Nobody notices that they are in the presence of a certified forklift operator in the room. It was me. Filming the whole conversation.

@chitrodaya

Жыл бұрын

You did a fine Job Sir.

@hammadshami6423

Жыл бұрын

You lucky guy!

@Tstorm731

11 ай бұрын

It’s beautifully filmed. You really capture the human element of these men who push the envelope of what is possible with regard to human cognition. Thanks for doing a great job.

@chris-do7yg

10 ай бұрын

I too am forklift certified sooooo yea

@Shahzad-Khan

10 ай бұрын

Truly in the presence of greatness

It's kinda crazy how Witten, even as a young guy seems to hold court, with these older, eminent physicists almost deferring to him, asking him all the questions. Apart from his obvious physics expertise, Witten's knowledge of history and context of physics is pretty amazing.

@janoycresva276

Ай бұрын

He did get his undergraduate in history after all

Thank you Eric for leading us to this gem!

@timadeusart

Жыл бұрын

..And Jamie 😁

@Perrydog101

Жыл бұрын

Yup

@Perrydog101

Жыл бұрын

So Dirac had already known that if super symmetry was authentic, it would have already been discovered. Reimer's tension scale was super close, but he didn't include time. Mr. Whiten had a moment to go in another direction and didn't listen to Dirac. Edit, Witten

@ianlomas625

Жыл бұрын

And Joe

@beaudarcey9586

Жыл бұрын

@@Perrydog101 agreed, if super symmetry was more than a concept, the tension scale would have included chronological intervals. The inclusion of the conception of time is indeed a dilemma with both Dirac and Reimer, and the tension scale in general. BTW I know nothing about Physics, (I hope I spelled that right)... I wanted to demonstrate how CHARLATANS like Deepak Chopra try to fake their own knowledge of Physics/Quantum Physics, with the sole purpose of appearing smart to sell more bullshit books. (I'm demonstrating it's not difficult to fake, because 99.99% of people cant tell the difference unfortunately)

This kid Witten is going places.

@kdub1242

8 жыл бұрын

+JINXED 63 Yup, and he's the only physicist to ever win the "mathematician's Nobel" - the Fields Medal. Super-mega genius he is.

@johnevans3115

8 жыл бұрын

+K Dub Ed Witten certainly is going places. According to quantum physics he can be in two places at once....

@PolkiSaMalutkie

7 жыл бұрын

You what?

@boxerpop82

7 жыл бұрын

The man created M-theory unifying all former theories of String Theory into one and coming up with a result that produces gravity as a consequence.

@pookz3067

7 жыл бұрын

Even if you take away all of his physics achievements, the mathematical consequences of his physics as well as his pure math papers (he's written quite a few) would make him one of the most reknowned mathematicians in the world. Amazing.

Edward Witten's speeches are like academic essays) 1st paragraph, 2nd paragraph, Transition words, excellent grammar

@oldoddjobs

3 жыл бұрын

He can speak, wow

@kundakaps

Жыл бұрын

@@Fabio-zd6oi Yeah good luck though. Only two Nobel Prize winners in the sciences have had their kids do so as well.

@lukelively8380

Жыл бұрын

I'm only speculating, but I think he may have a photographic memory. He occasionally seems to drift off to another place and speaks as if he's reading from a paper.

@Postdisclosureworld

Жыл бұрын

@@lukelively8380 That's incredible to even contemplate.

This has got to be the most intelligent conversation ive ever heard

@realBlue2024

2 күн бұрын

Or will...

Oh my god! Watching witten and Salam have a argument is like seeing Plato and Aristotle have a dialogue.

@s4nt1ss

4 жыл бұрын

Not even close man

@cymoonrbacpro9426

4 жыл бұрын

Alan Fertom Total futility, it went nowhere!

@fernandosouto659

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful analogy...

