Physics 539: Topics in High Energy Physics offered by Professor Edward Witten in the fall of 2022 Problem Sets: www.ias.edu/sns/physics-539 Credits: Princeton Physics
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@richardreeder Жыл бұрын
0:34 stuff I don’t understand 4:54 stuff I don’t understand 12:31 stuff I don’t understand 37:48 stuff I don’t understand 51:52 stuff I don’t understand 1:10:12 stuff I don’t understand
@shatterdreamz2325 Жыл бұрын
that whole classroom doesn't understand
@Sharonli23345 Жыл бұрын
no body does, it would be funny if 50 years later it turns out everything is wrong
@christophern762 Жыл бұрын
The people in that classroom sure is more intellectually bright than me ,i wouldn't even survive a minute in that class.
@bryanfrancis3356 Жыл бұрын
You're a lucky guy Rick...0:00 to 1:25 : 00....stuff I don't understand ! 😎
@Loonypapa Жыл бұрын
LOL
@shmookins Жыл бұрын
What a time we live in that anyone can see such lectures.
@Claude_van_Kloten Жыл бұрын
And that it doesn’t change anything is quite remarkable.
@hl1449 Жыл бұрын
And most don't understand anyway. Even math-inclined folks find it pretty challenging towards the later half.
@psychedelictacos911811 ай бұрын
I know what you mean, I just wanted to see what it would be like to take one of the hardest classes at one of the best universities taught by one of the smartest people in the world!
@nobunaga24011 ай бұрын
Absolutely agree this is what KZbin does right
@doyouwanttogivemelekiss309711 ай бұрын
The problem is never the lecture, it's always the assignments 😂
@J.Schooley Жыл бұрын
I feel like I'm missing a few prereq's
@tywins3669 Жыл бұрын
Hahaha. Yeah? All the 1 2 3 4 level physics
@J.Schooley Жыл бұрын
@@tywins3669 Yep...def all the levels missed
@eonreeves4324 Жыл бұрын
keep learning
@wyqtor Жыл бұрын
Maybe it would be a better idea to start with Walter Lewin's lectures, perhaps even Susskind's :))
@tywins3669 Жыл бұрын
@@wyqtor I started with Feynmans and he has such a great catalogue
@marcusryden6732 Жыл бұрын
"It doesn't really matter which metric you use, if you think about it." Yes, now that I have thought about it I must say that I agree.
@AG-ur1lj8 ай бұрын
Indeed. I concur
@danieltodd17508 ай бұрын
For sure. I'm on board.
@radscorpion87 ай бұрын
How silly of me I agree with you completely
@MNC2k7 ай бұрын
because all of them would converge just at different rates
@AG-ur1lj7 ай бұрын
@@MNC2k correct
@deffenbeard Жыл бұрын
"parametrized our curves by arc lengthening the complete euclidean metric" - happens to me all the time
@bradleyboyer9979 Жыл бұрын
Lol, same
@nwonknutirips1301 Жыл бұрын
🤣
@shmookins Жыл бұрын
My brain rebooted mid sentence.
@leif1075 Жыл бұрын
Does it actually make sense..what does it mean?
@Tropicsca Жыл бұрын
I like when he said "if you noticed that I've been repeating myself then it means you've been listening carefully." Wise words
@jacklarue7049 Жыл бұрын
I love how he starts by asking if anyone has any questions from the last lecture. Not a soul said anything for quite a while, and I’d guarentee all of them didn’t understand half of what he would’ve covered 😆
@JosephAng Жыл бұрын
Idk man, one does not simply walk into physics.
@youngman7655 Жыл бұрын
@@JosephAng lmao
@vitaminacesar1261 Жыл бұрын
It is the same in every country no one wants to admit that they are of average intelligence. Besides, no one can internalise complex teaching over 90 minutes.
@semontreal6907 Жыл бұрын
Does anybody here understand what he said Does he understand what he said lol
@Brewbug Жыл бұрын
All of his answers included what could be taken as humiliating snark. I can see why Eric Weinstein is scared shotless of this man.
