇺🇸

[@TheMachian]

I do not think he has found out something relevant.

[@nasirfazal2787]

@@TheMachian How come he got the Noble Prize for nothing.He,Glasgow unified weak and electromagnetic force,isn't that a fundamental discovery. Your variable speed of light theory discards dark energy and matter that makes sense.

[@TheMachian]

I am sorry. I do not think there is sth like "unification" because the weak force is a fata morgana itself. The problem behind is that we do not understand beta decay. Unfortunately, there are many of these useless concepts in modern physics.

[@nasirfazal2787]

@@TheMachian So you don't buy the idea of unification of forces besides gravity? Standard model could be disputed like you do.

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

In other videos you have talked about what is fundamental, could the Inverse Square Law be fundamental representing three-dimensional space and forming the potential for your mathematics? Could the Inverse Square Law be formed by photon spherical oscillations continuously converting potential energy into kinetic energy forming what we measure as the continuum of time? This process would form an uncertain ∆×∆pᵪ≥h/4π probabilistic future that is relative to the radiant energy and momentum of each object or life form, Gotfried Leibniz living force.

[@thephuntastics2920]

Yes, all space is 3 dimensional. This nonsense of n-dimensional space is exactly that : mathemathical nonsense . To truly understand Nature and what we see around US, we have to start with in our selves. I have done it, huge loads of Ketamine on acid ... Blew my Mund, Destroyer all false asumptions, left me with brute reality ... And that reality is fundamentally electric , a mind Generating holographic , timeless incubator of some sorts.

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

@@thephuntastics2920 There are many ways of trying to understand the Universe. Maths is a good tool, but we have the potential to create evermore abstract maths and this does not help!

[@jeffreykalb9752]

Oswald Spengler was correct. The seminal concepts of modern physics, latent from about 1200 AD, have simply run their course. All the critique in the world only shows it to be in the final stages of decay. Your picture of the world is wrong, and always has been.

[@JP-re3bc]

It is part of American culture, it is after all a nation that sees itself "exceptional". So... what's the problem?

[@felixlucanus7922]

Very nice observations. Similar perspective regarding the differences between American and European attitude towards intellectual endeavors is also nicely described by Tocqueville in his Democracy in America.

[@dickmacgurn590]

When book coming in English? My German sucks lol 🙏

[@TheMachian]

Already published :-) www.amazon.com/Make-Physics-Great-Again-America/dp/B0BRYXWZPC/

[@thephuntastics2920]

Since we can propose people to Talk to you : ich schlage mich selbst vor.

[@etienne7774]

Do you believe Stephen Crothers refutation of Einstein's math?

[@pixelpatter01]

Sounds like sour grapes from this end.

[@samlazar1053]

Theft of steam engine from the British that was the first American thing in Europe But obsession whit Germany and Russia is way bigger....I worked for a department that translates all German and Russian scientific papers...Unprecedented

[@vladpetric7493]

WWII was not decided by the atomic bomb. The world's first nuclear explosion (a test one obviously) was on July 16, 2015. German capitulation had happened 2 months earlier. Japan's surrender was helped/sped up by the bombs, for sure. But the war had been painfully and obviously lost for the Japanese after the Battle of Okinawa (April 2015), when the US conquered the island that would have allowed them to stage an invasion of the Japanese main islands (you can also go earlier - to the firing of Tojo in 1944; main point being that this was before the bombs were dropped). Cherry-picking your 1920s-1950s examples only proves that you can do, well, cherry-picking (plural of anecdotes is not data ...). Anyway, in many Germans there's always some strong anti-americanism desperately trying to get out (while claiming to be unbiased, which I find laughable).

[@pixelpatter01]

You are correct, WW2 was decided with money, manufacturing power and good practical manpower. His criticism of modern physics could almost be read as "those rich Americans are so dumb and undeserving, they have ruined physics for us smart Europeans ". My answer is to ask what's stopping you? Feel free to come up with brilliant insights and illuminating mathematics; we won't stand in your way while we make our lives better and more comfortable.

