Steven Weinberg and the Quest to Explain the World

Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg was one of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists and a passionate advocate for science. Among his many influential contributions is the co-discovery of the electroweak theory that unifies electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, a central pillar in the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Join Brian Greene and physicist John Preskill as they pay tribute to Steven Weinberg and his profound contributions to science.
This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.
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[@maxwellsequation4887]

RIP Sir Steven Weinberg. We are grateful for your work.

[@MrBendybruce]

I can't say how much I appreciate you making this tribute to Steven. I struggle to find the right word, but I think "unsettling" is as close as I can get, that the passing of such a giant of the scientific community garners so little attention by the wider public. It says something about our society I don't much like, but the WSF is one of the key movements in trying to address that.

[@gadzooks12]

Well said!

[@TshaajThomas]

It doesn't bother the religious sector. Mr. Weinberg most likely failed to protect his soul.

[@cityman1111]

@@TshaajThomas Having imaginary friends goes against sanity.

[@TshaajThomas]

@@cityman1111 LOL... I say the other way around.

[@AllSun369]

I'd very much like to know if you guys are interested in speaking about my high temperature quantumly entangled superconductors?

[@Goldslate73]

He'll be celebrated forever. An eternal gem. Thank you for everything, professor.

[@TheEeshan]

The last few minutes brought tears to my eyes. A beautiful tribute to a beautiful man.

[@rhmcvay]

Agreed.

[@markmitchell6179]

Much thanks to Brian Greene and John Preskill for pulling together this extraordinary tribute to the great Steven Weinberg. It was in equal parts moving and informative.

[@jiggarpatel6760]

RIP Weinberg, Thank You Brian for the insight into his work!

[@starlettetwinkles6933]

RIP Steven Weinberg. You gave us so much insight into physics. Your legacy will always live on. Thank you for everything.

[@The22on]

wow. just wow. The last 2 or 3 minutes are the most profound and beautiful thing I've heard in ages. Greene says that a collection of particles following the Standard Model formed into Steven Weinberg on whose shoulders we now stand so we can see farther. That is the ultimate tribute to any person, in my opinion. I love how Weinberg, giving his final summation of the pointlessness of life, closes his eyes while he speaks. It's like his heart is pouring out with a desperate wish to get the words exactly right. He wants to clearly convey the philosphy he's been developing all his life and tell it to us. wow. just wow.

[@davidhoracek6758]

I was always deeply inspired by Steven Weinberg, but what most impressed me in this video it was the obvious intellectual clarity and insightfulness of Dr. John Preskill. What a well-chosen guest!

[@giovannapatriciamoscoso7150]

What a great way to say goodbye to an amazing person and scientist.

[@justinsharkey8228]

As someone who only now is coming back to science by randomly coming across Brian’s “Space, Time, and Einstein” six months or so ago as a 32 year old I am very interested to learn more about how Steven Weinberg has been influential. Thanks for doing this from Cherry Hill, NJ.

[@GaneshGunaji]

He has been an inspiration to me for many years in my studies. I will miss listening to his talks. He was a true giant in science. Great man and scientific legend.

[@Lorenzano]

Im electrical engineer and I started for a few two years ago, and read about the Physics , relativity, and here I´m with two big bosses because Brian Greene inspired me too much about this beatiful topic, Who we are, Where incoming all this materail, expansion universe, quantum mechanic, string etc etc etc. Thanks a lot Mr. Brian!

[@JoeyVol]

Shoutout to the graphic design team and the entire team who worked on this videos production. It's beautiful.

[@JimGobetz]

Wonderful tribute to a man who deserves wonderful tribute.

[@tomneedham1937]

Richard Dawkins: “You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick, Weinberg and their colleagues."

[@cirusrome4086]

Very insightful, enjoyable and humbling. Thanks for sharing.

[@KP_Oz]

Enlightening, so well prepared, articulate, well structured, and honest reflection. Love Brian's style. Well done again!

[@crescentejr2006]

Brian Green is very poetic indeed, that I shed tears.

[@NewMessage]

I'm an atheist... but a part of me hopes he's in a place where he finally knows all the answers he's ever asked.

[@svenbertilsson6172]

Then you need to wake up, you are your soul your body is just a vehicle. Do you think matter can move without a driver? A car does´nt!

[@blackholedividedbyzero]

@@svenbertilsson6172 I'm not trying to make fun of you but how about self driving cars?

[@poeutpoch9496]

SW is the heart and soul of a scientist. We know..

[@tomsmith4542]

no there is not

[@tomsmith4542]

@@svenbertilsson6172 many cars are driverless

[@walkingandroid1389]

Thank you Brian, John, and all the WSF and benefactors. As a former physics student, Steven Weinberg was a hero and your tribute is really heart warming. We send our warmest thoughts to his family and friends.

[@ideliversoftontario4976]

A great man, so sorry to hear the news. Condolences to the family.

[@rwgeorgetube]

This video is a truly meaningful tribute that could have only come from unconditional love. So happy I got to see it.

[@RobertSmith-pw9io]

Thank you Professor Greene, Greatly for this testimonial of Steven Weinberg. He would have enjoyed the Honor and Respect that you showed how much he was valued by Science.. Again Thank you, I feel you will pick up the baton and continue this relay to understanding..

