Turning scientific constraints into breakthroughs: Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel | Janna Levin

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When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:
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Astrophysicist Janna Levin discusses three examples of constraints in science, and how they ultimately led to massive breakthroughs in physics and mathematics.
Abiding by the speed of light caused Albert Einstein to begin his pursuit into the theory of relativity, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle planted the seed for quantum mechanics, and Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorem led directly to the invention of computers and artificial intelligence.
We often think of constraints as impenetrable barriers that cannot be broken. However, these very constraints have the potential to inspire new ways of thinking and revolutionize the world as we know it.
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@velvet_coco 3 месяца назад

Great explanation. It takes courage to contradict centuries-old ideas but this is what helps us get closer to the truth. Wonderful video 👏

@The-Well 3 месяца назад

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@seanburton5298 3 месяца назад

Thinking from the problem is a great idea 💡.

@knutevids 3 месяца назад

The one thing she said that I understood the most was "We don't really understand it, even today."

@craftspro 3 месяца назад

Nice explanation 🎉 short and sweet!

@The-Well 3 месяца назад

Thanks for being here, we appreciate you!

@rolfw2336 3 месяца назад

Really nice explanation!

@The-Well 3 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

@touchheartyoga Месяц назад

So I'd like to put this proposition. Quantum physics is basically simple, everything is made up of particles, we have only clues as to what holds them together when they are in a form, we can manipulate and know the function of very few particles and that might change, we have a rough idea of where they come from and some good speculation on how they form. And its likely all of this is less than 1% of what we could one day know, maybe. For me and I hope someone can talk to the point "constraints are harder for me to understand" For example, what if the belief that supports the constraint is wrong, do you get the same creative burst or do you get a creative burst of things that are wrong? Please share your thoughts, great talk too Janna

@neon_nana 3 месяца назад

Awesome explanation.

@The-Well 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@vesuvandoppelganger 3 месяца назад

Ship1 at rest on top: T--------------------N N--------------------T Here we have 2 ships passing each other and each diagram shows one of the ships at rest and the other one moving and length contracted. There is 1 moment when T of ship1 is lined up with N of ship2. This moment must be the same moment for both ship1 and ship2. At this moment, N of ship1 is located on opposite sides of T of ship2 simultaneously which is clearly impossible.

@oscarmora4919 3 месяца назад

…By challenging the authorities, I became myself an authority… A.Einstein

@cliveadams7629 3 месяца назад

Without constraints, there can be no creativity. Can't remember who said that, but someone did so it must be true.

@huseyin_erdem 24 дня назад

uncertainty is the determinism

@LanhNguyen-ym5uf 3 месяца назад

It's greattttt !

@squaretriangle9208 3 месяца назад

Great and hip nail polish colour, too😊

@user-ld4yi2ki5k 3 месяца назад

I too was a theoretical cosmetologist, but I couldn’t makeup my mind

@sourabhjogalekar3842 3 месяца назад

We forget that Einstein did not stick to it, and he entertained and proposed "Variable speed of light" (VSL) theories and apparently if we entertained it we get rid of dark matter and dark energy..

@ShuoreBangla 3 месяца назад

Wow nice good

@The-Well 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@updateyou4207 3 месяца назад

Wow nice good

@Mcgif21 3 месяца назад

Wow nice good

@lofitube5141 3 месяца назад

Wow nice good

@ShuoreBangla 3 месяца назад

Wow nice good

@salan1689 Месяц назад

What does uploading consciousness mean? If we upload all the information stored in the brain and run it on computers it won’t be the same stream of consciousness. The only way to live forever is to isolate the brain and keep it alive be giving it everything it needs to survive

@teodor6835 3 месяца назад

There are literally facts we will never know in the realm of mathematics.

@raghu1404 3 месяца назад

👌

@The-Well 3 месяца назад

😃

@azizhamrouni1849 3 месяца назад

Music pleaze ?

@frank93907 3 месяца назад

Could we perhaps Colonize the impossible if not able to all out “Conquer” 🤔 Lucifer-Vv knows what I’m sayin 😂 , but fr does complexity/information/Cs theory help detangle a lot of this uncertainty, and if so how and at what point will people be satisfied and comfortable?

@Degenerates-re5wc 3 месяца назад

Well we'll we'll What do we have here.

@JulietCrowson 3 месяца назад

Laws are the basis for decision making for so many people, yet the laws are not based on doing good, even if lawmakers used to aim at doing good. Plug law into AI's decision-making parts and you'll have decisions made that do not aim to do good. UK law that is.

@JulietCrowson 3 месяца назад

Machines don't 'think' in a biological sense rather machines will do what they are programmed to do, within the physical constraints of their machine parts, So that's not really thinking is it ?

@sumitbhardwaj5612 3 месяца назад

How scientists seek truth. Religion must seek truth just like science. That would be a true religion.

@abdul-kabiralegbe5660 3 месяца назад

Religion by definition is the polar opposite of Science since religion makes an assertion and does everything in its power to NOT dispute it while science does everything in its power to dispute any assertions .

@user-hw9wj7gy2c 3 месяца назад

And what was she trying to communicate again?

@ChiDante 3 месяца назад

Sure, having guidelines is helpful and gives containment for energy to shape into concrete ideas... But...look where that lead him. He never wanted his love for understanding to be used for what is a concrete lack of understanding one another. He didn't do anything wrong, it just ain't right. I know that the river needs it's borders to define and not dry up. But have you ever asked the river water if it wants to flow that way or even be a river?... containing: yes Becoming a detriment by constraining: no That just ain't right The truth is that it is possible for something to go faster than the speed of light WIMM¿

@DigSamurai 3 месяца назад

If you understood the relationship between mass and energy you would understand why nothing can go faster than the speed of light

@ChiDante 3 месяца назад

@@DigSamurai you're old news old man

@ButtersLStotch 3 месяца назад

How you gonna leave oppenheimers name out of this

@DigSamurai 3 месяца назад

Oppenheimer didn't postulate a constraint that led to discoveries, he built on Einstein's work to create the atomic bomb. A prodigious accomplishment but not relevant in the context of this video.