Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions | Closer To Truth Chats

Sabine Hossenfelder talks about if the past exists, how the universe began and how it will end, information, math as reality, time, and consciousness. She also discusses her new book, Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.
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Sabine Hossenfelder is an author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies where she leads the Analog Systems for Gravity Duals group.
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  • @wolfgangpetersun2730
    @wolfgangpetersun2730 Жыл бұрын

    WOW ! Two of my favorite scientific and philosophical channels discussing with each other, thats great. I love how Sabine challenges the sometimes existing mainstream thinking in science and how Robert opened the world up to many philosophical and religious questions for me and introduced me to great people in that field. Thank you both. Dankeschön. A physicist.

  • @Baba-fy1jc

    @Baba-fy1jc

    Жыл бұрын

    I find this two Channels too very good. She is one from the best here so Far it here so Visble is. I work a long Time with all this Stuff here and with more ,and think she lives not so extrem in a Bubble how so many People here. The Determinisem Plays a Important Role here,more as that die the most People so Vosible is. The Life moves his self more through us ,as many People taht so belive. For me is it extrem Visible how the Life the People so Moves or drive or how Fast the Subconscious here so works. Here is the Awerness a big theme or Topic ,or the Consciousness, but the Role from the Subconscious,that is here for the most People not so Important. The most People Understand that not ,how the Self esteem or the Inferiority complexes in the Mass here so work, or how that the People so moves, or what taht with us so made. My Englisch is not the best, but it is Visible for me, that the Human here not so extrem the Control have ,as the most People that here so belive. The People here lifes with to much Mental Problems and that is more as big Problem. That is good here but, many from the People that we can see here, have self more Psychologic Problems with Psychologic Disorders as many People taht here so belive. The People or the Mass has here more Problems with the Subconscious and with the Inferiority complexes as the Most People taht here belive. The Nature made this Errors from us, in the Next Time more Visible for us. The Human brings a Chaos in or on this World and that comes Back als this Chaos knows no mercy. The Human works Visible very bad with the Logik on Spezial Places or very Important Places ,and that makes here the Mass ,more as good Visible. I belive the Mass must more talk About so Themes waht the Nature through us so made or the Life. The Problems here with the Mony or the Greed or the Nature or the different to the Poor and to the Rich,that all made here ,a bigger and a depper Problem Visible. That made can made a Line to the other Problems Visible. Then the Self esteem and the Inferiority complexes is a mover from the Problems with the Mony. The Human likes the Materialism to give his self a better Feeling or the Kapitalism or the Brand Fetischism. The live give bis self through the Human Mass his own Dopamin und Seratonin kicks,that it so loves or so Need. I belive the Mass work not so much with his Consciousness how so many People that so belive. I belive for her is here more Visible from the Determinisem as for many other People here.

  • @chrisgriffiths2533

    @chrisgriffiths2533

    Жыл бұрын

    Wolfgang Petersun, Have You Visited Wolfgang Peak in Central Queensland Australia ?. Apparently this Peak is the Core of an Extinct Volcano.

  • @rodrigolabarre

    @rodrigolabarre

    Жыл бұрын

    I was going to say the same! I need Sean Carroll to have the whole crew.

  • @scoreprinceton

    @scoreprinceton

    Жыл бұрын

    The anatomical brain and its resources might limit what might be explored scientifically, philosophically, linguistically and hence the need for AI like technologies. Even with those, we might create consciousness and yet be without a clue about the purpose or meaning for anything and everything. In the end, after all is said and done multiverse might just be without any explanations, reasons, cause or causeless.

  • @spiralsun1

    @spiralsun1

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow is right. 11 seconds in, Sabine nails it 💅🏻 ❤️‍🔥👍🏻

  • @infcreate
    @infcreate Жыл бұрын

    Such a good interviewer. Some of the experience I have listening to Sabine is getting ruined by terrible questions or people around her who don't seem to understand what's going on. Robert is following her thoughts very attentively, and always seems to articulate his questions in a profound and elaborate way, very close to the manner in which Sabine is used to answer. All I'm saying is, I think the interviewer is worth the interviewed here, and I think that doesn't happen often

  • @danielm5161

    @danielm5161

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah he is one of the best

  • @truthbsaid1600
    @truthbsaid1600 Жыл бұрын

    Dr. Kuhn must be one of the best science interviewers ever and Dr. Hossenfelder has the spark of genius in her eyes. What a pleasure to watch even though I do not understand some of the deeper arguments discussed.

  • @spiralsun1

    @spiralsun1

    Жыл бұрын

    Well said indeed 🙏🏻👍🏻

  • @BriarLeaf00

    @BriarLeaf00

    Жыл бұрын

    Honestly while I have some issues with the overall approach of the show he is very charismatic, intelligent, witty, and with a voice you could sit down and listen to until the end of the universe. I've been a longtime subscriber and love this channel despite my small issues with it (who doesn't have issues with everything though in the end?)

  • @missusbarkdog

    @missusbarkdog

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't agree. She fails to answer nearly 50% of what she is asked. How is that intelligent? I mean, Wittgenstein at least said 'let's just pass over it" instead of "not necessary". My two cents.

