Neil Turok Public Lecture: The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything

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1. Naming concepts within the unity such as "dark matter", suggesting it has discreet qualities and separation from all other aspects of existence is corruption and defeats solution and understanding. Naming things is therefore anti-knowledge. Naming things is indulgence of the egos of academics, exercise of a fundamental human habit to attempt to derive order from chaos, and disservice to truth and full understanding of anything. For instance, once "dark matter" is understood it will inevitably be determined that it is neither dark nor matter and it is just part of everything else. So the name is taking us away from, not toward the truth and it is delaying progress. Any name or label, including the statements within formulae, is diversion from true science. Scientists today are more like cooks than observers. They are fabricating cooked-up theorums and names which affirm their formulae so they may revel in some imposition of order. The perception of order is mis-perception and the assertion of order is a lie. If truth is being discovered, the observer feels stupid and confused, not smart.
2. Thank You Prof. Turok for an excellent public talk.
3. nothing to do with simlplicity ! he knows to much about math but he doesnt understand what is physical.
4. Yo this guy is my neighbour lmfao
5. The guy coughing deserves the axe.
6. This is a great look at modern theoretical physics, but I want to know who built the robot that introduces Neil.
7. 3:06 sad af
8. If you are going into theoretical physics read #nanobugged it will get you ready to challenge Einstein.
9. its more dark energy beyond this universe that is and was coming together . maybe we are not exploding out ward but being pulled out and expanding and the vacuum is the only thing that is keeping earth from moving at the speed of light to the gravitational pull of the outer universe where the infinitely small has came together faster. #nanobugged
10. Space, matter and time are infinite there is an expanding universe because the infinitely small and large are constantly interacting and forming and entangling and half lifing and the in infinite time this all seems to humans to take x amount of time but is infinitely a small amount...point is i know this to be true on the fact that i am here. this guy can't figure out what is dark matter, it is the infamously small coming together and that is #nanobugged
11. Sometimes - He abruptly decides not to elaborate, In particular he hushed up the explanation 1:04:11 thru 1:09:26 on How Light speed remains constant though he had good visuals . Driven more by the title of his lecture to label everything under simplicity.
12. Really enjoyed this. Very interesting and clear way of explaining. And i love the jokes :)
13. well he lost me at minute 40 into what seemed a maths lecture
14. Make American great again! Thank God its Donald!!
15. A bunch of nonsense!
    Not real science!
16. Analysis of this lecture: http://milesmathis.com/turok.pdf
17. its facinating to know that the sun is a macroscopic quantum phenomena
18. If you have to be careful to define simplicity there's no simplicity at all.
19. in maths everything is about logic, even if it is not real, (i) is set to be "the" imaginary number, it is logic but not real then all equations solved by setting that imaginary number are logically solved but not really solved, they are solved in an imaginary universe wich contains that imaginary number but do not really solve the equation in our world, unless we are in the imaginary world and the real world is something else.
20. So one of the reasons that the standard model needs to be replaced is because the dark matter and dark energy impose constraints, like the fact that we can not know anything at all about the space lying outside the boundaries of our universe. This is a very strange logic and in my opinion a bit rash and a rather hurried judgment. This is surprising since otherwise he seems to have very cool headed approach to his subject. It sure is possible that the existence of anything outside our universe may be deducible from its effects on ours without any need for the messenger photons. Just the way we in fact discovered the dark matter in the first place _ through it effects on gravity.
    
    Secondly his admitting total ignorance of the fractals was rather a wee bit snobby even when he maintained a very non-committal politeness when replying, it nevertheless did in my opinion exhibit a kind of disapproving frame of mind.
    
    Both the above two mentioned points may have however to do with his lack of interest in super symmetries and geometry per se. He did not mention much about it. Symmetry and conservation of energy or super symmetry, although the reference to Pythagoras (that I found really enlightening) would one may assume bring him closer to such associations.
    
    Thirdly the chalk-boards were full of mathematical formulas. May be they forgot to erase them or the lecturer needed them for the next class. Or was it to left deliberately for the camera? Definitely very intimidating for the lay man entering the place for a lecture on simplicity. This of course has probably nothing to do with Neil Turok.
    
    Otherwise it sure was a great informative lecture. And excellently delivered.