Robert Laughlin - Does Physical Reality Go Beyond?

Are there revolutionary discoveries to be made in the deep laws of nature? Do radical revelations and shocking secrets lie ahead? Does physical reality go radically beyond what we know today? How far beyond? What could that mean? Can the bounds of the physical world get stretched?
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Robert Betts Laughlin is a theoretical physicist and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University.
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  • @Grandunifiedcelery
    @Grandunifiedcelery3 жыл бұрын

    I like his prompt response, yes or no, at first.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess that's how you get closer to the truth. Hedge your bets.

  • @jessewallace12able
    @jessewallace12able15 күн бұрын

    I love this guest. I love how he answers. It’s actually quite humble.

  • @theotormon
    @theotormon3 жыл бұрын

    Very thoughtful guest.

  • @TheEtAdmirer
    @TheEtAdmirer3 жыл бұрын

    Great conversation.

  • @tirrested
    @tirrested3 жыл бұрын

    best video...love the channel ✅

  • @dr.satishsharma9794
    @dr.satishsharma97943 жыл бұрын

    "EXCELLENT"...... thanks 🙏.

  • @attieschutte7116
    @attieschutte71163 жыл бұрын

    i would love you doing a extended talk with Dr Robert Price.

  • @MountainFisher
    @MountainFisher3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a retired biologist/engineer and he isn't kidding about the line between living things and non-living where they are exploring new paradigms. New discoveries in genetics are rather mind-blowing. I was totally surprised at the discovery of DNA being able to change its programing and I mean faster than the old explanations can account for. I would recommend to anyone interested to go take a look at this short article on The Third Way evolutionary research. Old school Neo-Darwinists are holding back new ways of research in biology. It is a good article I'm going to link and just gives a short overview. www.natureinstitute.org/article/stephen-l-talbott/evolution-a-third-way I was blown away by many new genetic discoveries, but the idea that organisms being able to change their own genetic programing explains for instance the evolution of the whales in only 10 million years from a land mammal to a totally adapted for living in the sea mammal and it cannot be explained by Natural Selection nor mutations. Think of the changes needed for a car to transform into a nuclear submarine is a good analogy, but nowhere near as complicated. The question I'm asking is how did it learn to do it? It is not just one aspect of an organism's genetics, but involves seemingly all or a large part of it. There are new theories of Evolution, but you never hear about them. Lynn Margulis was I think the first person to coin the phrase, "Natural Selection only explains the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest." Margulis in the 60s first came up with the theory of Endosymbiosis and she was ridiculed for it, but she persevered and her theory is respected now and given consideration, but it is only part of the picture. Margulis probably would have been excoriated even more if she hadn't been married to Carl Sagan at the time.

  • @dweis1925
    @dweis19253 жыл бұрын

    The correlation between generosity and guilt? That would be a very interesting topic for this channel

  • @dblockbass
    @dblockbass3 жыл бұрын

    What a great answer. "When dealing with nature, it is always good to bet on the side of the unexpected". I don't know what I am, but I am grateful for the opportunity to have been able to question what I am and witness with conscious thought, the magnificence of nature.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am not sure life has the goal of giving you your blink. Or if that blink has any real meaning in the long run.

  • @xenphoton5833

    @xenphoton5833

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 it does and you will be

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@xenphoton5833 The problem is that we have to die to find out for sure who is right. 🙄 Besides, all the supernatural speculation so far could be totally wrong. This reality maybe even stranger than we could possibly imagine. 🤔

  • @mustafaelbahi3990
    @mustafaelbahi39903 жыл бұрын

    the truth is strenger than fiction.

  • @thomasridley8675
    @thomasridley86753 жыл бұрын

    It would be nice if it wasn't mostly speculation at this point. The rabbit hole of defining reality is deep and getting deeper every yr. We seem better at imagining what is possible than proving what is there.

  • @kallianpublico7517
    @kallianpublico75173 жыл бұрын

    There is always the problem of the human factor. The problem of how human understanding grasps and misses reality. Where do we fit in and how do we fit in? Einstein showed that our linguistic concepts are relative: time, space. That our mental projections are just that, mental and not sensual or empirical. If reality is revealed by the senses then how real are inferences like time, space, equality, symmetry, gravity, electrons, photons, etcetera. The answer may lie with LIGO. If you really think that the difference in frequencies of light can prove the "presence" of gravity waves then extrapolate the Frauenhoffer lines of matter close to black holes.

  • @mediocrates3416
    @mediocrates34163 жыл бұрын

    Iconics.

  • @pacajalbert9018
    @pacajalbert90183 жыл бұрын

    Môj otec povedal pozri sa hore a výber si hviezdu

  • @jeromehorwitz2460
    @jeromehorwitz24608 ай бұрын

    The physical reality we perceive may be just the outward expression of something that goes much deeper, like an iceberg whose greater bulk lies below the surface.

  • @MrTornadillo
    @MrTornadillo3 жыл бұрын

    No veo clara la relación entre el título y el contenido.