@edwardjones2202

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@perfectoid8376

3 жыл бұрын

i dint know what you guys saw but what i observed was that my buddy Witten scored 1 in the women's department and 0 for my men Salam

Great respect for Dr.Abdus Salam and Edward Witten. Witten looks so young in this video.

People like this are simply a gift to humanity for this whole species to progress further

All dead except one, but yet here we are 36 years later, watching them as they are being alive talking to each-other for us to watch and listen. It's what you leave behind when you die that counts, if you do, you never really die.

@someone1059

2 жыл бұрын

sometimes unbelievable I mean our forefathers would never haver concieved such technological revolution as this digital revolution through which we are able to see the masters

@user-hz8cb7sc1r

7 ай бұрын

Thanks to Claude Shannon for our new found immortality

@MS-fg8qo

4 ай бұрын

Everything and everyone will fall into oblivion eventually. For some people like Witten, it will just take longer but zoom out on time and you won't see any difference between an ape, the average human being, Witten and any supposed super intelligence.

The sheer breadth and intensity of Witten's understanding of both physics theory and history is incredible.

@nunofontes9775

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@benefactor4309

5 жыл бұрын

He studied history as an undergraduate

@naimulhaq9626

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Very interesting discussion. Would have been more interesting if Penrose's massless photon end,of our Big bang before the next eon.

@matthawksworth

Жыл бұрын

Just amazing

@aaronmarchand999

Жыл бұрын

But yet he was somehow blinded by the utterly ret*rded idea of string theory, and helped lead physics down a long road to nowhere for multiple decades... strange how smart people can be so stupid, in his case with massive negative repercussions that have even stagnated the progress of humanity

After 4 years of this interview, Witten won the fields medal and you can see his passion and enthusiasm for Maths and Physics here...Sadly Abdusslam the noble laureate passed away in 1996 ...

@kaatnikaatni9012

Жыл бұрын

Wrong Ed written got field medal before this,get ur facts right!

@ntak7716

Жыл бұрын

@@kaatnikaatni9012 and you get your spelling right,it’s Witten.

@DaMonster

Жыл бұрын

@@kaatnikaatni9012 the description says the talk was in 1986 and he won fields in 1990

@AbhayPeshin

Жыл бұрын

after his death his grave was desecrated and while he was alive he was forced to live as a non muslim in Pakistan. If the pakistanis knew theire historic lore they would know all the troubles thry face now is because of the bad karma acrrued!

@DaggerSecurity

Жыл бұрын

@@AbhayPeshin why? what was the drama that caused them to treat him like that?

I love how we can see the Witten ponder something, smile like a kid thinking about if he should present this idea, then he sends it.

This version of Witten is so impressive. I don’t think non mathematician/physics types realise. this guy is 🤯

I feel honored to have been witness to such a great conversation. Thank you.

33:29 brilliant camera-work

@Agnes135

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@-_Nuke_-

4 жыл бұрын

yes wtf xD

@lancebaldi9548

4 жыл бұрын

30:04

@Krispio666

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao the guy got bored of staring at their faces I guess

@robertpirsig5011

3 жыл бұрын

Expression is in the hands.

Edward Witten is a remarkable human being with a mind of epic proportions.

@MrWikimat

4 жыл бұрын

Like The Rolling Stones...

Absolutely loved it

@CD-123

Жыл бұрын

Iitian??

@bustofpallasathena

Жыл бұрын

@@CD-123 bet your sweet fatoot ; not

Before I ever heard Witten speak I just saw him in pictures and thought he looked like a badass who'd probably have a baritone, authoritative voice.

I get goosebumps when I listen to this conversation. I only understand it partly, but the notion that by the privilege of listening this you are at the forefront of science and understanding is simply stunning

@amartya6636

6 жыл бұрын

Martin Stojanovik Absolutely..

@jamesfrancese6091

4 жыл бұрын

Martin Stojanovik This conversation is over 30 years old, and is mostly breakroom chatter

@matthew01234

Жыл бұрын

This is 33 years old. It still feels like the forefront though so I get why you say that.