[@Jack_Dikian]

I’ve watched a number of your video’s and by and large find them interesting, if not a little predictable. You seem to have a particular proclivity for early 20th century physics for which if I didn’t know better [I don’t know better] you might very well consider a kind of a romantic golden age. I mean why wouldn’t you when you have the likes of Dirac, Einstein, Heisenberg, Born, Plank, etc making inroads in fundamental physics. I too think like you. But I do feel there is a counter-point. You link America with the degradation of physics - yet the US has produced more Nobel Prize laureates in physics than Germany, UK, France, Russia and Japan combined. I do grant you, however, many were Europeans fleeing Europe. Paul Dirac was a research student in mathematics at Cambridge university, a university that has been teaching for some 800 years - almost four hundred years before the Arrival of Christopher Columbus. Similarly, Heisenberg’s Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich has been teaching for about 550 years. There is a certain tradition and prestige that comes with these institutions - something a relatively youngish country like the US can’t, try as it might, accelerate. When it comes to the Manhattan project, you will find people like Arthur Compton, Ernest Lawrence and Opje all made mention that building the bomb was very much an engineering endeavour - all claiming the physics was not especially difficult. I’m not a physics historian nor a learned in the philosophy of physics but I think I can comfortably say physics has passed the era where a Wilhelm Roentgen, discovers X-rays, accidentally while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass. As you know, we need bigger and bigger machines to bring particles to the very high speeds and very high energies. I do always look fwd to your next video however, With Regards Jack Dikian

[@TheMachian]

Hi, the number of Nobel prizes, as you might guess, is not really a good measure of progress in fundamental physics... more in my upcoming book.

[@nkchenjx]

@@TheMachian But the europeans cannot move the modern physics in the direction you would like to see either. This could be a natural wave how science progresses. We have historical waves of progress in the past.

[@jeffreykalb9752]

If someone has a Ph.D. in physics, he knows nothing about reality. No exceptions.

[@lennykazlauskas1101]

It's a wave AND a particle. Mystery solved! Next mystery, please. lol

[@mmotsenbocker]

it is (wave) energy, which collapses to a single point when absorbed/destroyed by the act of measuring, at which point it is called a particle.

[@logicalconceptofficial]

The irony is that I’m an American and understand more about the Natural Order (Universal Logic - the One True God) and the universe (nature) it manifests/realizes Itself as than you do. Not in a “superficial” way either as the Logos is “Substance” as Substance truly is - the Substance and Essence of Logic and Systems/Existence. It is also arrogant of a European to think they understand more than an American by nature of being European or that Science, Philosophy, and Civilization started with Europe. Just as America is young compared to Europe, Europe is young compared to civilizations like the Egyptians, the Israeli’s/Israelite’s, the Mesopotamians/Iraqi’s, the Indians/Hindus, the Chinese, etc. All of them knew of Logic by one name or another (YHVH, Ma’at, Enki, Brahman, Tao, etc.) in eras where Europeans were basically native tribes and Neanderthal-like barbarians without complex civilization. If you knew more and thought deeper you’d take the assumption out of your question “what principles” (plural) rule the universe and would ponder the Principle (singular) - the First Law, the First Cause, the Original Logic, the Universal Logic, the One True God , the Axiom of Continuous Discretion (shown as foundational in physical and metaphysical logical systems and in coherent schools of thought), the Dynamic/General/Universal Law of Identity and Non- Contradiction - the One who will be who/what the One will be and is not what/who it is not (YHVH). The Universal Rule is the Universal Rule (Tautology) and is synonymous with coherent Logic and the coherent Origin (True God). It can be no other way and to argue against Logic as God is to defy Logic and to blaspheme God as being less logical than is feasible - imposing arbitrary and illusory boundaries on what is rationally and truly boundless: the Infinite Wisdom of God (the Dynamic Logic of the Universe).

