The Genius of Einstein: The Science, His Brain, the Man

What made Albert Einstein one of the greatest scientific geniuses the world has ever known? His scientific breakthroughs revolutionized the way we understand the universe. The World Science Festival, in partnership with the 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival, presents an in-depth look into the genius of Einstein. Join physicist Brian Greene, neurologist Frederick Lepore and author and filmmaker Thomas Levenson for a lively and informative conversation on the science, the brain and the life of one of history’s most fascinating men. Moderated by Cynthia McFadden of NBC News.
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Original Program Date: Mar 6, 2015
Host: Cynthia McFadden
Participants: Brian Greene, Thomas Levenson, Fredrick Lepore
Brian Greene's Introduction. 00:00
Welcome Cynthia McFadden. 3:44
Participant Introductions. 4:58
Albert Einsteins annus mirabilis. 6:00
Einsteins love of the violin. 9:33
Keeping the speed of light constant. 14:12
In 1914 what was Einsteins life like? 21:30
Einsteins note to on bending light. 31:23
How did Einstein see himself? 35:44
why was Einsteins early life more successful that his later life? 42:40
What do we know about Einsteins brain? 50:39
Does the brain make the genius? 1:02:11
Audience questions. 1:09:14

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[@carolharbison8919]

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[@svetislavljubisavljevic674]

The dilation of time is both a non-relativistic and a relativistic effect. This is clear from the example I showed in class, before they kicked Special Relativity out of the program. What is interesting is that the same thought experiment can be used to show that the Gemini Paradox is an incorrect claim. Plenty of space could be used in books without inserting that paradox.

[@germelinaobrien5277]

Aq

[@JohnSmith-vy4lh]

You should checkout the historian and author Christopher J Bjerknes. He has written a series of books on Einstein, exposing him as a fraud, a racist and a pervert.

[@mikeahmady5646]

The beauty of living is not only to have a genius like Einstein , but to have those like Brian Greene articulate that to the world to see and appreciate.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Wow I agree!

[@danielpaulson8838]

Brian Greene is so good at distilling complex into easy to understand explanations. The guy is incredibly good at teaching.

[@MrElvis1971]

Agreed

[@andykod77]

Ill back that up

[@ys4202]

I adore his writing and way of simplifying complexity!

[@ArmandoRomero-ec7fq]

I don’t buy it.

[@ArmandoRomero-ec7fq]

Something is wrong with that logic.

[@markTheWoodlands]

Brian Greene gives the best explanation of special relativity that I’ve ever heard.

[@dai0laffin]

i completely concur. his style of approach reaches every one

[@stockvaluedotcom]

The book description put me in touch with God.

[@michaelbariso3192]

The theory of everything according to humans that believe their intellect evolved from a monkey's brain. If the light waves from the sun were 8 minutes and 20 seconds in a past dimension of Einstein's space-time then people on Earth are just imagining the infrared warmth of the sun coming up on the horizon. The communications delay between Earth and Mars is approximately 20 minutes. We're either viewing the light from Mars in the future, Einstein's past dimensions of space-time or in real time, which do you think is more logical? Einstein's relativity is wrong light has no limitation of speed; it cannot be slowed down because it isn't moving. From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in both directions. Light and electromagnetic waves are independent of each other. According to Einstein's relativity-time dilation's, photos taken of the Earth from the Discovery Space station traveled from the past to the future violating the laws of physics, conservation of energy and common sense. According to Einstein's projectile light particle proton light has a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second moving through spacetime, but if light has a (constant speed) then moving clocks cannot run slow through spacetime! :-) The speed of light according to Einstein's relativity is 186,000 miles per second, but according to physics if two mechanical watches were synchronized on earth and one traveled across the universe and back, there would be no difference in time between the mechanical watches proving the speed of light is instantaneous as the only way a mechanical watch will run slow is if you tighten the main spring. Big Bang, Einstein's relativity-time dilation and nearly all of science debunked. Using optical clocks, lasers and GPS to prove Einstein's time dilation-space-time curvature is like using a metal detector to find gold at Fort Knox. The closer you are to the electromagnetic fields, mass and gravity of the earth the more light bends aka gravitational lensing. If the speed of light is constant then past and future dimensions of spacetime and an expanding universe would not be possible, obviously destroying the twins paradox as each twin cannot move faster or slower than the other. A mirror is a wave reflector that flips the image from left to right, it doesn't transport your face into past and future dimensions of space-time. Einstein's projectile light particle photons do not have the ability to reconverge molecular structures of particles in mirrors Einstein would have made a great used car salesman :-) Light waves can stretch, bend-curve and occupy a state of superposition, whereas the hypothetical Einstein projectile light particle (photon), a particle that has never been observed cannot. Unlike a TV or computer monitor the images we are viewing in the universe are in real time, not a series of frames that create the appearance of a moving image. There are no DCU digital convergence circuits in space yet Einstein's disciples believe the light and moving images they see in the universe aren't really there, they're just video recorded images of the past 13.8 billion years. You could lead a cult to water, but you can't make them think. Neither time, energy nor mass can create itself into nothing, reside in nothing or expand into nothing simply because nothing has no properties. Time and space are independent of each other, not material bodies or fantasy unions that magically stretch Time, energy, and matter like a rubber band into space-time dimensions. Monkey see monkey do, the science of monkeys have brainwashed you. Will the James Webb Telescope view the birth of the first galaxies? Nope, the universe goes on to infinity. Neither time, the atom, energy nor mass can create itself into nothing, reside in nothing or expand into nothing simply because nothing has no properties. The James Webb Space Telescope is not a time machine, you can’t travel back in time to view the beginning of the universe with telescopes that were made in the future :-). Light and electromagnetic waves are independent of each other. If science uses Einstein's wrongly theorized speed of light like an odometer to calculate past dimensions of distance and time, then using that same method to calculate forward dimensions of distance and time would mean the Big Bang was created and expanded in the future before time existed. Unlike a television or computer monitor the images we are viewing in the universe are in real time, not a series of still image frames that hypothetical Einstein projectile light particles photons create to give us the appearance of a moving image :-). The speed of electromagnetic wave is 186,282 miles per second vs Einstein's projectile light particle proton at 186,000 miles per second. Is this a coincidence or did Einstein plagiarize yet another phenomenon to fit the math of relativity? Electromagnetic waves in space can neither slow down or speed up, this is consistent with the law of conservation of energy. If light slowed down, its energy would decrease, thereby violating the law of conservation of energy so the speed of light is instantaneous and cannot travel slower than it does. If Einstein's projectile light (particle photon) had mass it's light could not travel across the universe, high speed particles traveling at 186,000 miles per second would break the Hubble and James Webb telescope mirrors, debunking the speed of light, Big Bang, Einstein's relativity and any science that uses relativity in their theories. Everyone knows cell phone electromagnetic radio waves travel both ways, yet Einstein's disciples believe time energy, mass and light can only travel one way back in time. If you simply run the Big Bang theory in reverse you reveal the insanity of Einstein's relativity and Big Bang theory. If the expansion of the Big Bang were true, time, energy, mass and light would be in the future from the vantage point of an expanding singularity-Big Bang and planet Earth would now reside in a past dimension of Einstein's time dilation (moving clocks run slow) space-time 13.8 billion years ago :-). It's truly amazing how the science and politics of the left are able to keep people denying reality, there are no DCU digital convergence circuits in space, yet Einstein's disciples believe the light and moving images they see in the universe aren't really there, they're just recorded images of the past 13.8 billion years. Pretending not to notice the gross contradictions-pseudoscience in Relativity is typical of Einstein's disciples, devaluing the source of any information that's in contradiction with their beliefs-theories. You could lead a cult to water, but you can't make them think. If the light from the universe travels to past dimensions of time then it's light is also traveling into future dimensions of time (instantaneously). “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” a state of superposition where time and gravity run inwardly, outwardly, in all directions in the same time frame, similar to the electromagnetic field having no beginning and no end. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End" Revelation 22:13. Disciples, remember thy 1st commandment, thou shalt not question thy lawgiver of relativity for blasphemers are the devil's pawn. Let thee not dwell in dissension of our Lord Albert, shun them, drive them back to their jungle lair amen. Albert Einstein, an autistic violinist patent clerk that had access to more papers than Suzanne Somers litter box yet creates theories with more bugs than Terminix- Magnetron Refusing to question or debate science is typical of brainwashed Einstein's disciples, devaluing the source of any information that's in contradiction with their beliefs as anti-science religous dissenters. When cults are faced with having to question their beliefs, mind control brainwashing tactics are their only refuge to avoid cognitive dissonance-the psychological pain of realizing everything they've ever believed in was a lie. Instead of questioning their beliefs zealots will use ad hominem attacks, character assassinations, demonizing their adversaries as stupid, anti-science enemies, racists, Nazis, white supremacists, deplorables, fighting imaginary demons they believe they are evildoers out to destroy the world, a self-fulfilling prophecy battling the evil forces of bogeyman