[@shaneculkin7124]

This was very, very sweet. I enjoyed this very much!!!! Thank you for making this. We ALL lost an important man.

[@NaudRuun]

Thank you so much for this wonderful video, journey into one of the most fascinating minds of our time

[@alanpotts3297]

Professor Green: this is a great service to the memory of Steven Weinberg. Steven has been my hero and driving force for the last 40 years. A Jewish genius, like Einstein. May be a connection. Electroweak unification was brilliant. It may not be correct as time progresses. But the road to Unity may be a false mirage. Stevens's books on Cosmology and QM are masterful. But...what inspired me as a 17 year old boy was 'The First Three Minutes'. The 1st 3 mins changed my world. Steven was a genius of communication (like you Brian!) But the best of the best!

[@alanpotts3297]

BTW...only just discovered of his death. I cried for the first time in maybe 50 years. My hero is gone.

[@alanpotts3297]

At least Leonardo is immortal . . .

[@rhmcvay]

Brilliant. Thank you professor Greene.

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

We sent a giant physicist. I bow respectfully before you... Thanks a lot for this content Mr. Brian Greene.

[@JustAManifold]

Thank you for this masterpiece Brian

[@keithdow8327]

Thanks! This is a fantastic presentation!

[@das250250]

That was a lovely tribute and another giant rests and becomes the shoulders we will rest upon .

[@shaneculkin7124]

Bless you Mr. Weinberg. We needed you sir !!!

[@SChinmay]

A great biography of a great scientist. Thank you Dr. Greene.

[@narasimhasithurea2271]

Meaningful tribute to great the Steven Weinberg. RIP 😪

[@thorntontarr2894]

What a wonderful and fascinating view of Professor Weinberg presented by Dr. Greene. Profound ending lines about 'pointlessness' .

[@jayeshunde1481]

RIP. Steven Weinberg. 😭. He really inspired me to do more and more Physics.

[@NONDUALITYtheopenway]

I got to see him in an intimate setting when he spoke in a classroom when I attended University of Maryland in the early 80's. It was amongst my early glimpses of what exists beyond what this appears to be.

[@someone1059]

wow you were so lucky mr corey I wish I could also interact with such intellectual giants one day

[@Random_qubit]

Rest Easy Professor Weinberg , one of the great thinkers of the last 100 yrs

[@staroshchuk]

A great video. Thanks!

[@nedludd7622]

It is so enjoyable to listen to people who can express themselves in an erudite manner. If we have to go to news sites for some information about current events, it is so annoying to have to listen to all those semi-literate journalists and commentators bloviating.

[@gazsibb]

Thank you all. Makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Such a privilege to be alive to hear and read his work.

[@skepticsapiens4149]

I am currently reading fabric of the cosmos.

[@mamaseeds]

Colour theory showed us the connection between physics and chemistry, we stayed with it even though some said they were 'different'. Thank you for the firm laws Steven Weinberg!

[@RunFast64]

How do you extrapolate from the development of the Standard Model and GR to understanding the underlying reality of everything, the origin of the Universe and infinity, and the meaning of life? Last I checked our understanding ends abruptly at the limits of the superficial models we use to help us understand reality.

[@nowhereman8374]

Thanks Brian, Par Excellence!!!

[@sulekhasreenivas3279]

He will still through his scientific discoveries and his books.

[@mahadlodhi]

Absolutely wonderfull

[@robertkarr9792]

Excellent...simply Excellent !

[@dr.satishsharma9794]

Excellent... thanks.

[@sethconnor1018]

A beautiful tribute, certainly not the end of the story.

[@sachinb9228]

RIP Sir Steven Weinberg for your great contribution to physics.

[@debbiepollard119]

Thank you.

[@brainpain5260]

Gone but not forgotten. Steven you were a scientists scientist.

[@jonathanpope81]

THANK YOU.GOD IS IN US ALL !

[@mehdibaghbadran3182]

Weather we liked or not , as long as we’re alive and the life’s is continues, we’ll need to go forward, and support each other’s, and let’s, smart minds showing themselves.

[@robertrodneyuplinger6046]

I carried the same blue-bound edition.., and reveled in it. Thanks.

[@hrshah8260]

RIP sir

[@equalat]

Thanks Brian, wonderful bio. As for the solution to a unified field, the truth is more simple or fundamental than thought. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi =

[@connyespersen3017]

Beautiful poem, love it ❤️

[@asrikkuhakghosh3454]

Sir, can you please explain how string theory describes black hole mathematically.

[@timunderwood4314]

Powerful sermon

[@tomsmith4542]

Rip to the GOAT of Electroweak understanding !!

[@explainingphysicsandmathematic]

RIP Steven Weinberg...😔

[@johnnyq4260]

4:13 Same thing happened to me, but it was the small-angle formula for the period of a simple pendulum. That was a profound personal experience. Alas, my career has been nothing like Steven's though 🙂

[@cheyennealvis7899]

The Diamond Sutra does a pretty good job of it if you're willing to give it a listen. It was a dissertation given by a Brilliant psychologist and neuroscientist to one of his senior students many many years ago. It highlights many of Donald Hoffman's current ideas only delves even deeper into the subject if you're interested.

