Superstrings - Boundaries of the Knowable (10/10)

[@DrQuadrivium]

A brilliant series. Thanks for making it available on KZbin.

[@arinalikes5911]

How I wish there are more episodes to the series. I can tell he has much more to offer. Such a good lecturer

[@jovazquez6102]

I really love his approachable explanations to a topic I've found elusive to begin understanding

[@skinnyjohnsen]

Beautiful series! It's a delight to listen to Prof. Russell Stannard ;-)

[@ccfcobro]

As a an undergrad Biologist with a fascination for physics but without the metal capacity for those pests called 'numbers', thanks for these. Im going to watch them again im sure of it.

[@miamifan2191]

thank you for these i found them very relaxing and informative, i hope to see more

[@tinahenry3814]

Wonderful series!!! thank you for posting

[@Psylent]

Just watched all 10 episodes. I enjoyed them. It was a good refresher

[@Stibaable]

@feliztex I appologize if my first response was seen as an insult. You have got an innovative view of mechanics, thumbs up! I hope your article will be well received.

[@RobertPashayan]

This old man rules !

[@Stibaable]

@feliztex: to describe the behaviour of the system relative to some reference point. But in my opinion these are not aditional dimensions because you could describe this motion in a normal coordinate system (x,y,z,PX,PY,PZ) it just a matter of convenience to use GC. I am not saying that my view is the correct one or that my advice is "valuable", so please explain more about your views and yes I am an undergraduate student of astrophysics so I had studied alot of analytical mechanics.

[@redbarond1]

An absolutely amazing explanation. Michael Faraday would be proud.

[@DJNed12]

(...cont) it furthers research into other models in physics, and advances the development of some areas of pure mathematics.

[@Stibaable]

@feliztex I think not. Why would distance (euclidean) be a dimension? Does it tell where a point is in space? -> No, so it is not a dimension. Your r can be a dimension in a spherical coordinate system where the coordinates are r, fi and theta. If you are interested in the subject I sugest you start studying a branch of mathematics called linear algebra.

[@300gates]

Who wouldn't love physics learning from professor like that. Those are normally tough markers though!

[@MrPandaRAYNEX]

Its actually really sad to think that science will come to an end without answering all the qsts we had

[@lysergiinhape]

What are those static noises in the background?

[@khayelz]

what if they are point traveling in lines like we do always when we go to our jobs or the school? or the planets or galaxy spinning every one in his own string? its more complex than 9 dimesions or just strings and dots....

[@DJNed12]

That simply isn't true. The recent results were in contrast to predictions of the formerly most likely models of supersymmetry, but that is all. There are still many other models, and the scientific method is about adjusting your model upon receiving new experimental data, in order to make predictions about the results of future experiments. Superstring theory isn't a waste of time, not just because it hasn't been disproved (or rather, supersymmetry hasn't been disproved), but because (cont...)

[@TheLivirus]

Awesome series! I was nailed to the monitor :)

[@coffeeabernethy2823]

Problem with string theory; give me experimental parameters that, if met, would disprove the hypothesis. Something... falsifiable.

[@LogosTheos]

I'm skeptical of the String Cheese Theory

[@DemetriosMPapadakes]

You should read Aristotle my friend.... These "theories" are not new... You'd be surprised of the plagiarism, regurgitation and refinement. Come, give it a try... Read carefully. 

[@modemanslutning]

And when we have discovered everything that is possible for us to discover and understand what will our quest in life be then? :S A boring thought to me, makes me depressive :(

[@krzyszwojciech]

"That's why I took up physics - it's much simpler" - all physicist excuse themselves that way.

[@1blackaura]

who tuned your guitar? you seem to be in d#

[@sams6306]

+BlackDog Aura I hear it in E. You must be travelling close to the speed of light

[@flashg0rd0n]

doughnuts are my universe! :)

[@Stibaable]

@feliztex : Could you explain your views more clearly and without personal insults? I would appreciate that. Ok so your r is a generalized coordinate. Why would generalized coordinates constitu additional dimensions?In my view GC are only simplifications which take advantage sometimes of constraints to enable us to simplify a particular mechanical problem. In Hamiltonian mechanics there is defined a phase space which has 6 dimensions (x,y,z,Px,Py,Pz), again you could take any number GC....

[@Nayr747]

We just have to be smart enough to know where the boundary of understanding is in our brains and how to improve that capacity. Research into genetics and the structure of our brains will allow us to eventually become all-knowing.

[@JoeyCbr]

Don't give up on Science

[@Liusila]

Ooh! I so wanted you to eat that dohnut! : D

[@bloody_albatross]

Now I want to eat a doughnut.

[@Sciborg09]

nice ending hahaa

[@mrooster09]

hahaha doughnuts!!haha, mmmm this man knows wassup!!