A.W. Peet Public Lecture: String Theory Legos for Black Holes 

I put an earbud in one ear and have fallen asleep 3 nights to this. Had some crazy dreams.

Animated, fast paced, concise, educative and convincing about the power of string theory (science in general, for non believers) to make sense (or attempt to) of the universe. An illuminating lecture!!!

my teacher said: never put full sentences on a slide!

Greetings from Dallas, Texas. Just wanted to let you guys know I do appreciate these public lectures. I'm pretty good on the general information lectures so I wouldnt mind perhaps a little more in depth information now. Maybe there are more than a few people that would be interested in advancing the flow of the information in discussion. That is all. Thanks!

Glad to see that she's still teaching.

Holy crap the little kid asking questions! Now i feel super dumb!...lol. I cant wait to see him grow up and develop his own theory.

Dr. Peet gave an excellent presentation on String Theory. Thank you Dr. Peet for helping me with some conceptual understanding about String Theory that alluded me, that is, until your excellent presentation.

She has absolutely no idea how close to the truth she was when she described the difference between: low entropy situation and the high entropy situation. I'm almost impressed.

A very enthusiastic and simplified explanation of some very intricate theories and concepts for a clear understanding by a layman like me. Also interlinking the Newtonian, GR theory, Quantum theory and the String theory and how these are complementing each other. Lovely presentation. Am I correct to assume that it might be very bright inside the black holes since all the light gets entrapped and stays there till such time the plumes of matter come out at two poles of the black holes.

Where was this video for last 5 years ?🤔. Absolutely fantastic !

No subtitles here, could you add that please? I'm deaf and this is a barrier of information. Thanks!

Great presentation of what can be to some, (like myself) pretty abstract and challenging concepts. Even if some details are a bit beyond my ability to comprehend, enough can stick so at least I gain knowledge on the subject. Thank-you.

They really did give a great lecture! Superb!!

Beautifully illuminating and concise. Thank you.

Thank you for this, Amandus!

She is a very concise and clear speaker. Awesome. I like her lecture. Thank you Dr. A.W. Peek. Your knowledge is very special. I wish String theory a lot success and would become universally accepted.

She explain everything soo clearly..she is so energetic as well!!!

Great lecture. Love the kids at the end.

Great lecture but horrible to fall asleep to.

14 people came here expecting Lego Black Ops

Couldn't figure out why "Amanda Peet" sounded so familiar or why the video title says "A.W. Peet". There's a _different_ Amanda Peet, best known (to me) for her character on Studio 60.

This lecture saved me hundreds of hours. Great!

That kid at 1:04:15 is so growing up to be a Sheldon. He even looks like him.

Thank you Mr.Peet, great lecture

After the debate with Jordan Peterson she has lost all credibility.

The projection screen info was great! So many videos have choppy chalkboard clips I get frustrated. Your a great scientist and speaker.

To the last question about the theoretical white whole: If Hawking radiation were time dilated by extreme gravity outside our pocket of space time gravity, could the flash of Hawking radiation be a planetary civilization just like Earth, yet evaporate in an instant from our perspective.

Can anyone answer? Are Strings meant to replace Quarks, or are the made up of Strings? If so, are Quarks made of bazillions of Strings, or just one each? If so, how does the tension and vibration of a String equal a massive particle? Alos, are Strings fundamental because they travel through the Kalabi-Yau Space? Is that the reason for 11-dimensions>

Thanks to Amanda and PITP for illuminating a few things about string theory for me. I'm not sure what audience this was aimed at but a significant amount of it was too arcane for me to grasp. If this is for a 'general' audience then a lot more work is needed to help people visualise some of the mathematical ideas to see how they work together IMO.

Thanks for a great introduction to ST, Dr. Peet. Finally a video that helps me understand the simpler or lay man terms of it, and connects it with history and latest findings. I see a better picture and storyline of it now. Greatly appreciated!

She is no longer Anmanda.

I would really like to see string theory predict something testable that haven’t been proven years ago. Then I will listen.

