Seeing Further: Searching for the Echoes of Creation

Nobel Laureate John Mather joins Brian Greene for an in-depth discussion of evidence establishing the big bang as well as recent observations of the James Webb Space Telescope raising questions for this very theory of cosmic creation.
Mather delivered this year's "On the Shoulders of Giants" address, honoring the generations of groundbreaking scientists furthering Newton's observation that “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” With this discussion, the World Science Festival invites audiences to stand on the shoulders of a modern-day giant, John Mather.
This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.
Participant:
John Mather
Moderator:
Brian Greene
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[@geoffm13]

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[@amandabriggs6880]

Good luck to you...stay positive❤😊❤

[@geoffm13]

@@amandabriggs6880 thank you💕

[@geoffm13]

Just finished listening to this episode, and once again you nailed it! These outreach discussions are totally fascinating they simply tick all the right boxes!❤

[@piratessalyx7871]

I have enjoyed listening to WSF for months now. I even put on my bluetooth earbuds and let it teach me until I fall asleep. I have always loved science, wanted to be a biologist at one time! I took all science except physics…shame on me….here I can play catch up from that silly mistake long ago! Enjoy science its Gods mastery, the more we learn the better we are!!!

[@ericgibson2079]

God bless you.

[@Daniel_ElegantUniverse]

I’m looking forward to watching the talk amongst Edward Witten, David Gross, and Andrew Strominger. I attended live, looking very much forward to seeing it again.

[@benjaminbeard3736]

When and where does this take place?

[@Daniel_ElegantUniverse]

@@benjaminbeard3736 The in person event had already happened. It was on the 23rd of September. And the discussion will be posted on KZbin. I just don’t know when

[@benjaminbeard3736]

@@Daniel_ElegantUniverse excellent, thanks man.

[@Flailfist_Jr]

@@Daniel_ElegantUniverse Unifying Nature's Laws has landed but i guess you already knew that - must have been wonderful to attend live

[@Daniel_ElegantUniverse]

@@Flailfist_Jr Yeah, wonderful experience it was to be there in-person.

[@jamesraymond1158]

Greene is a genius at interviewing. All the right questions and not a single unnecessary word. What a goldmine of information Mather is. All of his answers were interesting and clearly expressed. What an exciting life he has been living. Big puzzle: why not a Nobel prize for adaptive optics? I would never have guessed it would work.

[@spindoctor6385]

Awesome guest. It is becoming rarer and rarer for people to actually listen to questions and directly answer them. So many use any question as an excuse to just start talking about what they want. As usual Green asks the right questions to get answers that intend to fill the gaps between what a knowledgeable audience know and what is realistically understandable.

[@Alex-js5lg]

It's become so rare that it's almost off-putting when someone doesn't try to dodge a question.

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@julieannplatt2305]

John Mather is one of the best science communicators I've heard. I could not find many videos on KZbin that he has done but he sure is a treasure!

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@SuperBongface]

WSF forever!!! ... EVERY JWST image to me is worth the entire cost of the project! Absolutely extraordinary! One of the most incredible machines humanity has ever constructed! Thank you John Mather sir and thank you Brian Greene!!!

[@stephenfrench3888]

​@@Willful.MysticCompelling stuff lol

[@losertocloser]

Yes!

[@rhmcvay]

One of the best interviews by Brian Greene!

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@thorntontarr2894]

@@250txc Third time you launched this question; maybe it will be the "charm". Not likely because I doubt you understand just how good this is, IMHO.

[@Laggie74]

The "Just Do It" generation. Thank you Sir, and all the people involved in getting this done.

[@user-rl5ep8gn8z]

All that was missing was a pint of cosmic beer for each of them. Such a relaxed conversation with a mound of interesting information. Both asking questions, both answering questions, just like friends. Great conversation Brian and John, keep up the great work.

[@MojiWord]

Intelligence with Style...you go Dr. Greene! *Looking Smart in that black!!!*

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

​@@Willful.Mystiche makes science popular

[@AhmadN]

Wow. Brian you were so comfortable in that conversation, just like you would do a conversation on family dinner table. I think John would appreciate that. So natural, not like a formal interview, just normal talk between two very intelligent gifted scientists. I loved it. Thank you so much. ❤

[@matthewweflen]

What a wonderfully humble, friendly, and clear example of a scientist. Terrific interview.