[@jeremywilliams7754]

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[@trebledog]

People forget that Einstein worked in the patent office that dealt with clocks, time pieces, time devices. he studied the drawings, the intricate gears, springs, that make up the devices that measure time. Mesh that daily work with his commendable knowledge of mathematics and physics and it's interesting to surmise that his daily work in the patent office ignited his ideas about time, space, and relativity and ultimately the thought experiments that resulted in the special relativity and general relativity theories.

[@katecourt9896]

He also was kicked out of school preferring to chase chickens and spin a magnet for hours on end. He like hawking had a lot of time to think alone now called tic toc or fishing...

[@trebledog]

@@katecourt9896 Really? spinning a magnet, hmmm I'm not good at this physics thing, but spinning magnetic fields produces electrical fields, I think, so he was playing with how generators work? Or how to build one, ..or the physics of Maxwell's equations and relativity, or he was just lost and trying to make a compass. He was an accomplished sailor, loved the sport as do I. Sailing opens up a new series of questions when exploring the interface between the two mediums, air and water. A sailboat brings together all the newtonian physics into one package, every F=ma question to solve it seems. E spent a lot of time sailing a small boat alone in Lake Geneva, if I recall correctly.

[@fredriksvard2603]

People always scoff at the patent office thing. Patent lawyers are some of the most qualified professionals out there bar none, often holding masters and phd:s in both law and engineering. It's a ridiculous difficult profession to get into and master. Not that everyone working in a patent office is that senior, but the office itself deals with complicated stuff.

[@carolmiddlehurst5484]

If I said blubbleubbleabbleubble ab. Would that mean anything to you... It should because this is the answer to every question and the spelling is perfectly OK to be ambiguous

[@carolmiddlehurst5484]

@@fredriksvard2603 scoff... That means to eat rapidly

[@chanpangchin9744]

Sir Albert Einstein was an extraordinary genius born at the right time, found himself in the right places and had the fortune of the company of great physicists. He had the confidence to stick to his thoughts throughout his life. Most importantly, he lived by his quote “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

[@ibrahimalabdulsalam1005]

+ Two World Wars!

[@mrclark5033]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” This is ............Powerful

[@avicennawater]

History has shown that there is controversy about the work of Einstein as far as the relativity and other works in physics …

[@mrclark5033]

And the Question is..... Why is “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ??? One reason is that The Creator has used it in the Creative works that we see all around us

[@sonnyjohnson8887]

If not Einstein , someone would have eventually reached his pinnacle . It's just nature .stones would cry out

[@Sarconthewolf]

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” ― Albert Einstein

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Him and Ed Van Halen

[@Augalv]

Of course he didn't. He stole every one of them

[@Sarconthewolf]

@@Augalv Like Led Zeppelin? LOL. I Love Zeppelin though. Nah, scientists would have called that out a long time ago.