  • @MrSuperduperpj
    @MrSuperduperpj11 ай бұрын

    Sabine is super brilliant.

  • @ReynaSingh
    @ReynaSingh Жыл бұрын

    Great to see Sabine on here!

  • @christopherstanford5599

    @christopherstanford5599

    Жыл бұрын

    🤗

  • @cgmp5764
    @cgmp5764 Жыл бұрын

    A great communicator with a very logical analytical mind (and sense of humour in her videos).

  • @Mutual_Information
    @Mutual_Information Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate how Sabine consistently advocates for Occam’s Razor. As she says, she’s skeptical of any theory of the early universe that introduces complexity that isn’t necessary to explain observations. It’s a principle that holds true almost everywhere, but is often abandoned because it can deal devastating blows to otherwise respected theories. (I think everyone knows what theory I’m thinking of)

  • @TurinTuramber

    @TurinTuramber

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly, let the data write the conclusions. Too many people try to write whatever story best fits their preconceived (theological) conclusion.

  • @kuroryudairyu4567

    @kuroryudairyu4567

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TurinTuramber I'm not atheist, just strongly agnostic, but i fully agree with you Geralt, btw i subscribed to your channel many many months ago

  • @abelincoln8885

    @abelincoln8885

    Жыл бұрын

    Because you have no proof of what happened 13.7 billion years ago that you are using to explain natural phenomena today. She says she starts with with what we know ... but we have known for over 120 years that the Universe, Galaxy, Sun, Earth Atmosphere, life and machines are thermodynamic Systems and with increasing entropy. We have known the Universe is an ISOLATED thermodynamic system with finite matter & energy & increasing entropy. All thermodynamic systems ... are Functions ... and originate from the surrounding System(s) which must provide the matter & energy and time, space & Laws of physics to exist & to Function. Man has known for thousands of years what a "function" is and who makes them. A Function is simply ... a system that PROCESSES inputs into outputs and has clear PURPOSE & FORM which is information that every Function possesses to exist & to function. How long have we known the three types of physical machines are mechanical, electrical & molecular ( LIFE ) and that nature can never make or operate the simplest machine(Function) made by Man ( intelligence)? The simplest mechanical machines ... include the stone wheel, axe head, lever, wedge, nail, screw, spring, spoon, fork, cup, plate ... which are single homogeneous objects ... with clear purpose, form & design to exist and to function. Quantum particles are the simplest single homogeneous objects with clear purpose, form & design and properties. Protons, neutrons & electrons are functions composed of Elemental particles(functions). The Elements are functions composed of Functions. Molecules are Functions composed of Functions. Everything in the Universe is a Function and every complex function ... is composed of simpler Functions. Again. How long has Sabine and all the rest of you known that the Universe is an Isolation Thermodynamic FUNCTION ... and that Nature can never make & operate the simplest PHYSICAL FUNCTION made by an intelligence ... like Man? You are cherry picking what you know to explain natural phenomena and supposedly "confirm" your materialist beliefs Universal Functions is the Hypothesis for Sir Issac Newton's Watchmaker Analogy over 300 years ago. The Machine Analogy is just an OBSERVATION. Newton was saying everything is a Function ... that can only be made by an intelligence. And Universal Functions can be easily tested and confirmed ... by simply fully defining the Function & Intelligence Categories using information from known natural & unnatural phenomena which a subcategory types. You use the Function Category to identify anything that is a Function ... and you immediately will know the origin of that Function. Only an intelligence makes Functions which possess information. Only an intelligence extracts information from a Function. The Laws of nature and all scientific knowledge .. is information .... extracted from various types of functions ... by an intelligence called Man. Sabine claims that "we don't know" what happened with the early Universe is BS because she does know what a thermodynamic system is, and only an intelligence makes Functions. She KNOWS the Universe was created by God over 4 days less than 6000 years ago but by some "unknown" UNNATURAL process 13.7 billions years ago. Again. An elemental particle is the simplest Function. There is zero evidence that nature can make & operate the simplest Function.

  • @mikel5582

    @mikel5582

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adriancioroianu1704 At the fundamental level I don't disagree with your argument. So how do you propose we proceed as a civilization? Do we throw in the towel and concede that nothing is knowable and therefore every explanation/viewpoint is as credible as the next? Before scientific inquiry, and before theism, human success and progress was probably dominated by some very different mode of thinking that is now relegated to the trash heap of human evolution. Who knows, rationalism may eventually give way to something better but, for now, it seems to me to be the best approach for human ecological fitness.

  • @kierenmoore3236

    @kierenmoore3236

    Жыл бұрын

    By ‘theory’, are you referring to all the many god(dess) hypotheses (even this term seems generous) … ? ☺️

  • @user-gk9lg5sp4y
    @user-gk9lg5sp4y Жыл бұрын

    Love Sabine's channel!

  • @mrbamfo5000

    @mrbamfo5000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan How do you know J5 is a male? Could be fangirl.

  • @Scroticus_Maximus
    @Scroticus_Maximus Жыл бұрын

    Everybody loves Sabine!

