Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics

www.ted.com Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?
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[@angela1894]

This guy is one of the most brilliant people on the planet. ANd he's well-rounded too. Not just good at math, he's knowledgeable in languages, the arts, biology, etc. He demonstrated it in this talk when he gave a perfect, phonetic pronunciation of the name of the French mathematician "Coulomb".

[@chayoto]

Or when he pronounced that name in Mandarin.

[@michael_bryant]

According to Yann LeCun, Gelman tried to teach Yann how to (wrongly) pronounce his own name. So he was a bit arrogant too

[@jonnieve2483]

That laugh is quite infectious

[@nikithanayaer6302]

Jon Nieve

[@manandholakia9023]

I had exactly the same thought and was going to express it with the same words ;).

[@otivaeey]

he didn't make me understand more about his quark proposition, but his humour is exuberantly huge, philosophical appreciation from his speech is to the MAXimum. I really love this talk.

[@szanndij]

I mean why people don't grasp the meaning of when he says hi to newton and einstein. It's in fact a history in the History of Sciences. He survived his eternal archrival Feynman on engaging physics to us laypeople of the world.

[@ashish19]

I did not even know such a talk existed! Its like being a part of those who created history. I hope people are able to appreciate whom they are listening to!

[@grahamblack1961]

He's in his late 70s here and he's sharper than most people are in their 20s.

[@jceepf]

He is one of the greatest physicist of the 20th century..... as long as he does not get dementia, he is sharper than most of us. What he said at the end is so true. Neurology is from Biology, Biology is from Chemistry, Chemistry from Physics. And Physics describes the law of nature at their most fundamental level. Yet all are necessary to describe succinctly what we see. But each level need some accidents. It is most clear at the biological level: another planet, another climate and no life possible. Intelligent life is an incredible fluke on our planet: dinosaur got killed allowing little mammals some peace, some random mutation to separate us from our ape cousins, we somehow survived when reduced to perhaps just a few thousands individuals..... all accidents.

[@hank1519]

@@jceepf Beautifully stated!

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

People in their 20s are sharp?

[@achildofgod9954]

That’s b/c his brain has been sharpened since his 20s

[@tomj2810]

Maybe because his IQ is so high that even if he loses a bunch of points with age he’s still way higher then others?

[@marciasouthwick9748]

I haven't listened to this lecture in a long time. After he told me about Newton's summer (I think Newton was 17) I replied. Wow. He could have written a great high school essay "what I did on my summer vacation," Murray had the soul of a poet and the mind of a physicist. I had the mind of a poet and that's about it.

[@MISTERASMODEUS]

This talk was beautiful and symmetrical. It really is a way of merging and expressing art in a way that merges with science. No angst. Just beauty.

[@UUBrahman]

The last minute (15) is a excellent summary:1. Life can emerge from existing physics and chemistry, 2. neurobiology explains the emergence of the human mind "consciousness", 3. Nothing further is needed in terms of supernatural concepts to get something more, just further refinement of existing science and an understanding of "occasional accidents". Finally, this is all there is, there is not anything else at all.

[@alfwiz]

Think of it in terms of "Fractals", you don't need "something more" to get "something more or something else" for that matter, because what you have is all that is needed. It's a fractal.

[@gaurav.raj.mishra]

"Doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment then it's wrong." -Richard Feynman

[@joeyfeliciano9199]

Yet, there are tons of THEORIES about the origin of the universe , non of it is wrong. LOL!!!!!

[@jasonbennett2194]

Depends on what you mean by wrong. What is the objective of the theory was to uncover new mathematics?

[@kylethompson1379]

Yes, though this doesn't mean that the ultimate theory is not beautiful. Modern physics is just a step, and provably inconsistent. Maybe the full theory, is beautiful after all.

[@us-Bahn]

@@joeyfeliciano9199 True. Without experiments and data the number of theories (neither proved nor disproved) will increase.

[@Horndogthehorneddog]

Um Gell man’s opinion is just as valid if not more

[@77bovi]

Wonderful presentation, can really feel his passion for the subiect. Though have to say its strange that for all the beauty symmetry simplicity that he observes, believes and dreams of, he credits "accidents" as integral to explain things.