[@RonPaulgirls]

@@Augalv JUNK SCIENTIST COPY.........GREAT SCIENTIST STEAL........

[@RonPaulgirls]

THAT'S PROBABLY CORRECT.......... GENIUS COMES FROM THE NATURAL POTENTIAL, NOT MERELY PEDESTRIAN PROCESS OF COGNITIVE CORRELATIONS.........WHICH IS SORT OF WHAT I DO AND I'M A GENIUS..........PROBABLY ABOUT THE ONLY ONE ON THIS WHOLE DUMB VIEDO SHARING GOOGLE MAGGOT WEBSITE

[@zehrajafri9252]

Brian's passion to impart knowledge is what make's a good teacher. ❤❤

[@gastonflatulenza1276]

I've read about 20 biographies on Einstein, and it's in somebody's book that Einstein ended up at Princeton because they were offering him a job and help in finding a place to live before California did. Einstein just kind of took the first job that was offered to him. Well, he was escaping the Nazis at the time, and he never once made it back to Berlin for the rest of his life. I think they offered him $9,000 in 1933 (my memory may be off about the amount), and Einstein asked back, "How much money is that? Could I live on less?" But the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study gave him the high salary anyway. I'm sure Einstein never knew what his house payment was or how much he had in his bank account. His wife Elsa said they both ended up really liking the city of Princeton because its environment (trees, architecture, etc) reminded them a lot of where they had lived before in Germany.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Oh, thank you very much! I heard he joined because of the money, but now you showed me it wasn't the case. You also reminded to check if I can find the book 100 years of relativity online to find out the mathematician who also discovered relativity because my it's been lost by others who borrowed it from my library circuit!

[@lailaknight6620]

It's so inspiring to have an insight into Einstein's life events and the way he dealt with them. I have something to add concerning the question of the lady: "Why did he nurture brilliant ideas only at the beginning of his life?" I am not in measure to offer an answer, but from what I've seen in artists and in great minds, I can speculate that the following happens: If you look at Tchaikovsky or at Mozart, they created brilliant masterpieces until their death. In fact, Tchaikovsky's Pathetica was written before his suicide and Mozart worked himself to death while writing the Requiem. So I suspect that the act of creation is so strong that it surpasses the human abilities of an artist. If you want to create something never seen before, the work haunts you, it drives you to overwork, and to burnout, and it depletes you. The work becomes like this big monster eating alive his own master. And the master dies but he becomes immortal through this titanic work. And I suspect that perhaps Einstein realized what the price for it is. He has already faced tumulous times in his youth, and perhaps he wanted to still work to solve those mysteries but without compromising his health for them. Do you see what I mean? Of course, this is just speculation. But as an artist, I can see what your own work can do to you, and there is a limit to how far you choose to go. If you see yourself as a human being and you choose to take care of yourself in a complete way. But if you see yourself only as an artist/scientist/etc, you will sacrifice your humanity for it and you will have a dramatic end. Like Tchaikovsky. Perhaps Einstein didn't want to die in a dramatic way. Perhaps he chose more balance. At least I suspect.

[@LostVampireNSFV]

Einstein did work himself to death! You obviously know little about Albert Einstein.

[@nash984954]

Far Out, man! What was the Tchai's end, anyway? Thing is, the mediocre among us just ain't having the smartest of us [problem is we tend towards arrogance anyway, and just cannot stop assuring everyone, ourselves(us) and them alike, just how brilliant we are, it's a built-in, like Tay-Sachs and Jews, rare, yeah, but characteristic as hell, and, as well as high IQ and Jews, NOT Zionists, although is likely, arrogance more attached to Zionists,[since I know many Jews whose arrogance is not as insufferable as Zionist arrogance] forever revealing to the stupid oafs, and of them, (of us, [included as perpetual knee jerk self defense marker]) from asking stupid non-rhetorical, actual real questions from them like: 'Is this going to be on the test?' I have often mused whether these folks were like plants, placed and used for measuring something, no, no, not them but real non-mammal plants, whose lower appendages were in some type of hyponic growing medium. Sorry, went off the beaten path, or created a new one, but lest I forget,I have to mention the train of thought I tend towards is habitual, a charcteristically forced down immovable tracks of which fortunately for the reader, assuming she or he,or they or cis or whomever the reader there is, human, alien or outer space guest, capable of reading English is still there[ and thanks so much] as mine[train of thought,'member?] is but barely sustaining the Engine and its Caboose. Mainly, talent is a given, that simply must exist with or without arrogance, but gott say talentless I am, but arrogance is there, why? I'm dumb as a flea's infecting bacteria.[YES, fleas have their own microbes, but guess they'd be same as we and get infecterd by still smaller ones nanobes? See an infected flea, and tell me its microbe's appearance is to the flea [who appears to the researcher's electron microscope image to be a giant bug, but it's a flea, we barely can see without scope,yet its infection 'bug' making the flea sick looks like the flea we barely see has these 'specks' that is to us seen only via microscope. Wow, thanks for listening but again, no issue exists unless you're talented. Einstein figured out unseen stuff somehow as did Quantum Physicists like Feynman. Far out, I agree with you, how does a brilliant anybody have a life with and or without their talent that likely drives them, or compels them and outsider author Malcolm Gladwell claims a minimum 10,000 hrs at it to succeed, even with best of life, no adverse Chilhood Traumas, and etc. Dummies like me can only entertain our bewilderment at how did they even pose the questiobn? As for possibilities for solutions, I am bewildered, and there forever in awe of those out there. I do love Sean Carroll's representing his topics, I almost understand.

[@slsteinman292]

This was a wonderful exploration of the man and his ideas. Kudos.

[@Munecoshh1]

All humans should listen to this lecture! The best one, Brian Green ✅

[@mitchell3877]

It's all horse shit 🤣

[@kevinhealey6540]

“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” Albert Einstein

[@DavetheRaveDinkum]

I hadn't read that one. Thanks..

[@ivanleon6164]

the man could not go far from time related things.