@antipro8 Жыл бұрын
Every time Edward Witten does a lecture, a black hole opens up somewhere
@aaronharris26843 ай бұрын
HAHAHAHAH
@a.kramer1615 Жыл бұрын
No idea what he's talking about but it's strangly very interesting to watch.
@user-qy6cq7tp9b Жыл бұрын
@just somebody no. Literally no idea😂.
@nagilum Жыл бұрын
Eric Weinstein said this guy is the Michael Jordan of physicists. His chalkboard game is off the charts. I subscribed to this channel. Maybe I’ll learn something by accident.
@xOsKaHH Жыл бұрын
Leave it in whilst sleeping and maybe you'll wake up one day and realize you a genius level understanding of triangles
@kaimarmalade9660 Жыл бұрын
Greetings fellow Weinstein listener! May the UFO force be with thee! Cheers.
@snotsbuttwax Жыл бұрын
@@patrickhenry2342wait till you see him on defense!
@xOsKaHH Жыл бұрын
@@patrickhenry2342 tbf it's probably the one thing in this video that normal people can fully appreciate
@Cabz. Жыл бұрын
People don’t learn things by accident, you learn by observing and listening to something you want to learn.
@beninbryant455 Жыл бұрын
If you read Witten's Wiki page...in college, he first majored in history and linguistics and then worked as a journalist. Crazy to think, he had this untapped potential for physics at the time, and only discovered it when going back to school.
@Cantor214 Жыл бұрын
His dad was a theoretical physicist.
@surfingonmars8979 Жыл бұрын
I worked with his brother. The entire family is brilliant. In a different realm of intelligence.
@ajblum58 Жыл бұрын
Maybe insisting that kids know what they want to major in and do for the rest of their lives by age 18 isn't the greatest idea.
@surfingonmars8979 Жыл бұрын
@@ajblum58 I’m 70 and have NO idea what I want to be when I grow up. Maybe a fireman?
@annaclarafenyo8185 Жыл бұрын
His father was a physicist, he studied physics since childhood, but ran away from the "family profession" until he realized that was where he had the most talent, and also, that 'tHooft and Polyakov had broken through, allowing the field to thrive again after the slump of the early 70s.
@ElChocoLoco7 ай бұрын
I fully and completely understand all the individual words by themselves.
@thecook89643 ай бұрын
"naive parameters" 🤣
@EF-fc4du Жыл бұрын
"Any questions?" "Professor Witten, have you ever done DMT?"
@CD-123 Жыл бұрын
Fight bear high on DMT
@bradleyboyer9979 Жыл бұрын
Rogan needs to get him on.
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
imagine the baffled silence
@Dunkaroos2484 ай бұрын
@@bradleyboyer9979why? He already can’t keep up with Weinstein
@Bryan-ky6koАй бұрын
LMFAO
@nealrothchild3470 Жыл бұрын
I had his father Lou Witten for physics at UC. Loved him as he was a great teacher.
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
That's cool, I have actually seen that Lou published an article in Physical Review D a few years ago although he is now 101 years old.
@iamthemoss7 ай бұрын
I majored in microbiology, physics is what kept me out of engineering, it was very humbling. I am now old and feel I gained much from realizing my limitations. Parents, don’t lie to your children and tell them they can be whatever they want because they can’t.
@kevinf98226 ай бұрын
@@iamthemossThat is funny … and true. I went to Rice in the 70s and had the same realization. Physics kept me out of physics. I settled for electrical engineering. Did fairly well in the coursework but knew that I could never be a top engineer. Not smart enough. Went and got a Wharton MBA and then Wall Street.
@yanwain94546 ай бұрын
so do you understand what ed is talking about in this video?
@redfordkobayashi69365 ай бұрын
Was his father a freak of nature like this son?
@gkelly34 Жыл бұрын
I’m astounded that humans have these insights in to our world.
