I've watched Prof. Al-Khalili's presentations and lectures for years, some of them several times. He is one of the few presenters who can help me feel better without making me cringe. Rational, hopeful, witty (in a good way) -- sort of a hero for me.

Jim Al-Khalili is always worth a listen.

@megamastah

Жыл бұрын

He did great in his hardest challenge yet, the Cunk on Earth interview ;)

To be able to just stand there with no props or whizz bang, just the odd slide and keep you entrigued is the sign of a great communicator. Great presentation.

I love his talks

@stomppah

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

A sign of a genius, is making complexe things sound simple. Thank you for enigthening andre entertainer at the same time .

Professor Al-Khalili is one of the view scientists who really understand the simple minds of the common people (like me) and make them understand nature in all its ways.

"Recognizing your own biases is a good thing to do before you start judging other people's views." It's a great opinion for all of us living in this complicated society.

Jim... Must be a great teacher.

It's always a pleasure to be reminded by Professor Jim Al Khalili about Honesty in Scientific Method. The world needs to recognize this man for all his contributions to Humanity.

Brilliant science communicator 👍👍👌

I love science. This is an excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing this.

As part of my devotion to overcoming Human disabilities this was a very well Lecture. I also took notes. I am reading up more about, All clocks on earth at sea level tick at the same rate and The rainbow is not a semicircle. If you were to stand on a mountain you will see it is a full circle.

Respect to you and science, this is why we don't need politicians/so called leaders with a fixed self bias

very well explained ,human whatever today is because of science , we must be grateful for it and pursue scinetific approch ,i will read ur book definitely jim

Dear Jim, thank you, Al

22:23 "only a sith deals in absolutes" was the first thing to pop into my mind

@gustavcigas8417

Жыл бұрын

You are from the pure place, let the force be with you.

Poor Jim-he was at the Royal Society a couple of days ago, complaining that his book did *_not_* win the _Royal Society Science Book Prize_ 😢. Had this talk been uploaded earlier-seeing as it was recorded on 5 April 2022-perhaps it might have helped popularize his book in time to get nominated. Why the delay, RI?

Science is the only way to fight the religious legendaries. Thanks for the internet that reveals such as brilliant worthy people and scientists

Fantastic. Thanks for this one. Preserving it in my next project. 👍😁👍

Couldn't have put this better ❤

The more you know, the more you find you don't know.

Science is the curiousity about our own existence. Trying to get a grasp of why. Asking the fundamental question "why do I exist", "what is existence", "do I understand what I am talking about", "does all come from 'nothing' where even 'nothing' comes from". Doubting is asking these fundamental questions and not expecting to find answers for all our questions.

2022 the year of science , thank you .

reminds me of another talk from the RI a few years back: there is no algorithm for truth by tom scott...

I think poetry and science are intertwined... Jim knows how to explain things... 👍

Brilliant!

Thank you RI. The demonisation of science as a competitor religion is an intrinsic part of the mis-information thriving on the web and the closing off peoples minds to the possibility of scientific proof. The application of the scientific method in our emotional lives?

Really interesting. My first assumption would be that the atoms patterns change due to interference from electricity used in the camera device? Hence why turning it off resumes the pattern back to the one similar to light? I know nothing on this subject, this is just where my mind went. 😅

My hero

“Truth is singular; it’s versions are untruths” Cloud Atlas

I really realate to Michael farade the electricboy i also very curious how things work I watching this video far away from England this possible because Michael farade invisible fields😍

A scientist with bias. Brilliant.

20:00 this sounds nice, but is in fact really dangerous. You argue that it is not allowed to challenge a scientific fact unless you create science anew. The inevitable result is that it becomes impossible to distinguish facts from dogmas, making science to become more and more a religion over time. It also challenges what you started out with as the difference between a scientist and a conspiracy theorist, as you essentially argue that unless someone can redo all of scientific history themselves, they cannot change the scientific mind, which is effectively identical to staying silent like the conspiracy theorist.

This talk is much more than science. It is the Theory of Knowledge.

great talk..much NEEDED...thank you sir!

Watched all of it 36:33

I'm absolutely amazed at how scientifically ignorant the average person is. Especially in America.

@xR0N1Nx

Жыл бұрын

Facts

They said that the signal makes weak the immunisation system and can not protect themselves.

Not many people born in Iraq named Jim

Enjoyed the lecture. Agree lots of biases. Certain scientists do NOT admit when they get wrong and don’t print retractions. Especially climatologists who made some outlandish predictions. I agree climate change is real BUT certain predictions have not come true and it’s not the crisis we are lead to believe

@wobuzhidaoification

Жыл бұрын

Can you give an example of what kind of predictions that have not come true (yet) please?

@ddabo4460

Жыл бұрын

Florida being flooded . Increases activity in tornadoes and hurricanes . Melting of polar ice caps etc look it up yourself Climate models are highly unreliable

@ddabo4460

Жыл бұрын

Polar bears were intensely hunted 1976 world banned much hunting Polar bear population recovered and now at its highest in 6 decades

@wobuzhidaoification

Жыл бұрын

@@ddabo4460 I am asking you to understand what you think about them, not for myself to look things to understand how you interpret things. For example, which climate model says that the polar ices should have melted by now?

If time runs the same everywhere at sea level, I guess from a spacetime point of view, the earth IS flat after all. Its non-euclidian, parellel lines meet, but so what? Lots of places in the universe are non-euclidian.

Science will save us from human ignorance and stupidity.

