Of Beauty and Consolation Episode 9 Edward Witten 

He has a very calming voice.

The most spiritual interview I've ever heard, God bless Edward Witten

what a wonderful person. so brilliant, yet so humble and caring

Fascinating how the smartest minds expected a zero cosmological constant. The measurement of a nonzero value is really one of the most astonishing and important discoveries in physics.

Ed Witten is considered one of few smartest person alive today..!! He is so smart that he has the ability to express anything in nature mathematically.

First adored his genius, at the end cried over his deepness. May it never happen again.

I thank you Ed and keep up the hard work. Brilliant minds behind you depend on you.

What a brilliantly simple demonstration around 21:40 Einstein was able to demonstrate nebulous concepts such as how gravity affects large objects. Witten did something similar there. Maybe that kind of insight is the domain of geniuses of their caliber.

this was wonderful!

The most profound part of this discussion is his thoughts on the cosmological constant. He was talking about the possibility of big crunch or constant expansion, isnt nature amazing that someone so smart did not even conceive of the accelleration of the expansion of the universe as discovered in 1998, obviously after this interveiw. Nature cant be fooled.

Between 12:15 -12:24, he solved more theorems in his head than we all will ever solve in our lives.

There is no actual time unless there is any movement of something to measure it. But hypothetically time has always existed. Even before any movement.

Where can I get English subtitles?

wondeful, but i tried the closed captions - the translation of the dutch is laugh out loud funny if you read them...glad I saw this the first time without these

Version with English subtitles for the German narration would be sublime.

At 7:42 “I can’t prove theorems like mathematicians prove theorems”. Talk about one of the hilarious and biggest lies coming from a field medalist. :3

The presenter talking about God and the holocaust for no reason :/

I wish I could see those rough notes. Not for clarity or beauty's sake, but for my own consolation.

what if before big bang, there was no time, like everything was frozen, nothing was moving, nothing could decay radiate, so there was no notion of passing, matter movement ( time ), and so only after big bang there was time

These has to be the worst English captions ever. An example "...tell on the list them and then to under-empower women like to taste test after the Obama...."

Consciousness is an undefined term in my model as well

The pre-Socratic philosophers, Parmenides, Anaxagoris also said that the universe began as a pin prick but with no matter inside, only concepts of "what is big and small" "what is heavy and light" , "what is long and short" etc. These concepts became matter. In other words if you try to understand it you are like a mouse trying to understand electrical engineering.

There will always be unknown things in the universe. For example what is this video about exactly? I only speak three languages. I'm not even sure which language is this. First I thought it was german which I thought I could easily recognise, but late paying attention to the writings, I see it is not. My first guess would be Dutch, by might as well be any Scandinavian language as well.

Edward reminds me of Jesus

If this man goes crazy tomorrow i wouldn‘t wonder...

i think we need to re haul the educational system.. to the point where science is the central point of learning..just think if we get this machine working at 100% and this huge play ground we have to play in called the cosmos..where wasting time energy and resources..so the more i listen to the "engineers" talk about string theory and physics, and how it operates the more and more it sounds like a computer...and we living in a large computer with our thoughts and life experiences being harvested by some mega being, maybe we are no more then a resource or entertainment.. but the mega computer operates more quantum mechanically yet maybe no bigger then a few atoms..how bout that..if you think about it our thoughts maybe more then thoughts but have a deep connection to the quantum mechanical realm.. for example when we watch cartoons like "he-man masters of the universe" we might be tapping into a primal reality of "who we where" or "who we might be" or even a alternate reality. in other words all our thoughts come from somewhere. does spontaneity exist in nature. in another sense there is no such thing as creativity, fantasy or a wasted thought,, each thought has a underlying connection to a deeper reality..can we be so powerful as to derive something from nothing.. is there such a thing as creativity or is there an underlying reality bubbling to the surface...can we truly be creative and create something new..or are we taping into something more primal to our being. just think can we really be so smart as to wake up one day and create computer.. or are we just bring to the surface a deeper understanding or nature.. ie the cartoons and comic books is our creativity nature revealing herself and all her mechanics and diversity slowly bubbling to the surface the more we scratch..maybe in a alternate universe there are supermen and we some how have a connection to the reality of these realms,,not totally inconceivable in a physics sense if that make sense..so if the observable universe goes on forever and i had the ability to travel forever what state would my physical self be in..?would i be moving or in a state of suspended animation.

Boy he sure holocausted the end of that interview .

1+1=11 , Illuminati confirmed!!

If Witten and other scientists paid more attention to Vendanta and the Bhagavad Gita like the former director of the Institute for Advanced Study and physicist Robert J. Oppenheimer they would gain a better understanding of the science of conciousness and its interaction with the Laws of Physics.

brilliant mind, horrible annunciation.. I think it is because his mouth cannot keep up with the rate at which his thoughts flow through his mind