The Genius of Einstein: The Science, His Brain, the Man

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    What made Albert Einstein one of the greatest scientific geniuses the world has ever known? His scientific breakthroughs revolutionized the way we understand the universe. The World Science Festival, in partnership with the 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival, presents an in-depth look into the genius of Einstein. Join physicist Brian Greene, neurologist Frederick Lepore and author and filmmaker Thomas Levenson for a lively and informative conversation on the science, the brain and the life of one of history’s most fascinating men. Moderated by Cynthia McFadden of NBC News.
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    Original Program Date: Mar 6, 2015
    Host: Cynthia McFadden
    Participants: Brian Greene, Thomas Levenson, Fredrick Lepore
    Brian Greene's Introduction. 00:00
    Welcome Cynthia McFadden. 3:44
    Participant Introductions. 4:58
    Albert Einsteins annus mirabilis. 6:00
    Einsteins love of the violin. 9:33
    Keeping the speed of light constant. 14:12
    In 1914 what was Einsteins life like? 21:30
    Einsteins note to on bending light. 31:23
    How did Einstein see himself? 35:44
    why was Einsteins early life more successful that his later life? 42:40
    What do we know about Einsteins brain? 50:39
    Does the brain make the genius? 1:02:11
    Audience questions. 1:09:14

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Carol Harbison +2
Carol Harbison

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Carol Harbison +1
Carol Harbison

World Science Festival )

Vor 3 years
Svetislav Ljubisavljević +1
Svetislav Ljubisavljević

The dilation of time is both a non-relativistic and a relativistic effect. This is clear from the example I showed in class, before they kicked Special Relativity out of the program. What is interesting is that the same thought experiment can be used to show that the Gemini Paradox is an incorrect claim. Plenty of space could be used in books without inserting that paradox.

Vor 2 years
germelina obrien
germelina obrien

Aq

Vor 2 years
John Smith +4
John Smith

You should checkout the historian and author Christopher J Bjerknes. He has written a series of books on Einstein, exposing him as a fraud, a racist and a pervert.

Vor 2 years
Laila Knight +9
Laila Knight

It's so inspiring to have an insight into Einstein's life events and the way he dealt with them. I have something to add concerning the question of the lady: "Why did he nurture brilliant ideas only at the beginning of his life?" I am not in measure to offer an answer, but from what I've seen in artists and in great minds, I can speculate that the following happens: If you look at Tchaikovsky or at Mozart, they created brilliant masterpieces until their death. In fact, Tchaikovsky's Pathetica was written before his suicide and Mozart worked himself to death while writing the Requiem. So I suspect that the act of creation is so strong that it surpasses the human abilities of an artist. If you want to create something never seen before, the work haunts you, it drives you to overwork, and to burnout, and it depletes you. The work becomes like this big monster eating alive his own master. And the master dies but he becomes immortal through this titanic work. And I suspect that perhaps Einstein realized what the price for it is. He has already faced tumulous times in his youth, and perhaps he wanted to still work to solve those mysteries but without compromising his health for them. Do you see what I mean? Of course, this is just speculation. But as an artist, I can see what your own work can do to you, and there is a limit to how far you choose to go. If you see yourself as a human being and you choose to take care of yourself in a complete way. But if you see yourself only as an artist/scientist/etc, you will sacrifice your humanity for it and you will have a dramatic end. Like Tchaikovsky. Perhaps Einstein didn't want to die in a dramatic way. Perhaps he chose more balance. At least I suspect.

Vor 5 Monate
WT Frost +1
WT Frost

Einstein did work himself to death! You obviously know little about Albert Einstein.

Vor 3 Monate
Mike ahmady +25
Mike ahmady

The beauty of living is not only to have a genius like Einstein , but to have those like Brian Greene articulate that to the world to see and appreciate.

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Elom, Vitamin바둑! +1
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

Wow I agree!

Vor 3 Monate
Chan Pang Chin +70
Chan Pang Chin

Sir Albert Einstein was an extraordinary genius born at the right time, found himself in the right places and had the fortune of the company of great physicists. He had the confidence to stick to his thoughts throughout his life. Most importantly, he lived by his quote “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Ibrahim Al Abdulsalam +5
Ibrahim Al Abdulsalam

+ Two World Wars!

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Mr Clark +3
Mr Clark

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” This is ............Powerful

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Faik Nasser +2
Faik Nasser

History has shown that there is controversy about the work of Einstein as far as the relativity and other works in physics …

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Mr Clark +4
Mr Clark

And the Question is..... Why is “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ??? One reason is that The Creator has used it in the Creative works that we see all around us

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sonny johnson +1
sonny johnson

If not Einstein , someone would have eventually reached his pinnacle . It's just nature .stones would cry out

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Zehra Jafri +10
Zehra Jafri

Brian's passion to impart knowledge is what make's a good teacher. ❤❤

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Mark Moessinger +118
Mark Moessinger

Brian Greene gives the best explanation of special relativity that I’ve ever heard.

Vor 2 years
Dai Laffine. Slava Ukraini! +3
Dai Laffine. Slava Ukraini!

i completely concur. his style of approach reaches every one

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Kevin Osborne +1
Kevin Osborne

The book description put me in touch with God.

Vor year
Jeremy Williams
Jeremy Williams

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Vor 7 Monate
Templates of Myth and Religions +221
Templates of Myth and Religions

Brian Greene is so good at distilling complex into easy to understand explanations. The guy is incredibly good at teaching.

Vor 2 years
Mr Rod +7
Mr Rod

Agreed

Vor 2 years
andykod77 +5
andykod77

Ill back that up

Vor 2 years
YS +2
YS

I adore his writing and way of simplifying complexity!

Vor 2 years
Armando Romero +3
Armando Romero

I don’t buy it.

