I very much appreciated Lee Smolin's book "The Trouble with Physics - The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next".

As always, thank you so much for the great video! In fact, Robert seems to know the Standard Model of particle physics and its beyond very well...

I like his more philosophical approach to science. A breath of fresh air in today's world

THIS was a great piece that clearly explains the issue at hand in Physics.

Another excellent video on this topic - thanks! Once we are able to define and comprehend infinity we might arrive at a unified ‘theory of everything’. That might require an infinite amount of 🤔..... uh.... time?

Lee smolin is the goat of explaining!

How exciting to hear from the brightest minds ,thank you for sharing .

Your show gives me joy always.

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

What a perfect response.

@stevedavis1437

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful comment - "Physical constants represent a state of ignorance" it's so exact, e.g. speed of light, fine structure constant, mass of the electron etc etc, these must all be explained to move forward.

It would be good to know the original date of this interview. Are you still stuck? L. Dove Arbiter - Universal Law

7:51 I need to deepen my understanding about , how gauge theories are used to describe particle physics , however my intuition tell me that quantum field theory , requires more that gauge theories .

Brilliant. Simply brilliant - thank you for this

Dr.Lee Smolin is a great rebel.He has been searching for his dream to a long time , the dream i.e.unification of forces but at the same time he predicts that may be no step wouldn't find out in futer.It's indicates the mystery will remain in physics or not.

How about is not an hierarchy , but the forces we know are the same only scaled down or up in strength from the elementary particles base on different rule we don't know yet. The symmetry of charge is just a local phenomenon that has the origin the same particles. As we observed the protons and electrons do not decay.

In addition to hierarchy problem for forces, may also be how the forces piece together?

Maybe the issue is that we want to unify everything, when we dont know everything. I guess theres a few puzzle pieces still to be explord before we can see the whole picture

My theory of everything is: Honesty = Truth

Do the constants of nature have characteristics or ramifications in common?

The concept of elementary particle is highly contradictory, as all there is has dimension/volume. Maybe a ..multiverse.., but i rather look in to how materia is organised. Can be hierarchies to infinity with ever changing properties and so on.

There’s too many’s, why ! in our nature’s & our life’s, and it’s our duty’s to find the answers, and we have to be patient, and focus on the subjects, and that’s taking more time’s, the unknowns are huge !

Is gravity the only force that goes beyond quantum field to classical reality (relativity) and could this be why it is much weaker than electromagnetism and nuclear forces?

Was this before or after the Higgs discovery? 2012?

String theory is like astrology with advanced math.

It's such a shame that so many people who contribute to these comments sections are often too lazy to go to the trouble of understanding the subject and prefer to offer their half baked mystical thoeries or perversely choose to criticise the scientists for not having all the answers mainly due to their misconceptions regarding the scientific process. Such egotism and rampaging Dunning Kruger behavior is quite depressing.

Good morning!☀️

Guest what! Now you have a new force to play with 😁

All the answers to our questions are out there , science is the method we use to discover the questions and ultimately lays the solid foundations to the final question which we may be a long way off from knowing

@jamesbentonticer4706

3 жыл бұрын

Well put. I think we're a long long way from ultimate truth too.

@chrisc1257

3 жыл бұрын

You are here because 1) ignorance, 2) consequence or 3) in search of something trivial and moot.

@fraser_mr2009

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbentonticer4706 seems like you're looking for some excuse to place god there. look at nature around you... things start with simplicity. adding something complicated at the beginning just adds more questions. whatever started this universe they were very small. "simplicity"... very small but the amount of energy released unimaginable. we see things colliding/merging and releasing huge amounts of energy all the time...

Everything can’t be judged until we know everything. Do you guys know everything yet?

LHC? this mustve been an old one.

Robert or Bob or Bobby as we call De Niro just to let you know we already know the answer.

A theory TOE, is the fundamental theory of the Nature = everything.

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Id argue that Einstein naming the other component of the universe(materia with it's properties) a fourth dimension was a mistake like naming the initial state of the observable universe just before BB a singularity. Mistakes because these have leaded to certain absurdities like ..extra dimensions.. while trying to formulate the structure(&/properties of materia) of the universe(how materia is organised in this one infinite universe) in the field of mathematics and singularity in the ..beginning.. has diverted the thought processes of scientists to determine an absolute beginning for the universe which is absurd and outrageous imo. No multiverse, but just one infinite space with a certain amount of materia which can never be proven due to a fact, that one can never observe infinity. All is natural i.e. materia. No reason why the universe exists, because there never was a beginning. My guess, life and intelligent life is a common feature of the universe, but wonder how many life forms have ever.. become eternal forms of life, if that's even an option(a cyclical universe, where everything is reorganised once in a while for ex.). Imo, we get some very basic level facts wrong about the world, thus wondering why anything exists etc. trying to find a theory of everything, as we can not observe reality as it is, but just go further step by step like Smolin said. Also, consciousness is just a concept for any intelligent unit to understand reality i.e. nothing mystical etc. supernatural about it as nothing is.