@jonathaningram81575 ай бұрын
And that they still don’t have all the answers.
@sammysouth83724 ай бұрын
I’m astounded that in a country where brilliance of this caliber is to be found, over 70 million people look at a dumb psychopathic third rate Uber narcissist grifter and say to themselves yes!!!! That man is president quality
@matttzzz24 ай бұрын
@@jonathaningram8157you'd still be going "ooga booga", living in a cave and smacking others with a club if it weren't for people like those in this video
@Giantist4 ай бұрын
To have all the answers would be impossible, the universe is infinite and as such can't all be observed, so nothing is ever certain@@jonathaningram8157
@JohnSmith-cg3cv3 ай бұрын
@@jonathaningram8157that’s not really astounding at all. There is no reason that the Universe should be comprehensible to our limited human brains, even to the smartest of us who build upon each other. It seems possible that without something like Artificial Superintelligence exponentially increasing the rate of our progress in understanding physics, there are facts about physics that humans could never figure out, even given a few more centuries of progress. And even if without Artificial Superintelligence, a few more centuries would be sufficient to “have all the answers” - which seems logically impossible to begin with - then we happen to have existed in the 21st century when physicists have come extremely far with their understanding of physics but not all the way to understanding everything.
@wernersmidt32986 ай бұрын
Still amazes me the amount of confidence the youtube algorithm has in me.
@JB-lg1fh Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I watched this in its entirety and I didn’t understand a single word in the entire time. Not one word. In fact, I dribbled at one point in a hazy day dream.
@inlyst Жыл бұрын
This man is intimidating. My grandfather was a brilliant physicist, but his father was a universally brilliant chemist, who invented the urine test. His name was Charles C. Fulton (1900-1992). My grandfather used to say his dad couldn’t figure out why he was so dumb. That rocked me to my core. I took to jiu jitsu, and although there are unbeatable black belts within a gym, there are universal black belts that make other black belts look like white belts. I’ve come to realize whether it’s physics, jiu jitsu, piano or golf, the top one percent of the top one percent are a blend of natural gifts and relentless obsessive study.
@kaustavchakraborty6811 Жыл бұрын
Wow! I found an article talking about Mr. Fulton himself. It said that after retiring he took to pursue his interests in electronics.... so, is it true? And did you see him?
@mokhtaramran7041 Жыл бұрын
Oh man hope he answers
@inlyst Жыл бұрын
@@kaustavchakraborty6811 He died when I was 7, unfortunately I don’t have any memories of him.
@rinzlr3554 Жыл бұрын
Curious, but what did you end up choosing as a career?
@thlee3 Жыл бұрын
theres levels to everything
@lwonutube Жыл бұрын
Who found this because of JRE?
@ticcusagram Жыл бұрын
Yup
@swisss1 Жыл бұрын
🤚
@barberhvac3438 Жыл бұрын
Yup
@benuebergang138 Жыл бұрын
1945👍🏼
@harrisramsden2 Жыл бұрын
👍
@ashishkiift Жыл бұрын
It’s really impressive how many exams, how many physics Olympiads and how much of hard undergrad, grad and doctoral course-work the students would have accomplished to be taught from the legendary Edward Witten
@medicalphysics-lt2wo8 ай бұрын
none
@Dunnowhattonem6 ай бұрын
@@medicalphysics-lt2wo exactly
@phaedruslykos32494 ай бұрын
or like 400k in school fees that will do
@anismatar4 ай бұрын
I watched somewhere how all the accomplished Physicists worldwide hold Professor Edward Witten in highest of esteems and even they struggle to keep following up with him. To have opportunity to see his lessons online should be a great honor.
@jonv1776 Жыл бұрын
It is both humbling and also encouraging that there are people this much smarter than I am out there in the world.