  • @alia.8697
    @alia.86973 жыл бұрын

    Is immortality(no death, infinite life) possible in reality?bcoz some scientists successfuly achieved reverse aging.like in Israel's latest research..

  • @ripleyfilms8561
    @ripleyfilms85615 ай бұрын

    a mass as if or ozone force and life routine and excersise is fundamental being reality

  • @andrewlilly2947
    @andrewlilly29473 жыл бұрын

    I spent the whole interview terrified that one of the poor buttons on that guy's shirt was going to make a break for it.

  • @mdshett2
    @mdshett23 жыл бұрын

    Should have asked him his opinion of cold fusion.

  • @johnraba8669
    @johnraba86693 жыл бұрын

    Thinking there is not a whole lot more out there that we do not understand is naive and arrogant.

  • @ycart_tech6726

    @ycart_tech6726

    3 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the goal is to finally reach the stage where all there is ahead of us is that which we cannot understand...

  • @johnraba8669

    @johnraba8669

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ycart_tech6726 You may be right.

  • @ovanightmare
    @ovanightmare Жыл бұрын

    Where is max

  • @robertflynn6686
    @robertflynn66863 жыл бұрын

    I love to hear(which i believe too) what he said; the present gap between biological truths chem. and physical exists. And quantum gravity is also right. So Laughlin is honest. Proteins are life (scales )eg nano, are very real anomalies.. I'd be able to carry on a reasonable conversation with him. Consciousness in organic carbon proteins is new field to me eg in nervous system.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yet, the most important questions will never be answered. Why are we here ? Is our exsitence special ?

  • @robertflynn6686

    @robertflynn6686

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 yes, Thomas, I can agree to what your adding... Why..implies visual and mind evidence at sametime. Existing...implies we are at foundation. Hence your saying.. we can't see foundations..yet ?? So I agree. So we need to 'see' the foundation in light first.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robertflynn6686 That we are somehow important to a god, the universe, or whatever is the first cause. That our species is somehow seperate from and sitting above the nature that built us.

  • @robertflynn6686

    @robertflynn6686

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 suppose I could tell you the 'first cause'.. would it be common to everything known? Or, would the 'first cause' be only common to life? Then can the 'first cause be located? Or, would it be like light, or, the "first causes' of light . If we can't see the ' first causes' of light but we know them , we would by science try to locate them. So for example: I would guess the first causes of everything( as the video said in a way,) is quantum repulsive gravity. We only see or identify attracting gravity. All light comes from gravity on the quantum levels, but could be attracting or repelling. So we're left knowing quantum repulsive gravity is in life but not generally in all matter.. just some which became life. We can this way reduce all 'first causes ' to how light and gravity come about one from other. Our purposes in this seems to be how we go through life relative using gravity repulsion and if we we return that upon death we would stand, as you said, apart from matter by how quantum repulsive gravity relates to the world. The normal explanation is life comes from an anti rhindler side of reality such as interior of a black hole.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robertflynn6686 Then there is still the issue of where the energy to create this universe, black hole, strings, multiverse or the quantum fields came from. In a billion yrs every trace of us may be gone. Like we were never even here. And having no effect on the ending.

  • @biggdaddydog5280
    @biggdaddydog52803 жыл бұрын

    Theres an emergent increase in pressure between the guests shirt buttons

  • @cvsree
    @cvsree3 жыл бұрын

    Physical is just and illusion. Reality is within us

  • @leonoradompor8706
    @leonoradompor87063 жыл бұрын

    I am the Goddess,see.my physical glorious beauty !

  • @richardmarcus3340
    @richardmarcus33403 жыл бұрын

    Quantum gravity is not that big a problem. It amazes me the science community hasn't figured it out already but there are plenty of physicists who are pretty close. I give them another 15 to 20 years.

  • @williamesselman3102

    @williamesselman3102

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Pisstake the Bible, duh.

  • @flowwiththeuniverse31
    @flowwiththeuniverse313 жыл бұрын

    The Universe is like a jigsaw puzzle, sooner or later, all the pieces will come together.

  • @sk8shred

    @sk8shred

    3 жыл бұрын

    Does it, though? Perhaps we're like ants who are asked what differential equations are. Who says the universe is knowable at all for beings like us? Up to some extent, sure, but entirely?

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    If we have the time left and intelligence required to figure it out. Most of the world is still stuck in the 2nd century.

  • @MarkGast

    @MarkGast

    3 жыл бұрын

    And then it will explode ... just like last time.

  • @mediocrates3416
    @mediocrates34163 жыл бұрын

    Electrotonics.

  • @fakename4683
    @fakename46833 жыл бұрын

    He looks like a mix of John C Reilly and Santa.

  • @jareknowak8712

    @jareknowak8712

    3 жыл бұрын

    100% :)

  • @MaVmAnRoS

    @MaVmAnRoS

    3 жыл бұрын

    George Miller also.

  • @mediocrates3416
    @mediocrates34163 жыл бұрын

    Dark matter.