These are some of the most narcissistic comments I've ever seen.

gravity.....when they first figure that out....

Standard Model has been on the wrong step from the 1st step. Matter isn't particle without observer at begining of the bigbang....so how did everything began with particles fluctuations?

Occam's razor would challenge the complexity of particle physics in it's current form. There's a much simpler explanation but it seems everyone has tunnel vision. I'm sure there are those in the know whether or not they want us to discover it for ourselves as a benevolent attempt to keep us from destroying ourselves or they are maliciously hiding it in an attempt to maintain a hierarchical power structure is uncertain to me at this time. But I would hope the prior to be true. ✌️👍

@roqsteady5290

3 жыл бұрын

Or, using Occams's razor a little more appropriately, there is an even simpler theory that dispenses with all your conspiracy theories: Science is hard and the scientists don't know everything, but are working on it.

@jc.1191

3 жыл бұрын

@@roqsteady5290 👍

Onest thinking.

Gravity isn't a force, right? Great video

@chrisc1257

3 жыл бұрын

Gravity forces the grand illusion of place in history.

Alien Science Officer: Sir, should we spend any more time here with these humans? Alien Commander: No. They only perceive 4 of the 31 dimensions and and think they have a theory of 5% of the universe when it's really 0.005%, Let's move on till we find life that meets our minimum definition of intelligence.

I think they already have the answer. Lee just said it without realising. When they complicate the theory to make it more like our world, they find they have to add more arbitrary parameters. So could it be that, someone with intention and intelligence, let's say God, added the parameters arbitrarily with the end goal of the whole thing resulting in our world and how it operates?

Master class in grand deception.

"So why then is it a positive step if you have more parameters than you had before?" -RLK This question shows why RLK is truly a philosopher and not a scientist. A scientific view of the natural world tries to ask questions with measurable answers and no bias on what the result maybe. Even a negative result is useful in scientific inquiry. I think philosophers or at least RLK try to get final answers without doing scientific measurements or observations and try to use pure human reason to get answers and I think it's clear RLK demands answers to poorly defined metaphysical questions that give less regard for what describes real nature and more emphasis on to what gives them a satisfying answer. I asked a scientist "what will you do once you've answered the question on your research project?" and his answer surprised me. He told me, "For every question we answer in science we get MORE questions.". While I enjoy watching CTT videos I can't help but pity RLK because despite his brilliant mind he really doesn't get the paradigm of scientific enquiry. I suspect the path of skepticism in philosophy just leads to pure madness.

@7:45 - "Theory is important but experiment is even more important. Experiment is when we find out which ideas, which guesses are true." There you go people, he just admitted that "Theories" are guesses. The real question is: How many of these guesses are wrong? (eg.. Big Bang Guess, the Guess of Evolution, Multiverse Guess, etc., etc., etc.) It's sad that so many guesses are pretending to be science.

4:10 - "Is an answer absolutely required?". "Sure". Religion vs science in a nutshell.

maybe instead of making next step some steps back should be done?

@roqsteady5290

3 жыл бұрын

We all learn Newtonian mechanics first.

@matterasmachine

3 жыл бұрын

@@roqsteady5290 maybe even more steps back? Back to that point when relativity principle was created? Doppler effect is a way to transform laws of physics when moving from one inertial frame of reference to another.. So where is that relativity?

Whilst meditating, I perceived a pulse of thought that set the intention of infinite potential. The next pulse of thought organised energy around the coincidence of rational and irrational numbers.

