Isaac Newton's genius: Don't trust your senses | Jed Buchwald and Lex Fridman

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Jed Buchwald is a historian and philosopher of science at Caltech.

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[TerryNails]

We can't assume that our senses are giving us the entire story so to speak. They do however give us a limited sensory experience that we create a story around that we call reality.

[adrhenners]

i love how he brings the conversation down to my dumb ass "its trippy" literally came out my mouth too lmao

[yobro]

I can see Aliens being able to observe and live in this bedrock of reality and humans being the ones stumbling around in our limited perception trying to contact them. Like plant wondering how humans communicate, we just aren't built to understand.

[raquelcastillo]

I am really starting to love this show.

[psynquantz]

He needed to remind, " ...of course we can't go back and talk to him..." Methinks Unfrozen Newton Brain is part of a Futurama-like Head Museum that is massively parallel and allows the unfrozen heads to communicate with zero latency.

[natanpastoves]

Lex comparing Newton to "Einstein['s level]" - that was funny.
btw, when Newton said "don't trust the senses" - he REALLY meant it, he used to insert a 6-inch sewing needle in between his eyelids and the EYEBALL - and press on the eyeball to change the optical specs of his own eye. I don't think Einstein did anything close to that

[bardoface]

Terrible title. Trust is the wrong word. Our instincts and senses are freakin amazing. I trust them often especially after they save my butt. Of course, double and triple check and make sound judgments.

[renjithravindran]

Lex! Get Donald Huffman, and more things will turn upside-down trippy!

[SCARFACE]

We are nothing more than fish that can't swim, living at the bottom of an ocean of nitrogen!

[CACBCCCU]

Gravitational blue-shift considered as created by the source versus created in transit is the basis for the stretched trampoline model instead of something that compresses toward the gravity center like anti-deSitter space, but both takes collapse by making lightspeed along with light deformation depend vector-like not only on the concentration and gradient (a pseudovector) of gravity but the distribution of crossing quantum energy flows (vectors) creating them. It is Einstein memorialized as the guy who got gravity backward and made everyone cross-eyed. Einstein as the guy who got everyone who mattered for a while to ride his backward-looking gravity gravy train. Einstein as the guy with the gravity theory that after 100 years still requires constant reinforcement in the mass media propaganda market. Einstein as the turtle on the top of a pile on dirt on top of a post. Einstein as the guy who threw all future gravity advances into a spooky black hole.

Someone else has probably claimed satellite clocks actually register no gravitational rate-shift despite satellite signal blue-shifting. Reports vary. On the way to disputing the existence of dark energy, a bio-researcher named Kipreos claimed Einstein got the special part of relativity half-wrong: “Special relativity is supposed to be reciprocal, where both parties will experience the same time dilation, but all the examples that we have right now can be interpreted as directional time dilation. . . If you look at the GPS satellites, the satellite time is slowing down, but according to the GPS satellites, our time is not slowing down—which would occur if it were reciprocal. Instead, our time is going faster relative to the satellites, and we know that because of constant communication with the satellites." He was trashed by the politically-correct always~a~waste~of~time Einstein supremacy talking heads. Some claimed Kipreos was saying the Earth is at the center of the universe, rather than merely observing that Earth creates a stronger gravity field than satellites. But anyway again it's as if light-space naturally compresses toward the center of mass.