Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.831

   Kip: My collaboration with Christopher Nolan is just a   wonderful collaboration, a wonderful experience.  He is a highly creative man, very different   background from me, and he could ask questions  of me that I would never have asked myself. Brian: Hey,   everyone. Thanks for joining us. Today we are  going to be talking about gravitational physics,   black holes, wormholes, gravitational waves,  both from the science, of course, but also   from the artistic and filmic perspectives. And I'm so pleased that we're being joi…

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2. 02 · _intake0.820

   He spoke quite a bit about “vitreous collagen”, which has puzzled docs because it is only found in the eye. What does it do? It slows down light. He talked about Fermat’s law, regarding how the speed of light in certain media is totally different from in a vacuum. He began and ended with E=mc2, Einstein’s fundamental mass-equivalence equation. Most people know the equation but have no clue what it means. I began to understand what it means a few years ago on my own, and Jack confirmed my suspicions in Vermont.

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3. 03 · yt0.808

   Kip: And Oppenheimer says,   and there's a big confrontation between  the two of them, at what's called a Solvay   Congress in '56 or '57, in which Oppenheimer  says, "Well, it's very simple. It just cuts us   off from ... The collapsing star cuts itself  off from the rest of the universe and what   happens down inside there has no influence  on the external universe, so why worry?"  And so they have this radically different  viewpoint. And in fact, sorting out what   happens with the singularity turns out to …

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4. 04 · yt0.805

   Kip: This is- Kip: The influence on Wheeler at that time. Brian: I see. I see. Kip: This was probably '67,   I think. I think it was a year before John started  using the phrase. John understood the power of   words. He spent a lot of time crafting phrases  and words to describe things. As he described   it to me, he liked to lie in a warm bathtub, and  just think about what is the right phrase to use.  Now, it could be that he was triggered  by that a year or so earlier,   and didn't remember it at all, but in the  back of …

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5. 05 · yt0.799

   Built up Newton; shot down. Built up Maxwell; going to get shot down. So again, I have tried to drill into all of you the notion that people get shot down because somebody else does a new experiment that probes an entirely new regime which had not been seen before. So it's not that people were dumb; it's that given the information they had, they built the best theory that they could. And if you give me more additional information, more refined measurements, something to the tenth decimal place, I may have to change what I do. That's how it's going to be. So there's always going to be--for exam…

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6. 06 · yt0.797

   Brian: Now, one thing in   that book, which is interesting to me is  that when physicists typically learn the   mathematical methods of general relativity,  differential geometry to be concrete,   most physicists learn it in a so called  coordinate form, which is the more nuts and   bolts ingredients necessary to really carry out  certain kinds of calculations. You're at great   pains in that book to do both the coordinate  version, and the coordinate-free version,   which is perhaps maybe the way more mathema…

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7. 07 · yt0.788

   You've you you've assumed that there's an axis that is akin to going the length of the trumpet. You assume that there's a not not a circle in the case of a trumpet but an entire three-dimensional sphere that that is the two-dimensional sphere that we have like the surface of a beach ball but a one-dimensional higher analog and that thing greatly simplifies the Einstein field equations because the only parameter that matters is how big is the radius given that I've determined that it has to have spherical symmetry. So you're using symmetry to get rid of a lot of the possibilities in Einstein's …

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8. 08 · yt0.788

   So when plotted as a function of w, K should look like a straight line with intercept W. And that's what you find. In fact, this is one way to measure the work function. How much energy do we need to rip an electron out of a metal depends on the metal. And you shine light and you crank up the frequency, till something happens. And just to be sure, you go a little beyond that and you find that the kinetic energy grows linearly in w. Anyway, this is how one confirmed the existence, indirect existence, of photons. There's another experiment that also confirmed the existence of photons. Look, that…

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9. 09 · yt0.786

   So that such that when we observe light from a galaxy or from a supernova or from a barrier acoustic oscillation which is what Desi's measuring, we are not seeing it as it is right now. We're seeing it as it was when that light was emitted, propagated along light cones as light does. And then uh we can actually translate that back to the physical separation at the time of the emission or the physical separation today which called the proper distance. We have different proxies for those. Then we plug those into again the uh this this red shift distance relationship. And the startling thing is n…

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10. 10 · yt0.783

    My roommate saw me pacing in circles reading this thing with my brow furrowed. I understood it was a very very profound and surprising result. Now that's of course long after it was published and then I can give you another data point from a few from last year. I gave a talk on Bell's theorem and relativity at John's Hopkins for a general audience and a guy in the audience put up his hand. He said I have a PhD in astrophysics. I've never heard of any of this. He was completely unfamiliar. He said why didn't they tell me? Right. So yeah, I think it's a very strange history that Bell's work whic…

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