Neil Turok: Physics Went WRONG!

He described a flaw of humanity: Hubris. In his wise words, we have the tool to overcome it and it is simply: Listen.

Maxwell's equations are actually relativistic, discovered too early (because they worked!). They transform well only using the relativistic Lorenz transformation (discovered in order to make them transform). Einstein was a genius who understood how to change physics to adjust it to the Maxwell equations when everybody else (including Lorenz) wanted it the other way.

Turok to win the Nobel prize for simplicity explaining !

Maxwell's Demon paradox was the starting point for the development of the concept of information in physics and math, as well as it is important for understanding of the concept of the observer deeply related with the problem of measurement in QM. understanding of the phenomenon of life as one of the most challenging cosmological problems is also deeply related with understanding and resovling Maxwell's Demon paradox on the scale of the entire observable universe.

Most inspiring to listen to Neil Turok's guiding insights. Thanks for sharing Brian.

The problem physicists have is that they abandoned relativity in 1887 and tried to explain everything by equations that H.A. Lorentz derived to explain electromagnetic fields. x'=(x-vt)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) y'=y z'=z t'=(t-vx/c^2/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) The problem with these equations is that they describe a miracle, a supernatural event. Consider a clock on a flying airplane. Einstein says in his Special Theory that clock will be slower than an identical clock on the ground. But we common people live in something called reality where if the pilot of the airplane has a slower clock than an observer on the ground, the pilot will get a faster speed for the airplane than the observer on the ground will get. In Lorentz's equations, v is the speed of the airplane and is the same speed whether seen from the ground or from the airplane. To describe reality, you have to use the equations scientists threw away in 1887, the Galilean transformation equations. x'=x-vt y'=y z'=z t'=t If you are saying that you are using the time of the slower clock in the airplane, you have to use a different set of Galilean transformation equations with different variables for time and velocity because t'=t means that the time of the faster clock on the ground is being used in both frames of reference. If you are using the time of the faster clock in the airplane, the inverse equations would be x = x' - (-vt/n')n' y = y' z = z' n = n' n' is the time of the slower clock on the airplane. (-vt/n') is the velocity of the ground relative to the airplane according to the time of the slower clock. n = n' shows that the time of the slower clock is being used in both frames of reference. To show light traveling at c = 1896,000 mi/sec in both frames of reference, we do not say x=ct and x'=ct', as Lorentz and Einstein did, but x=ct and x'=cn', using the time of the slower clock and its resultant velocity, as the Galilean transformation equations show.

"Nature tells us how it works; we just have to listen." I watch a lot of science videos, and often feel at odds with the reductive-materialist worldviews of many physicists. It's refreshing to hear a different viewpoint.

1 Scotland had four Universities when England had two. Saint Andrews University was founded in 1412, Glasgow in 1451(2?), the other two I can't remember the exact dates, but at around the same time. 2 'Bright kids were encouraged to learn.' Bright BOYS were encouraged to learn.

Excellent stuff. One minor comment: Adam Smith did not reconsider economics "from the ground up". Instead he eloquently expressed and somewhat formalized early capitalist ideas. My proposed theory, the Economics of Needs and Limits (ENL) does fundamentally reconsider the field by going back to human nature and core environmental realities.

England had numerous learned colleges, other than those at Oxford and Cambridge, long before Maxwell's birth. The classification of university was defined to exclude secular organisations, but much of the contemporary scientific research was conducted in those colleges and scientific societies. Many of them were based in London, and Maxwell spent a number of productive years at King's College where he was introduced to Faraday. The work of Dalton and Joule was facilitated by the Manchester Philosophical Society who provided access to laboratory facilities for Dalton.

6:22 i am honestly shocked that phds need to be told this/arent already doing this. Maybe this is the problem with public funding- people convince themselves that exploring what is in their mind is worth more than exploring what is…ie the market forces naturally push participants to find solutions to real life problems

It seems to me that our theories in physics aren't really about the things in themselves ; they are theories about the ways we observe and conjecture about the world. This statement may seem tautological but pay attention to the subtlety of the argument here, which in many ways is Kantian epistemology. We observe and conjecture based on our observations and we gauge how valid our conjectures based on their predictive power.  When a conjecture is deemed sufficiently valid we think that it must correlate with the objective reality of the object or effect being observed. But our models never fully map to our observations — there are limits to what we can observe and limits to what we can express into a model ; therefore we can never be certain that our models are in actual correlation to the aspect of the objective world they purport to address; we can only deem our models to function "sufficiently reasonably", to paraphrase Leibniz.  And because that is all we can assert, we must also admit to the fact that our models are correlated to the human mind and to human senses. Therefore, our theories are as much about us as they are about the world, and we need to remain conscious of this limit. Quantum theory starts to make sense if you consider it as an artefact of human thought and many of our scientists are fooled into unwittingly making quantum theory its own critical object.  There are classic Taoist tales about this topic ; for instance, "The Sage points at the Moon ; the Fool looks at the finger". Or "Two pupils were talking, fascinated about the way reflections we trembling on the surface of the pond ; the Master approached and told them 'It is your minds that are trembling' "

Well said, nice little short. Peace 😎 ✌️. Perception

Great

Niel Turok is an amazing guest! I hope he makes some headway while he is still young enough, not many physicists are as practical as he is. 👍 Perimeter people earned a lot of nobel prizes, its no joke.

Uhhh… Simplicity/ complexity Next iteration The following oddity: The first attempt to model the distribution of galaxies with a fractal pattern was made by Luciano Pietronero and his team in 1987, and a more detailed view of the universe's large-scale structure emerged over the following decade, as the number of cataloged galaxies grew larger. Pietronero argues that the universe shows a definite fractal aspect over a fairly wide range of scale, with a fractal dimension of about 2. -Wikipedia Weird The Mandelbrot set has a Hausdorff dimension of … 2 - Wikipedia

What do the Twistors of Roger Penrose and the Hopf Fibration of Eric Weinstein and the "Belt Trick" of Paul Dirac have in common? Spinors take two complete turns to get down the "rabbit hole" (Alpha Funnel 3D--->4D) to produce one twist cycle (Quantum unit). Can both Matter and Energy be described as "Quanta" of Spatial Curvature? (A string is revealed to be a twisted cord when viewed up close.) Mass= 1/Length with each twist cycle of the hyper-tube (4D) being proportional to Planck's Constant.

they tried those imaginary theories just to try to deny the existence of god “Allah”, but Allah exists and created all of this perfectly

4:15 What blows my mind is that the general public is not really convinced about the importance of listening to the nature – they think it’s like rainbow energy and hugging trees and invoking the spirits or something. This point of view (that the only valid source of information can only be the nature) is significantly different from 1) every religion 2) the mainstream theoretical (material, Marxist, equation and calculation based) science, and 3) incoherent, brain-dead esoteric lunatism (e.g. astrology, ghosts and transcendency). Those are the 3 fallacies of intellectual discovery. TRUELY listening only to the nature is, indeed, the way to go!

5:03 kaos managed ceases to be kaos if everything is useful - like an orchestra or jazz.