June Poll
So many topics this month! Vote as for as many as you want. Going to end the poll in one week.
Leave a comment if there is something specific under a topic you are interested in.
Comments (22)
I would love to hear your critique on the Sean Carroll vs Eric Weinstein “Theory of Everything” debate. Clearly Sean is an effective science communicator and Eric sounded like a crackpot.
I am very excited to participate in my first poll after joining your patreon, but a weird part of me thinks "I love her current videos and they have zero input from me. Will my input somehow send her off in a direction I end up disliking?". That just makes me think that could be a whole other video topic, how sometimes people don't really know what they want. Anyway, love your stuff, keep up the fight, etc. etc.
Such a delight to have found your channel. Can't believe it took this long. That the American system was somehow able to produce people like yourself - it gives me hope. You learn like a grown-up, think like a grown-up, articulate like a grown-up, feel like a grown-up, work and act like a grown-up - and none of these are common.
For those who are concerned that physics (determinism) means that you have no free will, you can take the new drug Freewillium, that contains a very slightly radioactive molecule that binds to neurons, subtly, and completely randomly, altering when neurons fire, only slightly changing who you are, but making your behavior unpredictable in any way from your past state.
The real question, did everyone freely vote for that topic?
Ok, where is the Seinfeld option? I’m about two hours into the Star Trek video and it hit me all of a sudden. lol
i can't submit my own topic!
Whatever free will is, it isn't first and foremost a physics question. Physics probably has a role to play in the answer but it is first a philosophical and psychological question because before you can say if free will exists you need to define what free will even means which IMO is a lot harder than most people think and is certainly not something for physics. The way most people think of free will: that humans are somehow special creatures outside the normal rules of the universe that determine how things work... you don't need to be a physicist to realize that's clearly false. But just a bit of introspection tells you that can't be all there is to free will. Ask anyone who has struggled with addiction if things like will power, making decisions, making the effort to take back your life are real phenomena. It could be that maybe the outcomes of those things that we perceive internally are determined anyway but even if it is there are multiple models we use even to understand things like particles and galaxies so it makes sense that there will be multiple models if we ever get a science of psychology as mature as physics and within that eventual science I think there will be a coherent definition of free will.
+1, I was the one that brought up this non physics topic so I apologize. 🙃 Its neuro science as Angela pointed out. But I do disapprove of the misguided attempts to point to uncertainty or quantum as the latest place where it must come from. As sapolsky points out, randomness is not what people really expect from their wish for free will
For the laser communication, it made me think of the spectra spread concept that I think was covered in a recent video? I'm personally just wondering, what are the challenges with millions or billions of miles for a laser to talk to a craft or just the moon for example. Do you get to use the same time aim with different wavelengths for duplex? do you run into other physics effects? spreading, small doppler shifts, noise. I use a leica tape measure laser (Disto D2) that seems interestingly accurate and easy to me every time. Does this just splash a laser and look for a repeating pattern timing on the return?
"How did Maxwell do it? --- I'm curious whether there are physical insights that can be gained from the original 20(?) equations that are not apparent in Heaviside's re-formulation. Similarly, did Maxwell's change from components to quaternions reveal any insights?.
As someone who works in education, I'm very interested on your take on mentorship. If it doesn't make it this time I hope it comes back around.
Ah, the crafty Odysseus on the wine-dark sea... Studying the classics as part of a science curriculum was required at my school and I hope still is today. I once titled a paper "Socrates and His Dielectric Materialism" and got an A.
Why are more people not interested in James Clerk Maxwell? OMG!
The way the question is worded, perhaps? Hard to compete with something as tantalizing as "Glue".
I have the impression that new physics is often built on new math. I am wondering if new physics will emerge from the Langlands program math.
Idk what Glue would be about but I hope it wins
It'll glue you to your seat! (I also wanted to write something like "I hate to talk about free will but since everything is determined we probably cannot do anything to not to talk about it", but this one is not quite ready yet)
Andromeda paradox, block universe baby. Let's go!
am I dumb or didn’t you answer the “what kind of math you need” question in a main Channel video already..?
Maybe in very brief? But I'm hoping for something more comprehensive. :)
I've been away so not sure if this is in my backlog, but I'm here for the Devs/Super Determinism not-a-rant, maybe just a polite shoving of bad ideas, the poking of feel-good quantum quantum quantum it soooo intuitive portals for everyone. Free will is a physics question like birds are a Wright Brothers inspiration. Is neurology a physics like math is a cheeseburger? I mean invention.