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 · _intake0.970

   > well, where did that fifth order, where was the impetus for the second order coming from? Something like that. Something like that. You always, in order to generalize a theory, you must understand the to be generalized theory first at a deeper conceptual level. And there that's already ambiguous because you can look at things at different conceptual levels, right? You can describe, take gravity. Okay. High school question. High school teacher asks

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2. 02 · yt0.791

   So, I was very interested and it somehow meant a great deal to me to try to understand in what was undoubtedly very childish way the structure of the world that I conceived of it in terms of physics. Mhm. Mhm. Um and I know you did some important work on physics related to the reentry of spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere and so on. But you also would eventually decide to study and teach mathematics um and so was there something about the way that physics was being was being practiced and theorized that led you to decide to move more into mathematics? Well, actually even at that early age …

   yt/V_ZWBkSNMFg-platonic-physics-in-dialogue-with-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.783

   Um, well, it's a curious word you used there, which was explain. Ah, because Yes. Yeah. I I should take that back, right? Yes. You know, because the the right I mean, I don't think this was exactly Boore's attitude. The common attitude is calculate. Predict tell me what the numbers will be, and if the numbers are right, that's all I want. Absolutely. Boore was actually trying to make a much more profound argument which was that a certain sort of explanation which had been provided by classical physics was no longer available. Just could not could not be found. There wasn't that nature didn't p…

   yt/VbXEc9vpeIM-what-we-ve-gotten-wrong-about-quantum-physics-world-science-/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.776

   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…

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.773

   I forget where where it depends what what kind of space there is or what you do there. Okay. I tend to say mathematical physicist. Yes. Obviously at university you're doing quite pure mathematics to start with. How do you start getting tugged towards physics? Well, I should explain that in Britain, mathematics degrees is not entirely pure mathematics. My stage it had three parts to it. It was analysis, algebra and geometry, applied mathematics. And applied mathematics was what people might call physics. Yeah. You learned maths, you know, Lagrange's equations and you studied dynamics and electr…

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6. 06 · yt0.769

   I thought, what could actually give us  a hint at modified gravity if we don't   just look at gravity itself? And well,  we do a lot of observations about matter,   right? We do very precise observations  about matter. And the question was,   is it actually true that you have to postulate  both the dynamics for gravity and the dynamics   for the matter? And at some point we stumbled  across this that we thought no, it's a crazy idea,   but maybe if you're given a… Could you determine  a matter Lagrangian on an assu…

   yt/Bnh-UNrxYZg-frederic-schuller-the-physicist-who-derived-gravity-from-ele/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.768

   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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8. 08 · blog0.765

   Likewise, presumably, for many propositional attitudes: for the deductivist, what we might ordinarily describe as wondering whether 569 is prime should be understood as wondering whether the axioms deductively imply that 569 is prime; what we might ordinarily describe as doubting that 569 is prime should be understood as doubting that the axioms deductively imply that 569 is prime; and so on. A tentative suggestion might then be that the deductivist should take “\(Ax \vdash\)” to have narrow scope over force operators (asserting, wondering, doubting, etc.). Neither of these tasks—providing a w…

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9. 09 · yt0.765

   How do we know that this isn't just pure mathematics? And that would take us into a wonderful conversation along the lines of the material that we just discussed. So yeah, I think he would warm to these ideas pretty quickly. Do you think we're sort of in the realm of philosophy here? One of the criticisms that I see of string theory as somebody who doesn't understand the first thing about it is that because of this lack of experimental data, you can say that in principle it could be tested. But there are all kinds of philosophical theories that in principle we could test. Ideas about personal …

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

10. 10 · _intake0.764

    - [`001-it-can-push-outward-as-opposed-to-just-pulling-inward-and-th`](gravity/001-it-can-push-outward-as-opposed-to-just-pulling-inward-and-th.md) — score=8 `00:36:28.079` — it can push outward as opposed to just pulling inward and this is something that we have never experienced because the g - [`002-well-where-did-that-fifth-order-where-was-the-impetus-for-th`](gravity/002-well-where-did-that-fifth-order-where-was-the-impetus-for-th.md) — score=7 `01:48:01.680` — well, where did that fifth order, where was the impetus for the second order coming from? Something like that. Something - [`003-…

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