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 · _intake0.968

   > what is the one thing in physics that you just wish that they would just give you the answer to? Well, I would like to know the true nature of time. To me, that's the big physics question. I'd like to understand whether quantum mechanics is an effective theory that works at one scale, but there's a deeper description that Einstein was hoping to one day find but never did that might be underneath it all. I want to really understand how quantum mechanics and gravity

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2. 02 · yt0.892

   I'm going to give you a tiny little bit of evidence that this claim is actually true. The first bit of evidence is mostly rhetorical because you see a picture like this, it doesn't look very impressive. You're like, I could have drawn that. My kid could have drawn that. It's just a cartoon. I'm not going to believe your physical theory unless you show me the equations behind it. Well, here you are. This is the equation. This is what Nobel laurate Frank Wilch has dubbed the core theory of modern physics. It consists of two parts. It is general relativity, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, an…

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3. 03 · yt0.882

   Physicists like, especially after a certain age, to look around the intellectual landscape and see other fields of inquiry that are not physics and go, I could do that better than they can. I'm a physicist. How hard can it be? This is not what I'm here to do. I am not going to give you definitive final answers about any of these things. But I do think that there is a common vocabulary, a common ground in which we can discuss these various issues. And that's really what I'm here to talk about. So I want to start with a simple question that is uh related to physics but one that also is related t…

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4. 04 · yt0.879

   So I mean I'm fond of taking that line of discussion too but I think of it more as a postdiction rather than a prediction for the very reason that you mentioned. We've known about gravity. Isaac Newton wrote down a mathematical understanding of gravity. But if you imagine a counterfactual universe for instance a universe in which there was no Einstein and we did not have Einstein's general theory of relativity and yet somehow people came upon string theory and they began to study the mathematics of string theory within the math of string theory a clever string theorist would extract the genera…

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5. 05 · yt0.873

   Prof: All right, today's topic is the theory of nearly everything, okay? You wanted to know the theory of everything? You're almost there, because I'm finally ready to reveal to you the laws of quantum dynamics that tells you how things change with time. So that's the analog of F = ma. That's called the Schrˆdinger equation, and just about anything you see in this room, or on this planet, anything you can see or use is really described by this equation I'm going to write down today. It contains Newton's laws as part of it, because if you can do the quantum theory, you can always find hidden in…

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6. 06 · yt0.866

   So Einstein comes along and says, "Well, okay, can I make a version of Newton's theory of gravity that is compatible with my new theory of special relativity?" And after trying, he said, "No, I can't." You have to do something much more dramatic. And what he realized is that gravity is a special force of nature. You know, Maxwell talks about electricity and magnetism. If I wanna know what the electric field is at one point in space, it's very easy to do. I put a positively charged particle, a negatively charged particle, they get pushed in opposite directions by the electric field. But Einstei…

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7. 07 · yt0.866

   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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8. 08 · _intake0.866

   - [`001-what-is-the-one-thing-in-physics-that-you-just-wish-that-the`](einstein/001-what-is-the-one-thing-in-physics-that-you-just-wish-that-the.md) — score=7 `01:01:34.720` — what is the one thing in physics that you just wish that they would just give you the answer to? Well, I would like to k - [`002-ideas-and-intuitions-and-so-on-i-always-think-we-need-to-rel`](einstein/002-ideas-and-intuitions-and-so-on-i-always-think-we-need-to-rel.md) — score=7 `00:17:10.640` — ideas and intuitions and so on. I always think we need to rely on nature giving us a hint. Uh-huh. Because theory space - [`003…

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9. 09 · _intake0.866

   - [`001-what-is-the-one-thing-in-physics-that-you-just-wish-that-the`](einstein/001-what-is-the-one-thing-in-physics-that-you-just-wish-that-the.md) — score=7 `01:01:34.720` — what is the one thing in physics that you just wish that they would just give you the answer to? Well, I would like to k - [`002-ideas-and-intuitions-and-so-on-i-always-think-we-need-to-rel`](einstein/002-ideas-and-intuitions-and-so-on-i-always-think-we-need-to-rel.md) — score=7 `00:17:10.640` — ideas and intuitions and so on. I always think we need to rely on nature giving us a hint. Uh-huh. Because theory space - [`003…

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10. 10 · yt0.865

    The world or nature behaves as though these fictions were true until it doesn’t And then we replace the convenient fictions with other ones. For instance, Newton proposed the convenient fiction that there is an invisible force called gravity, pulling celestial bodies to one another invisibly and at a distance, and instantly. And it took the French about half a century to stop laughing of this mystical idea of these invisible forces pulling things towards one another. but we know how that ended. And yet, in the early 20th century, Einstein showed that there is no such force. There is no such in…

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