  • @ashroskell
    @ashroskell Жыл бұрын

    Her KZread channel is one of the best on physics out there.

  • @mariavm9178
    @mariavm9178 Жыл бұрын

    Dr. Hossenfelder is so brilliant. I look forward to reading her book. This channel and hers are two of the best. What a great chat. Thank you, Robert and Sabine.

  • @firstal3799

    @firstal3799

    7 ай бұрын

    Agree

  • @ericstorey1864
    @ericstorey1864 Жыл бұрын

    As an outsider I love physics and especially the history of physics, it’s all about the progress of thought with me, so these discussion’s are brilliant to listen to and what I like about Sabine is that she dares ask major questions, she is by her own admission a contrarian and questions the direction of the physics community is taking. I have two of her books, Lost in Math and Existential Physics and they are both a joy for me simply because of her ability to explain difficult concepts with utter simplicity.

  • @Thomas-gk42

    @Thomas-gk42

    10 ай бұрын

    entirly right, her books belong the best, I read in public science communication

  • @Boudica234
    @Boudica234 Жыл бұрын

    What a discussion! The thing I love about Robert is he really listens to his guests and admits when he doesn't understand a particular argument. The high quality and relevance of his questions demonstrate how open minded and incisive the man truly is. I love Robert and Sabine and could listen to them for days

  • @rckflmg94

    @rckflmg94

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan Trollboy

  • @rckflmg94

    @rckflmg94

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan you've demonstrated a sad yet hilarious example of projection. Good luck in your search.

  • @johnmanetas1504
    @johnmanetas1504 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Robert and Sabine, for this beautiful presentation of philosophical and scientific ideas. I'm sure I will dream tonight the big Nothing full of small everythings.

  • @biedl86
    @biedl86 Жыл бұрын

    This was a very interesting chat. When Sabinə (don't ditch the schwa sound, if you want to pronounce her like she'd be pronounced in Germany) first uploaded her freewill video, I didn't believe her assessment. It caught me off guard how she spoke about it, in this seemingly dismissive tone. But really, it wasn't dismissive. Since, I've seen many talks and debates about freewill, looked into the topic deeper and I even went back to her video and deleted my comment, where I was originally accusing her of arrogance. How would she know, was what I asked, that she should stick to physics instead of diverging to armchair philosophy. I took it personally allegedly not having freewill. Today, I do believe it's a mode of thinking you have to develop, to assess the things the way she does. It's not really assessing, it's rather postponing the assessment if you lack sufficient knowledge. And really, if you get used to it, it's like that thing you can't make unseen anymore. Since I'm very familiar with this mode of thinking when it comes to God, it wasn't all too hard to stick to the data and re-evaluate my stance on freewill. The difference is, the data suggests, that there is no freewill, while it suggest that we can't know anything about God, because there is no data to be gathered. So, ye, it's the same mode. Stick to the data. Don't be afraid to say, that you don't know. Don't let your emotions influence the data. Don't add unnecessary assumptions. Then you should come closer to truth.

  • @Robinson8491
    @Robinson8491 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for tackling time and eternalism and presentism in the first chapter, now I'll definitely finish the entire video and buy her book

  • @fistandantilusdarkone2684
    @fistandantilusdarkone2684 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! My two favorite! Thank you both look forward to reading your book!

  • @adamnoble1689
    @adamnoble1689 Жыл бұрын

    Aaawww YES. One of my fav channels and my fav Physics communicators. Thank you!

  • @marcco44
    @marcco44 Жыл бұрын

    fantastic times we are living in! love your channel!!😊

  • @slsteinman292
    @slsteinman292 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Thank you, both.

  • @PurnamadaPurnamidam
    @PurnamadaPurnamidam Жыл бұрын

    Sabine is here also now thats a GREAT news. She explain things very well. I like here talks very much. Thanks Lawrence keep the good work as ALWAYS Sir.

  • @PurnamadaPurnamidam

    @PurnamadaPurnamidam

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan Indeed 😉

  • @ithaca3929
    @ithaca3929 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic dialogue. Two great people !

  • @jeffamos9854

    @jeffamos9854

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan sorry your woowoo is irreievant. maybe a girlfriend will help

  • @pandemicentitlements5198
    @pandemicentitlements5198 Жыл бұрын

    Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the David Letterman of the world of physics and philosophy. Sabine, you know you've made it, when you're on with Mr. Kuhn.

  • @Scroticus_Maximus

    @Scroticus_Maximus

    Жыл бұрын

    I would say the counter is true. You know you've made it when Sabine is willing to talk to you.

  • @NeverTakeNoShortcuts

    @NeverTakeNoShortcuts

    Жыл бұрын

    Mr. Kuhn, you finally made it. You have Sabine on!!!

  • @rckflmg94

    @rckflmg94

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NeverTakeNoShortcuts Kuhn is much better known and established as a KZread personality than Sabine.

  • @fluffysheap

    @fluffysheap

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rckflmg94 I'm not sure. He's been around longer but they have about the same number of subscribers. But Hossenfelder posts new content every week, while most of the content here is recycled.