[@DrZenith]

He 'gets it' perfectly; he's saying that any intelligent entity exploring the nature of reality would find the same rules such as the inverse square law for gravity. Also, that the scientific endeavor is the attempt to develop models which get ever closer to the way things are. Nothing short-sighted about that view.

[@JordanManfrey]

i wish I had watched this 14 years ago lol. At least my kid will have the benefit of understanding the nature of scientific discovery better than I could, not as a solely borish hyper-deductive permutative process, but going hand-in-hand with the inductive spark that drives all invention and innovation. The patterns are the point.

[@blasterelforg7276]

RIP the world's greatest riddle solver. I guess he was speaking philosophically here comparing if you believe in something you don't understand it's superstition vs. finding truth through intelligent deduction or through trial and error.

[@VERGIS92]

@Belial690 This ain't a university lecture, he gives simple understandable examples about evolution of science. Mr Gell man was the competitor of Richard Feynman, they were working on particle physics in the 60s, he's extremely well educated and even his school professors felt intimidated in front of him, he could beat them at what ever subject they talked about. But above all it's his particle physics, do you know how hard it is for the average person to understand advanced physics?

[@bushfingers]

From some elementary observations on the forms of physical equations, to stating that it's just accident and these equations that have resulted in everything that exists, and that there is nothing metaphysical. WOW!! That's some of the most impressive hand waving I have ever seen. Pity there's not a Nobel Prize for "The stating of impressive conclusions without the need for a logical argument or set of premises" - he'd be a strong contender.

[@Evemky]

This is what I want to see! I love TED talks. Genuinely intelligent and entertaining. Is there anything else like this on KZbin?

[@barrywilliamsmb]

What a great voice and mind this dude has! I could listen to Mr Gell-Mann all day long. Thank you TED.

[@MetaSynec]

So, this talk was actually about simplicity and symmetry in mathematical physics.

[@vinayseth1114]

+Incongruent I I think it's also about stripping down to the bare essentials and building upon and refining previously existing laws.

[@salvadorvidal518]

I think all the way around: go with a new idea and try to get back to the old ones. To progress from the old ones sure that was already tried.

[@us-Bahn]

Is it necessary to say “mathematical” physics? Should we also be saying “verbal” literature?

[@ashoksupadhyay6455]

@@us-Bahn yes since physics can also be studied w/o the use of mathematics. You can throw a stone from a building and find it going down, from there you can put predict that anything thrown will always go down. Now you may quantise these notions about nature or make them more general through the use of a framework called mathematics. Some may argue that my first example was also an example of mathematics since I observed a phenomena and hypothesed an "axiom".

[@adimaratov74]

так интересно рассказывает, с чувством юмора. жаль я не физик.

[@CharlesSalvato]

Sounds like Machio Kakos field string theory inverted... some good points. For math to exsist, there has to be a master mathematician. This isn't by chance, it is by design but the snapshot of time which is so extream that it keeps us learning and evolving.

[@philhellenes]

Love that man. Love that mind. Our greatest living theoretical physicist.

[@devinkoshney]

“You don’t need something more to explain something more” hah what a beautifully concise statement. You also don’t need a supernatural being to explain free will, as it is an emergent property of the quantum “accidents” he frequently mentions.

[@pedterson]

Can you possibly re-upload this with a higher display resolution? I know Gell-Mann was all about elementary particles, but we don't need to see them each individually.

[@Arun-nt4kv]

Simplicity is not so simple to reach. This Simplicity reached after great leap of faith and out of the box thinking by physicists.

[@philhellenes]

Gell-Mann and Feynman worked from offices virtually next door to each other and used to argue all the time, in the best possible way ofc.

[@xT..]

I could listen to this man talk about physics all day... probably anything really.