Not all conspiracy theorists are unwilling to change their views in light of other evidence. That's a hasty generalization.

Global warming is real and man-made, but it's not the end of the world. It is a manageable problem. Most of the alarmism about climate change tends to ignore our ability to adapt.

Hi, U R Awesome... About the 5G, I have had understanding that Nokia did test secondary effects on humans, and after the terrible results they shut down the building and many workers were complaining about.

@jambodjembe

Жыл бұрын

Which building was shut down? What were the workers complaining about?

What else is superconsciousness.

To me it's baffling how common sense is still not actually common sense and things like these still have to be told again and again. And he didn't even mention religion.... Will humanity ever reach the age of reason?

Om is the new science

Talks like Boris

What would convince you that your idea of what a conspiracy theory is is false?

'Recognise your own biases', and he postulates a selection of 'facts', one of which is only an unproven theory.

I totally agree with most he says, but: 18:55 nothing travels faster through space then light. That is NOT true .... I learned that it is theoretically possible there are particle that faster then light, but can't SLOW DOWN to the light speed. So symmetrical to our slower then light speed situation. Also StarTrek uses the smart SF trick, that it does NOT travel THROUGH SPACE. They morph space itself or tunnel through space, so the light speed through space doesn't matter.

Archaeologists have no explanation for Gobeklï Tebë and they have said nothing will change their mind that hunter gatherers suddenly quarried, carried and built great big megalithic structures, then went back to hunting. So by your own definition, Archaeologists are conspiracy theorists.

@Safetytrousers

Жыл бұрын

Almost all archeologists have nothing to do with excavations at Gobeklï Tebë. The methods archeologists approach digs with are sound.

This is a good and potentially productive video. Nonetheless. science is, fundamentally, a social phenomenon; e.g., peer reviewed; distinguishable from other, very similar, phenomena like religion and politics by the criterion of verifiable empirical experiment. Mere observation alone, despite the intricacy of linguistic explanatory models, is not sufficient, ultimately, for the genuine ascription of the definition of "science". Correlation is not causation. That is to say, even the most intricately articulated explanation of our experience of phenomena is, in-and-of-itself, not sufficient to verify a scientific theory or hypothesis as to what it is and how it arises (although it may very well serve heuristic purpose in developing them). Without going into hopefully unnecessary detail, then, I would say that ultimately, despite the hopes and aspirations of those who wish to call themselves "scientists" and their like-minded social community (which is everything we as humans are doing, after all), science and technology are FUNDAMENTALLY connected epistemologically, and we must recognize the central importance of language in the domain of epistemology. But that aside, there is no such-a-thing as "pure science." And science and technology, philosophy, and religion are part of a continuum, along with the arts, of course :) And let us not forget language itself !!

What about scientists which are paid to get the wished result...

WHY DOES RI USE THAT SHADE OF GREEN?? The queen rests under the ground now jigalots

Big fan, but didn't appreciate when scientists try to be political. Sorry, but last thing that I want to hear is politics. Maybe Doctor should implement some of his adviced, and he will find out that involving political commentary just shows his belief and is not part of scientific methodology. Love most his lectures, but this one is disappointing.

The Joy of Science: Co-Opting the Scientific Method to Lend Validity to Fascist Ideology...

Big fan of Dr. A but disappointed about the comment regarding the 2020 US presidential election. Those who do not find it critical to fully evaluate legitimate concerns about election integrity are those who are creating their own reality. What if Copernicus merely blew by annoying quirks in his observations because they did not fit the prevailing view?

I lost some respect for Jim today. turned off the video at 12:26

@meearo

Жыл бұрын

You weren't the only one.

@theshowmanuk

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

@Gravitational234

Жыл бұрын

Why are you an anti vax loon?

@sebas11tian

Жыл бұрын

There was a point to be made that explained it well. He missed a lot by not introducing reproducibility as a concept and clearly stating that he meant empirical science. I'm a microbiologist active in my field and this has to be one of the least adept ways I've seen the scientific method described. The joy of science is that you can discover these truths on your own, that you define the experiment in cleaver ways to trick nature into spilling the beans. I was really put off by his dismissal of History as a science, I understand that he meant an empirical science but his way of explaining sounds like a fanatic ramble. Collaboration is also one of the joys of doing science, maybe if he had invited other people into this project each putting in biographical anecdotes or at least checking the way the ideas are portrayed, this talk (and the book if this lecture is a good summary of it) would have been at least engaging. I quitted 16 minutes in.

@jfryer485

Жыл бұрын

What he says is true of pure science. What he fails to realise is that we live in a real world and science is no longer pure.

Science, it appears, is the new politics, and politics is the new science. How much is he getting paid for his propaganda..

The moment he said book I clicked off!

@hsw268

Жыл бұрын

Can't read eh?

He speaks a lot without saying anything useful. He's making statement without using examples. Not one of his better presentations.

I think how good things he(Jim Al-Khalili) could do to Iraq's people but he chose UK with his gang had not invaded to steal petroleum and let Iraq's people in poverty and famine...

@Safetytrousers

Жыл бұрын

Please seek medical help.

He lost me at covid right away-

💙Slava ukraini 💛

I think you should stick to physics and not comment on pandemics and climate change Stay i your lane ! You are not imminently qualified to discuss such matters

@bryan__m

Жыл бұрын

Climate change is physics...

The joy of science is when your supervisor calls at night to come back to the office🥲

@ChemQuickConcepts

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.hahah

ridiculous

@therick363

Жыл бұрын

….how so?