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 · yt0.785

   Brian Green, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. The Elegant Universe turns 25 this year, just like me. Uh, I wish I could say that about myself. I'd like to get into what's changed, where we're at, but I think it's going to require starting with the question that I'm sure you've never been asked before. What is string theory? Yes. Uh, good question. There are a number of ways of framing what string theory is about, but perhaps from the largest perspective, it's an attempt to realize a dream that really begins with Albert Einstein, which is this idea that we have a single universe. So, we …

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2. 02 · yt0.783

   But in the former criterion, the deep way that the mathematics of string theory locks together with coherence and and elegance and beauty and it all works as a mathematical structure is breathtaking. So it's just so irresponsible when people say these things like string theory has failed. You know, I think we live in a culture where like we have this competitive mindset. Maybe it goes back to hunter gatherer days when you had to make sure you got enough food and maybe you had to make sure that your neighbor didn't. Although I think the anthropologists have archaeologists evidence that hunter g…

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3. 03 · yt0.767

   And that's really important because if you put forward an idea that's meant to be scientific, but someone can establish you can't possibly in any way, shape, or form ever test that idea, then it's hard to see that it fits within the categorization of science. But if you put forward an idea which at least in principle you could test if you had the right equipment, then to me if it solves certain key problems, if it advances your understanding theoretically of things like black holes and the big bang and the nature of space and the nature of time, which is what string theory does, then it's abso…

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4. 04 · yt0.765

   So are there some in the history of physics where you can find reasonable evidence that they were reluctant to take the new step because they were so tied to the old way of looking at things. Yes, you can even in some way say that about Einstein in some ways when quantum mechanics came along and was suggesting that the best you could ever do is predict the likelihood the probability of one or another outcome. very different from the classical perspective that Einstein was used to where you tell Einstein how things are today and Einstein will tell you how they will be tomorrow with 100% certain…

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5. 05 · yt0.765

   What if if you took a powerful microscope and you looked into the heart of matter and you didn't find a swarm of little dots, but you found a swarm of little vibrating filaments. And the motivation for that came from the fact that with that move, the tension between quantum mechanics and general relativity went away. Mhm. That little tiny move from dot to filament was what you needed for the mathematics of these two theories to harmoniously meld together. So if this picture is correct, the electron would be a little vibrating filament and the quirks, they would be little vibrating filaments an…

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6. 06 · yt0.761

   Is there any chance we find out what dark matter actually is in our lifetime? Well, I won't go through the whole rigomeroll again. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, there are detectors now capable of detecting for instance this particle called an axion that I mentioned in various windows and parameter space and sure they could be successful that that might be where this all ends up. Similar question. Do you think string theory will be proven experimentally someday? And how much time do you currently spend on string theory research? So two questions. Part one, will it be experimentally proven someday? …

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7. 07 · yt0.760

   Very  nicely one can check off in a bunch of these kinds   of systems, yup, that theoretical prediction  is satisfied. Took a lot of work to prove it,   but yes, it's satisfied. You can keep poking in  at different features of this overall intellectual   framework and seems to keep on doing very  well. But it is a conceptually complicated   thing because it is all tied up with what  you even mean by computation and so on.   It's not something where you can say, we'll do an  experiment and we'll just prove this prin…

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8. 08 · yt0.757

   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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9. 09 · yt0.755

   [Applause] I'm very excited to introduce my friend and colleague and scientific collaborator Brian Greene brian is a professor of mathematics and physics and the director of Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Physics and brian has made incredibly important contributions to string theory which we'll talk about he has many New York Times bestselling books including the elegant universe fabric of the cosmos and the hidden reality and now the book we're here to celebrate until the end of time so please join me in welcoming Brian Greene Brian I often complain that we don't get enough of a…

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10. 10 · yt0.753

    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 …

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