[@aliqasim9157]

The important thing to note in presentation is the realization of the idea that we can and will never be able to have ToE. Bcoz ToE includes both Fundamental Law and Outcome of possible chance events. Even if we completely figure out the Fundamental Law and unify all the fundamental interactions of nature, say standard model is completed, we still will be utterly helpless about outcome of possible chance events coz it essentially means to work upon infinite number of equations and is impossible thing to do. Nature is so complex that we as human beings struggle to understand its reality. Although we should feel happy even to get to know the the things which we have understood uptill now. :)

[@aliqasim9157]

+jimmyshitbags Didn't Murray himself said that ToE includes both fundamental law and outcome of possible chance events and u are saying " ToE just refers to unifying the electroweak, strong and gravitational interactions in the same sort of manner that electricity and magnetism were unified under electromagnetism, and then electromagnetism was unified with the weak interaction". This is contradictory to what he said. He also said that there are other fundamental interactions besides strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational interactions which we have not yet discovered . So if we even have not yet found all fundamental interactions of nature then the completion of Fundamental Law is a long way to go. Also apparently LHC has found particles that defy SM of Physics and now theorists have some work to do and figure that thing out.Check this. www.iflscience.com/physics/lhc-finds-particles-defying-standard-model-physics. OK..I get ur point on predicting the probability of outcomes and it is statistical but the question is do these equations work and why can't we include them inside the framework of fundamental law. What is fundamentally different b/w the two? What I have concluded is that universe is not necessarily deterministic but we try to figure it out with deterministic laws. (What do u say)

[@aliqasim9157]

+jimmyshitbags Hmmm... just to be curious...u hold a masters or PhD degree in Physics?..or u have studied and researched by urself?... Thanks.

[@aliqasim9157]

+jimmyshitbags U have mentioned that "none of the particles in the Standard Model can be a viable candidate for dark matter".....but gravitons as predicted by SM are most probably responsible for dark matter and viable candidate for it...and after the discovery of gravitational waves, the probabilty of them being the viable candiadate has also increased.

[@aliqasim9157]

+jimmyshitbags Well good luck to u now and in future endeavors...I have learned somethings which I was not clear before..well on a lighter note..u should change ur name from jimmyshitbags on here..why select this name..haha

[@aliqasim9157]

+jimmyshitbags I just have one question. Will we be able to figure out in the near future how universe was created or did universe come out of nothing or some say about virtual particles..? Also we are not even sure about whether Big bang (13.8 billion years ago) really occurred. I used to really believe that scientists have once and for all settled the matter of big bang that it certainly occurred. I read the material from WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) team as they had determined the age and shape of the universe besides other things. Then a few months ago I read that it is possible that universe may be eternal... Scientists (Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das) in their paper "Cosmology from Quantum Potential" presented that there may be no big bang and universe is eternal. I am profoundly confused on this. Can u shed some light on this. Thanks.

[@paulgnr]

This guy is the patron saint of super nerds.

[@RubenMartinez-jq7hm]

Interesting analogy of the onion, but now it begs a metaphysical question: *from where hence does the onion come from?*

[@kirbyok]

哲学是人们以前寻找真理的主要武器，但现在它显得如此无力，并不是他落后了，而是现在的物理尤其理论物理已经成为替代它的更好的武器，现在的物理是寻找一切真相的钥匙！理论物理有个好处，不用记大量定律进行大量实验，但要求对整个物理学现状有清晰的认识。霍金就是理论物理学家。

[@FarFromEquilibrium]

my hero! Murray is so awesome. I would love to have him derive the QCD Lagrangian on vid, even better in person. I doubt Id remember it all the first several times but its just a beautiful equation.

[@88coe]

Master Yoda's human form:) Love him!

[@htmlman1]

Ok his pronunciation of Frank's name at 10:42 just blew me away. I'm Asian and he might have said it better than me...

[@UUBrahman]

me too, I was shocked at his accuracy of pronunciation, and the punch line "We call him Frank Yang"

[@chernobila]

I love all of this lectures man

[@fitrinur-t6k]

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[@powpanda]

@lubermanl Here is why I disagree with you: it makes sense that you can use simple constituents to make things that are more and more complex - so complex that it is almost impossible to believe that at the base we have such primitive constituents. However, things like love and compassion, are not merely very complex. There is something about them that makes me (and many others) believe strongly that they cannot be created by bits alone.