[@thegroove2000]

Thats the concern. Powerful discoveries hjacked for nefarious mean by world assumed powers. It does happen.

[@shaynedalumpines8380]

@@DavetheRaveDinkum Crystal Clear

[@joppadoni]

Brian Greene is one of the science educators which has the self deprecative humour required to be a good teacher. He also has a fantastic voice and enthusiasm which are prevalent in all great teachers. He may never stumble across a great unknown but he will, along with the greatest epidemic of science educators that are around today, be the reason the folks that do accomplish it even exist. He as well as the others should be applauded for the gift they will give even when they are gone. I won't list them all but I will just say, RPF.. He started it for me.

[@frankwillow-rogersjr.3253]

Hi 'jopp...ni'; I agree and understand "talkers" like B.G. as you say. Hear, hear!

[@davecarsley8773]

Honestly, there's nothing "self-depreciative" about Brian Greene. He thinks he knows _way_ more than you, up to and including the fact that if you vote for a certain political party, you "are and evil human" (his words, not mine). I love science, which is why I'm here, but Brian doesn't stand for science; he stands for _"Agree with my philosophical opinion or you're a horrible person."_

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Seconded

[@goldwingerppg5953]

Spatial thinking started and developed with his job at the patent office sounds fascinating.

[@hosoyalaurence]

Dumb. Money is greater, than science

[@ianb9028]

@@hosoyalaurence who was the richest person in 1704?

[@NG-VQ37VHR]

I know why they chose moderators that aren’t experts. But they could at least get someone who has a real interest in learning about the subject, or at least a capacity to understand it and follow the explanations enough to ask pertinent questions.

[@rickrick5041]

I thought they were experts

[@samanthatomich3160]

@@rickrick5041 the panelists were experts from what we were told. The moderator was a news anchor. If they used a science reporter or someone who may have understood the science more, then the conversation could have been more thought provoking, or more in depth, and we would have probably have benefited more from the time we spent, as would the participants have gotten more benefit from it i believe. when the above person said, "But they could at least get someone who has a real interest in learning about the subject," the above poster would not have meant the panelists, as the panelists were chosen because in their working in their chosen fields they were accomplished at those pursuits and had experience in knowledge or creative work that directly related to some knowledge pertinent to this particular discussion of Einstein's contributions etc. I fear the group putting on the program in trying to appeal to a wider audience may have felt getting an interviewer that might be not very knowledgeable about the subject might dumb down the talk enough to not make people stop watching... just wondering... because it often happens. A word to the wise, you can't raise people's level of awareness and knowledge by limiting their exposure to that knowledge. For a while I was educated in a setting that made the professors make too many classes too easy. there was a general brain drain. The people who did not want to work still dropped out and so did those who wanted to learn more because they were not given the opportunities they needed. You don't want to drive your best students away trying to make people who don't want to be there interested in the subject matter. People who feel forced to attend are not going to be swayed by ease of learning and it is just insulting them as much any the rest of us students, professors included.

[@rickrick5041]

@@samanthatomich3160 I thought that’s what he might have meant but he used the word moderators. The moderator actually seemed intelligent and had good prepared questions. Maybe it’s best to choose someone like an average person to ask the questions to match a wide audience. You make a good point though and for me I’d prefer someone with a phd in physics. They’ll always be criticism no matter what is done. The same goes for your classroom example and assumptions. Some that stayed because it was easier might have gone on to enjoy it and take more courses. We don’t know

[@ronaldbass2250]

Lol, I think this moderator learned a tremendous amount doing this. And if she were to do a retake she may appear better to you. Peace Bro. The info got out and most people were pleased with the video

[@fredriksvard2603]

@@samanthatomich3160 I've organized panels similar to this and it's trickier than you think to get the moderator thing right. Typically, pro moderators that aren't experts in the field at hand is the way to go even if the audience consists of experts. It kind of depends on the aim of the discussion too, a conference or summit isn't the same as an academic seminar. Experts that are good at moderating and who also can distance themselves enough are hard to find. I've encountered two or three.

[@ketchup5344]

Albert thought outside the box. There was no box hindering his thoughts. His mind ran wild and free where all possibilities exist. It must have been lonely at times-as it is for anyone who has original thoughts.

[@keelyevans4695]

Yes exactly the definition of insanity is trying the same thing and expecting different results

[@styroyou]

If one knows the ultimate truth, then one is ultimately alone.

[@ketchup5344]

@@styroyou nice cup of tea sorts that out!!

[@spenser6353]

There were other physicists that made significant contributions to the field. I think they are giving Einstein all the credit and not acknowledging others such as Niels Bohr

[@NotAvailable_na]

Except almost NONE OF HIS THOUGHTS WERE ORIGINAL. With enough research you'll realize he was an artistic conman and a thief of ideas fueled by outsiders who choose him to become the symbol and also by media.

[@davidswift7776]

Amazingly engrossed in this gathering of lecturer scientists, although somewhat disappointed with the journalist MC. Thank you for the KZbin post 👍

[@louarmstrong6128]

Yes, she was a blot on an otherwise good discussion

[@kennethflorek8532]

This comment is directed to people who complain about the moderators of these World Science Festival videos. If it isn't obvious that these moderators were selected and recruited BECAUSE they know little about the subject, it should be, because they introduce themselves specifically as such. The evident concept, which I think is correct, is that they may be the only intermediates that potentially could get across the material to the nearly 100% of people who also know nothing much about the subject. It is not hard to see that there has been some kind of run-through, with the participants saying similar lines in the live recording as they had before, including the funny stuff and off-hand comments. The moderator is looking at notes, and going through the topics, patter, and questions as prearranged. They are cueing the guests, not asking off-hand questions as they come to mind. If the questions don't sound as a knowledgeable person would ask, that is as intended. It is for the guests to frame a sensible answer. All this is obvious, so why do I have to explain it?

[@zzzzzzZxy]

Kenneth Florek the moderator was not the right actress for the role..

