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Quantum Physics and Universal Beauty – Q&A with Frank Wilczek



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What physics would a 12 year old girl be interested in? If symmetry is so prevalent, why haven’t we hit a state of equilibrium? Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek answers audience questions after his talk.

Watch the main talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbwki0qpQ4

Nobel laureate, Frank Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in the universe, using simple questions in an attempt to see the whole answer.

Wilczek explores how this quest has also guided the work of all great scientific thinkers in the Western world, from Plato to Einstein, and shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about perception, beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos.

Frank Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is currently Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Professor Wilczek shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. As well as his academic work, he has written popular science books and is on the board for Society for Science & the Public.

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24 thoughts on “Quantum Physics and Universal Beauty – Q&A with Frank Wilczek
  1. As we've read further in the book… “The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve” in the words of Eugene Wigner.
    Thanks for a wonderful talk. Looking forward to reading the book.

  2. Thank you for this talk, very inspiring and I have to humbly take a few steps back and let those people work in peace and just admire the beauty of thoughts they manage to bring to the rest of us. And I feel lucky and happy that I (hopefully) understand at least in a very oversimplified way what this talk and Q&A section were about. Thank you for sharing this for free with the world. A few things make more sense now, but at the same time, I feel even more puzzled as I start to see new patterns and ask myself the typical "why?". I guess that is why I am no physicist, they simply tell us "how", but it is not their job to tell us "why". At the same time I am very critical and do not believe in some explanations of "why" simply because somebody expects me to do so.

  3. @ 8:20 I don't think the audience realized that was a joke embedded in a practical example. I found myself, creeping out myself laughing while the audience in the vid didn't LOL

  4. I love watching the Q&A first, and deciding to watch the lecture after. I can tell this is going to be a good one, the way he speaks and by the look in his eye.

  5. 3:10 The really amazing thing is, that this girl has a fairly good chance of still being alive in 100 years.
    How cool would it be for her, at the age of 112, to bring that paper up and see how close he was to what actually came to pass.
    Something to think about The oldest people alive in the year 2150 may have already been born.

  6. Wow, this video just popped up, it’s 2019 now…. I am so happy to have found this, though I wish I could’ve seen it sooner, better late than never. Great content and concepts, it’s just perfect for my level of understanding of physics. Thank you ?

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