[@leightapex]

Brian you killed it. Mr. Mather, you are the best, we need a hundred, no a THOUSAND more people like you in this world. Great interview, World Science Festival is crushing the game right now with top-notch content, guaranteed to keep all of our active minds mesmerized, enchanted, positively spellbound with science. Keep it coming Mr. Greene, kind sir!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@leightapex]

Or its just my actual feelings about something. Jeez

[@tattoomas]

love all my science loving Sistas and Bro´s 😍 greetings from Germany 😘

[@rivertownsouls1306]

wow... the interviewer, the interviewee, the backdrop with pics, the topics... thats like one of the best interviews ever :-D love WSF and BG

[@TheScentofmusic]

Brilliant, brilliant discussion I like most for stimulating my brain. Kudos to all these scientists.

[@spiritfilled5758]

Thank you for bringing such interesting topics understandable & alive for us. Brilliant Great Men, Thank you

[@spiritfilled5758]

@@Willful.MysticI will encourage you to choose to honor your name Willful.mystic. The last thing humanity needs is more division and negative disrespect for Honorable men in our society let's raise the conscious awareness of ourselves first and set an example. Let's be the change we desire to see in the world .. Love and Peace

[@keithjordan7805]

John Mather is truly a gift to the human race. Brilliant, selfless and relenting in his pursuit of knowledge. What a great interview.

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@keithjordan7805]

That is not 'bootlicking' is is a compliment to a truly gifted individual. I am guessing that you think you are smarter than him and will try to show it with some 'brilliant insight' that you have that contradicts the experts.@@250txc

[@monikafibonacci4233]

Beautiful chat, very informative, right to the point, yet modest and well grounded without fake fireworks, just amazing! One of the best from Brian's sci series!

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@sethconnor1018]

It's been some time since I caught a premiere im excited

[@Turret3030]

His tie is my desktop background!! Love that image!

[@williamjmccartan8879]

Thank you both very much for sharing those conversation, John sounds like an interesting character, and a little stubborn, he was able to see his dreams realized in his lifetime, and have a place in the future, not bad young fella, thank you both again John and Brian, peace

[@H4rd5tyl3]

This was so easy to watch. Really wonderfull experience for us internet astronomers. Thanks so much for this one John and Brian!!!

[@nathc5479]

Did the live show with Sean Caroll at the recent world science festival get uploaded to KZbin, looking forward to watching that.

[@sethconnor1018]

Yes!!!!!!! It was fantastic. Brv

[@sammyfromsydney]

So pleased that all the hard work has paid off and is continuing to pay off for those who worked on JWST.

[@aks_21-21]

Brian your nudges make your interviewees connect well with your wide ranged audience.

[@steliosp1770]

These are the people we must celebrate. Thank you for your life's work John and thank you Brian for spreading science to the peoples, with more Brians instead of all the agents of bigotry superstition and division on this planet we would ve already been an interplanetary species. Excellent video, thank you!

[@user-or2lp2lx4t]

Great discussion, large contributions all start with ideas and persistence!

[@Ava31415]

Fascinating and thank you all for this informative and entertaining episode.

[@dancooper8551]

Great discussion! Thanks John and Brian.

[@creuzasimionatto1838]

Wonderful discussão, thank you, WSF.

[@portalminer8813]

When someone really understands what they're talking about, they can present it is terms anyone can understand. That's the case here. Two very brilliant scientists.

[@QuantuMyre]

Would love to know what they have to say about the more recent theories regarding life possibly being intrinsic to the universe

[@sunbird7349]

Thank you John, and Brian... for such an exciting adventure into the realms of just what becomes possible when you know that is is possible, then never give up. Just like farming. Well done!

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@sunbird7349]

quality boots. @@250txc

[@tykjenffs]

An interview like this within the Las Vegas Sphere would be beyond insane ^

[@leifuhrbom8341]

Science is the best for humanity. If we survive all our madness

[@savetheplantet5799]

What a valuble piece of gistory this was. John c. Mathur. Man let his health be solid for years to come. Planet earth loves you sir. Thank you for your service to all of humanity and may many more like yourself rise up to keep pushing us forward . Damn this was amazing!!!!

[@erichodge567]

What a beautiful, inspiring conversation. Thank you, WSF.

[@garydecad6233]

One word for this podcast and series: Beautiful.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

I like the stage setting with the big screen , that's pretty cool

[@ericbae9550]

As a person remembering younger version of Brian Greene, I feel sad that we all get old and eventually cease to exist.