@davismavis2834

8 ай бұрын

You only partly understand this, yet feel compelled to comment on your lack of understanding. Weird.

@carpathianhermit7228

8 ай бұрын

​@@davismavis2834how so

Abdus Salam and Ed Witten at the same table. Two of the greatest minds who ever lived.

I too think Young Professor Witten's knowledge and sense of history of Physics and math (etc.) is, among other things, what makes him so charming and likeable... plus his humility, humor, and genuine love of discovery! ❤️😊

Literally some of the greatest minds just sitting together discussing the nature of reality at the must fundamental level….just purely fascinating.

Every few no longer I come back and watch this video. It's surprisingly relevant

one of the greatest minds sitting in one room and discussing the origin of ideas. this is so beautiful. One can only be filled with wonder and amazement.

@ZoeTheCat

9 жыл бұрын

I wish we had equivalent Dirac, Schrodinger, Pauli, Bohr, Einstein, etc videos.

@gizsim

7 жыл бұрын

fuck yeah, that would be SO awesome!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this with us, simply wonderful!

The best video I've seen in a long time, thank you for the upload

What an honor to watch the great minds together!

So fortunate to hear the conversation amongst these great personalities...

Witten’s knowledge of physics, math and history runs circles around his piers. I’m convinced he must have a photographic memory because his recall of extreme detail is uncanny. And most exciting is his passion and love of the subjects and intellect, he gets almost giddy when he talks. You would expect fire to come out of his ears at times. His thought is palpable.

@qwertyzxcv123

Жыл бұрын

He took undergraduate studies of history, journalism and linguistics before moving on to Physics and Mathematics.

@matthew01234

Жыл бұрын

I'm not a conspiracy theorist and this is just a joke but if there is even one hyper-intelligent alien masquerading as a human on this planet I am certain Ed Witten is it. That was just a joke though. I did say "if" and that's an impossible if.

OMG the brilliance of this conversation is mind blowing

Abdus is like teacher seeing his extraordinarily brilliant student.

@robertpirsig5011

3 жыл бұрын

Witten ain't the student here I wouldn't say.

@chetnasirodaria3579

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertpirsig5011 I am just trying to give analogy by seeing video. Like teacher questioning student

@timewalker6654

8 ай бұрын

​@@robertpirsig5011r u fokn stupid

@tw0ey3dm4n

7 ай бұрын

Salaam is the father figure here for sure testing his son, pushing him for answers. I love it

Wow how incredible to have stumbled upon this. Thank you to the uploaded.

So many of the most brilliant physics minds in a discussion - just AWESOME !!!

amazing to hear this!! thanks for posting

this is just amazing....all beautiful minds in one room...

Utmost respect for Dr. Abdus Salam. One of the greatest minds of 20th Century.

How much we miss in today's society with the scientists of today! We went from Dennis Sciama and Abdus Salam to Neil de Grasse Tyson and Lawrence Krauss, a true loss for today's youth!

@ZoeTheCat

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Not many world class physicists have been successful at communicating to the masses. That's why Tyson, Kaku, et al get so much exposure. Feynman has probably been the BEST ever to communicate to the general public as an upper echelon WORLD CLASS physicist. I'm afraid that "today's youth" aren't that interested. Social media continues the dumbing down of the world.

@fredrika9556

9 жыл бұрын

Would it not be more accurate to say that we went from Sagan to Degrasse Tyson and from Abdus Salam, for exampel, to some of the many fine physicists of today who also primarily do scientific research?

@dr_IkjyotSinghKohli

9 жыл бұрын

Fredrik A Tyson has not published a paper in more than 2 decades. When he did publish a paper, I believe he was the 4th or 5th co-author... He does zero scientific research today.

@dr_IkjyotSinghKohli

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yes. I very much agree. Not only that, but social media has also made everyone into a scientific genius, so everyone thinks they know everything.