[@DSBrekus]

@diegoarmino Well said, intellectual honesty is the only road to progress. I'm sorry for replying to a year old comment but you seem to be getting a steady trickle of nonsensical replies and I just wanted to show some support.

[@vinayseth1114]

'You don't need something more to explain something more'- Didn't get that...I mean, after all, although the Coulomb's Law and the Gravitational equation are pretty similar, they are operating on different levels, right? That's why electrons don't behave like planets. I feel a little lost here.

[@supereminem000]

well I'm just an 18 year old, so what do I know :p but what I think is this: when he was talking of emergence and how we've discovered certain laws that are outcomes of even more fundamental laws, he probably meant that we don't need "new information" to find about these "more fundamental" laws. like the peels are similar, the mathematics needed to break down to a better level of understanding appears to be similar too. so with critical thinking (well a llooooooot of it) you could get at the heart of the most basic of laws ---assuming this symmetry in nature truly exists, as it appears at the moment. feynman once said the whole essence of quantum mechanics could be gleaned (is this the right word? :p) from the double slit experiment. of course he said this after a lot of the mathematics had been done and experiments performed, it still lead him to realise that physicists weren't just "receptive" enough to the information that this onion peel was offering. am I making any sense or...

[@vinayseth1114]

+supereminem000 Sure sure thanks a ton! :) And don't let your age bog you down!

[@crazyengineer101]

This guy is great!

[@MohsinRasheed]

This man has a remarkable impact on theoretical physics

[@PrashantDelta]

amazing talk..!

[@phy29]

humm Scale theory is so beautiful .......

[@janoycresva276]

Accidents? All of this existing here is a result of accidents? Dr Gell Mann, the odds that this is all an accident is so improbable that there aren’t enough stars in the observable universe to contain the number of zeros.

[@jonahanton7212]

Joyous

[@otolith5]

"You don't need something more to explain something more"

[@vinayseth1114]

Is beauty synonymous with order here? As in, growing from a messy set of equations to simpler, more well-ordered ones?

[@lubermanl]

In other words, what do you believe love is? and why. We know that if interact physically with the brain it messes up people. If you de-organize the brain people aren't the same. If there is something outside of the physical brain then how do you know, and what does it do? Could it be like this web site? it is just 1's and 0's transmitting through wires. But is that really all it is? Its a complex organization of 1's 0's which makes it far more meaningful. The brain is probably similar.

[@dagomasere3248]

Gell-Mann for president, 46.

[@Hao1981]

You pulled the quote out of context. By 'emergence', he was only referring to the 'onionlayers' and their overlapping explanation. And what religion calls god, science calls not yet fully understood. And it is not just semantics, science keeps asking questions where religion does not. A crucial difference in my opinion.

[@MooYoungKim]

if slices are similar, is it because the the entities are similar, or the same epistemic structures are deployed repeatedly?

[@vibins360]

@VERGIS92 It's not that difficult, you don't need to be very smart at all to understand physics. The problem is it's hard to talk about physics without using math, and most people don't "speak" math.

[@-Dr.NEMESiXs-]

This is for life

[@vinayseth1114]

But what decided that the fundamental law (yet to be discovered) should be the way that it is?

[@eapst28]

wonderful perspective

[@travishenrichs]

Just watch some of his lectures and/or interviews.

[@NicholasRegan]

Hey... Thought you all might be interested in Binary Relativity on youtube. I also love physics and thought you might want to know about some new theories...

[@giuseppevianello9288]

He is amazing!

[@TedDGPoulos]

Think of the underlying law of nature. The way of all things. Consider its astounding inferences and implications. The single, underlying law ... of nature! Not merely of physics, chemistry, psychology, biology, etc., but of all fields of inquiry combined! The law we can all relate to, identify, understand and apply. Ask yourself. What is the underlying law of nature? Delight in the question. Have fun in the process of finding the answer firsthand for yourself. Google it, as a start.