[@eacasanovas]

Hello Dr. Unzicker, I would like your opinion on an idea that occurred to me about the nature of gravity: Couldn't the curvature of the "fabric" of space-time be caused by the inertial resistance of mass to the accelerating expansion of the universe in the time direction? I know you don't agree with Minkowski's 4D model, but if we think for a moment that the universe is really made up of four physical dimensions, it would be very logical that bodies would obstruct its expansion in the time direction, and hence the more mass, the more time dilation (which is a proven fact). It may sound outlandish, but I would really like your opinion about this idea. Thank you very much.

[@lachezarkrastev7123]

Not only the US, the european science is the same at the moment. Just look how ridiculous the LHD is ... and now they want another one 10 times larger? I have a question - if they now claim to achieve 99.999... the speed of light with protons, why they need a larger one??? And what about the ridiculous enormous neutrino detectors, which are the stupidest thing ever? What about LIGO and the other gravitation waves detectors. It is all about money, money, money ...

[@TheMachian]

I largely agree. As I say, US scientific culture dominates contemporary physics. Europe has been recolonized in that sense.

[@vyt71]

I agree that right now physics has reached the crisis point. Would it be different, more correct in the understanding of nature, without WW2 and followed science commercialisation ? Unlikely. Why? Because even at the begging of 20 century the way how problems were solved does not imply the reevaluation of complete physics. The basis of modern quantum theories and etc were created before WW2. But, for instance, nobody even asked the question what is electric charge at this time. And today we still have a very poor definition - just the property of a particle is nothing. Instead of combining theories together, the reevaluation of the theories and all collected data from the begging will be the right approach. Why ? Because nature is functioning as One entity. The correct description of nature require only one theory, and in essence the fundamental physics is about a such theory. The number of good contemporary models/theories of separate phenomena can be big, and they can be useful for engineering, but for the fundamental physics they are not. It looks like the mentioned reevaluation is what should and will happened, all other ways have been already done.

[@nfazal4065]

European started Hollywood and defined the American dream in 20th century,so did the European immigrant scientist defined American science, Teller,Einstein, Warner von Braun ,Fermi etc. Prof.Dr Nasir Fazal Cambridge USA 🇺🇸 ♥

[@renscience]

You mean the US isn’t the center of the universe? To the perceived victor go the spoils..

[@johnkennedy4023]

Kepler etc. knew that the Laws of Nature were the Laws of God. Once we became atheists, we lost our principle motivation, which was fundamentally spiritual

[@TheMachian]

I would put it in another way: being an atheist is fine for a scientist, also Einstein did not believe in an almighty God. Searching for real explanations is opposed to believing in something. In this sense, the constants of nature (everyone believes they come from nowhere and do not change) have taken the role of modern Gods.

[@johnkennedy4023]

@@TheMachian @Unzicker's Real Physics I don't disagree. My point was that since God is dead, our motivation for searching for real explanations is greatly diminished and perhaps nonexistant. To paraphrase William James, why explain a universe that proceeds from nothing and in the end goes nowhere? We're not searching for God, but something less lofty. We shouldn't be surprised if such a game often descends to the whim of baser human nature, such as egoism

[@phyarth8082]

USa started as very poor country, all western cities already well established centers with famous universities and communities USA is 100 years old with well good university in Boston. Is easy to be philosopher in Germany, when life level is super high and USA only interested in "practical physics" fancy word engineering to produce and sell, higher dimension - theoretical physics is secondary. In last past 50 years started high accelerator race, same as in cold war Space race between Soviet and USA. Who will built higher energy and longer distance accelerator that is the same1920s-1930s race of hight competition of skyscrapers in USA - Chicago versus New York. It stupid high accelerators givers zero information, at least Einstein mathematically tried unified all fundamental forces into one, gravity is fake force and weak force is also questionable, at least we know that Sun is not thermonuclear reactor. High accelerator is destruction of matter elementary particle electron is not elementary. In theoretical physics not quanta but even in Classical mechanics a lot of "rule bending" exception from rules, energy conservation, law, Newton law s of motions, fluid dynamics all these rules disregarded and quantity is matter. Engineers makes 0.2% of adult population theoretical physics 0.0005% it is scream in empty void situation nobody listens nobody cares.