@ZoeTheCat

9 жыл бұрын

Ikjyot Singh Kohli There are some great physicist writing books out there for the masses (Weinberg, Lederman, etc), but the spokesman roles are consumed by Tyson, Kaku and a number of merely competent physicists. I think these spokesmen realized their limitations in the upper echelon of physics and decided to cash in instead. I don't have too much of a problem with that. We can still get great courses from Witten, Susskind and others. The thing that infuriates me the most are the quacks and utter crackpots out there who spread misinformation/conspiracy for profit. Many militant theists also add to the spread of misinformation.

Holy shit! It was quite a while ago when I received the answers to sooo many questions I had about physics, mathematics, and coming up with theories! THANK YOU for uploading this.

The sheer knowledge, understanding and genius in this conversation is tangible even after 3 decades. Beautiful. Brilliant.

Dr. Abdus Salam, the genius. ♥️

So incredibly rare to have a video of a deep technical discussion between the best minds on the planet.

Thanks for uploading this. can you please make closed caption available ? i have a friend that would love to understand it but he's def.

Loved the conversation. this is more than 30 years old and feels like I am watching it live.

Nice to see scientists talking seriously about real science. And, Edward Witten is truly brilliant

The Brilliant Abdus Salam in his elements. Great to see all these geniuses talking. Respect from India.

@atlas7425

8 жыл бұрын

Me, too. I like that discussion very much. Are you a physicist or just a physics enthusiast ?

@garamiglm2026

8 жыл бұрын

Just a physics enthusiast, i am afraid, with a superficial knowhow on physics. ! I hope to delve deeper into these topics someday.

@atlas7425

8 жыл бұрын

Harami Glm I am a physics enthusiast, too. I am going to study maths or physics some day and till that I try to get more knowledge.

@yotty97

8 жыл бұрын

i dont like indian men, i think they're annoying.

@garamiglm2026

8 жыл бұрын

Why dont you teach 'your' men not to meddle in affairs of innocent people ? You are ofcourse free to have your opinion..

To think these conversations about String Theory took place in the mid-80s and then about 10 years later Witten would complete his M Theory research that showed that all the different superstring theories of this era were in fact all the same, in their limiting cases, of one unified theory!!!

Absolutely fascinating to hear them talk about gravitational wave detection

I think Witten would cringe at how romanticized he is in this comment section. I also think it is what hampers successful communication between himself and most people today. Not to take away from his stellar achievements, of course, he is brilliant. What is fascinating or surprising to me is how understable geniuses like him are, the same impression I have of Einstein. They do not have the airy view of themselves that people tend to have about them.

@edwardjones2202

4 жыл бұрын

Do you understand String Theory?

@robertpirsig5011

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. He would be confounded that people are marvelling at him rather than the ideas.

@SoundsSilver

2 жыл бұрын

How you can watch any interview of Witten and not see that he exudes narcissism I do not know.

@geometerfpv2804

9 ай бұрын

​@@SoundsSilverHe's literally just calmly stating his scientific imaginings. How can you take that as narcissistic unless you are one of those people that think intelligence is arrogance? That's a profoundly American idea, cultures in other places don't have that association.

Interesting to visit 30 years after having a shared office next to Salam's. At. 11:00 Salam makes a reference to Chris Isham who never got into strings as far as I remember. At 19:00 Witten mentions Tom Kibble's cosmic strings - a beautiful idea, very big around 1990, not borne out by experiment. Kibble really deserved the Nobel for the Higgs mechanism for the later 1967 paper (Weinberg thought so). I do recall Salam giving a seminar on Chern-Simons which Witten had been pushing. And brings back memory of E8 - every 2nd seminar used to be on that.

@smalam64

Жыл бұрын

Your name sir

This is the first time I've heard Abdus Salam.