  • @danp8309

    @danp8309

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. The next major leaps in knowledge will come from understanding black holes and dark matter/energy.

  • @marneninagavenkat7149

    @marneninagavenkat7149

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NilsExp sure?

  • @owencampbell4947
    @owencampbell49473 жыл бұрын

    Of course, if explanations are wrong and everyone believes in them, then everyone is wrong. The potential of being wrong is high, or we would be much farther than we are. But, dont worry, we are good from our point of view, cause we dont know it any better how it would be if we had all answers right. Unfortunately we might belong to one more generation that will never find out more of the puzzles. At least I have the hope that the memories of all my family tree is being gathered and given forward, so that one day, maybe the exposing day, we as one being, transforming into many, can see or somehow reproject our whole life from the beginning. Saying, hey I was Joe in the 1980's I was a better reproduction than Tom in the 1920's, I had better dna's from my mom I guess. So hope is there that we continue somehow. I think we have to make more research on nutritions that could push up our understanding with more logic.

  • @YourLocalIceMan
    @YourLocalIceMan3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the next big idea or revolutionary idea will be made by a computer. Artificial intelligence of some sorts.

  • @francesco5581

    @francesco5581

    3 жыл бұрын

    30 years ago when we thought at the brain as a big computer that was the mainstream idea. I dont think it's anymore the case. My opinion of course

  • @jareknowak8712

    @jareknowak8712

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@francesco5581 30 years later, and now we have quantum computers.

  • @francesco5581

    @francesco5581

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jareknowak8712 actually arent much useful right now and at best you just get faster and better computing ..But what change at the end ?

  • @ferdinandkraft857

    @ferdinandkraft857

    3 жыл бұрын

    If an AI comes up with a breakthrough, say, in physics, who will get the Nobel prize? The computer itself or the scientists that programmed it?

  • @jareknowak8712

    @jareknowak8712

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ferdinandkraft857 i would be not suprised, if the comp will get it. Besides, if the comp will be a true AI, he MIGHT have some consciousness, this will change our reception of the whole phenomenon. "Deep Blue" won with Kasparow, not people who programmed it. IMHO.

  • @PatrickRyan147
    @PatrickRyan1473 жыл бұрын

    The next big discovery in physics will be the biggest one of all. Once and for all we will learn what the true nature of our reality is and it's a doosie.. the holodeck complex scenario 🤯🤯🤯

  • @alia.8697
    @alia.86973 жыл бұрын

    Is immortality possible in reality?bcoz some scientists successfuly achieved reverse aging.like in Israel's latest research..

  • @mehdibaghbadran3182
    @mehdibaghbadran31823 жыл бұрын

    Before, each of us , to be a scientist, we’re human being, how scientists can be conservative, if they knows the truth.

  • @jessewallace12able
    @jessewallace12able15 күн бұрын

    We need more Robert Laughlin and less Billy Carson.

  • @Dion_Mustard
    @Dion_Mustard3 жыл бұрын

    the possibilities are endless...there are almost certainly other dimensions, other universes, possibly even a "hereafter" which consciousness travels to...science is heading towards a kind of "spirituality"..you only have to delve into things like quantum physics and near death experiences to know there is more to existence than mere physicality...i think the most mysterious thing is consciousness..matter giving rise to awareness? how the hell does that happen. i would argue it doesn't!

  • @williamesselman3102

    @williamesselman3102

    3 жыл бұрын

    In the beginning was Consciousness and the Consciousness was with God and the Consciousness is God.

  • @Dion_Mustard

    @Dion_Mustard

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@williamesselman3102 quite possibly..i keep an open mind...:)

  • @funtimes8296

    @funtimes8296

    3 жыл бұрын

    This would be cool but unfortunately it's just not true. What happens to people with alzheimers, did their spirits just take an early vacation to the afterlife? Consciousness ceases to exist when you die, and that is that. Don't just take my word for it though, hear it from someone who specializes in quantum mechanics. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nIl9zKank67AkrA.html

  • @francesco5581

    @francesco5581

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@funtimes8296 so i should ask to Penrose who just won the Nobel and says that is very possible that consciousness survive death ? Should i ask to the 90% of Nobel prize winners who are religious ? If i cut your arm and you cant reach an apple that mean that you dont want it ?

  • @Dion_Mustard

    @Dion_Mustard

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@funtimes8296 alzheimer's proves nothing in relation to cessation of consciousness. there is no evidence consciousness is destroyed with alzheimer's all that proves is that when the brain is being destroyed by a disease, consciousness is no longer able to be received and processed throughout the brain, but the actual essence of consciousness is not destroyed because consciousness is not a material thing. think of it like this..when you destroy a radio or a TV set you destroy the image but you do not destroy the essence of what comes through the antenna. Trying to find consciousness in the brain is like trying to find music within the radio. Evidence of non-local consciousness is growing and certainly the out of body states or the near death experience state suggests mind and consciousness can exist independent of the brain.