  • @E-Kat

    @E-Kat

    Жыл бұрын

    You'll only know you've made it when you see God!

  • @89gregpalmer
    @89gregpalmer Жыл бұрын

    Sabine’s take on entropy is beautiful.

  • @martymerkler5472
    @martymerkler5472 Жыл бұрын

    Great conversation.

  • @loushark6722
    @loushark6722 Жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed this a lot

  • @Thomas-gk42
    @Thomas-gk4210 ай бұрын

    Every interview with Sabine is a garanty for an intelligent, pointed, couraged and refreshing talk. This here is, wow, one of the best. Many thanks

  • @Life_42
    @Life_42 Жыл бұрын

    Two of the best humans that ever exist in one conversation!!!

  • @johneonas6628
    @johneonas6628 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video.

  • @gingrai00
    @gingrai00 Жыл бұрын

    I loved this interview!

  • @woufff_
    @woufff_ Жыл бұрын

    Great, thank you for this Robert and Sabine 💖

  • @Northwind82
    @Northwind82 Жыл бұрын

    This is one of his best interviews. I also love his interviews with David Chalmers which is funny because because he said to Sabine that he believes in weak and strong emergence. I am pretty sure David Chalmers introduces Robert to the idea in another interview.

  • @JAYMOAP
    @JAYMOAP Жыл бұрын

    Sabine very good to try to keep it deterministic. Also most things she said very much on point. Including the universal computational potential, strings, holographic superconductor, and emergence of different level of computation ylup to coherent living matter states. Nice conversation 👌

  • @Cameramancan
    @Cameramancan Жыл бұрын

    Love to listen to her…she is wonderfully intelligent and articulate. She’s down to earth and has no truck with magic fairy dust or pseudoscientific bonkerism!🇨🇦

  • @firstal3799

    @firstal3799

    7 ай бұрын

    Down to earth ?

  • @andrew3xuk346
    @andrew3xuk346 Жыл бұрын

    Sabine, I have studied much of your work (you tube) & enjoyed the interview.

  • @boydhooper4080
    @boydhooper4080 Жыл бұрын

    Great interview and discussion

  • @tomingrassiaimages8776
    @tomingrassiaimages8776 Жыл бұрын

    She is fantastic.

  • @NEWNEON
    @NEWNEON Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Riveting & fun. Two brilliant minds.

  • @mintakan003
    @mintakan003 Жыл бұрын

    She has a wonderful YT channel, where she is a very clear science explainer. Love it. Clear explanations calm my mind (lol). Her position on super-determinism is a minority view. I've now gotten used to the probabilistic view of quantum mechanics. This is the mainstream view (e.g. as presented in PBS Space time). But I really don't have a dog in this fight. It would be interesting to see if we can make progress on this question, e.g. her suggesting the quantum mechanics is still a proximal theory, that there is a testable way to move towards a more deterministic theory, though it would involve non-linearities, and making progress on measurement problem.

  • @mrbamfo5000

    @mrbamfo5000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan did you seriously go through and write "fanboy" after every comment?

  • @fluffysheap

    @fluffysheap

    Жыл бұрын

    Progress on quantum interpretation is being made. Bell's inequality has been tested, ruling out most hidden variable theories. So pilot wave is pretty much out. Loop quantum gravity (not a quantum interpretation as such) is on life support as a result of experimental evidence. Objective collapse theory will be tested next, probably within a decade. Nobody is making progress on testing string theory, but that doesn't mean nobody is making progress at all.

  • @LucharPS
    @LucharPS Жыл бұрын

    A bonus - two of my favorite Ytubers together

  • @bradstephan7886
    @bradstephan7886 Жыл бұрын

    If time is an illusion, which it must be, as is all creation (everything we experience is only experienced in the mind, which is the very definition of 'imaginary'), then everything happens all at once, meaning past, present and future are always right 'here', right 'now'. A very enjoyable, thought-provoking discussion, thanks to Robert's excellent knowledge base and interviewing skills and, of course, Sabine's incisive, inquisitive mind.

  • @mrsgingernoisette
    @mrsgingernoisette Жыл бұрын

    Sabine is a literal queen..

  • @spiralsun1
    @spiralsun1 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this ❤️‍🔥. That intro is the best thing I have heard all year and it actually made me cry tears of joy. I love both you guys so much. 🥰🤩 The questions asked and what Sabine said I am in love. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I never enter any conversation on free will. It is a mark of deep confusion and an eruption of the intersection of what we call “ego” or the need for control with a dangerous ignorance about ourselves and the universe. Simply asking the question is the answer. In the past they asked the wrong questions too. Like: “what quantity of phlogiston would incinerate the universe when ignited”. Phlogiston is a placeholder for ignorance. When you don’t understand that happens. Note that the universe doesn’t have “free will” except within the parameters which keep it existing. You have to understand why that is necessary.

  • @johnrowson2253
    @johnrowson2253 Жыл бұрын

    I love to watch Sabina talk, and Robert has a wonderful voice !

