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 · yt0.724

   >> Every math teacher's favorite student teacher's pet in the math class. So So you have a math brain. You have a brain wiring where the math is clear and present to you more so than any words or descriptions that surround it. I don't have a problem with that. You are also dual professor at Colombia in physics and mathematics. What you just told me makes math the preeminent supreme account of reality because you're saying the math forces it. And I'm asking you math is our tool. Why should math that you invented you anybody humans force anything? Why can't I say there's a different idea t…

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2. 02 · yt0.722

   Prof: So this is a very exciting day for me, because today, we're going to start quantum mechanics and that's all we'll do till the end of the term. Now I've got bad news and good news. The bad news is that it's a subject that's kind of hard to follow intuitively, and the good news is that nobody can follow it intuitively. Richard Feynman, one of the big figures in physics, used to say, "No one understands quantum mechanics." So in some sense, the pressure is off for you guys, because I don't get it and you don't get it and Feynman doesn't get it. The point is, here is my goal. Right now, I'm …

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3. 03 · yt0.715

   A very good way of putting it. And the result is a sort of induced, what do I call it? Induced cringe, or something. The students of quantum mechanics are trained not to ask those questions. And if you're trained not to ask certain questions, that has an effect on your worldview. It has an effect on the culture in physics, because students think that they're the only one who worries about this. And in fact, they all worry about this. They're the ones that are studying physics in order to understand the world, always worry about this. And they learn this language of substituting ideas about abs…

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4. 04 · yt0.708

   I show you the equation you might still not be happy because you say well I only trust equations that can fit on a t-shirt So I had the experimental evidence that The core theory can fit on a t-shirt. We're in good shape now I Know what you're thinking. I've given this talk before different forms You're thinking fine you guys you physicists you have your particles and your forces But it's just the same kind of hubris to say that we're not going to discover new Particles and forces that you don't know about yet. How do you know that there's not new particles mr.? smartypants physicist, and of c…

   yt/2JsKwyRFiYY-the-big-picture-from-the-big-bang-to-the-meaning-of-life-wit/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.705

   So, but we're going to pretend for the moment that the listeners have not listened to me and David Albert and Tim Mlin, engineer Ismael talk about quantum mechanics at great length. What is the big deal about quantum mechanics? Why is it that physicists and philosophers don't just understand it? Isn't it been around for hundred years? >> Uh, well, that's a really good question. So, I guess before I start, I I want to gush a little bit about you in particular. So, I I think uh you know, your listeners by this point, you know, they've they've listened to your amazing interviews with brilli…

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6. 06 · yt0.702

   And they were then, they were not standing out as starkly against what you call the zeitgeist, as they would have been, if they had insisted on normal physics. - Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that famous quote attributed to Steven Weinberg. I think it's actually accurate, where he said something along the lines of, "It's not that we take our mathematical theories..." How did he say it? He's basically saying, "We don't take our mathematical theories seriously enough." It's not that we take them too seriously, it's that we don't take them seriously enough, right? So if you apply that to quantum…

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7. 07 · yt0.701

   few scientists have shaped our understanding of reality as profoundly as Irwin shringer a pioneer of quantum mechanics he formulated the wave equation a mathematical breakthrough that became one of the cornerstones of modern physics his work helped explain the behavior of electrons the structure of atoms and the strange counterintuitive laws that govern the microscopic world yet Schrodinger was not just a physicist he was a thinker who questioned the very foundations of science his famous sh 's cat Paradox remains one of the most debated Concepts in quantum mechanics challenging our perception…

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8. 08 · yt0.700

   in this video I'm going to discuss a comment that I got about this video I made a few months ago so this was the previous video in my playlist on the foundations of quantum mechanics so it was the meaning of quantum mechanics the Copenhagen interpretation and so this reply here that I got by uh Carl Hinman 2522 is what I'm going to be discussing and so I've copied this over onto a Word document here and uh his or her I actually don't know probably his I think their name is Carl but anyway uh their response here is in this dark blue where my writing will be in this sort of dark red here and so …

   yt/WSx0Qmt3wgY-was-niels-bohr-a-logical-positivist/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.699

   And happened to be an extremely charismatic figure in the physics community. And so while he thought of himself as groping his way towards a new understanding, his colleagues, I hesitate to say acolytes, but his colleagues took that as the essence of the new view. And for example, Bohr, I think, never talked about wave function collapse, that kind of thing, because on the contrary, he insisted that quantum theory was the fullest possible description of the world, which is also exactly what Everett said. But Bohr didn't work it out to its logical conclusion. - Right, right. Now, I slightly wond…

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10. 10 · yt0.698

    - I want to thank Dr. Morrison for his invitation to talk with you today, and I was very happy to share the classes on Tuesday, which give me a real sense of what this class is about and what it's like, and in particular, his comments, very, very learned comments, I want to say. I was very impressed with his grasp of Wittgenstein, and about whom I think I know something, and also, I was very, very enlightened by what he had to say about William James. I had just, I've just come from New Hampshire, where I spent Thanksgiving, and that gave me a sense of the where William James spent his last da…

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