Metaphysical Hierarchy: Mystic...beautiful dreaming Magical...harmony Musical...language of music Artistic...pictures/ metaphors Poetic...language of words Numerical...we are here Mystics create the most joy (smart). Accountants create the least joy (ignorant). Yet accountants rule the world (ignorant). Ever notice that beings who speak in the language of music can create joy that energizes thousands of beings to celebrate and dance? Ever notice that corpses who speak with brain numbing, soul sucking numbers do the exact opposite ? Sanction, starve, torture, murder and bomb (wheeeee)! Ignorance (hate) is bliss for vampires (greed). But not much fun for the humans (love) who they are sucking the joy out of. Light and truth (love) cause vampires (greed) great pain and suffering. That's why the words society (socialism), "care for all" and "green new deal" cause the counting corpses that rule US such misery. Like bats that fly around in the darkness of caves... Vampires (greed) are "blind" and cannot "see" the ignorance of transforming heaven (peace) into hell (war). The counting corpses are also blind and cannot see the ignorance of transforming this paradise planet lifeboat into a polluted pig pen. The alien monsters are "desperate" to control a darkship called the Whitehouse. Because working in the dark to suck the joy out of life and devour earth is the only way that the loveless, lifeless parasites can survive and thrive. Unlike earthling poets, artists, musicians, mystics, human beings and creators of joy...the counting corpses that rule US can't create harmony (real intelligence) because vampires (greed) are ignorant (dead). Darkness (business) exists so that stars like US have a place to shine in heaven (joy, beauty and harmony). Stars like US don't exist to be sucked out of heaven by a giant black hole in space called "greed" and it's ignorance (hate). Also, Love (god) spent billions of years creating this paradise planet lifeboat so take her miraculous works of fine art called "life" have a beautiful place to "be". Love didn't spend so much time creating this paradise planet lifeboat to be depreciated, hated, polluted, and destroyed in a brief moment by hostile alien vampires (greed) and their ignorance (hate).

'Theory of everything', is Stuff-blinded speculation. What is need'ed is the Analysis of the Eternal Life. And it actually exist. but You must find it by your self, if You are serious interested.

Yahoo!!!! I'm not 1st🙄😂😂 Ps - I'm a (lagocicate) 😉

@jamesbentonticer4706

3 жыл бұрын

What does lagocicate mean???

@catherinelh1979

3 жыл бұрын

What does lagocicate mean?

@user-jt6ej7vh2p

3 жыл бұрын

logocicate???

@jamesbentonticer4706

3 жыл бұрын

I'm very curious I really want to know what that word means!

@catherinelh1979

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbentonticer4706 I’ve tried to find out and have absolutely no clue at al 😂

Every physical thing is forced to be what it is and made to do what it does. No physical thing can make or direct itself without being given autonomy. So every physical thing is contingent on what is not contingent. Everything we observe is the result of what we cannot observe. The visible universe is evidence and the result of what is not visible.

@jareknowak8712

3 жыл бұрын

What autonomy?

@JungleJargon

3 жыл бұрын

@@jareknowak8712 What did you decide to eat this morning?

@jareknowak8712

3 жыл бұрын

@@JungleJargon What decide? Food was already on the table, when i woke up. You believe in free will?

@JungleJargon

3 жыл бұрын

@@jareknowak8712 You have no choice?

@jareknowak8712

3 жыл бұрын

@@JungleJargon Free will, autonomy, accident and choice is just an illusion. Free will exists only in human terms, not in absolute terms. I had no choice, food was ready.

Any so-called *"Theory of Everything"* that does not include an explanation for the existence of life, mind, and consciousness (which are absolutely the most important features of reality) is lame, and is certainly NOT a theory of "EVERYTHING."

@jareknowak8712

3 жыл бұрын

TRUE TOE will explain much more complicated things than a soup of carbon, called life, and the function of brain, called consciousness.

@TheUltimateSeeds

3 жыл бұрын

@@jareknowak8712 According to certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, it is quite possible that without the presence of consciousness being involved in the collapse of the wavefunction, then that three-dimensional "soup of carbon" would exist as a spread-out wave of superpositioned (positionless) probabilities that has no reality as we understand reality to be.

@williamesselman3102

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheUltimateSeeds according to the only concrete evidence known to humankind.

They're lost in fale theology.

010 I.S. the mathematical G.U.T. of nature. From 0 we come to zero we go in between vastness of nothing ~ ness ~ Timing the Time of the Infinite.

This guy thinks there are only 4 forces NOOB

Nowadays theories are just complicated lies.

He is scientist? Think so not. He dont know his model partículas works.Be honest man .Are you really scientis .mediocre video

@jareknowak8712

3 жыл бұрын

❓ Google: Lee Smolin

Incomplete theory

@clownworld-honk410

3 жыл бұрын

That's why it's called a theory and not a fact !

@user-jt6ej7vh2p

3 жыл бұрын

Can you complete it?