  • @joehelsley8321
    @joehelsley8321 Жыл бұрын

    You're 2 of my favorite online people but most of the discussion is predictable simply because Sabine is an absolute physicalist. I nevertheless love her discussion of physics. I've read 1 of her other books but will buy this one as well. Thank you both for your contributions!

  • @fluffysheap

    @fluffysheap

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, according to physicalist theory, it should have been entirely predictable! 🤣

  • @MeissnerEffect
    @MeissnerEffect Жыл бұрын

    That was fantastic and much appreciated 😊

  • @Memfys
    @Memfys Жыл бұрын

    I love Sabine. Thanks for this great interview!

  • @owencampbell4947
    @owencampbell4947 Жыл бұрын

    Sabine's conscious mind and her honesty are way advanced. Thankyou RLK for the interview and hopefully we'll be seeing more with interesting topics and Sabine's opinion.

  • @herbertdarick7693
    @herbertdarick7693 Жыл бұрын

    Great conversation 👍

  • @stuartjohnson6143
    @stuartjohnson6143 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent, a proper intellectual discussion all the way through.

  • @TimothyOBrien6
    @TimothyOBrien6 Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate that you take seriously and ask guests the question "why is there something rather than nothing?". My two cents is that it is because mathematics operating on itself truly underlies everything at an ontological level. Always interested to hear what others think.

  • @mrbwatson8081

    @mrbwatson8081

    Жыл бұрын

    If there is something rather then nothing, does that imply that there always was something? or that something can come from nothing?

  • @cnault3244

    @cnault3244

    Жыл бұрын

    ""why is there something rather than nothing?" Unless is can be shown that there was ever a time when there was nothing, the question is moot.

  • @cnault3244

    @cnault3244

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mrbwatson8081 Unless is can be shown that there was ever a time when there was nothing, the question is moot.

  • @mrbwatson8081

    @mrbwatson8081

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cnault3244 can both exist?

  • @TimothyOBrien6

    @TimothyOBrien6

    Жыл бұрын

    One way to start thinking about this question is to look at the different ways "nothing" is represented in mathematics.

  • @timothylamont845
    @timothylamont845 Жыл бұрын

    Epic video! Love Prof Hossenfelder! I subscribe to both yours and her channels. Thank you and keep it up.

  • @existncdotcom5277
    @existncdotcom5277 Жыл бұрын

    Extraordinary interview

  • @orhallurkristjansson223
    @orhallurkristjansson223 Жыл бұрын

    After been watching almost every episode of Closer to truth and listen to the greatest mind in science I am not one inch closer to the truth. I am still going to watch but no one know the answers to the most fundament questions.

  • @iankane1733
    @iankane17339 ай бұрын

    Hey I watch both of your channels! Nice to see a collaboration!

  • @timoluetk
    @timoluetk Жыл бұрын

    I see Sabine, I click.

  • @floriath
    @floriath Жыл бұрын

    Two of my favorite people at the same time.

  • @junkjunk2493
    @junkjunk2493 Жыл бұрын

    yay , sabine the queen

  • @ElkoJohn
    @ElkoJohn Жыл бұрын

    One of your best . . . the quasi-mystical thinker and the militant scientist.

  • @papasmamas1
    @papasmamas1 Жыл бұрын

    The Queen of Physics 🔥🔥🔥 If you want 0 BS, just check her youtube channel.

  • @leojames7331
    @leojames7331 Жыл бұрын

    It's a fucking travesty that closer to truth doesn't have more subscribers. It's some of the absolute best content available

  • @bryanaleigh8503

    @bryanaleigh8503

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed. I think it’s because most people nowadays don’t seem to seek these types of truths!

  • @steveclark8538
    @steveclark8538 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent fun TY

  • @todddavidson3192
    @todddavidson3192 Жыл бұрын

    Of all the exclusively bonded group of particle, fields, etc, the one we(or at least I do) understand as the person Sabine is my favorite.

  • @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523
    @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523 Жыл бұрын

    Sabina es la neta del planeta!

  • @SerenityReceiver
    @SerenityReceiver Жыл бұрын

    That's a combo I'd watch more often. Maybe even with a third party with more opposing arguments.

  • @siulapwa
    @siulapwa Жыл бұрын

    I love Sabine

  • @rogerjohnson2562
    @rogerjohnson2562Күн бұрын

    44:20 "...that we can do other than what the past has determined" -Is the best explanation of 'Libertarian Free Will' that I've come across, and to me exposes its falacy; of course the future is limited by the past, of course the universe is limited by its contents, it equates 'Libertarian Free Will' with 'Hard Emergence'.

  • @TupperWallace
    @TupperWallace Жыл бұрын

    R L Kuhn has had twenty seasons of talking with the finest minds in science, philosophy and spirituality, so it was fairly easy for him to lead Professor Hossenfelder to the limits of her stolid worldview.