[@kennethflorek8532]

inx How so? I never liked reporters, although I have become used to them, and she is just normal. Maybe the guests aren't the right actors? They are tense and artificial. I am sure if they had a playwright write out a script and hired real actors who memorized their lines it would look a lot better. But there is a reason they didn't do that. You are watching a live performance by real people. The producers mean to reach a wider audience than the science buffs who will watch a lecturer or a documentary. I cringe a lot too, being used to seeing 100% professionals, with professional editing. You are aware (right?) that the interviews you see on TV presented as if they are real are the result of hours of talk edited down to a few minutes or seconds. They can make you look like a genius or a jerk by having enough material to edit.

[@kennethflorek8532]

SRV. 123 So? The moderators ask questions, dumb or not, to bring a subject up for an audience that may not know, but who watch in order to be informed. If many people may know what the situation for Jews was at various times, that does not mean a general audience does. Sure, there were a lot of things I would hope everyone already knew, but I also know from personal experience that most people don't, because they never cared to know. This is not a difficult point. Despite these talks having high powered experts on the panel, it is very evident that the presentations, which have been rehearsed, are designed to reach people who know nothing to start.

[@kennethflorek8532]

SRV. 123 You believe something that the producers manifestly do not. You believe that the pro TV journalist which was hired because she did not know the subject should have prepared herself beforehand. The producers do not. The TV reporter looked uncomfortable to me asking the same dumb questions as in the run-through, but she is a pro and did what the directors directed, There is a radio journalist in a wheelchair that comes off as badly in his presentations, except that he jokes about it. He also looks at his written notes constantly, instead of the teleprompter, no doubt because he is used to radio. Alan Alda is about as charming as people get, and a hugely accomplished actor. People who have no interest in science whatever will come to presentations to see him. He also did a science show for PBS for many, many years and did a beautiful job. Besides that, he IS a science buff in his private life. Nevertheless he did ask some bonehead questions at times, and he too looked uncomfortable repeating the same question as in the run-though, but of course he is a superlative pro, which requires doing as directed. Brian Green is a professional physics theorist and has researched and written best-selling books on such for the general audience. He also has done several hour long PBS programs based on the books. I don't think he would know what it would be like to formulate a stupid question. But he doesn't do any presentations unrelated to his expertise, and I don't think he could handle it.

[@popipagkalou4755]

Science and phisics offers to humanity many tools which made our life better and made us to learn endless things of our world!

[@aminassadi5104]

I love this talk. Thanks World Science Festival

[@racheldlamini6986]

yeah

[@christopheryang6416]

I think passion grows the brain cells and not the otherwise.

[@samanthatomich3160]

If your passion gives you a strong drive to advance toward a goal you usually need to learn how to accomplish your goal etc so there your brain will change the more you learn. Or you have no passion and you learn because you are made to and something you learn gives you a passion to understand something else and then you have to learn more and more like Einstein had to learn more math to figure out what he was passionately trying to understand. Either way.

[@ianbabl]

If you just listen to the audio, you'd think that Captain Kirk himself was giving this talk LOL.

[@kenadams5504]

While your thing that,your not following what he's saying.

[@fredpauser6228]

I've been interested in Einstein for almost 50 years. I've been intrigued by not only by his accomplishments, but by the fact that he was interested in what is actually true of reality above ALL else. He did not care about ego or what others thought of him. Such concerns would have detracted from his main interest of learning about the structure of reality. He made such amazing scientific discoveries in large part due to his tremendous HONESTY!

[@kenadams5504]

If you look at his eyes in the youtube photo you can almost see the reflection of the cosmos that fascinated him .Nothing was going to break the focus he had on disciphering explanations for that cosmos ,and as you said, his commitment to bring such explanations to all humanity..his everlasting legacy.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

@@kenadams5504Agreed!

[@thomastaylor6102]

That was the 3rd time I’ve watched this and it keeps getting better, perhaps because a little more understanding is afforded me with each viewing.

[@tty2020]

Like if you think a serious movie about Einstein is long overdue.

[@jackwilliamatkins1158]

Daniel TTY Jesus Christ bows to Sarxkyn Ketosis which cures all diseases in the human race. Therefore, all humans bow to Sarxkyn Ketosis.

[@jimmythesnagglepuss]

channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

Daniel TTY Jesus Christ loves us all. He is Lord and in his profound Reverence and humility, he is the Highest we strive to realize and at the same time, the least amongst us.

[@TTTTTT-ix6tu]

John Campbell b

[@reasonrally6658]

Religion is literally "make believe" its the "arrogance of ignorance." Fact.

[@ivanleon6164]

10 years fighting with a top problem until he conquer it, what a legend!

[@kenadams5504]

Yes..his persistance and endeavour contributed to his breakthroughs just as much as his intellect...a fact not considered by those who throw around the "genius" term when describing him.

[@xqt39a]

By calculating the shift in Mercury’s orbit his theory was proven beyond reasonable doubt. Think about it, astronomers had determined Mercury orbit shifted by 43 seconds of arc per century, that’s almost nothing ! It’s amazing that astronomers were able to do that in the nineteenth century with the tools of that time. Then Einstein comes along and uses the relativity theory with the guess that forces of acceleration cannot be experimentally distinguished from the force of gravity. The only way for these things to be true is if space and time are warped in the presence of matter. This was similar to special relativity where motion dilates time and compresses apace. Then he calculates Mercury’s orbit and the orbit is close to an ellipse but not quite. The ellipse rotates 45 seconds of arc per century. WTF !!

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

@@kenadams5504 Yep, this is an irony.

[@aryankakar8195]

Begginers complicate, experts simplify. Brain greene makes science so simple and interesting.

[@MrShriniketpatil]

The greatest thing about the US university system is that most professors from tier 1-2 institutions are world experts in their fields and enjoy almost a celebrity like status.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Yeah

[@realmusic1421]

Excellent video. Thank you for producing this.

[@sunflowerwilonella172]

I like Brain Greene the way he explains, such a smart and a funny person. Is there any way to meet him in person?

