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 · yt0.730

   I don't know if it produces like a a potentially infinite number of universes or if it's like some precise number of 700,046 when you actually do the calculation, but something about lots of universes. Yeah. So when I was a graduate student way back in the 1980s, long before you were born, and I began to work on string theory, the aspect that caught my attention was its need for these extra dimensions of space. And briefly, when you study the math of string theory, there's an equation and the equation cannot be solved if there aren't these extra dimensions of space. So that's where the idea do…

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2. 02 · yt0.725

   No in fact probably a 100 top physicists today want to start from the whole and derive the parts because they have understood that trying to go the other way gives you know leaves you empty-handed. Yeah. In fact, you know, string theory which tried to explain reality from the parts which are strings that vibrates [snorts] did not succeed. And you know, it took about 80 years of hard work. At one point 90% of the, you know, the physicist, the theoretical physicist were working on string theory. >> They didn't get anywhere. So that's that's telling you that no, we have to start with the wh…

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3. 03 · yt0.723

   So this has  been done quite a while ago. It's just,   I think it deserves, let me state it like this,  it deserves some attention from theoretical   physicists as well for application. Maybe  in fundamental physics. We should at least   think about whether this could help  us with things we do. So that's the… Yeah, yeah. There are a couple questions  here that I have. So you said the phrase,   “it's a modest proposal, therefore, it could  be successful.” Now that's interesting. Not   “it's a modest proposal and it…

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4. 04 · yt0.722

   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 · gutenberg0.722

   The consequence of this plan, it must be confessed, has been, that in a few instances the same precept has been found in substance repeated; but this is so far from being an objection, that it evidently proves the precepts were not the hasty opinions of the moment, but settled and fixed principles in the mind of the Author, and that he was consistent in the expression of his sentiments. But if this mode of arrangement has in the present case disclosed what might have escaped observation, it has also been productive of more material advantages; for, besides facilitating the finding of any parti…

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6. 06 · wikisource0.722

   In the meantime, while the creative power of pure reason is at work, the outer world again comes into play, forces upon us new questions from actual experience, opens up new branches of mathematics, and while we seek to conquer these new fields of knowledge for the realm of pure thought, we often find the answers to old unsolved problems and thus at the same time advance most successfully the old theories. And it seems to me that the numerous and surprising analogies and that apparently prearranged harmony which the mathematician so often perceives in the questions, methods and ideas of the va…

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7. 07 · _intake0.718

   > that you say Maxwell theory is correct. Right? And so I think seeing through one idea can open doors. Yeah, so that's what I mean by it's a modest idea. One can make many constructions and ideas and intuitions and so on. I always think we need to rely on nature giving us a hint. Uh-huh. Because theory space is infinite dimensional. And if you tip with your finger somewhere and you say,

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8. 08 · yt0.718

   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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9. 09 · wikisource0.718

   But, in the further development of a branch of mathematics, the human mind, encouraged by the success of its solutions, becomes conscious of its independence. It evolves from itself alone, often without appreciable influence from without, by means of logical combination, generalization, specialization, by separating and collecting ideas in fortunate ways, new and fruitful problems, and appears then itself as the real questioner. Thus arose the problem of prime numbers and the other problems of number theory, Galois's theory of equations, the theory of algebraic invariants, the theory of abelia…

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10. 10 · yt0.718

    Otherwise, at least as  a theorist, what are you doing? There needs to   be one new element in it. As I mentioned before,  I believe if you say, “oh, I have five new ideas   how things could be different at once,” I think  it's not manageable to deal with this. At least   I would claim that for myself. So let's say one  idea. And you know, if you have two brilliant   ideas and it works, my congratulations. I  just, you know, it's an indicator, right? So tiptoeing, tiptoeing the line. But now you have  a new idea and you have…

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