@ujjwalbhattarai8670

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-jt6ej7vh2p by respect I want to say yes. But it egos of scientists are higher. Politic is caused. Lie, and fake, ego and maximum desired of achieving something by fake marketing education is existing. This is scientist problems. Education is beings business. Dreaming of achieving own living standard quality in the name of gift and price scientists are being here. Scientist are searching a word so that they can make genius self. Discovering word is ok. Word only exist but not something at all. In the name of being genius fake discovery and fake spreetig of something is existing. in the name of IQ showing down others existing. Political pressure is existing in education. Up to when it will not removed. Just best to be quite. Education is business 100% profitable business. Benefits of education business is in 2%people hand in world.

EXPANDING UNIVERSE. IN HOLY QUR'AN ALMIGHTY ALLAH THE MASTER CREATOR Who can claim 1350 years ago that the universe is expanding? والسماء بنينها بايد و انا لموسعون o " And the heaven We built it with power, and indeed, We are the expander " (And We it is Who make the vast extent, thereof ) (Qur'an, 51:47) Until 1931, physicist Albert Einstein believed that the universe was static. An urban legend attributes this change of perspective to when American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed Einstein his observations of redshift in the light emitted by far away nebulae - today known as galaxies. After Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding, Einstein called the cosmological constant his "greatest blunder." At around the same time, larger telescopes were being built that were able to accurately measure the spectra, or the intensity of light as a function of wavelength, of faint objects. It is clearly mentioned in Holy Qur'an : " And the heaven We constructed with power, and indeed, We are the expander " (Qur'an, 51:47) Almighty Allah is the Master Creator of the whole universe.He says: Should He not know what He created? And He is the Subtile, the Aware. The knowledge of scientists is very limited and poor to understand the universe!! But theirs constant efforts to understand the universe is highly admirable and they are praiseworthy indeed. DR.MOHAMMAD LAEEQUE NADVI Ph.D. (Arabic Lit.) M.A. Arabic Lit.+Islamic Studies) DIRECTOR Amena Institute of Islamic Studies & Analysis A Global & Universal Resdarch on Institute, Donate to promote this Institute SBI A/C30029616117 Kolkata,Park Circus Branch nadvilaeeque@gmail.com Thanks

@rolandmccarthy1780

3 жыл бұрын

The first important point to consider is the actual statements of the Qur’an, and whether they have been honestly presented. Harun Yahya quotes the Qur’an as saying in 51:47 “It is We Who have built the universe with (Our creative) power, and, verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it.” Is that a fair translation of the ayah in question? Well, not according to the three most highly regarded English translations generally available. Arabic: وَالسَّمَاء بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ Yusuf Ali: With power and skill did We construct the Firmament: for it is We Who create the vastness of space. Pickthal: We have built the heaven with might, and We it is Who make the vast extent (thereof). Shakir: And the heaven, We raised it high with power, and most surely We are the makers of things ample. Transliteration: wa-s-samāʾa banaynāhā bi-ʾaydin wa-ʾinnā la-mūsiʿūn Quran 51:47 Not one of them contains the idea of an ongoing expansion of the universe. "We built it" (بَنَيْنَاهَا, banaynāhā) is a verb in the perfect (past) form [1]. In fact, none of them refers to the “universe” at all, but to the heavens or firmament, in contrast to the ayah immediately following which discusses the earth: Arabic: وَالأَرْضَ فَرَشْنَاهَا فَنِعْمَ الْمَاهِدُونَ Yusuf Ali: And We have spread out the (spacious) earth: How excellently We do spread out! Pickthal: And the earth have We laid out, how gracious is the Spreader (thereof)! Shakir: And the earth, We have made it a wide extent; how well have We then spread (it) out. Transliteration: wa-l-ʾarḍa farašnāhā fa-niʿma l-māhidūn Quran 51:48 The dualism of the heaven and the earth is a recurring theme in the Qur’an, and to ancient Arabs they together would have been considered the entire universe. And generally, when one is referred to, the other marches right along with it in the repetitive pattern of most Arabic poetry. The problem here is that since identical verb forms and grammar are used for the last word in these two verses, to include tense, how can Harun Yahya claim the first ayah refers to an ongoing, continuing expansion of the heavens, without also concluding that the second must also refer to an ongoing, continuing spreading of the earth? The word al mahidoon الْمَهِدُونَ (the spreaders) in verse 48 is from the root mahada مهد which means to make plain, even, smooth, spread a bed[2]. Also from this root is the noun mahdan, meaning a bed or even expanse, which appears in other verses about the creation of Earth where it was made a bed in the past tense (see the article Flat Earth and the Qur'an). The tense is clear in those verses to mean a past event rather than an ongoing process. Qur’anic cosmology is firmly geocentric, with the flat earth at the center of the universe surrounded by seven solid spheres (the “seven heavens”) within which orbited the stars, planets, sun and moon. But here Yahya has deliberately and deceptively altered the meaning of 51:47 in three ways. He has mistranslated “heaven” as “universe” in the attempt to make the Qur’an sound conceptually more sophisticated than it really is, and to provide a stronger basis for his second and more significant distortion. He then not only takes the Arabic word mūsiʿūna, which actually means makers of ample room or of width[3], instead mistranslating it into a verb meaning “expanding,” but he then adds the entirely superfluous adverb “steadily” in an attempt to insert into the Qur’an additional ideas that are not actually there. With these three translational liberties, he has completely changed the meaning of this ayah from a simple description of Allah’s creation of the heavens into a scientific statement of Hubble’s expanding universe that is not actually contained in the Qur’an. Harun Yahya’s misuse and abuse of Qur’an 21:30 is no more legitimate than his mutilation of 51:47 although at least his translation is more loyal to the original. In this case his primary tool for distortion comes from the decision to take this single ayah completely out of context, and so disguise its actual (and obvious) meaning. Here is the single verse as quoted by Yahya in his own translation. Do those who are disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We made from water every living thing? So will they not have faith? Quran 21:30 How convenient for his argument that he has not included the next two ayat. Here are (again) the three most highly regarded translations of the three ayat in question. Yusuf Ali: Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? Pickthal: Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe? Shakir: Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them; and We have made of water everything living, will they not then believe? Quran 21:30 Yusuf Ali: And We have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with them, and We have made therein broad highways (between mountains) for them to pass through: that they may receive Guidance. Pickthal: And We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and We have placed therein ravines as roads that haply they may find their way. Shakir: And We have made great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with them, and We have made in it wide ways that they may follow a right direction. Quran 21:31 Yusuf Ali: And We have made the heavens as a canopy well guarded: yet do they turn away from the Signs which these things (point to)! Pickthal: And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents. Shakir: And We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and (yet) they turn aside from its signs. Quran 21:32