I didn’t understand shit about what they’re saying but i watched the whole thing and I’m extremely fascinated by the sheer genus of Edward Witten, those people really make you feel dumb as hell

And then, twenty-two years later, Witten has to debate with ... Unzicker!

Awesome to see their hopes at 40mins fulfilled this year :)

Abdus Salam, indeed what a personality.

It’s weird how these guys are actually intimidating, their intelligence could melt your brain

Amazing video, thank you. I was lucky enough to be a student at Imperial College London and meet Abdus Salam when he won his Nobel prize in 1979. Also met Kibble who is mentioned a few times. Interestingly, they predict the detection of gravitational waves within 10 years - it took about 30 in the end.

@not_co_co

5 ай бұрын

Nerd

@adityadhardwivedi819

8 күн бұрын

​@@not_co_co nerd is new normal for gen z

So honored to see Abdul Salam speak here,

This whole conversation is delightful !

Who knows then,one day this smart kid wiould be world smartest person or would be one of the great Theoretical physicist,and only physicist ever who won field madal in mathematics (equivalent to nobel prize). Ed Witten is a giant in his field.!! He is actually a genius.! 💜❤❤

The occasion of this conversation seems to be the day when Witten was awarded the first Dirac Medal, as Salam said at 4:25, "Dirac, who we were celebrating today by giving Witten the first Dirac Medal." The award was announced on August 8, 1985. The ceremony may have happened in Feb 1986?

I always come to this video very often just to see Ed's talk

Ed is 35 years of age here; a mature physicist and not a kid.

Isn't it fantastic that we have free access to this video? 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

19:27 the eyebrow raise of Edward Witten

I love how a young Ed Witten holds the older guard of physics captive with his passion for sharing scientific nuance, beyond what they may have intuited.

“I’m not late - given the time dilation of postulated quantum gravity in a Higgs particle accelerator I’m early in a way you could never understand.” -Witten

Written and Salam should have teamed up to become WWE world tag team championships.

Fields medal winner Edward Witten with Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam made my day.

Interesting to hear these long form conversations on things not seen by the human eye.

This is GOLD ! Thank You KZread !

Its a grate privilege that to see the geniuses talking .... thank you ......actually I thing that we are in the era of converting the mathematics to a physics .......and that indeed like a great victory to a human kind, it seem as there is a continuous sound saying that there is a deep connection between our biological system and the universe....... it seem we are not in the era where we make analysing for the physics of nature by the mathematics only ......

I had the same conversation with my friends in the pub the other day. People seems to get very passionate about it.

@realBlue2024

2 күн бұрын

Humm...I don't want to be a fly on your wall.

I'm proud to say that I understand some of the words they said.

I have no clue what they're talking about but it's fascinating.

Great video! Is there video of the Dirac Medals being awarded?

Amazing !

legends are here

"The plasma physics involved would look rather complicated; Complicated enough that I certainly would never come to understand it myself" Classic Ed Witten! Borderline sarcasm wrapped so beautifully in a soup of realism. Dear Ed......please don't die until you are at least 400 years old.

@pickitypopsnickitylovejone6558

5 жыл бұрын

Great observation, but I do not think it is partially sarcastic, I think he speaks from a very human perspective. To us he may seem the intellectual god, but to himself only a human with limitations to his comprehension. That indicates to me a very healthy dosage of humility and, as you accurately state, realism on his part. He does not assume that he'd understand or be proficient at just anything, especially not in physics (specifically "obscure" physics).

@Neonb88

9 ай бұрын

He may be much smarter than us, and he knows many things we don't know. But he doesn't know wayyyyy more things than he knows

I love how Witten talks with his eyes half closed like he’s really thinking hard about stuff. It reminds me about me when I’m thinking hard about stuff and I try to relax so that my brain isn’t all overworking and missing the answers.

I would like to ask the same thing. Closed caption or subtitles... Please!! English is not my first language and I'm working very hard to understand some of the things that are being said in this video. Help me! =)

Those glasses make Witten look 3 times more clever than the average person already :P

This is wonderful! Does anybody have a link to a transcript?

