The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time

[johnjohnson]

I'm grateful knowing people like this are in the sciences of today. Kudos.

[kam]

I'd never heard of this man before; thank you for putting the spotlight on him. I'm a student of Theoretical Physics myself and I've seen, time and time again, the value of knowledge in a variety of fields. I believe science needs both people who have a great *depth* of knowledge in a given field and people who have a great *breadth* of knowledge across fields. It's also nice to see a prominent scientist promoting the arts too.

[berketozlu]

Bro this man is literally living my dream

[ninjatyu]

I aspire to be a polymath, and hearing someone talk about how all these fields connect is so amazing

I doubt that I can afford college anymore, but god this makes me want to learn again

[aidaririvera]

I think a robust teaching of language and it's variants, (phonetics, linguistics) literature being one, is needed for scientists too, so they can capture those abstract ideas and give them form and create new postulates wishing, ultimately, to breed and sustain a new theory. I was ravished to see you reading Chez Swann by Marcel Proust (he was a painter of times capturing images in a past without cameras). I read several of it parts in France with our french tutors. These tutors helped the Tulane students at La Sorbonne and L'Institute Des Sciences Politiques to strengthen our new french vocabulary and grammar while at Tulane's Junior Year abroad in Paris from 1981-1982. Good luck with your projects! Hoping I will achieve too a degree in Sciences soon. Cordially, Aidita Rivera Torres

[Nightriser]

Thank you for articulating these thoughts about the liberal arts. It's good to know that others feel the same way. Modernity planted the seed of our cultural schizophrenia by dividing academics and students into left-brain, or STEM, and right-brain, or humanities, setting one against the other and declaring one supreme ruler. We were all meant to learn from each other.

[desertshadow]

This is so inspiring and grounded with fundamental truth. How awesome to be able to experience the synergies of multiple disciplines that mesh your career goals and fulfil your curiosity. I also remember spending time reading the How and Why books. Great series to spend time engrossed with new ideas ..

[alganpokemon]

One might want to make a prediction that the future of science is multidisciplinary discovery.

[yaminikathuria]

Thanks Quanta Magazine. I really enjoy the quality content you bring

[varungk]

You can tell he has read the 'Prinviples of Neural Science' by Eric Kandel et al, specifically the chapter on sensation.

[ScottJWaldron]

Interesting interview! He definitely has quite the "toolkit" as he described his knowledge base.

[joanmiquel]

Does anyone know the title of his paper on Occam’s razor and the geometry of mathematical models as explanations?

[Forever._.curious..]

I'm in Physics and AI too 🤩😍 It's incredible to work on such amazing fields

[zarticlife]

I hated mathematics in school and mathematics hated me. Where was this gentleman in my un-inspired paltry academic life? 😔

[neotower]

Oh my god, I've been pursuing general research on the side. I had no idea there was a title of "Theorist". Currently re-visiting a paper I wrote on black holes to consider new ideas regarding quantum particle physics, I'm wondering if the light that is ejected from black leave any traces of the "collapse" that neutrino's suffer within the singularity.

Do the ejected neutrino's contain hidden elements that can teach us more about gravity.

Gravity seems like a fun area to pursue right now, the standard model may be shifted to account for dark matter in the near future.

[mkteku]

Knowledge certainly does NOT have to be CUT that way!

[isarmanipradhan]

Wow! really interesting video to show how society and culture is interlinked to Science. And the professor is very eloquent in this thought and action towards science. Truly remarkable.

[khushib]

This was such an inspirational video.. thanks a lot ❤️… it made my day and had an impact on me..

[sitrakaforler]

Its alwayz a pleasure to see that french authors are still read and liked

[titussteenhuisen]

We have space-time where the fourth dimension time is Integrated in the normal three dimensions.
Is it possible to integrate time with a force? Gravity-time so time becomes a force and isn’t always linear with the same set intervals by definition? (The future time is not exact predictable as time)
We talk about time travel which is not possible physically only in the mind. Gravity is not always constant so gravity-time is not constant.
Gravity is a variable force (in space there are ‘lines’ to travel on between planets) with gravity-time, time becomes a force. if gravity-time can be calculated than there is a most likely future that can be calculated.
At the moment the most likely future is just a guess in the mind.
Can this type of calculation be used for other most likely future problems?