  • @fluffysheap
    @fluffysheap Жыл бұрын

    Quality interview. Dr. Hossenfelder is pretty far from the usual guests on this channel. What I find interesting is that her materialist viewpoint is pretty extreme even for a physicist, but she's not hostile to other views, she just doesn't find them useful. And she's so consistent that there's not a lot of cracks to dig into. Probably a weird interview for Kuhn, too. "So, that's exactly what you believe? No exceptions or hedging?" "Right" "Well, OK then." My only regret is that they discussed Einstein and she didn't say "that guy again" 😉

  • @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too

    @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too

    Жыл бұрын

    He's far too weak to interview Hossenfelder - both professionally and verbally. Even when she placed herself wide open for attacks he wasn't able to go for the kill. Hossenfelder's weakness is her reluctance to accept anything outside what she thinks is the core of what we know from experience. This is not the tough mentality we need to discover new experiments we can do to know more. I can't blame him though, even Krauss turns into a softball when meeting her so I guess there must be something about her that makes you want to go agreeable. I was impressed by Kastrup when he basically dressed her naked.

  • @PrivateSi

    @PrivateSi

    Жыл бұрын

    The problem with the Standard Model and fundy physics is it has ignored or dismissed a century ago far too many alternatives at all levels of QM and elevating TOO MANY MATERIALS to the status of fundamentally very important particles, many of which are still hypothetical / theoretical or poorly evidenced by often uncorroborated, very noisy, highly filtered experiments designed to confirm their theories, ripe for the picking of cherries. -- 2 good examples are hydrogen / proton energy levels... Explanations morphed into whole number wavy orbits with no fractions of waves allowed.. Not a bad idea, but Einstein and Planck combined forms a both pixelate and stretchy matter-energy EM field. -- A field of +ve cells close-packed by free-flowing -ve gas is all that is needed to emerge all the forces and a corrected particle model. 1 force, 2 base particle types, 1 with quantised charge.. +ve cell (gap) size decreases with -ve gas concentration up to a limit (see Planck and Schwarzchild). -- This allows hydrogen / proton energy levels to be modelled as a mostly stationary charge density gradient, a continuously flowing one with straightening inflows and spiralling outflows that mostly collide laterally, cancelling out their sideways force leaving only the inward flow force.. Some magnetic field loops form like a ring magnet with torus shaped field squashed into a sphere. -- Electrons obviously prefer to sit in a shell of +ve cells.. The shells get further apart the close to the atom . But what are Electrons and Positrons.. In this model it's field cell (+ve quanta, +1) with 'total escape energy' forming a positron with the excess charge left behind forming an electron.. They are entangled so play tug-of-war on the -ve gas which vibrates the field back and forth in a flux tube that can get very thin and long. KEEPS THEM IN SYNCH. -- Free electrons and positrons try to shoot their excess charge and suck in charge from the far more balanced field that is having none of it, so repels its load back from all directions.. The fastest way using the least energy to get rid of a field imbalance is in the direction of its motion. It's an INERTIAL FIELD - preserves momentum.. This spherical free electric field disrupts the quantum gravity field stretch so a free electron / positron is 99% electric energy, 1% (more like 0.5%) STRONG MASS ENERGY... -- Positrons and Electrons ALWAYS COME IN PAIRS, this is a well proven universal law, like DOING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITH AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE... Where are all the positrons and where do protons,provably composite particles, get their +ve charge from? There is one ignored solution to the ANTIMATTER PARADOX that does not properly break symmetry or invent very problematic anti-universes and anti-glaxies, and DOES NOT WASTE THE POSITRON - the only other known truly elementary particle.. -- Under certainly conditions (ie. the Big Bang) STRONG FUSION took/TAKES place where new protons are formed by 2 positrons colliding with an electron at opposite angles, or squeezed and held there long enough, with a spare electron left over... This happens more often than 2 electrons hit a positron to form an anti-proton so the net result is a HYDROGEN PLASMA SOUP. -- Beta- radiaiton is a Neutron losing its nucelar bound, not strong-mass-force bound neutralising electron that sits in a proton's +ve energy band or on its MAX-PACKED MASSIVE CORE, rolling round, with its vibes neutralising the proton's vibes.. Those vibes are part of the STRONG REPULSION FORCE too (as well as the core being max-packed).. It's the underlying electrostatic force of the field that bonds electrons and positrons via flux tubes that get thinner and thinner the further away from their connected partner(s) they get.. -- Most of a particle's energy is stored in the centre and will revert back there if the surrounding field warp is causes is diffracted.. No energy is lost by the field or the particle, and its warp field reforms.. This may be the case for photons to a certain extent, and definitely at a base level where photons are the size a single few cells.. -- A PHOTONIC BLIP is quantised.. Blips are like 'elementary photons' or 'photon elements', with photons build from them, effectively.. Energy is stored in the wave peak either way, an it's this that warps the surrounding field.. Photons do spread their energy when diffracted and these chaotic and calm interference bands act as wave guides for photon peaks..A kind of pilot wave theory. -- blah..blah... Everything can be explained and sensibly simplified into a semi-classsic + quantum, quantised space where MATTER TRAPS a finite supply of -ve ELECTRO GAS (like an 'electron gas') away from voids to particles, forming CHARGE DENSITY GRADIENTS = Gravity, with VOIDS EXPANDED and space around matter COMPACTED as the perfectly balanced, tiny, empty crystal turned more and more 'Matter-Energy EM FIELD into MATTER = permanent charge imbalance.. It was a chain reaction of matter creation from an initial parallel e_p pair creation. The universe expanded rapidly but WAS ALREADY IN EXISTENCE.