@karenl5782 Жыл бұрын
That can also spell 😄
@jonv1776 Жыл бұрын
@@karenl5782 see. Exactly. Lol
@novelas3536 Жыл бұрын
@@karenl5782 Who*
@chrillerkiller11 ай бұрын
@@novelas3536 what?
@Hana-xo4wi7 ай бұрын
It’s not about being smarter. Literally anyone could get to this point. It’s about the drive, obsession, want, circumstance and opportunity.
@vasilygrossman1944 Жыл бұрын
Here’s the course description for PHY539 from the fall 2022 semester at Princeton: This course is devoted to topics of current interest at the interface of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Topics include singularity theorems, general properties of classical black holes, an introduction to information theory and to the entanglement properties of quantum field theory, and an introduction to black hole thermodynamics. Students are urged to prepare for the course by reading the lecturer's article "Light Rays, Singularities, and All That,'' which covers the subject matter of the first few weeks of the course.
@josiahprice33447 ай бұрын
Everything makes sense now
@terrodar194 ай бұрын
I would love take such course. seems so interesting
@theGoogol Жыл бұрын
To be able to say you've had lessons from the Edward Witten ... just ... WOW!
@elijahgtp7 ай бұрын
No. This is terrible. He shouldn't teach
@theGoogol7 ай бұрын
@@elijahgtp : He may just be the smartest man alive.
@johnmoy388 Жыл бұрын
Listening to this is like listening to someone speaking French...It sounds absolutely beautiful, yet I cannon understand it at all.
@swavekbu4959 Жыл бұрын
Oui, vous etes correcte, le francais est telement magnifique!
@PimpIes18 күн бұрын
@@swavekbu4959 You mean to say « Oui, vous êtes correct, le français est tellement magnifique ! »
@KP-tr9zl Жыл бұрын
It is just so amazing for anyone to understand this stuff, thank god for all of you who can understand and do this stuff!
@cowboybob70937 ай бұрын
To hear the prof offhandedly use profound concepts in the way most of us describe how to get to our office from the parking lot.
@BennduR Жыл бұрын
3:34 "The questions make me worry it isn't as obvious as I thought it would be" Something tells me this is a problem he faces often 😂
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
it definitely is
@OGMannАй бұрын
I often feel the same way when talking with people. What seems obvious to me apparently is not, to them. That informs me I am not speaking with sufficient clarity. This is a challenge for subject matter experts. They are accustomed to the lexicon literally speaking for itself.
@moerther1 Жыл бұрын
If you guys liked this lecture, you should check out the homework for this class. If you watch carefully, the link is on the board.
@childrenoftolkien Жыл бұрын
He is having a conversation but it isn't with his students.
@lunam72494 ай бұрын
👏😳👏😳😳😳👏💋❤️👏🥰
@vikramsarabhai1 Жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man, Eric says he's the best I follow. But man this is complicated he really must be a genius!!!!
@robertwhitten2654 ай бұрын
Not just Eric but pretty much everyone says that. Sam Harris said it best "If you ask 100 physicists and asked who is the smartest, half will say leave me alone and the other half will say Witten'. Maybe he is related to me.
@hasanmollaoglu68615 ай бұрын
The most replayed part is at minute 25.33 because, when you open the video, it's the most probable point(or random?) to fast forward among all the awesome moments
@harrysmith6502 Жыл бұрын
I have no shame in saying that I have completely no idea what he’s talking about so I’m going back to JRE
@schmetterling44773 ай бұрын
I wish I could live in Edward Witten's mind for just one minute. That would probably exceed my entire logical thoughts of a lifetime. ;-)
@roybatty- Жыл бұрын
My favorite part of the lecture was when he said, "Space time is being bad." I can totally relate, I hate when my space time is being bad. Naughty, naughty.
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
so naughty
@ulriklm1 Жыл бұрын
I always wanted to see him give a full lecture
@Elsanta666 Жыл бұрын
When the teachers ask you , What part did you not understand..the whole thing
@pcm7315 Жыл бұрын
Or, have you started already?
