How do Medicine and Physics Overlap? - with Rohin Francis and Sabine Hossenfelder

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder and cardiologist Rohin Francis discuss the spaces where their fields of study overlap.
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[@seonaxus]

I like the comments in particular on the brain, which is pretty much the most complex structure we have ever discovered by volume. It always reminds me of a famous quote by the famous physicist Phillip Anderson. "The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws, does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."

[@offplanet6882]

If Einstein was still around this is what he would be doing

[@alastairmcleod3635]

Two of the absolute best KZbinrs in a crossover video fantastic stuff

[@dhibinvikash2865]

An Amazing Idea to bring these sorts of Interdisciplinary videos. Certainly, a morale booster for the students passionate in Medical Physics. Hats off to Royal Institution. Hope you release more videos like this and an extended version can be released in the future!

[@emanggitulah4319]

Why only 8 min? It just started to get interesting...

[@miles4711]

It was longer! Both guests posted their own videos on their respective YT channels. About 45 minutes in total. :-)

[@BPantherPink]

WOW... Our boy from Cal has reached the portals of Faraday n Newton et al...Congratulations !!

[@rcwlson1]

I literally got to inspect the synchrotron in the Proton Therapy Center at St. Jude this morning. It was mesmerizing. The device itself was as large as 3 school buses shoulder-to-shoulder. Dozens of magnets as big as cars. The engineering of the particle line itself was also pretty neat. What really blew me away was the proton therapy machinery the beams were fed into depending on which gantry was in use. Those devices looked like nuclear reactors. Two stories tall and just as wide. Hoping I get to see the cyclotron soon too

[@offplanet6882]

I'm in love keep it going next

[@clemguitarechal]

It could have an hour long, I wouldnt have even notice ! Please make these exchanges longer !

[@miles4711]

It was longer! Both guests posted their own videos (two months ago) on their respective YT channels. About 45 minutes in total. :-)

[@mrunalkelkar4442]

This is my favourite Venn diagram overlap!! ✨

[@giotapapageorgiou489]

Interesting . Thank you

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

Great video, great guests👍

[@Llowdar]

Human body as a machine is a semplification that is really powerfull when it comes for understand how some isolated parts works, it falls off when it comes to threatment.

[@KaliFissure]

Thermodynamics rules but it uses a one way pressure release valve to keep it going. That and lopsided Ricci curve temporally

[@rohithk.m.3573]

Here for Dr. Sabine 🤟🤟

[@godfreypigott]

Yeah - if you like anti-science climate change denial.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

That's a gorgeous blue rug! Sorry, I know it's irrelevant, but it really struck me, immediately, how beautiful it was. 😍 Okay, on with the actual subject... Edited to add: that last description made me think of the way that Van Gogh painted the sky on _Starry Night,_ and how the character of Van Gogh said it looked to him as he painted it, in the Doctor Who episode _Vincent and the Doctor._ ❤❤ Great video, fascinating conversation! Just wish that commercial in the middle hadn't given me an earache, since it was at least 15 points higher on my volume control than the video itself was. 🤨😕

[@user-wu8yq1rb9t]

*Sabine is here??* *Am I right??* ... *Yeah* This program is GREAT.

[@raphaelmeillat8527]

Interesting short video. Great inspiration for youth studying both fields. As a sidenote, not sure that scientists studying consciousness are "thousands of years away from practical applications"! I believe it might come much sooner! Let's see...

[@rillloudmother]

and yet net positive fusion energy remains 30 years away, just as it did in the 1950s... lulz.

[@rodriguezelfeliz4623]

Being optimistic I give it some 800 years

[@brothermine2292]

Let's hope understanding of how the brain stores particular memories and values won't happen until the distant future, because it's sure to be weaponized into technologies of global mass mind control... much more reliable and controlling than social media disinformation campaigns.

[@henk-3098]

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we could not.

[@rillloudmother]

@@henk-3098 nice try, but that is flawed logic...

[@alnilam2151]

I agree, simplistic is knot the right word too use! Ok, so that't thirty years I won't get back; not too mention those gone prior who also were knot listened to or heard kno matter think of the humanbody as AceLL AparticLe or Unit prior2 Collision Calamity or Catastrophe & your guess is justhat bestavoided?!

[@toni4729]

You've finnished already? I thought you'd just got started and I was just getting interested. Please do this again, soon.