[@JoebsonOSRS]

Love how this channel speaks with real scientists instead of all these youtube channels that are click bait based on no science

[@quantx6572]

Damn, I love this channel. Awesome interview, Brian.

[@aminnourmohammadi5025]

I loved this interview! Thanks for creating such amazing contents for the world

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@WildernessGirl21]

Shows like this, StarTalk, and Cool Worlds are how people learn! 👌

[@alison9313]

New Balance sneakers should sign John Mather for their commercials. He's a rock star!

[@nurk_barry]

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see the live WSF events back in action. I have a ton of Nostalgia for 2016 when I really picked up my love for physics again, and have been nerding out on ever since

[@250txc]

Why all the boot lickin'?

[@nurk_barry]

@@250txc I got something you can lick, chump

[@martijn130370]

Super interview, thanks for hosting and uploading!

[@grahamgillard3722]

Wow! I’ve watched two presentations now, and there hasn’t been a word of politics or propaganda!

[@SolaceEasy]

"Delightful conversation and I look forward to more." Me too.

[@aminsareban6715]

My biggest Alas in future would be if I die and don't see discovery of life in another world. A huge thanks to WSF which excites us about we have learnt so far and where we are going to observe in future.

[@n.miller907]

Scientists have some of the best ties. 😊

[@gerardopc1]

I'm looking forward to: "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Nima Arkani" one day

[@backwardthoughts1022]

that would be a shtfest as in shtting all over everyone's careers

[@suzettecolombo4179]

Outstanding 🎉😊❤

[@hochathanfire0001]

Ralph Alpher enjoying his coffee this morning ☀️.

[@cyanw489]

THIS CHANNEL IS ONE OF THE BEST

[@patriciajob7829]

Always a pleasure to listen to your channel. I learn a lot and appreciate the way it's done (bienveillance in French but can't translate it) one of my best channel M. Green so thanks to you and your team for upgrading my knowlege with kindness and in a way i find it interesting, warm, easy to understand. Thank you to all of you

[@adamwoolsey]

Wow 52:30, 👀JWST launch practice utilized a 'digital twin' computer simulation of outer space, like a 🌌holodeck 🌌

[@erichodge567]

Stories like this one make me proud to be human. Science is the best antidote to politics.

[@nicolawright4771]

Thank you Brian You are my hero

[@julianoazz4372]

Thank you both

[@faratahmasbi3783]

Just amazing, thank you and looking forward to more.

[@ComfortRoller]

I'm impressed with John's attitude, I imagine he inspires confidence in others.

[@burkantorun]

Fascinating

[@mahtdickey677]

Besides the miss directed Kennedy quote. I loved every second, great information like ever thing released through WSF!

[@rezwanrazu]

I am from Bangladesh. Anyone feel at ease knowing the discussed things here?

[@jacquesmulder8041]

This interview is brilliant. I simply can't figure out if they are ignoring the screen or if it was edited in afterwards. I'm kinda leaning to afterwards because Images appear just before he mentions the person or the item coming up in the background.

[@chadwolf3840]

Fascinating discussion.

[@sethconnor1018]

Brian and John would you agree that the experimental physics is quite due it's quantum leap forward as has been done in the think tanks of mathematics and the magic of error correction coding or do you feel a generation will have to re-write the definition of gravity altogether to birth unified field theory and all the perks of keeping coherent quantum computing?

[@sethconnor1018]

I agree programming bias is a brick wall

[@GravityJWST]

Amazing UAPs aren't discussed, imagine how much more we'd know. ❤

[@nicolawright4771]

John is an inspiration

[@stellarwind1946]

15:56 very interesting insight provided here on Ralph Alpher

[@glennbarry6327]

Brilliant discussion.

[@tresajessygeorge210]

THANK YOU...!!!

[@mandeepsingh-fd7mh]

Thanks for this 🙏

[@evalenamarieactress]

Wow wow wow!

[@getonlygotonly]

the more we learn only reveals how little we actually know.

[@rezadaneshi]

Entropy is a spectrum. Highest entropy is the final disorder which includes the infinite complexity and infinite symmetry. The transition between the two is the arrow of time. Infinite complexity is finite. If I may use the analogy of, when an unstoppable force (time) collides with immovable object (singularity), we observe to the best we can, a Big Bang (White Hole) erupting its content into time from infinite symmetry restarting the cycle towards infinite complexity.