[@FlockOfHawks]

A Worthy Tribute to a Noble Mind

[@avinashbandpatte3630]

How can people think physics is end Our main goal is why we are exists 🧐

[@Ypres02]

Truly a GIANT, as scientist and human being

[@CHIRAGnagar007]

Love and respect from 🇮🇳🇮🇳INDIA❤

[@rishavagrawal6347]

The bliss of unveiling the work of God is unparallel in my opinion.

[@TheTrancemaster90]

agree

[@muhidulislam5661]

They are the real superstars..

[@mehdibaghbadran3182]

The minds is the only things , which nobody cannot, takes it away from you , that’s why we should be ourselves, and expanding our own minds to the world, and this keeps justice stable.

[@dr.hosamaneprabhakar4722]

one of the other great giant who deserves mention but rarely mentioned is Dr. Satyendranath Bose whose paper on Bose Einstein condensation is one of seminal papers in physics laying the basic premise for the development of super conductivity which led to the great advancement in electronics and Boson talked in this video is named after him . I think that some of the greatest scientists in the world not born in US and Europe outside USSR tend to be ignored either accidentally or intentionally .The noble prize although is considered as the greatest accolade in the filed of science is not necessarily so and a lot of scientists who do not get the Nobel Prize for one reason or the other fail to be recognized. It should not be the Nobel Prize but the their work that needs to be recognized . Dr. Satyen Bose is just such an example.

[@remcovanhengst6716]

Brilliant mind.

[@keithcampbell7820]

I just recently received my second copy of “The First Three Minutes” Gave my first one away.

[@vittoriamaria603]

Grazie ❣️ THANK YOU ❣️

[@elisabethkulbingerneebobvo7229]

Impressive

[@StaticBlaster]

I periodically have looked at his Wikipedia page. The last time I looked at it was at least a month ago. And I legit just finished re-watching the Brian Green Fabric of the Cosmos documentary and then came here and discovered the sad news. Very sad! RIP to the legendary man, Professor Weinberg!!!!

[@manuelcasanova5698]

...listening.

[@Anar10n]

Truly one of the Titans

[@mehdibaghbadran3182]

He was belongs to the old community of science , and wish him a safe journey.

[@andrewross2247]

Dear Brian, if what we observe from the most distant parts of the universe is roughly the same, suggesting that our view of the universe is isotropic, how is it the we don't see the first observable event inflation in a particular location. How is it that this "moment" and potential locale is seen to surround us evenly?

[@Ilham-mw7lc]

Thank you for this amazing insight of an amazing man ❤️

[@sofronsofroniou3023]

Weinbeg, a deep scientist and a man of great humanist culture.

[@jmanj3917]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[@mitchkahle314]

Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Feynman, Weinberg

[@szclimber]

What a beautiful man.

[@applesprings5752]

❤️

[@KirksReport]

Great man. I had the pleasure of corresponding with him. I was so surprised when he wrote back. Big loss.

[@swayamjha3988]

Amazing. 😌😌😍

[@TheLindaLWeeks]

What an incredible man, an incredible mind. Blessed we are.

[@mehdibaghbadran3182]

The consciousness is very important, and that will be reached during your lifetime, if you won’t reach your consciousness, by the ages that you should, even if you model it is not fully understandable, not for you and not for others

[@devad8216]

Rest In peace

[@newlander11]

High school student reading Steven Weinberg's books

[@wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165]

When he was talking about the standard model not being able to include gravity with the three fundamental forces which seem to be unified at a certain point in the early universe, I wondered about Einstein's assertion that gravity was not a force but was the result of the curvature of space. So, if gravity is not a force why are we still looking to include it with the strong, weak and EM forces? And why look for a graviton as a carrier of force? Then again, I wonder how a curved space can impart mass to an object? That seems to require a force.

[@connyespersen3017]

Maybe you understand, why matter and particles moves i curved spacetime, but if there not was a gravitational force, what would then be the reason to why movements of natter changed and why is spacetime being curved? I'm asking because I think their is a force which make matter curve spacetime and vice versa make curved spacetime determ how matter should move! What do you think?

[@wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165]

@@connyespersen3017 Yes, I agree that gravity is a force. I would clarify one thing that i said in my post about imparting mass to an object. That was incorrect. Objects do have mass but have no intrinsic weight. The force of gravity makes things heavy. I don't see how mere curvature could do that.

[@connyespersen3017]

@@wizzdem-tjmclaughlin8165 And the Higg's field in space are a part of what we see as inertia - but only a very small part!

[@sorayarosedemirakos]

He will be missed! 💔

[@science212]

Steven Weinberg was a great atheist and rational man. A science hero for all of us.

[@prasadvemulapalli1247]

RIP Sir Steven!

[@pobinr]

Why the music ?

[@SolaceEasy]

The meaning of "Steven": Crown

[@ericsalles1424]

R.I.P. Steven Weinberg

[@gabrieldunn7384]

So many interrupting commercials 😢