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 · _intake0.980

   > it right. He didn't figure out the second law. As we now know, sort of the paradigmatic ideas that you need to figure out the second law come from ideas about computation and so on, which were another close to 100 years in the future, so to speak. But it's sort of interesting that he was applying those kinds of philosophical thinking ideas. And it was a misfire in thermodynamics. It was a hit in relativity, in the photoelectric effect, and the existence of photons, and also

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2. 02 · yt0.842

   I was going to show you because I once I when I figured out um how I think the second law works, I got curious why had people not figured this out before. And so, I tried to trace the history of the second law. And uh old Jamie Clerk Maxwell was a big figure in the history of the second law. And I really do would like to show you just a few things from his work. Let's see whether I can find these. Um, now that's a that's fun. That's from uh Kelvin from uh 1870s trying to figure out uh motion. Hold on a second. Let's see if I can find this. Sorry, I was not uh quite prepared for this. I think t…

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3. 03 · _intake0.830

   > Course Laplace was not right. He didn't know about the true laws of physics He thought that Newton's laws were more or less correct it every reason to believe that was true But since then we have relativity and quantum mechanics And so forth so we have a better idea now of what the law is Fundamentally are in fact one of the bold claims

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4. 04 · _intake0.827

   Sir Alfred Eddington, the famous astronomer who proved that Einstein’s theory of relativity was true , said that any theory that is found to contravene the second law of thermodynamics has no hope of being true in 1915. This belief hold until today. The problem with this idea is that life has apeared to skirt the second law of thermodynamics by physicists since the second law was penned. Physicists, without saying it aloud, have said if there is a God, the deity certainly must be a thermodynamicist.

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5. 05 · yt0.824

   Well, Newton didn't try to describe things moving at speeds comparable to light. He dealt with what problem he could deal with at that time. So, it's a law that has a limited domain of validity. You can always push the frontiers of observation until you come to a situation where the law doesn't work. But the specialty of relativity doesn't also work all the time. If the mass becomes very tiny, it becomes of atomic dimensions, then you need the laws of quantum mechanics. That's wrong too. So, things work in a certain domain and sometimes you abandon the formalism; but don't rush to do that. In …

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6. 06 · yt0.822

   He wrote down the thermodynamic givens of the ultraviolet catastrophe, and he looked at the thermodynamic givens. He goes, "How do these things all fit together?" And what happens in his miracle year? One of his four papers is called the photoelectric effect. Now, people like to believe that everything should be simple, that you could explain it to a third grader. That's like Occam's razor. And I always tell people when they say to me, "There's no way this could be right, Jack." I say, "Well, tell me, what is Occam's razor parsimonious about the photoelectric effect? That it only works with UV…

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7. 07 · _intake0.816

   I got this idea by reading about the physics of how a cell is organized by Mae Wan Ho. She introduced me to Henri Bergson’s ideas of space/time. He was a philosopher who thought deeply about time. He made a huge impact on several other physicists that went on to win Noble Prizes using his ideas about dissipative systems. It turns out all cells in life, are a dissipative system of light. Cells are a playground for photons. He believed living things had highly differentiated space-time structures built into their design. His ideas were at odds with Einstein’s ideas of time relativity of a curved…

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8. 08 · yt0.814

   But he wasn't in it for the math, he was in it for the physics. So he learned as much math as he needed. And when Minkowski says, "I have some new math that unifies space and time based on Einstein's theories," Einstein himself was like, "Yeah, I don't need that. That's like extra mathematical nonsense." He soon changed his mind 'cause it turns out that that move from space and time being separate to being combined is super useful going forward, including, 10 years later he would invent his general theory of relativity that include gravity into the spacetime story. When Einstein put together w…

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9. 09 · yt0.811

   He derived it from Greek and Latin roots common to words for both simple and complex. >> Simple and complex. So what was he studying with plexics? >> Essentially the interplay between the two. How do the incredibly simple fundamental laws of nature >> like the laws governing electromagnetism or gravity? >> Exactly. How do those simple rules give rise to all the incredibly complex things we see? evolution, ecosystems, human societies, galaxies, all of it. >> It's the big question, isn't it? The ultimate, how did we get here? >> Precisely. He wrestled with thi…

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10. 10 · yt0.808

    He got the Nobel Prize for predicting the photon, rather than for the Theory of Relativity, which was still controversial at that time. So he predicted the photons, based on actually fairly complicated thermodynamic statistical mechanics arguments. But one way to understand it is in terms of what's called the photoelectric effect. If you take a metal and you say "Where are the electrons in the metal?" As you know most electrons are orbiting the parent nucleus. But in a metal, some electrons are communal. Each atom donates one or two electrons to the whole metal. They can run all over the metal…

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