[@lorandhorvath4466]

OK, but fix your English please.

[@romado59]

Please develop an English version.

[@TheMachian]

Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6GqqmiMaMulbNE

[@user-ek9go3kf2w]

Physics was derailed intentionally.

[@carlharmeling512]

Problem with the climate? You mean to tell me this brilliant physicist with his independent insights into the nature of reality and human behavior hasn’t figured out the scam that is ‘global warming’ caused by the burning of fossil fuels? Maybe I’ve read him wrong or heard him wrong but I thought he expressed concern over the earth’s climate. Has he been fooled by this? Now that’s a scary thought. I’m NOT being in the least sarcastic.

[@TheMachian]

Things are not that easy, remain calm. CO2 atmospheric increase is a fact. Whether you believe in the models or not (I can possibly understand if you do not), from a precautionary point of view, it makes sense to reduce emissions.

[@tak4043]

@@TheMachian But "we" are not reducing emissions. If we were serious about it we'd trade blockade the whole developing world, especially China. Leads me to believe that they don't believe CO2 is all that important and their motives are something else.

[@surendranmk5306]

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[@rhetoric5173]

It's rather odd that you have such high opinion of einstein, when in terms of models presented he's no better than Feynman. While feynman may have been shallow, einstein was thick. In order to make sense of gravity, you introduce a new dimension called time, make of time an actual thing to correspond with your lowbrow physicalism? What triteful triviality.

[@____uncompetative]

Isn't it the case that, historically, innovations in physics have been made possible in many cases by advances in mathematics without which those problems couldn't be modeled in all but the most cumbersome and inelegant ways?

[@TheMachian]

I think this is rather the exception than the rule. Planck developed his law of radiation because he knew the Taylor series of the exponential, but in general many great intuitions happened without sophisticated math.

[@philoso377]

@@TheMachian Yes, Physics is a study of nature concluded in a language we called mathematics. Language represents idea but idea itself. Physics catastrophe came out of the minds of mathematicians and theorists who have no idea about what the experiment represents or the principle of operation / limitations of the associate apparatus by which their theories are based.

[@____uncompetative]

@@TheMachian Thank you for your reply. Great channel by the way. I've subscribed.

[@seanzalman]

In the past I really enjoyed your videos. They sought to both explain interesting issues in physics and contemporary problems. The current video was insufferable. You create a distinction between European and American physicists as the former were more interested in first principles, I think that makes a lot of sense. However, you mention that WW2 caused "smart people" to leave Europe is a historical lie. Jews were expelled from Germany, many of whom were foundational in the history of physics, because they were not German (European). I have seen your video on Richard Feyman; he is a key figure in Quantum Mechanics and Gott bewahre Anerican (and also Jewish).

[@TheMachian]

I'd suggest you are a bit more careful with your wording. I never said that the Jews voluntarily left Germany. One of the books I heavily relied on, just to meet your concerns, is Nachmanson's "German-Jewish Pioneers of science 1900-1933". I never judged any physicist by his ethnic origin, that also holds true for Feynman. The argument that needs to be addressed is scientific traditions. I am happy to send you a pdf of the English book which will be available in fall, in case you are interested to follow the details.