@francishunt562 Жыл бұрын
The teacher has to expect that most students are going to have difficulty understanding all of it. Not many people understand this area thoroughly.
@teugene5850 Жыл бұрын
A good teacher probes his students by asking what their questions are... Witten would be a tough teacher... strict, disciplined but honest... only for the most dedicated students...
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
I emailed him a question once about an article of his and he answered almost immediately, he seems very nice.
@teugene5850 Жыл бұрын
@@holliswilliams8426 His intellectual powers are extraordinary... it is now his real job to bring up a new generation of scholars....
@trocycling12047 ай бұрын
I absolutely love watching super smart people do their thing. Anyone else?
@77bronc14 Жыл бұрын
I am a retired mechanical engineer, many, many hours of math and physics in college, over 45 years ago and I have to say this discussion is so over my head now...I literally dont know what the hell he is talking about.
@mcschneiveoutdoors3681 Жыл бұрын
"The questions make me think it isn't as obvious as I thought it'd be." Yes, professor. I have never heard half of the words you use and have never heard the other half used together before. So, sure... I've some questions.
@cbwavy Жыл бұрын
LOL, I would be terrified to ask him a question
@tgmtf59633 ай бұрын
Just a word salad
@ACMEKILLAH Жыл бұрын
1:02:53 student corrected the Legend!! 🧠🔥
@tommynoble6789 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 Fucking legend 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
@psychedelictacos911811 ай бұрын
Jeesus, Imagine having Edward Witten as your physics lecturer!
@jasonabc Жыл бұрын
Just listening to Ed makes me realize just how stupid I am and intellectually a baby amongst men. I could study physics the rest of my life and never get far beyond the basics. This man has command of the subject that is just mind boggling
@michaelblankenau65988 ай бұрын
I once showed my girlfriend a page from a Wikipedia page about quantum mechanics . She took one look at it and said " What is this ? Some kind of a joke " ? A reasonable response .
@frede19054 ай бұрын
I've been learning about causal structure and the various singularity theorems of GR on my own for some time now. They don't teach this at my university. So it was very nice to see that there's several lectures on this from Princeton, even by none other than Ed Witten! Definitely going to take a look at these.
@trocycling12047 ай бұрын
I'd definately raise my hand and ask if this was going to be on the test.
@darkmanddk Жыл бұрын
Being a teacher in primary school for children on the spectrum, Witten standing making almost a monologue on a subject I would never grasp to understand, reminds me 1:1 with some of the young students that I have. Demanding such respect for the in depth knowledge of a subject or even a field with a rocket ship explanation even my mind can understand and at the same time with such a distance to moving and gesticulating. My biggest respect
@leif1075 Жыл бұрын
Why do you say you could never understand..if it understood it, why can't you? Why would you think he is smarter than you?
@darkmanddk Жыл бұрын
@@leif1075 from what I can tell from reading around Witten is considered one of the most brilliant minds in his field. I don't think there's anything wrong with thinking that he's smarter than me
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
don't start with ''on the spectrum'' stuff, it's got nothing to do with physics and never has.
@darkmanddk Жыл бұрын
@@holliswilliams8426 I didn't say it had. What I said was that the way he stand and presents it with both body language as well as the very in depth knowledge of the subject at hand has.
@eftichismalandrakis Жыл бұрын
@@leif1075Because he is extremely intelligent. If you disagree you are either a genius yourself, or delusional.
@Robinson8491 Жыл бұрын
Who doesn't like timelike geodesics? Let's go!
@tommynoble6789 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@taipoxin Жыл бұрын
I think my domain of dependence is greater than the space time that is bounded by my brain that is below this mans intelligence to both the future and the past. Just listening to him talk is somehow like a soothing white noise that helps me sleep.
@JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN20245 ай бұрын
So in other words, the universe is expanding on a dark matter lattice, and we are travelling in one direction at 200k a sec with atoms blinking out of the distance on the lattice as a gas state and with atoms, and you and I are suspended in space with everything in a gas state with light reacting to us to see the gas, and everything 1 mm out of reach is gas, and the atoms we touch react as a solid with string theory with force back on us, giving the illusion of life, and all atoms blinking out of the distance of 200k a sec behind us in the movement of our life riding on a dark matter multi-g-hexagon lattice = like a movie. Its how Joseph Charles Colin, The new Face of Art, see's our Lives .
@2024SLCLUBBERS5 ай бұрын
HA HA no wait
@scottcarpenter9993 Жыл бұрын
"Any questions about last weeks lecture?" Me: Yes, can you please repeat last week's lecture, but in English-for-Dummies?
@JoyoSnoozeАй бұрын
I knew within the first minute, when a student began asking a question I didn't understand and Professor Witten began forming a diagram with written stuff alongside it as the guy was still working out his question, that I was in the right place to be eloquently confused and existentially out of my depth.
@steveurquell3031 Жыл бұрын
Bro I don't know anything about physics nor math yet I am sitting here watching. There is something magnetic and magical about watching one of the greatest talking about something so advanced
@heronn4las7 ай бұрын
mad props to the people putting in work 💯 i’m making salary without an education. school was never my thing and sitting down listening to a teacher just made me think i was wasting my time. hope the best for everyone trying to pursue they’re dreams
@Dani-it7hz Жыл бұрын
I have very little mathematical literary, but his explanations are so intuitive and concise. I actually feel some aspects of understanding the concepts within the equations. It's beautiful. It's as if mathematics is expressed in so many different 'languages' that all elucidate the same thing. Thank you for broadcasting these beautiful, lyrical lectures. It's like listening to amazing Jazz.
@elijahgtp7 ай бұрын
Time code please. This is crap.
@Jeropa2 ай бұрын
if there are no questions it means that: 1) every one of them clearly understood, 2) everything discussed in the class was clear and obvious in the first time 3) the students are as clever as the prof and 4) they have no idea about this all. I would say: 4)
@generichuman_ Жыл бұрын
The way he expels air after answering questions, it's like he's saying "I wish you peasants could understand this the way I do"
@syz911 Жыл бұрын
Can anyone imagine how much information he retains in his brain at any point of time that he can simply write them on the board as if he is writing a story?
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
It's just practice, that's all he does.
@Supercatzs6 ай бұрын
Thousands of hours of practice.
@Mojo16011973 Жыл бұрын
1:21:36 "I don't want to rush" 😂😂😂😂😂
@chancerogers69 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@edgeworthyeconomics4 ай бұрын
My gosh. After a whole year of taking Real Analysis and Algebra, I now actually know what he's talking about. Or at least I understand the definitions of the words. Takes a lot of work to be able to speak math!
@ABD-rh1sp6 ай бұрын
I believe that Dr. Edward Witten is the greatest theoretical physicist living on planet Earth as of 2023.
@rubicunduseratiudas12645 ай бұрын
Meanwhile, I've even plunged into the enormous conceit of thinking that Witten is more of an actor than a physicist; a simple speculator with some knowledge of physics theories but lots of initiative: no lab, no experimentation, no way of testing, no verification, no new results or findings... I think Witten is NOT a scientist but a very imaginative storyteller whose topic is quantum physics.
@newkidontheblockism Жыл бұрын
Well this clears up a lot 😫
@scottcarpenter9993 Жыл бұрын
Ed's voice is mesmerizing and soothing in the same way as Bob Ross's was in the Joy of Painting series.
@jonathaningram81575 ай бұрын
I would be so afraid to ask a stupid question. Like his time is more valuable than mine so there is no point bothering him.
@kamilzabiegala16495 ай бұрын
Genius Professor.
@cordos2362 Жыл бұрын
Bloody Genius.
@isaacepstein89716 ай бұрын
now i know what an ape feels like when humans talk to it.