[@DanceBeforeTheStorm_]

love your typo :)

[@MrElvis1971]

Brain Greene... nice

[@brianmcnellis5512]

Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me either...

[@joebarcelona]

He worked at the Swiss Patent Office, reading other people's ideas all day? What genius!

[@thomascrane7547]

Those starry eyes come from having a sense of humor. Well rounded man.

[@ketiboablay8632]

Very true! Geniuses emerge with time and environmental circumstances in addition to their special brains. Many, many potential Geniuses are lost to war and poverty and miss the opportunity to shine.

[@harpar1028]

ass wholes survive to destroy mother earth

[@mikeh6265]

I love the 2 clocks exercise. 1905 Einstein was light years ahead wow

[@voornaam3191]

No. Lightyears. Not light years. For each Einstein there are millions of fools. Correct your nonsense, please.

[@magicpotion8]

Voor Naam 🤦‍♂️

[@elidadia]

@@magicpotion8 hellls yes i agree

[@elidadia]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead

[@elidadia]

@@voornaam3191 you are correct sir here have an apple

[@jackparker8686]

Science in its pure form must be exercised

[@susancolon1784]

GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Keep teaching.

[@MauMadRooCon]

They should have just let Brian Greene host this. The journalists role seems very insignificant.

[@Andalus710]

MauMadRooCon tbh Brian wants to talk all the time so it’s good to have a moderator, otherwise he’d be taking most of the time and interrupting the guests.

[@dannydetonator]

They needed a host to be the layperson, aka the ignorant masses

[@huynhhuynhtran2373]

Typically women, once you performed your best and gave them all that you had, they would still keep asking for more of(like) that. She kept dwelling on the aspect that prof.E did not contributed much after moved to America while clearly the 3 men agreed that earlier theories of prof.E are more than enough for scientists/human to study/use for almost a century and still going strong!

[@jamesbarlow6423]

😆

[@milkyo1206]

It's about her learning also you weirdo

[@alpacino4857]

Brian Greene is very excited about science, can see how the way he talks about science.

[@waltercumings4912]

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[@Sophia-qe2vn]

God I am so relieved that Einstein too didn't fully understand quantum physics and had to get there through math.

[@riccapistrano1131]

Brian Greene - exceptional explanation ! Kudos

[@lukepeterken4984]

Thought of unsettled host for a very interesting discussion: “I need to get the middle guy more involved...” “I want you to talk about his brain...” “Tell me more about his brain...” “What was his brain like...”

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

@@BigPoppieSeed I think you're slight misinformed, if only slightly

[@muhammadalkhawarizmi3630]

15:00 Time slow down in motion

[@lorriecarrel9962]

@@elidadia what do you mean please help?

[@lorriecarrel9962]

@@elidadia was you in danger?

[@elidadia]

@@lorriecarrel9962 i was... finally out thanks for noticing but i wanted to formulate that i had a warning out first

[@elidadia]

@@lorriecarrel9962 domestic disturbance i was being beaten and cops came so late they framed me

[@lorriecarrel9962]

@@elidadia Damm bro that sounds shitty,your still alive though and that's a plus

[@gaddisonmail]

I feel bad for Einstein. He didn't have the resources or connectivity that we have today. He was such a genius. I relate to him in more than one way. I attribute my new finding to him. "Evidential experience".

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

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[@bucketrance]

I have become a fan of Brian Greene

[@onderozenc4470]

Yes, very inspiring guy...

[@Richardjohnkosciejew]

MYSTEROUSNESS IS THE SOURCE OF ALL POSSIBLE SCIENCE

[@keelyevans4695]

Remember any time I was yelling at someone it's about the system except for the people that directly did it to me, all you guys are clear I love your voices and genuinely appreciate your work. When I hear the ones that were used it is crazy feeling.

[@MrVikingsandra]

What a fascinating talk! I read many books about Einstein, the man and his ideas but I had never seen his brain. Fascinating stuff! 👏

[@annethomas9302]

Looking at the picture certainly explains a lot .

[@smallbiteprod]

The Brian guy really reminds me of Ted Mosby

[@tonymunene1592]

So truee

[@Teknovae]

I love how Brian makes it so simple for the common man.

[@RosyOutlook2]

Aw common man.

[@hmimouabderrahim3628]

Good study 👍...thank you🙏

[@Jarjarjar21]

I'm imagining Issac and Albert sitting at an old kitchen table, enjoying apple pie, while discussing the universe.

[@hahahamatsuyama9408]

I wont mind spending my whole vacation to finish and digust all these videos, which to a non-English speaking viewer, is enourmously beneficial not only for the learning of English but most important for the crazy love for Modern Physics!

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

digest*. おともでて!

[@keelyevans4695]

1:06:16 it works itself out continually evolving; I have a missing link though which will greatly Aid resolution and productivity

[@chaoslord8918]

14:30 is probably the best explanation I've ever seen for the constant speed of light idea.

[@gautampandey3519]

Thank you Ms Anchor. Now I just can't complete this video because of your constant interruption.

[@mattjames4978]

She interrupts because she thinks she is contributing by being funny/cute. She is neither.

[@davecarsley8773]

I'll reply to this comment by copy/pasting below a comment a made above. It seems very pertinent.... It's really, *really* unfortunate that the American mainstream media has SO smashed their credibility in the last decade that the simple act of bringing an NBC "journalist" into the conversation at 3:33 made me _immediately_ become skeptical of every sentence that's said for the entire remainder of the presentation, whereas before 3:33, I harbored absolutely no skepticism whatsoever and was simply ready to listen and learn. I wish so badly that I didn't have to feel this way. What a bummer.

[@jonhide]

A brilliant show, thank you guys! I do think that his school years and teachers might be worth talking about? Karatheodori? I had a teacher once who sagely said: you only truly understand a problem, or method when you can impart it to others. He must have been talking about Brian Green?