[@samlazar1053]

Fusion of science and holywood...end result a complete degeneracy of the scientific knowledge

[@dankurth4232]

Your deep thinking ‚European Physics‘ vs the either ‚superficial‘ or ‚purely operational‘ (collider based)‘ or ‚purely mathematical/weird ideas‘ based American Physics resonates somewhat the allegedly forthright Deutsche Physik (without the racist flavor). But no one inhibits European or even German physicists to work in the - by you claimed - European tradition. To some extent Penrose would master this Unzicker Test, but the real problem is of another kind. Rightfully the unification of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics aka Quantum Gravity became either the holy Grail or the idee fixe of todays theoretical physics and this inevitably leads to not classically attainable magnitudes e.g. elementary particles and/or black holes and this again leads to experimental devices as the LHC or observational ones like the LIGO observatories and theories like Super String theories. This may have less to do with the difference in European and American scientific culture than the limitations of human capabilities

[@TheMachian]

I disagree strongly about what you say about "Deutsche Physik" - even if you try phrase it in a soft way; anyone who seriously tries to link my thoughts to that is doing a smear campaign I will not tolerate.

[@dankurth4232]

@@TheMachian I can honestly assure you that it wasn’t my intention at all to compare your worthy work with this infamous racist endeavor known as ‚Deutsche Physik‘. But I’m not sure to what degree cultural distinctions are sufficiently explorative to explain particular features of scientific research programs. There is with no doubt a collective and thus also a cultural impact in (the course of) scientific work and progress, but in particular in theoretical physics Intuition and imagination of individual researchers play a very important role too, and these persons tend to be sufficiently independent of their cultural environment since otherwise they probably wouldn’t be ‚extraordinary’ (as the term already implies)

[@TheMachian]

Ok. A broad topic to dicuss. Evidently, there are cultural differences influencing the occurrence of such individuals. Maybe we should wait for the English translation for further discussion. Feel free to contact me via ChannelInfo->email in case xou are interested.

[@dankurth4232]

@@TheMachian Hallo Herr Doktor Unzicker. Es ist mir nicht gelungen Ihre Email Adresse ausfindig zu machen. Daher werde ich Ihnen im Folgenden den Text meiner Email hier zukommen lassen. Ich würde mich freuen, falls Sie interessiert sein sollten, eine weitere etwaige Diskussion etwas weniger ‚öffentlich‘ fortzusetzen. Guten Tag Herr Dr. Unzicker Es war für mich nicht ganz einfach diese Email Adresse zu finden, aber ich hoffe, das klappt jetzt. So weit ich es beurteilen kann, haben Sie einen valuable approach to an alternative concept of a sound theory of physics. Aber ich glaube, dass Sie diese in einer geschlosseneren Form als Hypothese, also als virtuelle Theorie präsentieren müssten um als mehr als ein Störfaktor wahrgenommen zu werden. Ich bin mir bewusst, dass das leicht gefordert und nur sehr schwer getan werden kann. Soweit ich es sehe, ist auch ein sehr großer Teil der europäischen Theoretischen Physiker auf dem ,amerikanischen Weg‘. Der vollständige Mangel an empirischer Bestätigung sowohl für String Theorie, Loop Quantum Theory aber auch z.B. causal set theory und andere AUT Kandidaten ist evident und unbestritten, aber die Annahme, dass mathematische Avantgarde could lead the way to progress/ enlightenment in fundamental physics ist als working hypothesis nicht ganz von der Hand zu weisen Mit freundlichen Grüßen Dan Kurth

[@TheMachian]

Hallo, ich bevorzuge eine private Unterhaltung, bin aber soweit im wesentlichen einverstanden. meine Mail sollte unter "About" oder "Kanalinfo" nicht schwer zu finden sein, aunzicker und ein bekannter deutscher provider web dahinter.

[@BinanceUSD]

The EU Is now in a worse position nothing new comes out all the business are on welfare and very old.

[@logicalconceptofficial]

This is so incorrect and based on stereotypes.

[@neverever7233]

The rational and unbiased physics seems lost WW2 to US.

[@williamlavallee8916]

I like your programs for the questioning of established physics, but your ramblings where off the mark. All those North American physicist are culturally Euro, so your completely loose me on your distinction. Also, almost every organism ruins its environment, we are the only ones that know it that in a complex way.

[@TheMachian]

It's about scientific culture, nor merely about people. Maybe wait for the translation that is under way.