@dani76037 ай бұрын
This is how taking lessons from the smartest person alive looks like
@Zodgee3 ай бұрын
As a chemical engineer who watches JRE, clicked on this to see how he teaches basic physics, only to under 20% of what they’re saying. Incredible.
@lysikasaito3 ай бұрын
For what it's worth, this is not basic physics. This is a graduate-level course.
@YTDumpsterBaby Жыл бұрын
Am i getting this right? He is talking about Space time and time dilation and the maths behind it like its 5th grade maths to him? My head is fried. I wish i was smart enough to make this guy's coffee.
@456dave7 Жыл бұрын
How much I would dread sitting in that lecture theater... and I say that as a fellow grad student in theoretical physics...
@francishunt562 Жыл бұрын
I guess it reminds us that we can always learn something new.
@RaviYadav-gy3rq6 ай бұрын
Great lecture ❤
@chiknsld38567 ай бұрын
i enjoy listening to this just as music, i might not understand every...or anything that he is saying and yet i feel at home :)
@RAMONSANTAANA7 ай бұрын
This man speaks in a language terms with deeply compressed subject intellect to teach physics... excellent.
@Michael-cb5nm5 ай бұрын
I hope you’re a bot…if not it’s time to learn English.
@JohnEdleston Жыл бұрын
I cannot imagine not having questions from his previous lecture. All of Prof. Witten's lectures leave me wondering what he said. He stands on the precipice of what is known and reaching into the unknown. Science is a very human endeavor.
@waynewayne9693 Жыл бұрын
It’s because he belittles those who ask a question with little jabs that he more than likely doesn’t even know he is doing. Perfect example of a genius who simply doesn’t know how to teach the material.
@wyqtor Жыл бұрын
@@waynewayne9693 It's why you don't want to be taught by a genius, except maybe if his name is "Richard" and his surname is "Feynman".
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
@@waynewayne9693 I have been to a few of his talks and he is always polite to people asking questions.
@joshchurch7858 ай бұрын
@@holliswilliams8426he's a total dick . If you ask a question he thinks your stupid .
@michaelblankenau65988 ай бұрын
He knows how to teach . But he can't impart IQ .
@mynameisawesomeman5 ай бұрын
Everyone is going on and on about how they don't understand all this stuff and how amazing it is that these people do. Remember, they didn't get here overnight. They worked hard to understand the fundamentals and learned them incrementally. Is it hard? yes, of course, but anything worth doing is hard.
@SOLORANKGAMING Жыл бұрын
followed because hes the best in my lifetime.
@francishunt562 Жыл бұрын
I prefer to call Professor Witten a mathematical physicist. There's no question he has fantastic ability at mathematics and his ability to manipulate equations into a controversial theory. It has to be said many theorists are moving away from string theory, it has several deep problems.
@RWin-fp5jn Жыл бұрын
Impressive mind. And a lot of answers. But what in Edwards’ opinion is the core ‘Question of Everything?
@alebairos Жыл бұрын
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@tieneeddoawestruck2036 Жыл бұрын
Let me get this right. If i run to a point at the ideal time and take an ideal path, I will still not have a clue what he said.
@fornlike6 ай бұрын
We live in an age where over 90% of human beings can freely watch a genius lecture, and people aren't even grateful for the privilege they have. The vast majority of people are complaining, they have become blind and want to destroy this world. If people were more aware, they would see what we are missing to improve things.
@gyakoo6 ай бұрын
It is amazing we can watch a lecture of such an awesome scientist like Mr. Witten. We don't know how lucky the humanity is by recording this.
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
For the people criticising his responses, it can be really difficult to teach elementary classes when you are engaged in very advanced research where many things are taken for granted.
@bcs17937 ай бұрын
This is a fields course in the PhD program. It could be argued that this is the least elementary class that exists lol
@holliswilliams842625 күн бұрын
@@bcs1793 Anything taught on a PhD program is generally considered to be fairly elementary. I am telling you this material is elementary if you do research on gravitation.