[@MusicMan3]

Dude Brian your passion is tearing me up. 2 mins in

[@indianpatriotic5087]

Really insightful...loved it

[@chris432t6]

Greene is always interesting and a great speaker/teacher. Enjoyed his Joe Rogan interview as well.

[@Blake4014]

yeh he comes across as a genuine nice guy too

[@johnleung4098]

brian greene can explain what we don't understsnd physics wish good luckto absorb every he said

[@adg1017]

If Christopher Walken and John Stewart had a baby, it would be this guy.

[@jeffcolorado]

I think he looks like Pee Wee Herman's smarter brother.

[@2ndchancecellular]

Christopher Walken and William Shatner baby

[@Queenie-the-genie]

I can’t seem to locate the rest of this Genius Series on youTube.

[@danielparsons2859]

50:34 - "He got his intellectual rocks off with some of those conversations" -

[@rabindrasingh9748]

SIR ALBERT Einstein will all be remembered as a legend for his great works.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

He's not british

[@bonniekerr4964]

This is interesting. The additional folds means he had extra brain surface area. They mentioned the extra folds in the language area. That actually explains why he had an understanding of what he was researching, and likewise was able to explain what he was understanding. The larger corpus callosum was developed through his violin playing. Musicians playing stringed instruments have a larger corpus callosum. That’s the key to inter hemispheric interaction. (I only know that part because I also play violin. I thought that was interesting about the corpus callosum, so I looked into it more. lol) The information about his brain having the extra folds is fascinating. His motor cortex seemed to have additional surface area (not like the average brain). I looked into that too, because I once heard something about Mozart being so young he physiologically should not have had the muscle, tendon, and bone development to play the advanced pieces he had begun composing . I then searched, and found that one quarter of the motor cortex is devoted to the muscle movement of the hand. Einstein was certainly exceptional.

[@davecarsley8773]

*Nothing* you're saying in your comment -- I mean literally absolutely NOTHING -- has _any_ fact-based evidence proven via the scientific method. Like, literally....... none of it.

[@orogheneoboreh-snapps4071]

This was an amazing watch👏🏽👏🏽

[@lougomes4548]

Not only did I learn a lot about Einstein but I also learned that "retrodict" is a word…I think? (~31:29)😂😅🤯

[@IIoveasl10]

Very interesting!

[@elidadia]

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[@famillechartrand5266]

Always amazing to listen to WSF.

[@elidadia]

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[@voornaam3191]

Fok your Three Letter Words. Very bad habbit. Please take the trouble to write what WSF is. Is it that hard to write three words?!

[@elidadia]

@@voornaam3191 so right man they still didnt edit ut must be a bot or the genius of Einstein

[@w8m4n]

Just look at the channel name ffs

[@glenkovacs9369]

So, which patents were Einstein reviewing during the time or recently, before he came up with these theories??

[@kevinmeyer5770]

Shared calmness of carefree understanding for people that worry

[@astrocozzyamfilohiades71]

And, a talent in creativity.

[@elidadia]

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[@bkrharold]

Quantum entanglement may be the starting point for a new line of inquiry, which may at last reveal a comprehensive theory which incorporates all of physical reality.

[@mwj5368]

Hi Harold! What do you think artificial super intelligence might do as far as reaching a unified theory. Maybe we will find out there is no such thing as a unified theory. Just my amateur thought.

[@trey671]

very enjoyable. Great job, all.

[@magiceye3]

Very informative and insightful- but oddly no mention of his famous equation E = mc2

[@ivanleon6164]

let that sink in, he so fucking great that they can talk about his contribution and still not talking about this.

[@cwwiss1]

One question was "what will be the next new discovery"? I think it will be understanding how ' spooky action at a distance' actually works. That is the key to a unified theory in my opinion. Is there a fifth dimension where time doesn't exist ?

[@mwj5368]

Hi Christopher! Just my amateur thought... but didn't Cicero say something based on the premise that if the universe is infinite that renders time as being only a human invention, renders time as inapplicable. I can't remember the quote and sorry if I'm way off. You might be right on with what you are theorizing! Again, I'm only amateur and you're way over my head! This is a lot to ask but... do you think artificial super intelligence might solve the unified theory, or prove there is no such theory?

[@complexitysimple1769]

The next discovery is the answers to the double slit experiment. We live in a virtual reality, and the math behind that theory answers Einstein's general relativity questions. Look up Physicists Tom Campbel's theory of everything.

[@richardextall2002]

'Spooky action at a distance' works because there is no distance. All points in space and time are connected. Distance, space and time are all an illusion.

[@davidladd5597]

If we were to really get a handle on gravity, to the point where we knew how to control it, like we do electron flow; to focus, or redirect it, it could give us the ability to deflect meteors, or levitate objects; or deflect the flow of solar ejecta when we detect a solar storm. It could give us space travel capabilities that we have dreamt about.

[@Larrythebassman]

Einstein had the right idea when he pondered what was the engineer thinking when he engineered the molecule ? that can turn into any life form ✨✨✨✨👌fascinating {{ well… almost any life form }}}

[@ryanallen7511]

I am very curious to see how this turns out. what your take on who Einstein is.

[@keelyevans4695]

I think music came first because that's the communication and clicks and whistles that I turn to when nothing is left to get through

[@johnjstro]

Let Michio Kaku or Brian Greene moderate. Leave Science to Scientists

[@Vlasko60]

Michio Kaku is an apologist for belief in gods. I don't listen to him anymore.

[@johnjstro]

@@Vlasko60 I don't even know what that means an apologist but that belief and gods? Does that mean she forgives people you are superstitious or are born agains? Just asking

[@johnjstro]

Sorry for the typos

[@Vlasko60]

@@johnjstro A religious apologist is someone who defends a belief in god. He actually once said "you can't prove there isn't a god". That is not an argument and I don't listen to anyone who would use it as such, because there are many, many things that you can't prove don't exist, like an invisible unicorn for example. No one can prove it isn't there, but that doesn't make more likely that it is.