  • @notanemoprog

    @notanemoprog

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KZread_Stole_My_Handle_Too LOL Kastrup

  • @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too

    @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too

    Жыл бұрын

    @@notanemoprog Yes, Bernando Kastrup ripped her appart.

  • @steveflorida8699

    @steveflorida8699

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PrivateSi at the end of your discourse on matter & energy, you did not disclose the origin of Life. And if Life (living organisms) is not inherent in mechanistic atoms and lifeless molecules, then Abiogenesis is a lifeless hypothesis.

  • @melgross
    @melgross Жыл бұрын

    I’ve been subscribed to both of their channels since each had about 20k subs. I’m amazed to note that they have both started at about the same time and have grown at the same rate. The numbers are so close so as to be statistically insignificant. I wonder if they both attract mostly the same audience. Both are wonderful channels.

  • @MatthewCleere
    @MatthewCleere Жыл бұрын

    I love you Robert! I have a very personal suggestion: every time(pun intended) you talk about getting closer to truth, bring with you the idea that TIME only exists in Space/Time, so ALL viable arguments MUST remove Time and understand it's emergence in Space/Time. Because I think it is obvious that Time does not exist outside of space/time, and yet SO many arguments you engage in are absolutely dependent on Time. I love you. Never stop!

  • @WizardSkyth
    @WizardSkyth Жыл бұрын

    Sabine's clarity of mind is rather enjoyable. It would be a blast to get her and Joscha Bach in one interview on some great topic. Another intellectual giant I could suggest is Sergey Pereslegin.

  • @WizardSkyth

    @WizardSkyth

    Жыл бұрын

    Except for the transplanting you into a machine nonsence

  • @oldrusty6527
    @oldrusty6527 Жыл бұрын

    Will is *free enough.* It is as free as you would ever want it to be. You never experience an inability to will something. You never say, "dang, I wish I could will that." And we have a deterministic physical system to thank for that.

  • @cannettedebiere
    @cannettedebiere Жыл бұрын

    Sabine is so down to earth in her analysis of the reality, which is good in my opinion, and at the same time brave enough to question the most fundamental laws, conventions and implicite rules of physics. Unfortunatly sometimes it sounds a bit too brave (like the doubt about the 2nd law of thermodynamics). I haven't read her second book but I hope there will be some serious arguments for this one.

  • @Thomas-gk42

    @Thomas-gk42

    10 ай бұрын

    yes, and she made an entertaining video about that, but this is smart speculation , and Sabine makes clear, thatit´s not more

  • @stephenlawrence4821
    @stephenlawrence4821 Жыл бұрын

    Good discussion. On free will, which is the main thing I'm interested in I think we do know what it is. It begins with a concept of what having options is. The idea is we can select anyone of them in the actual circumstances with exactly the same past. But that's not what options appear to be like at all. What it seems like is we have options we can select if... So having options is compatible with determinism. Not so free will and there is no reason from theory or experience to think we have free will.

  • @Edison73100
    @Edison73100 Жыл бұрын

    Very good.

  • @franciskingtalksonspiritua1278
    @franciskingtalksonspiritua1278 Жыл бұрын

    I think you would enjoy interviewing Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup.

  • @wade8518
    @wade8518 Жыл бұрын

    I really feel that there was a real discussion instead of just being a agreeable and playing dumb with the subject, or just spewing out history. I want to know where we are in science and be on the edge of discovery. Not a history lesson. So I found this discussion very interesting

  • @jamesbentonticer4706
    @jamesbentonticer4706 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome what a great new guest!

  • @jamesbentonticer4706

    @jamesbentonticer4706

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ROForeverMan I thought it was good.

  • @LarryFasnacht
    @LarryFasnacht Жыл бұрын

    AWESOME! I've watched nearly every video you've produced. I've also been watching Dr. Hossenfelder for a couple of years now. I'm super happy to see you interview her. Good job!

  • @vm-bz1cd
    @vm-bz1cd Жыл бұрын

    Great interview! Sabine certainly dodged the question re consciousness... Hard scientists like her HATE this topic which leaves them totally nonplussed..😀

  • @rhqstudio4107
    @rhqstudio41079 ай бұрын

    Sabine is my AMAZON🎉

  • @Maaaaaavah
    @Maaaaaavah Жыл бұрын

    You should have Bernardo Kastrup on and also see how Sabine treated him in a debate on TOE!

  • @shironantony
    @shironantony Жыл бұрын

    Robert: I'd like to check back with you every decade or so. Sabine: (bewildered) "spooky action at a distance"

  • @oldrusty6527
    @oldrusty6527 Жыл бұрын

    46:03 Sabine: "If you really want to hold a position like this, you would have to argue the human brain is not really made out of particles." The appropriate question is not "what is the brain made out of?" The question is "what are qualia made out of?"