Great lecture. I wish she would upload lecture series on string theory like the theoretical minimum by susskind. It'll be a great help for everyone out there :)

Good to see kids with a love of Physics, Dr. Amanda Peet is a wonderful teacher!

I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture and found that it not only answered some questions I had but one or two I didn't really know I had. Some other comments point out that string theory is at a bit of a dead end. I am not qualified to comment on that but know with certainty that however interesting string theory, the holographic principle and indeed black holes are not explained by any current theory. However the kernels of truth they do reveal I am sure will play a role in the next generation of understanding. And that's what its all about. The fine mind of the lady who asked a question relating it to chaos theory and fractal geometry needs to be listened to. Mandlebrots equations have had over 30 years now to be factored into other fields and it is my opinion that it is near unacceptable that it remains almost a fringe curiosity rather than enjoying its rightful place at the very heart of any calculations. The effects of chaos theory are in everything and they have to be assimilated into current theories with far more weight than has been the case so far.

Amanda Peet winning Radcliff scholarship - time is a slimy-wimey wibbly-wobbly thing!

Suprised that PI invited a String Theorist. I thought they were all about Loop Quantuum Gravity. Well, she is an excellent speaker.

Thank you for your amazing talk. I would like to ask some questions: I get why we are trying to keep the coupling low for calculation reasons, but couldn't it be that actually the coupling is big and the number of branes is low? Like if we ever have experiments on that, couldn't we find that it's not as assumed? Because this assumption doesn't seem to be founded in reality, just in what is easy to calculate. How is it that we have 10dim branes and wrap up 5 dimensions and end up with a black hole? Shouldn't a black hole exist in 4dim like everything else? What's that fifth dimension doing?

I cannot understand this lecture. Nevertheless, i appreciate her effort.

Grand Unified Theory- Articulated through proof and axiom. Explaining my model called the recursion Scenario. Please consider. Thank you.

Brilliant talk, thx so much

Brilliant

A must watch talk...

What is the oppinion of Dr. Amanda about fuzzball conception of black holes?

so.... how big to the total size of "everything" are we comparing anything to?

very good explanation

Our reality may be a teleportation device that uses holographic principles to copy information. That's why the speed of light is what it is. It's the clock speed.

Tough gig, excellently done.

I love this woman: she has so much energy!!!! Maybe she is a string--- :)

why not focusing one the "white board" instead of this lady ! It the same for all presentation ... a confortable seeing will be at my opinion a pip (picture in picture) for the lecturer

She's in the Elegant Universe documentary.

I downloaded this Thank you

If antimatter goes backward through time could it be the dark matter that is out of phase from our spacetime.

Though audience... hem!!! 1.0 2.0 3.0... waitin' for ST/GrTh 4.0 for warp drive and maybe ST/GrTh 5.0 for teleportation ;-) PS: what other Institute has a director called "Great Dick"!!! (is he related to "Biggus Dickus"???) * sorry Dick... could't resist... ;-) Great talk... loved it!!!

Oh, my god... the emcee's pronunciation of Aotearoa....

I really enjoyed this lecture. Thank you!

An excellent presentation mared somewhat by frequent attempts at humour for most of which she alone sniggered

This is money for old rope! Or is it knot? *_:0)_*

brilliant! Thank you

That little boy 😎😎

Great mind but not a public speaker. She says “uh” three times per sentence. Too annoying to put up with for even five minutes-much less an hour!

I'm sorry. I've been led to believe that nothing can escape a black hole...

15:53

at 1st (before I watched this) I had to click this on & see why Amanda Peet would be involved in giving lectures on physics!! "Amanda Peet?" I thought, "she's just a Hollywood actress, not a bad actress, but yet, she's no physicist either!' Luckily, I read the above description of the OTHER Amanda Peet, the professor from the Univ. of Toronto, holding court on string theory, which, unfortunately, is a crapshoot, at best, to even get to a "theoretical" stage. At best, S.T. is an utterly untestable very complex, too complex (esp. given the logical nature of "Occam's Razor") to be given any serious thought, although, all kinds of diverging & unique ideas are what make the world go around, literally, in some cases. Anyway, glad we cleared that up.