[@chrisshelton7545]

Nicely said... you kinda sound like AI...lol

[@rezadaneshi]

@@chrisshelton7545 God really help us then. I’m very corruptible I’m told

[@arnaudjean1159]

Yeah time has come to the point we can't say if a comment is manmade or A.I. made.!!!😮

[@patrickaycock3655]

Folks. I took the battery out of my watch and i stopped time. It would seem that time is not an unstoppable force.

[@rezadaneshi]

@@patrickaycock3655 So you still had a battery in your cell phone, did you take a picture of your watch as evidence?

[@aazr14]

Very informative discussion, I have a question: the images of stars and galaxies we see through JWST today are of very distant past? How those stars and galaxies look today, do they exist or not we don’t know!

[@ghahrai]

Fantastic conversation? .very nesesry to know thankyou❤

[@PedroAmA]

Amazing episode 💥🤓

[@ericgibson2079]

"Because They Are Hard". Remminds me if big mountain riding when I was boarding hard.

[@rogerpancake6803]

Brian Greene and John Mather are spectacularly good in conversation together and such brilliant scientists and great men ..it made me a little sad to hear John Mather say the scientific life of JWST will be longer than they expected and perhaps as long as twenty years and it is more than likely that he may not be around by then ..tragedy that such amazing human beings have to die we coukd do with people like him sticking around and Brain Greens of course ..great great men

[@matthewhenson2421]

Surprising. Let's look for some more beyond the universe.

[@mgwhitney]

Fantastic.

[@mehridin]

thx brianzor

[@sego001]

Wasn’t George Gamow prediction with 3° close to the measurement?

[@sagarpatel3043]

I notice that tie, I want that😮

[@hochathanfire0001]

That is some serious tie‼️

[@Imagicka]

They should license and sell a public version 9f this WJST simulator. Space nerds will buy it .

[@pkalidas]

If life ain't out there :it's an "awful waste of space", I for one believe the universe is richer than our imagination.

[@showmewhyiamwrong]

One possible explanation that would explain the Asymmetry would be if the BB was result of the collision between two pre-existing Universes one being comprised entirely of Normal matter and the other entirely Anti-Matter in which there were fewer Anti-Matter Particles Than there were in the NM Universe. So since the The fact that there was less AM Particles in the AM Universe than there were NM Particles in the NM Universe would explain the Asymmetry we see today giving rise to the disappearance of the AM. B

[@ryanwis2350]

Really want to know if the first pic at beginning is a real pic of some part of space as if it's is that pic proves we are not alone in universe

[@jbrownjetmech-4783]

Do they have a green screen or an actual display behind them? Surely green screen right.

[@travisfitzwater8093]

I hope they reconvene to discuss the black galaxies announced yesterday

[@jessicawinslet684]

I was trying to think where I have heard this guy before ... then i was like omg ... I can picture him going like: There is no time morty! Space, it seems to go on forever, but then you get to a place where it ends, but it's still space!!!

[@Najur.]

Wow

[@Flailfist_Jr]

💖💖💖

[@jps0117]

Can someone explain to me how the universe can have a finite age and yet be infinite in size? Thanks.

[@saulsavelis575]

20:00 not the only story that matches, but one of several stories and the reality is that you have measured the INFINITE UNIVERSE LIGHT coming from the event horizont ie where visible light is no longer constantly reaching us, but with some irratic appearence, AND THE MAP SHOWS THE DISTRIBUTION OF MATTER BEYOND THE VISIBLE/EVENT HORIZONT which you call the age of universe...UNIVERSE IS INFINITE IN MATTER, TIME AND SPACE

[@saulsavelis575]

BLACK BODY CURVE showed you that you are measuring OTHER VERY FAR (THEREFORE NORMALLY INVISIBLE) STARS...since this curve shows the bonds between atoms (...we mostly call them covalent (two electron), but can be small amount and metalic or ionic (single electron) ones...) which are broken with some intensities at some temperatures and therefore producing frequencies AND THEIR DISTRIBUTIONS that are normal for OUR MATTER (obviously heated till evaporation and dissolution)

[@saulsavelis575]

also no black holes were needed to form the Earth or light up the Sun, therefore there is no need for them and to glue starts into Galaxies...mass is just uncompensated nuclear positive charge and exists only 2 fundamental forces Electric and Magnetic that are interrelated and do not exist without each other