  • @Thedeepseanomad
    @Thedeepseanomad Жыл бұрын

    Indeed. The point (or att least one of the points) is the universe transforming itself through life. To what, will be up to what life wants it to be through what it learns, wants and what transformations are possible.

  • @anthonylethbridge458
    @anthonylethbridge458 Жыл бұрын

    Great series. If Sabine thinks that she is living in a block universe (with slight quantum variations of the future) and does not believe in free will then from her point of view her life is entirely deterministic and she is essentially a robot. She does not look like one nor does Robert.

  • @missusbarkdog

    @missusbarkdog

    Жыл бұрын

    She cannot and would not entertain free will because she denies the reason for it: the Creator. Free will is that question which is posed to all created things to differentiate between believers and non. A great proof in the Quran involves the Sun and the Moon prostrating to Allah and both did so "willingly". In other words...a created being WILL follow the greater WILL of the Creator either voluntarily or involuntarily. When a created thing follows unwillingly they suffer consequences. Of course, all things without free will follow (as if by instinct ...like bees or dogs or volcanoes) and that is what creates the commonality that we see here on the surface of this planet and all the way up to the universe. Of course they do...imagine a bee refusing to be a bee or Sabine refusing to be a human. As such, the bee must do what it does and as a human, she is presented questions that she ignores and creates "ignorance" of her role in this conundrum. Again, thanks for your honesty. How refreshing.

  • @CMVMic
    @CMVMic Жыл бұрын

    Sabine!!!

  • @michaeljmcguffin
    @michaeljmcguffin Жыл бұрын

    A few moments of interest: 20:34 Context for her statement in the teaser: "whereas I think what's missing in our theories are the big connections that hold the entire universe together [...] the big mysteries that we have left to solve [...] concern how we are embedded in this entire universe" 28:00 David Deutsch and the existence of universal computers 34:03 consciousness 40:56 free will

  • @zooologist
    @zooologist Жыл бұрын

    13:25 ! Spot on!

  • @AmitRay47
    @AmitRay47 Жыл бұрын

    Very contesting. I like your mind, Sabine. I am sure you will come out with a new verificable theory, idea or concept beyond that of Einstein.

  • @darwinlaluna3677
    @darwinlaluna36772 ай бұрын

    I just always feel all in nature, its all here , all we need is focus in trying to found it , listen to nature

  • @garybalatennis
    @garybalatennis Жыл бұрын

    Many thanks for an insightful and thoughtful interview. The interview questions, and their underlying knowledge, were as educational as the answers. Now what’s my views on Sabine’s answers? Folks, I know that I’m in the minority here. But I’m less of a fan of Skeptic Sabine and her answers than many. I listen because of her reputation and the popularity of her channel. Her views are useful for reminding us, sometimes painfully and in a no-BS way, that we need to stay tethered closely to established science. I think she is better at hammering at what we don’t know and can’t be sure of (the hard cold ugly truth, if you will) than what we can reasonably speculate about. She keeps saying stuff like: “Well, you can believe it if you want but it’s not science.” Huh? Well, there are certainly limits to everything, including established science. But human advancement depends on, at times, daring reasonably to push the envelope - striking forth a little into partially uncharted seas. Heck, otherwise the Wright Brothers would’ve never taken flight. Ponder that. Thanks again for the video.

  • @missusbarkdog

    @missusbarkdog

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed...reminds me of the Greek philosophers ignoring the existence of ZERO. Back to square one we are. Thanks for your honesty in this charming pool of agreeable 'scientists and philosophers'. Peace.

  • @LarryFasnacht
    @LarryFasnacht Жыл бұрын

    Best interview ever! I bought her book and am enjoying it very much. Though I wish it had a little bit of math in it to show what she's talking about, particularly in the quantum super position section. She does such a great job with this in her videos, I'm sure she could have done the same in the book. Though I'm guessing that the publisher had some guidance on the math issue:)

  • @spiralsun1

    @spiralsun1

    Жыл бұрын

    I think the reason she didn’t is explained in the intro -the first 20 seconds

  • @lightkeeper917
    @lightkeeper917 Жыл бұрын

    I think, what we have to do in life, is learn how to ask the right questions and not waste our time, on questions that can never be answered.

  • @Joshua-by4qv
    @Joshua-by4qv Жыл бұрын

    Sabine is the smartest person in the world.

  • @Thomas-gk42

    @Thomas-gk42

    10 ай бұрын

    no doubt✌

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes6537 Жыл бұрын

    what is really conscious is first-person experience term ! this new term, there is a progress !

  • @francesco5581
    @francesco5581 Жыл бұрын

    I remember her in difficulty arguing with Kastrup ... Maybe it's time to have him on this channel ?

  • @ronaldjorgensen6839
    @ronaldjorgensen6839 Жыл бұрын

    own it thanks

  • @Nodalthree
    @Nodalthree Жыл бұрын

    One cannot present specifics with generalities. Yet it is the specifics that ultimately average to generalities. It is this path that indicates that the foundation of the Universe is not yet understood. Sabine is in line with this understanding it seems meaning that one has to understand the problem before a solution is illuminated.

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