This should happen a lot more.

my countryman (not gonna mention that my nation disowns him for his religious beliefs) , Abdus Salam, the brilliant man.

Imagine this is your group of friends and you're one of them, and this is your conversation while drinking in a bar..

I think Lie was originally looking for the Galois theory of differential equations of some sort? Peter Olver talks about it in his very well-written book on Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations.

It's wild that 4 years after this conversation the Hubble telescope was launched and absolutely blew everyone's mind. Gonna have to go and find each of their reactions to hubble now 😂 great vid!

Love and Respect to Mr Sciama

These peopels are heros.made this wold very easy.thanks sir .i stute you....

@24:00 "Galactic center with threads coming out and the threads are 100 parsecs long" That's like 8 times the Kessel Run made by the Millennium Falcon.

Beautiful minds

what a brilliant young mind Witten was at the time...

Who knows then that kid,one day will be world smartest person,a great Theoretical physicist,a great mind..!!❤💜❤💜

Very interesting discussion, even though at times it was difficult to understand them due to the quality of the audio.

Whether string theory is true or not, Ed is such an impressive mind, i'm quite inspired by him!

@samman350

3 жыл бұрын

Hear what you're saying: you're revering a person whose theories are esotheric, and have never been tested with reality. No doubt his brilliance at math, but you should be utterly sceptical of his contributions to physics if they have never been tested with reality (i.e. an experiment).

@gaulindidier5995

3 жыл бұрын

@@samman350 Oh I don't think String Theory or M theory is it either. Witten is still the man though!

@samman350

3 жыл бұрын

@@gaulindidier5995 why is he 'the man'?

@samman350

3 жыл бұрын

@Julez O'Neil I get no responses that are substantial, I only get people calling me names and to 'stfu'. This is the same reaction that strongly religious people have when you question their beliefs. I'm not insulting anyone, I respectfully question the relevance and justification of the practice of string theory.

@samman350

3 жыл бұрын

@Julez O'Neil 'understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest', 'private, confidential'. Just try to read a quantum gravity paper. How does this definition not apply?

Ed Witten's undergraduate degree was in History!

@bryanlaughland3001

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was

@Angen77

4 жыл бұрын

@K2Karakoram his father was a physicist,, and he had many of the requirements from the diverse courses in the degree, and because he's one of the smartest people alive. . his father is actually still alive.. age 98.. he explains much in this video... kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmqtutWnhKmsXbg.html

@HawthorneHillNaturePreserve

3 жыл бұрын

This would explain a lot. His knowledge of physics, math and history runs circles around his piers. I’m convinced he must have a photographic memory because his recall of extreme detail is uncanny. And most exciting is his passion and love of the subjects and intellect, he gets almost giddy when he talks. You would expect fire to come out of his ears at times. His thought is palpable.

Please allow for captions to be added.

This was 1986: A time if maximum optimism. Salam's SU(2)xU(1) had just unified the electroweakforce, SU(3) would soon be confirmed with 3-jet events. Gauge symmetry was king. It was pretty clear SU(5) was the GUT, and then into gravity, and it would be super. Well no. protons didn't decay, su5 was wrong, 30y later the Higgs was found but no SUSY...we are lost. There's been some fun in the neutrino sector, but otherwise: nothing new has happened in particle physics. Looking back, I put the W, Z (Salam) discovery (1985) as the beginning of the end of the glory years of particle physics...and this interview capture that optimism perfectly. Ofc Sciama hints at where the action would be: astrophysics. Cygnus X-3 is a bust, but all the mind bending data have come from above since this was filmed.

@Eric714Trading

Жыл бұрын

I was just about to type this out myself

I love how there's levels to genius. 3 brilliant minds listening to a clearly more intelligent human, and they all know it... I wonder how many conversations Einstein had with his peers discussing relativity and impressing everyone.