@rolandmccarthy1780

3 жыл бұрын

Now that we have returned the verse to its actual context, let’s take a moment to contrast Yahya’s argument with what the Qur’an is actually describing. He claims that this is a description of the scientific fact that “when it was created, the universe occupied a very tiny volume.” In fact, there is no description at all in this verse that could be interpreted at referring to volume in any sense. But more importantly, Yahya is claiming that the “unstitching” of heaven and earth described here is a reference to the “Big Bang,” or the primordial creation of the universe. If this were the case, then the “earth” mentioned here can not refer to the planet Earth, as its creation was still billions of years in the future from the event he claims is being described. In other words, Yahya is implying (and many Islamic websites and publications claim explicitly) that “earth” here means “matter,” and not the planet Earth itself. But the very next verse proves that this cannot be true. For in that very next verse Allah is setting on that same “earth” mountains and highways. How could this be if the “earth” in these ayat meant anything other than the planet Earth? When you further consider that the next ayah after that concerns the “heaven” as a “canopy” or “roof” to that same planet earth, then the idea that this verse is a description of the “big bang” becomes completely impossible. These verses are exactly what they appear to be; they are a description of Allah’s creation of the planet Earth and the heavens above it, and not a description of the creation of the universe as understood by modern science. The idea that the heavens and earth were once joined and then separated by the activity of Gods and Goddesses was actually quite common among pagans of the Middle East. Among the Egyptians for example, it was the involuntary separation of Geb (the earth god) from his wife and sister Nut (the sky goddess) that was responsible for the division of the earth from the sky. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh likewise describes the moment “when the heavens had been separated from the earth, when the earth had been delimited from the heavens” as a result of the separation of a sky God (An) from a earth Goddess (Ki). If you remove the pagan references, you have the same story as found in the Qur’an. Remember that in Prophet Muhammad’s day, the heavens and the earth were the entire universe. All the celestial bodies that could be observed were believed to reside within the concentric spheres of the “seven heavens.” The stars were even contained in the closest sphere to Earth in ignorance of the fact that their tiny size was simply an illusion caused by their great actual distance. This truncated understanding of the universe is responsible for the fact that there is no actual discussion of the creation of a “universe” in the Qur’an at all.

@TheUltimateSeeds

3 жыл бұрын

? "WE" ?

@rolandmccarthy1780

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheUltimateSeeds yes allah, Jesus, Zeus, Yahweh, thor, shiva and Horus. They Created the universe during a huge orgy

The particle of God is the proof that God is smaller than the smallest. And since God is also greater than the greatest, He's the unifying principle behind everything.