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 · yt0.776

   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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2. 02 · yt0.773

   I think that was the idea. And it doesn't seem to me that there was anything non-computable in Newtonian mechanics. There is a little bit of a lacuna because these things depend on the continuum. And you've got to be clear that use of the continuum is not the issue. Rather than you see discreteness, you when you build your amazing computers, which people do, they're discrete. You see, you're working on discrete physics. You're You're not actually doing the continuum. You're approximating the continuum by some kind of lattice or something. Is there a catch in that? That's a catch which is sort …

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3. 03 · _intake0.756

   > what is the one thing in physics that you just wish that they would just give you the answer to? Well, I would like to know the true nature of time. To me, that's the big physics question. I'd like to understand whether quantum mechanics is an effective theory that works at one scale, but there's a deeper description that Einstein was hoping to one day find but never did that might be underneath it all. I want to really understand how quantum mechanics and gravity

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4. 04 · yt0.756

   Because if you naively look at how big the accelerator would need to be, it would need to be as big as the galaxy. That's how much we've leapfrogged mathematically. And that's what distinguishes this situation from say special relativity or general relativity or the standard model of particle physics. Well, how is it possible in principle, even if we did have some galactic, you know, collider, how do we experimentally confirm that all fundamental matter breaks down into into vibrating strings? How does that It's a key question. And if you allow me to imagine that we had arbitrarily energetic e…

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5. 05 · yt0.755

   We would throw string theory away at that point, and gleefully, well, that's perhaps too strong a word, move on to other ideas. We are nowhere near that place at the moment, quite the contrary. Anybody who knows anything about the history of string theory knows that there have been mathematical miracle after mathematical miracle showing that the equations fit together in such a tight-knit manner, with such graceful elegance, that you are compelled to press on with a theory that after the first time pushed together gravity and quantum mechanics. And so, yeah, that would that would be what it wo…

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6. 06 · yt0.753

   So, for about ever since quantum mechanics uh was conceived, the physicists have been puzzled by the fact that in the act of measuring a quantum object, uh a quantum variable, um the mathematical structure, say as a wave function, collapses in an instant and yields a number, which is not there to begin with. It's not there before you did do the measurement. And this is obviously very mystifying. And physicists, as I say, have been uh trying for close to a century to resolve that puzzle. And uh it it seems to me, after more than a hundred years of failure, that they really can't do it on the ba…

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7. 07 · yt0.747

   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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8. 08 · yt0.746

   It's just the model. The point is, we are prepared for something that  hasn't happened yet, right? If somebody sees   matter that cannot have due to their behavior  a Lorentzian background but you would then,   phenomenologists would pretty quickly figure out  what may be the simplest background that could do   that, then the question comes up, but what's the  action for that background? It can't be Einstein,   right? Einstein is for a Lorentzian metric  or a metric in general. But then you would   try to solve our equa…

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9. 09 · yt0.743

   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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10. 10 · yt0.741

    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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