[@santiagoreyes9440]

@@Vlasko60 That´s an anti-scientific posture. Carl Sagan said that the best posture for a scientist is the agnosticism. As Kaku said: "you can't prove there isn't a god". It´s a little extremist being a radical-atheist

[@benbaby100]

Einstein, how did you do it? It was all a dream I used to read Physics magazines

[@reclavea]

Truth is ....he invented them to commit fraud in an unimaginable vast scale.

[@benbaby100]

@@reclavea How's that?

[@reclavea]

@@benbaby100 You have no idea? If you are not into science a bit...it will be a bit tough for you grasp.

[@benbaby100]

@@reclavea I googled it. Never heard that before. It kinda makes sense in retrospect. I did hear that other people solved his field equations. Why has this not been corrected? We all heard about Shakespeare being a fraud, and there was much less hard evidence. This is documented and known among his peers. And why would he get the chance to present all this stuff if it was already published. Wasn't he a relative nobody at the time?

[@reclavea]

@@benbaby100 Here’s the gist ....The masses have no idea that Einstein INVENTED his Relativity Theories....because of a super powerful experiment using light and the aether that proved the Earth isn’t moving. The 1881 & 1887 Michelson/Morley Experiment perplexed scientists for 1/4 century. Einstein was only 7 or 8 years old at the time. Actually ...all previous experiments prior in the early 1800s were all showing a static motionless Earth. This was why a more convincing and more powerful experiment was needed. Michelson asked for help from scientists what the heck was going on. No one could come up any plausible reason till Lorentz and Fitzgerald independently came up with “length contraction” ... In essence the experiment performed to detect the Earth’s motion around the sun ....could not detect the Earth moving ....BECAUSE the EARTH is MOVING! 😳😂👎🏻 . ...so no one seriously took length contraction as a fact. ......till Einstein came up with his magical physics. Both Einstein and Hubble was motivated by their “preferred” cosmology and manipulated science evidence to fit this “preferred” cosmology. Genesis 1:1 was a main motivational factor for sure.

[@alsehendo34]

Is there any film of Einstein lecturing?

[@keelyevans4695]

4:56 that is our Perpetual question and only found in respect of each other

[@power32645]

Brian ! Very entertaining intelectual. 💯💫

[@glenkovacs9369]

That’s a preconceived notion

[@power32645]

@@glenkovacs9369 there is no need of evidence for me, just to hear how eloquent he is

[@Jonatan394]

A incredible lectura about the study and life of this genius! Has changed forever our lives.

[@andrecampbell691]

What a great discussion about a monumental genius.

[@whizzer2944]

Einstein was no genius his theories are obvious

[@MorA8182]

Este video es un placer de principio a fin.

[@StephiSensei26]

Approach the Universe with awe and humility and never stop wondering, or being curious of its beauty and mystery. Don't do this, and you've missed the whole point of being alive, being a Human Being. Genius: The ability to penetrate and understand the core of an issue, and then express it in simple terms.

[@kenadams5504]

If the wonder of the Universe gives meaning to who we are ..may I ask what could that meaning be? After all ,AE said he just wanted to understand the thoughts of the Creator through his discoveries, so there may be a meaning .Interestingly, he meant The Creator as Nature /The laws of physics. Through discovering some of our Creators "thoughts" in Relativety Theories , does this hint at what our meaning /purpose is? .Is it about learning and pursuing our passions .?Is it about assuming a greater level of emotion or completion exists and that we must aspire to experience it without any real proof that we're even making progress?

[@StephiSensei26]

@@kenadams5504 Well, that's a question we can only answer for our selves. Each of us is on his own quest to discover what life means for himself. We are not clones of one another. And as far as "...to understand the thoughts of the Creator" goes, I imagine that to be a task of Herculean proportions, too great even for a mind as penetrating as Einstein's. Perhaps, the closest we'll ever come to understanding the "Mind of the Creator" is best described in William Blake's poem, where he says, "to see the universe in a grain of sand". The question is, what does that 'Universe" look like to you. THX.

[@noneofyourbusiness150]

To be an accomplished genius it is not only IQ, it is also personality and a pinch of something we well never know

[@benbaby100]

Imagination according to him. And coincidentally he was a Pisces.

[@vinayseth1114]

@@benbaby100 Wouldn't he himself have hated the idea of astrology, especially given his understanding of the complicated way in which the celestial bodies interacted with each other?

[@benbaby100]

@@vinayseth1114 I didn't feel like qualifying it at the time. But yeah, you're right. I'm just the prototypical Pisces, and I'm looking for confirmation bias lol

[@philippossnortis2035]

@@benbaby100 it’s ok

[@alejandrobenitez8418]

@@vinayseth1114 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@supreethmv]

Einstein was a genius because he worked on something in which he made a breakthrough when no one else in the whole world never even bothered about that concept for the previous three centuries. Usually, in research, there will be fellow scientists working on the same concept, but Einstein remains a peerless genius.

[@douglaslegvold9215]

Actually looks like comfortable chairs for this one!

[@paxdriver]

Great mod and discussion, classic great WSF, thanks much!

[@elidadia]

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[@jatinsaini4787]

So much learning.

[@keelyevans4695]

58:21 it does measure out eventually you can see it in our languages and the way it comes back in

[@danindeed]

I was once laughed at by an Ivy League graduate when I remarked (regarding brain plasticity) that one could (easily) increase their IQ. Take it it wasn't something I studied in some class, but had lived the experience thoroughly enough to know it wasn't debatable. He also loved to tease me for my country bumpkin accent. This all happened at a monastery, btw.

[@swarnendupachal2579]

How can you say why Einstein could not unified relativity and quantum mechanics without knowing the actual answer, that we still don't have..

[@teddyraffudeen7056]

What a fascinating discussion by fascinating people about a fascinating man-Einstein.

[@yevgeniykutanov4250]

Great discussion

[@jackparker8686]

Yes Real McCoy I don't know what else you might think could be more important