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 · _intake0.872

   > find the right thing here. Oh, no. That's that's not Maxwell yet. That's that's William Thompson. I was going to show you because I once I when I figured out um how I think the second law works,

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2. 02 · yt0.797

   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…

   yt/OWyugUdBups-stephen-wolfram-computation-at-the-foundations-of-everything/transcript.txt

3. 03 · _intake0.746

   > 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

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/photoelectric/003-it-right.md

4. 04 · yt0.744

   My guess is that he not that he wouldn't have believed my theorem, he would have thought, "Oh, well, that just shows you general relativity is wrong." Curiously, the reaction I got from certain people. I know Bob Dicke in in when I visited Princeton after this, he slapped me on the back and said, "You've done it. You've showed general relativity is wrong." And what what I thought I was doing, you see. But I mean, you see, these things are there wasn't anything definitive in these experiments. You just sort of eventually have enough evidence to push the majority of people in a certain direction…

   yt/OoDi856wLPM-sir-roger-penrose-stuart-hameroff-collapsing-a-theory-of-qua/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.735

   The these words like laws, these words like forces, the force of gravity, they're thrown around without people stopping to think about what they're actually saying there. I mean to say that there is a law of physics, that word seems to imply that there is this written rule somewhere that everything is following. The question that got me thinking about this when I was younger was to ask like do things fall to the ground because of the law of gravity or do we have the law of gravity because things fall to the ground? And it seems more sensible to me to suggest that like like you indicate we are …

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.732

   Well, sure, if somebody proves the theorem, I mean, Andrew Wiles proved that there were no x to the n, that you can have a sum of two squares which is another square, but there's no other power which the sum of two of that powers gives you another thing which has the same power I mean, that's mathematical statement and that would be true. Whether the universe had different physical laws and it's completely independent is a mathematical statement is objectively true. How we come across to understand why it is true, maybe very difficult question, very few people really understand, how many peopl…

   yt/0nOtLj8UYCw-quantum-consciousness-debate-does-the-wave-function-actually/transcript.txt

7. 07 · _intake0.722

   > so I mean, the thing for me, this whole idea that one might be able to derive physics is just completely... For me, I'd never imagined that something like that will be possible. I mean, sort of a clue... The second law of thermodynamics is kind of a clue because it is something which for 150 years people have kind of thought might be derivable, but I don't think anybody thought that about general relativity, for example. I don't think that... But just to fill in,

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8. 08 · yt0.720

   Um, well, it's a curious word you used there, which was explain. Ah, because Yes. Yeah. I I should take that back, right? Yes. You know, because the the right I mean, I don't think this was exactly Boore's attitude. The common attitude is calculate. Predict tell me what the numbers will be, and if the numbers are right, that's all I want. Absolutely. Boore was actually trying to make a much more profound argument which was that a certain sort of explanation which had been provided by classical physics was no longer available. Just could not could not be found. There wasn't that nature didn't p…

   yt/VbXEc9vpeIM-what-we-ve-gotten-wrong-about-quantum-physics-world-science-/transcript.txt

9. 09 · archive0.716

   WHEN, forty years ago, I first expressed the ideas explained in this book, they found small sympathy, and indeed were often contradicted. Only a few friends, especially Josef Popper the engineer, were actively interested in these thoughts and encouraged the author. When, two years later, Kirchhoff published his well-known and often- quoted dictum, which even to-day is hardly correctly interpreted by the majority of physicists, people liked to think that the author of the present work had misunderstood Kirchhoff. I must decline with thanks this, as it were, prophetical misunderstand ing as not …

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10. 10 · yt0.716

    Thanks Pat, thanks to the Royal Institution for having me back This is one of my favourite places to come visit and I thought that I would in the tradition of Michael Faraday and Humphrey Davy, and all the greats. Who've stood more or less in this place Begin the lecture by doing an experiment Now I'm a theoretical physicist. I'm not an experimenter, so don't get your hopes up too high But I would like to do an experiment that illuminates the fundamental nature of motion Ok so you see here. We have an object It's a book you can buy it and the finest book stores everywhere And we're going to ob…

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