@neilmcintosh5150 Жыл бұрын
Witten is quite possibly the smartest person in the world alive today.
@johnf6594 Жыл бұрын
I was told the same thing!
@juanriojas1926 Жыл бұрын
Terry Tao says Hi
@neilmcintosh5150 Жыл бұрын
@@juanriojas1926 So does David Deutsch
@wyqtor Жыл бұрын
I respect the man, but his path in life is a waste of talent IMHO. M-Theory yielded 0 useful predictions to improve our lives so far. Meanwhile, the people who invented the transformer over at Google may not have Witten's IQ, but they have paved the way for the future creation of machines with Ed Witten's intellect, machines that will help us figure out not only physics but change everything about how our society works.
@bryanfrancis3356 Жыл бұрын
' Probability'....maby just in his field ....mathematical physics...might be a complete jackass in Chemistry or Biology ! 😎
@michaelblankenau65988 ай бұрын
A few videos ago I was watching women's platform diving . And now I'm here .
@bog61063 ай бұрын
Thanks
@haderade253 Жыл бұрын
It would take me chatGPT and 100 years of studying this lecture to understand WTF he's talking about 😭
@lithiumbatteries50454 ай бұрын
What a magnificent gourd
@spinoza3117 ай бұрын
'The questions make me worry that it is not as obvious as I thought it would be' .. just throwin dudes under the bus !! LOL
@TherealBDL Жыл бұрын
He claps back at the room so well.
@eduhub_kr11 ай бұрын
Someday, students in that classroom will be able to brag to their children that they actually listened to Edward Witten's lectures.
@elijahgtp7 ай бұрын
Brag about what? He is a crap teacher. Not everyone who is smart excels at pedagogy.
@mikeb.7845 Жыл бұрын
I'm a plumber.
@Sasquatchflow4 ай бұрын
I have no idea what he’s talking about but I find it fascinating! 😂
@guyallen23553 ай бұрын
I like my math with no numbers at all, just letters and symbols! 👀Yes!! Simply amazing stuff.
@waynewayne9693 Жыл бұрын
Rocking the old old old school black boards from the 30’s.
@pyropulseIXXI Жыл бұрын
those are clearly newer
@jamesa2482 Жыл бұрын
That’s because witten was the same age as he is now in the 1930s
@crazypolite Жыл бұрын
Imagine having the balls to ask him a question 😂 Jesus every time he basically just says "you're annoying me with your lack of effort and/or intelligence"
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
His answers seem pretty reasonable to me.
@crazypolite Жыл бұрын
@@holliswilliams8426 perhaps you are an overtly intelligent OR dilligent physics student/graduate. OR.. you're just that guy.
@francishunt562 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps, but I think he respects the fact that someone didn't quite understand something and try and get him to clarify it. Much better than sitting there with no clue.
@NorwegianViking866 ай бұрын
Well these students obviously won the lottery
@calldwnthesky64957 ай бұрын
if i was a student in a class where the term "spacetime" was used a number of times throughout the lecture i'd know i was really feckin smart
@gogigaga1677 Жыл бұрын
I FEEL LIKE ED WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT NOBODY HAD QUESTIONS FROM LAST TIME
@holliswilliams8426 Жыл бұрын
Every lecturer is disappointed when there are no questions, that's basically the only thing that makes giving lectures fun, otherwise it's just repeating stuff he already knows.
@AlexHuner-cc7ew11 ай бұрын
This guy is so smart you can see him trying to dumb down his thought process.
@chrillerkiller11 ай бұрын
And he still makes me feel like I am a severe retard.
@dabulls1g7 ай бұрын
Unbelievable, I remember seeing him on the Elegant Universe documentary based off the book authored by Brian Green. Its incredible how his lectures are now available on the internet, there used to be about a half dozen pictures of him on google.
@agr8fulson6 ай бұрын
i love it when he says, 'if all you care about is getting rich as a quant at Goldman or Morgan, then get out.'