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?TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
@MrStevo3000 Math is to Physics, what masturbation is to sex – RPF
Think about it
Maths is perfection, Physics in it’s present state is merely a tool like a shifter. A convenient way to do things that don’t require a perfect fit.
the 4 forces are a crock, they’re helpful tools and concepts. There has been no conclusive experiment that proves things fall at a constant acceleration to any significant decimal place. The maths is right but the assumption used as the foundation may just be wrong.
My hero.
@shahinarya Guess what? That’s not even from me! It’s from one of the most famous sex crazed noble price winning dick head of physics: Richard Phillips Feynman.
Math to physics is more like penis (for a male) to masturbation you sex crazed dick head waste of 7×10 to the 27th power waste of atoms!
‘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.’
So is it conscious love and compassion when an diseased ant crawls away from a colony to die alone, and saving the colony?
Love and compassion are advanced human manifestations of altruism in nature, part of the survival mechanisms for social animals. It’s no less wonderful if it isn’t magical.
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.
“You don’t need something more to get something more.. Isn’t there something more some peolple ask me? Presumably they mean something ‘supernatural’… anyway there isn’t”
What a charming, contagious laugh(t)er!!
I LOVE his laugh
@diegoarmino
That’s something I really don’t understand, Einstein’s favorite hobby was to demonstrate mathematically concepts that seemed to have no correlation with reality (such as time being subjective) until we found those correlations. So why would someone that favors mathematical proof and logic over perception not agree with the fact that “god plays dice” just because of an instinctive belief?
I believe he also refuted the idea of universe accelerated expansion because of his fear of it.
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”.
Discovered in the 21stC: The Underlying Law of Nature.
The underlying law of nature may be the world’s most useful, profitable and encouraging knowledge.
The top 3 General Characteristics of The underlying law of nature are:
#1. The Way of All Things
#2. The Basis of All Laws and Principles
#3. The Basis of All Health, Growth, Efficacy and Efficiency
Google it – as a start.
The empirical process for identifying the underlying law of nature was discovered in 2008.
Soon we may all do so.
Take a moment to exercise your brain!
lol… peeling layers and layers of onions for truth, at the cost of plenty of tears ;]
i love his slides. so old school.
@PoppedLASTICZ
HOW TRUE
the IGNORANT will always take bits and pieces to make REALITY fit their JESUS theory…discarding REALITIES that do not FIT?
duh these IGNORANT bible babblers have it all backwards….that is what suggests that folks who take bible babble LITERALLY are out to get a free lunch without doing the REAL work necessary to understand the cosmos.
FAITH alone does NOT compensate for IGNORANCE
TRUE
the IGNORANT will always take bits and pieces of REALITY to fit their JESUS theory…discarding the anomalies that do not.
@diegoarmino I sure hope you’re joking! Are you telling me OUR perception of reality is meaningless?! and that our reality is NOT created from OUR perception?
Our world, is all created through OUR translation of that reality! It is our PERCEPTION that dictates what is right and wrong in our reality. What maybe very wrong to you maybe right to me yet the reality remains. Perception is BEYOND reality.
“Do what you will, you live in a world of fiction full of contradiction.”
this guy is awesome. i am fascinated by particle physics and Murray Gell-Mann is a close friend with cormac mccarthy and that’s what brought me here.
“Physics proceeds funeral by funeral.” -Max Plank.
Murray Gell-Man autographed my Ti-89 graphing calculator at a lecture at Washington University in St. Louis
@diegoarmino
Reality is mere opinion.
@diegoarmino if language (reality) is meaningless, then this whole argument is impossible to be understood. if this argument can be understood, then language (reality) cannot be meaningless. you cannot logically rely on the premise that language (reality) has meaning to to communicate the language (reality) has no meaning.
@freighttrain777 in other words…if language (reality) is meaningless, then this whole argument is impossible to be understood. if this argument can be understood, then language (reality) cannot be meaningless. you cannot logically rely on the premise that language (reality) has meaning to to communicate the language (reality) has no meaning.