Ed Witten Challenges Lee Smolin's Theory

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[occamlaser]

Feynman's genius was in simplicity. The type of thing that after he explains it, everyone goes, "Well that was obvious", but it wasn't obvious to them before he revealed the explanation. Great magic tricks are like this.

[kareemjesusdevlin]

I always enjoy Smolin’s honesty about his feelings both on his own work and his peers. Just great 👏

[zbig]

Smolin is captivating he’s my favourite his approach to time is downright sublime. Thank you SO MUCH for bringing this to us.

[cgtxzvh]

That interview was amazing. It was hard to watch him, but amazing to listen to... That was one of the highlights of yours...

[rawleystanhope]

Curt may be one of the best interviewers on YouTube

[Bobo-deil]

We need an Ed Witten vs. Eric Weinstein debate. I’d pay good money to watch that 😄

[Mikeduffey_]

Need an Ed Witten x Eric Weinstein TOE discussion

[HouseJawn]

Does lee have parkinson's, or another neuromuscular disease? I noticed it in his conversation with Eric Weinstein on a podcast in the last year or two. Hope he's getting proper medical attention 💕

[pukulu]

Le Smolin seems to have developed the early stages of cerebral palsy, or something similar. His mind seems to be intact but his physical movements look strained, as if he's lost some amount of control over them. His ideas are fabulous, even if occasionally eccentric.

[sonarbangla]

Indeed, Lee Smolin is the smartest, his theory of natural selection of the constants of the parameter space hasn't been refuted in the last 35 years. His 'landscape' is the most captivating scenario, makes Susskind jealous.

[Alan-oulc]

Toe Clipping LOL Curt, I love your embracing the TOE moniker! A sign of greatness!

[crispy]

Curt, I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy that knows Joe Rogan. I'm gonna put a word in for you 😉

[ryanstanley]

Wonderful insight. You’re the man Curt! Keep it up.

[Necrozene]

I recognised the symptoms instantly, but mum had the medication that made her just "freeze" rather than move about.
Breaks my heart a bit. Wonderful man.

[mrtienphysics]

this is one of the most intelligent interviews I seen.

[soulembraced]

You dont have to know quantum theory if you already FEEL quantum
understanding psychically 😊

[markmcarthy]

Too much time is wasted on solidifying facts when the Real reality is that you create your own. Facts aren’t factual in space time

[David]

No thanks Ed. We’ve wasted 30 years of progress in physics thanks to your convoluted nonsense.

[PeterRice-xhcj]

A billionth of a second is far too fast for us to experience, so it’s fair to say that in that short time interval we don’t have a sense of being. The problem is that the time frame we are aware of such as 1 second feeling like 1 second, is joined together by by extremely short time intervals where we don’t have a sense of being, so how do we have a sense o being at all. We also need to be focusing on a colour to have a sense of being even if we just picture something in our heads. If 100 years go by without us having any sense of being, to us it would seem like a blink of an eye, because we wouldn’t have any memory of not having a sense of being, such as an extremely short time interval.
If a group of people were individual zero dimensional points that mixed together to form one single zero dimensional point without any dimensions, every one would agree with what number they are looking at because every one would be one individual point. If zero dimensional points were not in any particular space or not separated by any space, they would be separated by time, each being zero dimensional universes. Our sense of being is zero dimensional, so does that mean we could be individual zero dimensional points. If we don’t have any sense of being such as in an extremely short time interval, we wouldn’t exist, not even being zero dimensional points. What if only two multi point points exist. One was the digit one that all numbers up the number line really are, and the other was a gap or boundary that separates numbers. How do we stop more than 2 points existing. Now let’s say there are 20 scattered points. Now you are an individual point with a consciousness of 20, so by imagining these 20 scattered points you are looking at yourself as a an individual point with a consciousness of 20. Now let’s say there are 90 other individual points mixed in with you. The 90 other points might also think their the ones theorising 20 scattered points. Now let’s say there are a number of scattered points you don’t know how many. You can’t count something you don’t know is there, neither can you count infinity. You can mix an infinite number of zero dimensional points points together because they are zero dimensional. So if you don’t know how many scattered points there are, dose that mean you a looking at the point your in not as a number conscious point, but looking at it as the fact there might be an infinite number of individual points mixed in. An infinite number of individual zero dimensional points should be able to be mixed in to make one single zero dimensional point. There would be no order of how many individual zero dimensional points would be mixed in to form one single zero dimensional point.

[glennpaquette]

How many predictions has Witten made for observable quantities and how many of those predictions have been confirmed experimentally?