Prof. Brian Keating
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Every great scientist is a storyteller. I interview Nobel winners on @Into_Impossible🎙️ Chancellor's Prof. @UCSanDiego | Pilot | Wrote: Losing the Nobel Prize
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Big, if true! Can any chemists confirm? Prof. Lee Cronin?
Prof. Brian Keating12,358,099 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
The Equation That Changed How Physicists Think About Reality | Juan Maldacena Timestamps: 00:00 The claim Einstein wrote in 1935 and missed 01:15 The most-cited physicist alive walks into UC San Diego 03:25 What would shock Einstein most about modern physics 07:45 The holographic principle — what it actually means 09:20 Throw a laptop into a black hole. Now what 11:00 General relativity says lost. Quantum mechanics says preserved. 12:25 The problem Juan wants to solve before he dies 13:50 Why real black holes don't emit measurable Hawking radiation 15:25 How black hole math accidentally explained why the universe has structure 17:00 Could primordial black holes be dark matter? Juan is skeptical. 18:30 Why a partition function went imaginary — and what it cost to fix 21:15 Why imaginary numbers keep being right about reality 25:00 How AdS/CFT got its name — and why physicists did the Macarena 27:05 We don't live in AdS space. Why does it matter 29:00 Earth-sized wormholes are allowed. Faster-than-light ones aren't. 32:10 Could AI have helped Einstein in 1913? 33:00 Can a working physicist also believe in God? Juan answers.
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In recent days, multiple Erdős problems have been solved by GPT-5.2 Pro, with solutions accepted by Terence Tao. This is not a gimmick—it's a qualitative shift. Erdős problems lie at the core of additive combinatorics, extremal graph theory, and probabilistic methods—problems that resist brute force and demand structural insight. Many have endured decades of expert scrutiny. Acceptance matters more than authorship. Tao doesn't rubber-stamp ideas; he rigorously tests logic, generality, and novelty. If a proof clears that hurdle, the system didn't merely recombine known lemmas—it explored a true mathematical search space. This means AI has crossed a threshold: from assisting mathematics to participating in it by proposing nontrivial arguments, uncovering hidden structures, and resolving problems humans value—without a predefined solution path. Importantly, this doesn't diminish human mathematicians. It reshapes the field's topology. Just as symbolic algebra systems amplified rather than replaced math, AI now seems poised to expand the frontier itself. If these claims hold, recent days may mark the lift-off for AI-driven science: not flashy demos, but quiet validation by the world's toughest referees. We should remain skeptical, careful, and precise—yet honest about the implications. Something fundamental may have changed. Here's a five-minute video with Terry explaining these problems and meeting the man himself:
Prof. Brian Keating104,819 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
95% of Professor's Research is Pointless | Aswath Damodaran Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 01:37 Why Nobel Economists Aren't Billionaires 06:08 Universities Have Completely Lost the Plot 07:43 95% of Academic Research Is Worthless 13:05 The University Is a Sticky Business — But Cracks Are Forming 40:00 ChatGPT Already Does What Bankers Charge Millions For 46:43 The Most Dangerous Number in Finance 52:35 There Is No Safe Place Left to Put Your Money 55:48 When Every Asset Is Overpriced, Buy What You Love 1:00:22 We Are Losing Our Ability to Think 1:01:30 Markets Are Smarter Than Experts — Every Single Time
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Sam Harris on why consciousness is more certain than the universe — and why free will is a different problem entirely Pulling out a clip from my conversation with Sam Harris (Making Sense Podcast) where he draws an asymmetry I think is worth sitting with. His claim: consciousness is the one thing in the universe that can't be an illusion — even more certain than physics. We could be brains in vats, in the matrix, on an alien supercomputer. None of it changes the fact that something seems to be happening. That seeming IS consciousness. Free will? Different story. Sam argues it's not just illusory but incoherent — provably so, regardless of how you tune determinism vs quantum indeterminism. He agrees with Sapolsky on the conclusion but adds a unique contribution on the experience of free will itself. Curious what the community thinks. Does the consciousness-as-bedrock argument hold under closer inspection, or is it just Descartes in new clothing?
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Einstein was WRONG! (ft. ) Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 01:58 Cosmological sector and geometric unity 03:57 The Poincaré group 08:31 Quantum gravity and the standard model 14:41 Torsion and gauge invariance 28:13 Spinor group and 14-dimensional space 38:24 Grand unification and spinors 42:34 The Higgs is an illusion 50:08 Outro
Prof. Brian Keating63,579 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
Terry Tao: “AI solved the knottiest problems in math”
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The Quantum Secret Einstein Tried to Warn Us About Adam Becker is not really here anymore Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 02:01 Interpretations of quantum mechanics 05:04 Einstein’s discontent with quantum mechanics 08:01 EPR paradox 10:16 Many-worlds interpretation and Everettian mechanics 17:37 John Bell and Bell’s theorem 23:43 Experimental tests of quantum mechanics 27:21 Quantum computing and its promises 29:17 What is real? 31:56 Outro
Prof. Brian Keating11,808 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
. Sara Imari Walker : “We Could Find Aliens In The Lab” Timestamp: 00:00 Intro 01:45 The origin of life and our search for aliens 05:07 Judging a book by its cover 09:40 Assembly theory and consciousness 15:10 What’s the testable hypothesis? 21:01 Is life a miracle? 30:23 Criticisms of assembly theory 43:11 Intelligent design 46:12 The concept of time in physics 50:43 The future of assembly theory 58:06 Predicting life on other planets using assembly theory 1:03:40 What if life didn’t originate on Earth? 1:06:54 Issues with assembly theory and Johannes Jäger 1:20:55 The day after aliens 1:26:19 Outro Link 🔗 in reply 👇
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