[@milosnoze]

funny guy Gell-Mann (2:06) - every good physicists has good sense of humor

[@themetalgod21]

such as say 10-27 centers meters for this particle and 10-29 for that one and this number is .56798040456 + or - 6 for the last digit. He went through physics with such a command, going board to board drawing sine waves and photon reflections without thinking just doing as if he was a great baseball hitter just seeing the ball and hitting it.It was child's play for him!!!!!!!!! I've watched Bohm and Einstein and neither could explain with ease to the layman or physicist the way Feynman could.

[@wassilykandinsky4616]

Beauty sounds more mysterious than simplicity.

[@majedahmed5410]

it is all in your head...!

[@doodelay]

rip a great intellect and great speaker

[@johnny4aces410]

Amen!

[@patrickobrien8851]

Well, RIP... I expect "no" in Gell-Mann's view of the world. He made it very clear in this talk: "You don't need something more to get something more" - so, no supernatural and, indeed, no "resting in peace" - there is no resting, only the inevitability of non-existence. I assume the RIP and Amen in these comments are said ironically or else the posters didn't understand one of the main points of the talk.

[@juniorloaf12]

@@patrickobrien8851 I bet you're fun at parties.

[@98danielray]

​@@patrickobrien8851 resting in peace has a lot more meanings than your favorite bs couplings with the supernatural.

[@98danielray]

​@@patrickobrien8851 also, amen is obviously part of the common discourse regardless of statement. it doesnt need a religious meaning. it just means some agreement. what a stupid statement

[@angela1894]

is there a video out there demonstrating his 'sharp wit' ? I wouldn't be surprised if you're right, a guy that smart should have a sharp wit.

[@anishupadhayay3917]

Brilliant

[@Mordochai]

Excellent vid!

[@marvinflores8796]

RIP sir!

[@mf103]

Yes.

[@4ourthofjuly]

Anyone else think that "Professor Frink" from the Simpsons is a mix of Jerry Lee Lewis and Murray here?

[@Ramatganski]

Oh, but it DOES inform us of a fundamental truth about OURSELVES which regards our endeavors to explore and understand the universe. That we can't escape from ourselves and that everywhere we go and in any thing we discover we'll keep on finding that were staring at our own faces, over and over again - because reality is also our creation, our projections.

[@EGOPON]

You can find the version of this video with higher resolution here: www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics

[@frankdimeglio8216]

THE ULTIMATE UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE AS ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE): A PHOTON may be placed at the center of THE SUN (as A POINT, of course), as the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the SPEED OF LIGHT; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. The ability of THOUGHT to DESCRIBE OR RECONFIGURE sensory experience is ULTIMATELY dependent upon the extent to which THOUGHT IS SIMILAR TO sensory experience. THOUGHTS ARE INVISIBLE. E=mc2 is DIRECTLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY DERIVED FROM F=ma. F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY, AS ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE). This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND describes what is possible/potential AND ACTUAL IN BALANCE. Indeed, energy has/involves GRAVITY; AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. SO, GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. THEREFORE, "mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. It ALL makes perfect sense. GREAT !!!!! Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, a given PLANET (INCLUDING WHAT IS THE EARTH) sweeps out equal areas in equal times; AND this is THEN consistent WITH/AS F=ma, E=mc2, AND WHAT IS PERPETUAL MOTION; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of the Moon MATCHES it's revolution. It is PROVEN. It ALL makes perfect sense. Therefore, objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course); AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Very importantly outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is FULLY INVISIBLE AND black. Get a good LOOK at what is THE EYE. NOW, the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL FORCE/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. This ALSO explains the supergiant stars, the cosmological redshift, AND the black hole(s). "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL (IN BALANCE), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. It ALL makes perfect sense. MAGNIFICENT !!! F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. GREAT. Points are POINTS. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. THINK about it ALL. Beautiful. By Frank DiMeglio

[@amritsharma5373]

Which pixel do I look?

[@fleebenworth]

Life is tough - but your feelings also don't matter so why not try to be happy?

[@epirvsflavivs]

love his laugh

[@adamfattal9602]

RIP Prof. Gell-Mann

[@eulefranz944]

Wow. It was so short sadly

[@travishenrichs]

Haha, his voice probably isn't the best for joke delivery but the guy does have a pretty sharp wit.