The age of theory and experiment (observation and verification) are over and the age of mathematical computation is here. Atish Dhabolkar shows Ramanujan's graph leading to calculation of exact entropy while the power of string theory explains gravity and the boson/fermion structure. With Ramanujan mathematics becomes its own divine truth, enabling humans to enter the mind of god-Vishnu: The cause of the evolution of the world [Vishnu Purana, translated by H.H.Wilson, London 1840] and discover reality fulfilling divine purpose.

Before hormones treatment innit

The paradigm is unnecessarily complex. One can explain everything with a much simpler model. That is the reason I wrote nonsense and offensive to Occam's Razor. It is over parametrized and because of that, it cannot predict anything - unless you cook the results

She could give us some lecture about why all her videos about trancegenderism matters,the comment section is turned off!oh i forgot,the whole matter has nothing to do with freedom of speech,right?well....wrong!

Perfect

I think I locked my keys in my car...can string theory help me retrieve them?

Video persons: Please stop following the speakers, these are not soap operas. Get retrained to properly video academic material. Can't we have a clear view of the entire chalkboard at some point, so we can freeze it to read it? This is the major defect of all on line videos. Its not supposed to be a stream of facial shots like Hollywood wants.

stupid celebrity culture is just talking about her look instead of all that science shes talkin about

27:20. When she compares the "components" of the bird as legos… I have a problem with that. I mea,; those "legos" are misrepresented by the public, because they already exist as an object in an already observed, stable, macroscopic space-time! It's more like bits of information which can't exist as a, real object, and fundamentally can't be observed directly or one by one.

isn't the lowest state of an open string a "I" (one) and a closed string a "0"? so wouldn't that end up like binary code. going further a "0" would look like a "I" (one) from the side... just imagining...

Great presentation though I must correct an error, the plural of Lego is Lego..... no s

She should have been the new Doctor. Who.

You should watch a video on the research being done on the E8 quasicrystal...it totally blows String Baloney out of the water!

I like this.

She is awesome

Nobody got the joke?

*Lego

O-Ti-RO?

33:57 grandpa needs to rest

40:18 did she fart????

1:06:00 "Children should be seen and not heard" is a long-lived saying for a reason. If you want to bring a child to an adult oriented presentation such as this one, that's your decision as their guardian. But you don't have the right to force that child on the presentation, the presenter, or the audience. It's not cute. It's not endearing. And it doesn't add to the conversation, either. It's obnoxious. Stop putting children on the microphone. If the child has a question that you feel absolutely must be asked, then have the courage to get in front of the microphone yourself, and ask their question in a coherent way; preferably in a way that doesn't waste the time of, or offend the reasonable expectations of, the intended, adult audience.

Interesting person.

Interstellar... explained.

Stay on Physics. At least there you sound less annoying (in a sense at least).

Watched you on another video with blocked comments. Saw you in discussion with Jordan Peterson and would like to say whatever your pronouns I think you come across as a lovely human being. Thank you.

It's easier to understand if you get stoned first, seriously. Can I get woop woop ?

useful Books for those looking at cosmic Dance of SIVA-origins- to string theory -where Science needs to progress.plasma regulated Electromagnetic Phenomena in magnetic Field environment in stages to universe Modelling.books on 1. plasma vision of the Universe-1993 and Vision of cosmic Plasma universe-1995- available at LULU.welcome invited lectures.

why is she trying so hard to look like a guy, oh Toronto that explains it.

too many information to grasp！！.....

She kind of reminds me of the body langage of Patient Saint Pim from adventure time...

haha 2:23 look at this audience: 99 % are male and 60+ . women and young men seem not to be interested in fundamental physics.

a billion miles per hour! talks far too fast!

Unscience

A.w. Pete is lazy

He/She/Zim/Zee/Zed/Zoo should stick with mathematics instead of gender debate. Very interesting lecture here.

It's a pity when a Professor gets involved into politicis, LGBT stuff, they lose all their credibility. If you want to become known, you should become so by your acts,not your appearance and your hysterical views on genders