[@DukeBG]

There are much longer (different) videos of this talk on both of their channels

[@LUCTIANITO]

I don't know if physicist have discovered or understood why emergent process happen from a mechanical perspective (besides of being a thermodynamic favorable process)

[@LA-MJ]

Check out their corresponding channels for more

[@ramkumarr1725]

8:10 I disagree that Physics is just Math really. Of course mathematical universe if you are a Platonist is much beyond Physics. I am glad Dr Sabine did not interject or deny that as Maths is a form of compact and rigorous language for Physics. So if Dr Sabine did not say anything, I wish to make my peace. It is Maths really if Dr Sabine agreed.

[@drrahimhomeopathicfoundati4180]

The philosophy of medicine never changed with the new discoveries of physics especially quantum physics.

[@robbowman8770]

Way too short! Encore!

[@offplanet6882]

WoW

[@VideographerExperience]

This will be a *fun Ri.*

[@VideographerExperience]

Bremstraalung

[@raule.martinezcampos5152]

Sabine should give the christmas lecture!

[@nothing9220]

The only cross over I am interested in

[@lazyegg2701]

In the back of my head I was always thinking that it would be funny I they started having a heated debated

[@classica1fungus]

Lol

[@jamesowens7148]

I think I know these people from somewhere.

[@harpprah]

💕👍

[@ignorasmus]

I made the mistake of saying once to my curious 7 year old that in the end, everything is Maths. Since then, I have been asked if I am Maths, is Mummy Maths, were the dinosaurs Maths, is the earth Maths, is this table Maths .... .... .... .... Yes, Yes, Yes .... .... .... 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@primemagi]

Sabine, Tell them to use their telescope to see the coming space body. emission with rotation.

[@jonathanjollimore7156]

It all made from same base martial

[@classica1fungus]

There's something about this woman that just really gets my juices a-flowin.. good god

[@Robinson8491]

It's probably her new hairdue

[@godfreypigott]

I guess you don't care that she's an anti-science climate change denier.

[@classica1fungus]

@@godfreypigott what

[@godfreypigott]

@@classica1fungus You didn't understand those words?

[@Bwarock]

Shame on you RI for cancelling Eric Zemmour. You do yourselves a great disservice.

[@pmgvalentia]

She looks like Renee Zellweger 🤭

[@targeted-individualdallas-9963]

Everything is energy so medicine and physics can come together via quantum physics/ mechanics as energies can heal other energies pertaining to applying recalibration to the vibration of the persons particles and or potentially oscillation of such as a persons biological health is the residual image of their conscious frequencies and or lack of.

[@peterknutsen3070]

LOL.

[@-Gorbi-]

How do medicine and physics overlap? “It’s all physics!!” Of course she would say that. She discounts anything that isn’t strictly empirically falsifiable. She calls Avi Loeb a conspiracy theorist.

[@ronanmcallister1232]

Polish those boats rohin

[@ashishkatiyar4240]

G8👌👌👌👌

[@BB-cf9gx]

How little we really know.

[@bennichols561]

They don't overlap. Physics underlies everything. Medicine is a very narrow band of knowledge.

[@elkudos6262]

That's a wrong channel, KZbin is acting up...

[@josesaldivar655]

Germany is the center of invention, however knowing this woman makes me doubt on present quality. I see hype.

[@micaelapizza510]

No, Sabine, the main overlap lies In fact in another area, which couldn't be made clear here. Greetings,

[@MyMy-tv7fd]

'everything is biology/chemistry/physics' - until you stop and think about what Meaning there is any of it - and realise that the answer is 'None'. Science is mechanism, and nothing else. Life and morality and philosophy and art are Meaning, and they encompass science, not the other way around. Be human and live before you become a scientist and engineer it all away.

[@sulcuryaltinone4570]

Our ability to formulate meaning with our minds is due to the interactions of biology/chemistry/physics, and practicing science is a practice of utilizing the things that make us human. You make it sound like being a scientist takes one away from being human.

[@Bobsry16]

The answer is Love, which comes from the Person who put the fundamentals of chemistry, physics and medicine/biology in motion.

[@alastairmcleod3635]

Science illuminates truths about the world. In so doing it enhances our ability to ascribe value and meaning, it does not detract from it. It certainly does not "engineer it all away"

[@Bobsry16]

@@alastairmcleod3635 I agree to a limit. Science is about how, which I love and am passionate about the how question. But it can't by itself, without the personal relational emotional side, identify the why. The how and the why must both be there, the why cradling the how. I am persuaded that the why has variables outside of science as understandable by finite human minds/senses and involves relational creative Persons. This relational why is revealed to us intentionally.

[@Bobsry16]

@Betatroll if your skilled enough you can do both hopefully. Even if you don't pray, I will!