[@sclogse1]

Newton- "This principle of nature being very remote from the conception of philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an arrogant freak and so prejudice my readers against all those things which were the main design of that book." Makes me think of Robert Mueller.

[@TylerNull]

Even infinitely recursive equations require a driving force in order to go from concept to realization, like a person creating a program that manifests its evolution through a computer. Given their primal uncertainty of reality itself (quantum theory), it's arrogant for a physicist to assert "no need" for "something more". Especially so considering such was exactly the same attitude they had immediately prior to the last flurry of new theories that blew their older "proven" ones all apart.

[@angela1894]

How would you know that ?

[@natura808]

"You don't need something more to explain something more."

[@devotchkagrrrl]

"They are what we call "Emergent Properties". "You dont need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means. Life can emerge from physics and chemistry, plus a lot of accidents. The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents. The way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents. It doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects to know that they follow from more fundamental things, plus accidents. That's a general rule, and its critically important to realize that."

[@MolodkinVA]

Нечеловеческая наука. Марри Гелл-Манн. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2HCpY1pmqiWmK8

[@ricardocesargomes7274]

Espetacular...

[@hilbert54]

Can you think of anything that is able to account for it's own existence?

[@sanketsarkar9890]

But Sir what I believe is beauty of physics is when we get the feel of it. Mathematical interpretations just give us an understanding of the law but the theory gives us the feel of nature....

[@themetalgod21]

Just the opposite!!!!!!! I'm learning from the best at what he does(did).I wouldn't have downloaded those lectures if i didn't want to learn.There's a reason they have the Feynman lectures in pysics books and all those other releases of Feynman.Let me ask you a question.Do you think Murray Gell-Mann is equal to Feynman or had his ability???

[@海原かもめ]

Why there are no Japanese comments ?

[@Imperativism]

@diegoarmino: You could just as easily switch the claim by saying that reality is denying YOU, and in so being, reality is wrong. But that results in a paradox, now, doesn't it? The bottom line is: truth is contingent on what makes our models work, and not what actually IS the case. Food for thought.

[@TylerNull]

That's fine, but therein exists the same unkown "something else". E.g., what is casually called "quantum mechanics" are merely the observables from which quantum THEORY has been inferred. Central to it is a specific ("Copenhagen") INTERPRETATION of the observables, which reqires a denial of "reality" as we know it. It's also at odds with other physical laws, and there are competing interpretations, some of which are very new. I'm pointing to that which is yet unknown as the "something more".

[@lubermanl]

Have you ever been moved to tears by a video on the internet? but thats just 1's and 0's. How could 1's and 0's have that much meaning? because they are a fantastically complex series of 1's and 0's. The brain is far more complex, which means it can have far more meaning.

[@PurnamadaPurnamidam]

So the famous apple tree was in Newton's mothers farm not the one in Cambridge??? 🙄🤨

[@dougg1075]

Feynman would have gave an AWESOME! Ted Talk... oh

[@ashish19]

:( We lost Feynman too early. But he had Gell-Mann!

[@GuardianDelFaro]

@venturas55 I know he doesn´t need it, and he may have more importants things to worry about... but still.... it will take him like 5minuts....

[@hqs9585]

"beautiful and and simple" Mr. Gell-Mann is not a prerequisite to be true! In fact this approach may lead us into wrong paths! Remove that condition and we all will better equipped to learn and investigate the world.

[@MrSkullfaceflamenco]

Take a moment to exercise your brain!

[@HeyHowdyHey2]

Lol actually mate, I believe he was refering to the fact that they both studied the "same" topic. As many might remember learning that current science stands upon the old. So in fact, they realy were lab asistants or friends to eachother.

[@phy29]

Maths is just the science of evolution of physics .... i can tel you there is not only Four fondamentale force cause it dont explain centrifuge for exemple ......

[@FrederikFalk21]

haha, his laugh is fantastic lol!

[@dudepal187]

@senorinsanio I understand. When it comes to contemplating a meaning for the universe, thats not up to science or any structured religion. Such a question never reaches a conclusion. Einstein did say, "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary."