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Quantum Physics and Universal Beauty – with Frank Wilczek

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How simple questions inspired Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics.
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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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38 thoughts on “Quantum Physics and Universal Beauty – with Frank Wilczek”

  1. The concept of existence is an amorphous information cloud of fluid motion, and the occurrence of dominant probability of synchronized change in motion forms space time. This process is exemplified by boiling fluid, one that emits and combines throughout existence, then has the "residual" asynchronous spectrum of motion excluded from synch that is fields of quantized connection, – Quantum Fields.

    The properties of async are arranged by the math of probability distribution, in sync, duality/symmetry, 3D, ..to the limit of improbablity at the boundary of zero, beyond completeness.

    To represent this ultimate vanishing point of information, distribution requires a completeness of combined techniques that inform the perception of a connected universe, and this process is dependent on total reflection of the information as "spin", so apparently, a spin/wave "writes" the point origin of connection into the structure of space time by combinations of probability duration.

    We like what we believe we are in tune with / understand.

  2. The ultimate beauty of finding out how 'fine tuning' protects us from all kinds of cosmic catastrophe, for millions/billions of years and enabling us to win millions of lotteries in a row (each with one in a million/billion chance to win), creating life and consciousness, implying intelligent design and divine purpose.

  3. Blending duality into one, as substance and force interchange, creates beauty. Non-dual nature of the universe is then like Hegel's 'unity of opposites'At the big bang dark matter and dark energy were produced, followed by production of particles and anti-particles, followed by production of matter and anti-matter… and on to hot and cold, male and female, up and down etc.
    At the heart of the standard model is the fine tuning of the parameter space which gives rise to self-organizing property of matter, producing self-organizing systems that evolves to produce life and consciousness, with perfection and with probability one. Although we still do not have a clue what triggered fine tuning, but we know that FT protected us for millions/billions years, winning millions of lotteries in a row, implying intelligent design and divine purpose, of 'universal consciousness', eliminating randomness and chance for determinism. Nothing is accidental or luck as atheists want us to believe.

  4. Change without change, space-time tells matter how to move and matter tells space-time how to curve, symmetry of Galilean relativity-laws of physics are the same everywhere, infinite colors emanate from the three basic colors, red, blue and green, seeking to embody divine beauty, artistic creators anticipated the SPIRIT of anamorphic and anachromic creativity long before anyone knew that it runs the world-well said.
    Can we transcend the dual nature of force and substance of Ying and Yang and find the transformation that produce the unity(the SINGLE probability wave function representing everything in the universal and the quantum field). Yes, the transformation of force and substance by QM produces the UNIVERSE, and just as phase transition from non-life matter to life, due to self-organizing property of matter to self-simulate life, Feynman's QF self simulates intelligent conscious observer, transforming fields into fine tuned particles (parameter space).

    Hegel's 'unity of opposites', discovered the secret of modern science 200 years ago, better expressed by Wheeler who said 'time is what stops everything from happening at once [or space is what prevents everything from happening at a point] , still better expressed by Hegelian pair of opposites, 'sequential and simultaneity', which express the idea of producing everything from nothing and Wheeler's idea of a moment.

  7. The "Yoga" of all the forces comes from mechanics. You have a potential determined by configuration of the system (position and velocity). The negative spacial derivative of the potential represents a force. Forces cause the configuration to change and evolve over time. The updated configuration alters the potential field. All this comes from the definition of what a force is, and is not necessarily an inherent property of nature; just how physicists like to think about it.

  10. Shame the really intelligent guys aren't 'very good communicators or lecturers, except Feynman, it's the lesser mortals like Sean Caroll and Lawrence Krauss who are best at explaining this stuff Lol,

  12. There are an infinite number of universes in a single multiverse. And maybe there are an infinite number of multiverses. Maybe there are an infinite number of multiverses in a single multimultiverses. And maybe there is an infinite number of multimultiverses. Maybe there are an infinite number of multimultiverses in a single multimultimultiverse. And maybe there are an infinite number of multimultimultiverses. Maybe there are an infinite number of multimultimultiverses in a single multimultimultimultiverse. And maybe there are an infinite number of multimultimultimultiverses. Maybe there are an infinite number of multimultimultimultiverses in a single multimultimultimultimultiverse. And this continue until infinity without ending.

  13. This should be course curriculum in History because History should mean "History of grey matter".Instead we read about fucking kings and their territories .

  15. It's a shame but I can't help wondering if this would be more accessible and more interesting delivered by a more engaging speaker. Public speaking is clearly not Wilczek's forte. Bringing the speed to 1.25 at least makes him appear to speak at a normal pace. Truly interesting subject though.

  16. Some people (like, Kevin Smith or John Carmack) are natural born storytellers, and can keep you listening for hours. Sadly, this guy is totally the opposite of that. Even his breathing alone is unbearable. But even the subject sucks anyway.

  18. I am so annoyed matters doesn't bend space whats happening is theres an event and you trying to count the space that's now an event in the past so now theres less space at the point of an event so space expands into point this is why when you zoom into atoms particles seem to almost teleport and jump cause the space its in is now some were else when you get to the more massive scales you only experience an average influence from all the events around gravity is just where there is more events then there is expanding space then events will fall to one another can I have my Noble prize or will some random scientist see this and take credit for it i don't Know i don't really care i just want to get off this planet already and that's not going to happen as long as people keep on seeing space as this static soup we move through and some how bend and curve

  20. As within as without – This is the ultimate symmetry of existence. The inner abstract world of thinking moves as the outside solid of showing. Thought IS inner spacetime. Think of a tree: an image of it is known, and together with it a non-tree is known – duality within. This is an experiential fact, above thought. A fact has no thought in between, hence no spacetime, that is why it IS – This is the nature of the movement of within. Observe and know this. This fact within and this fact without: Quantum entanglement IS: No outer Spacetime interaction.
    As within as without. Within: when the observer is known to be the observed and not divided – Without: quantum teletransportation. Within: thought settled and in no inner spacetime known – without: matter(star, planet, etc.). Within: the movement of thought as warping of inner spacetime – without: the movement of show as warping of outer spacetime. Within: when a thought questions itself through thinking looking for an illusory answer of itself (warp of inner spacetime affected by non-seen thoughts (dark matter) to make known the answering thought). Without: gravity (warping of outer spacetime), matter and dark matter interact, orbits. Within: No thought movement – Without: singularity in black hole. Within: The process leading to the non-experience experience of enlightenment – without: the process of the death of a star leading to the the non-experience experience show of the whole out in no outer spacetime. Within: low thought activity, all perception slows down – without: near black hole, outer time slows down. The within and without merges in WITHINOUT. This is a direct experience, rather than an intellectual concept. Don't use thought to try to understand this. That's, the orbit. Rather, observe and know the mechanism of thought within and know the without by observation.

  31. I listened to this on my 1hr+ commute home today, driving through the hills with my windows rolled down. Super relaxing, and the pauses give room to let things sink in. Seems like a pretty cool guy. I'd like to see him do a cooking show.

  36. Although I appreciate this video with all of my heart, I am shocked! That Frank Wilczek did not once credit the great dutch Artist Maurits Cornelis Escher of whose work is used as an example here in this lecture. Wilczek blithely assumes that Escher's brilliant work on perspective and symmetry is somehow ubiquitous in the Art World. It is NOT! Please give credit where it is due, thank you very much

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