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Armando Romero
Armando Romero

Something is wrong with that logic.

Vor year
joppadoni +27
joppadoni

Brian Greene is one of the science educators which has the self deprecative humour required to be a good teacher. He also has a fantastic voice and enthusiasm which are prevalent in all great teachers. He may never stumble across a great unknown but he will, along with the greatest epidemic of science educators that are around today, be the reason the folks that do accomplish it even exist. He as well as the others should be applauded for the gift they will give even when they are gone. I won't list them all but I will just say, RPF.. He started it for me.

Vor year
Frank Willow-Rogers Jr. +1
Frank Willow-Rogers Jr.

Hi 'jopp...ni'; I agree and understand "talkers" like B.G. as you say. Hear, hear!

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Dave Carsley
Dave Carsley

Honestly, there's nothing "self-depreciative" about Brian Greene. He thinks he knows _way_ more than you, up to and including the fact that if you vote for a certain political party, you "are and evil human" (his words, not mine). I love science, which is why I'm here, but Brian doesn't stand for science; he stands for _"Agree with my philosophical opinion or you're a horrible person."_

Vor 11 Monate
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

Seconded

Vor 3 Monate
Vikingsandra +1
Vikingsandra

What a fascinating talk! I read many books about Einstein, the man and his ideas but I had never seen his brain. Fascinating stuff! 👏

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Sarcon +47
Sarcon

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” ― Albert Einstein

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Bob Ravenscraft +3
Bob Ravenscraft

Him and Ed Van Halen

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Andrew
Andrew

Of course he didn't. He stole every one of them

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Sarcon +2
Sarcon

@Andrew Like Led Zeppelin? LOL. I Love Zeppelin though. Nah, scientists would have called that out a long time ago.

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S L Steinman +9
S L Steinman

This was a wonderful exploration of the man and his ideas. Kudos.

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Ketiboa Blay +10
Ketiboa Blay

Very true! Geniuses emerge with time and environmental circumstances in addition to their special brains. Many, many potential Geniuses are lost to war and poverty and miss the opportunity to shine.

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Graham Addison +4
Graham Addison

I feel bad for Einstein. He didn't have the resources or connectivity that we have today. He was such a genius. I relate to him in more than one way. I attribute my new finding to him. "Evidential experience".

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Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

which is?

Vor 3 Monate
Fred Pauser +11
Fred Pauser

I've been interested in Einstein for almost 50 years. I've been intrigued by not only by his accomplishments, but by the fact that he was interested in what is actually true of reality above ALL else. He did not care about ego or what others thought of him. Such concerns would have detracted from his main interest of learning about the structure of reality. He made such amazing scientific discoveries in large part due to his tremendous HONESTY!

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ken adams
ken adams

If you look at his eyes in the youtube photo you can almost see the reflection of the cosmos that fascinated him .Nothing was going to break the focus he had on disciphering explanations for that cosmos ,and as you said, his commitment to bring such explanations to all humanity..his everlasting legacy.

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Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

@ken adamsAgreed!

Vor 3 Monate
Jon Hide +3
Jon Hide

A brilliant show, thank you guys! I do think that his school years and teachers might be worth talking about? Karatheodori? I had a teacher once who sagely said: you only truly understand a problem, or method when you can impart it to others. He must have been talking about Brian Green?

Vor 11 Monate
gjle +2
gjle

A truly remarkable man

Vor 2 Monate
Gaston Flatulenza +4
Gaston Flatulenza

I've read about 20 biographies on Einstein, and it's in somebody's book that Einstein ended up at Princeton because they were offering him a job and help in finding a place to live before California did. Einstein just kind of took the first job that was offered to him. Well, he was escaping the Nazis at the time, and he never once made it back to Berlin for the rest of his life. I think they offered him $9,000 in 1933 (my memory may be off about the amount), and Einstein asked back, "How much money is that? Could I live on less?" But the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study gave him the high salary anyway. I'm sure Einstein never knew what his house payment was or how much he had in his bank account. His wife Elsa said they both ended up really liking the city of Princeton because its environment (trees, architecture, etc) reminded them a lot of where they had lived before in Germany.

Vor 11 Monate
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

Oh, thank you very much! I heard he joined because of the money, but now you showed me it wasn't the case. You also reminded to check if I can find the book 100 years of relativity online to find out the mathematician who also discovered relativity because my it's been lost by others who borrowed it from my library circuit!

Vor 3 Monate
Bonnie Kerr +5
Bonnie Kerr

This is interesting. The additional folds means he had extra brain surface area. They mentioned the extra folds in the language area. That actually explains why he had an understanding of what he was researching, and likewise was able to explain what he was understanding. The larger corpus callosum was developed through his violin playing. Musicians playing stringed instruments have a larger corpus callosum. That’s the key to inter hemispheric interaction. (I only know that part because I also play violin. I thought that was interesting about the corpus callosum, so I looked into it more. lol) The information about his brain having the extra folds is fascinating. His motor cortex seemed to have additional surface area (not like the average brain). I looked into that too, because I once heard something about Mozart being so young he physiologically should not have had the muscle, tendon, and bone development to play the advanced pieces he had begun composing . I then searched, and found that one quarter of the motor cortex is devoted to the muscle movement of the hand. Einstein was certainly exceptional.

Vor 2 years
Dave Carsley +1
Dave Carsley

*Nothing* you're saying in your comment -- I mean literally absolutely NOTHING -- has _any_ fact-based evidence proven via the scientific method. Like, literally....... none of it.

Vor 11 Monate
Illmuneco Angarita +14
Illmuneco Angarita

All humans should listen to this lecture! The best one, Brian Green ✅

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Mitchell
Mitchell

It's all horse shit 🤣

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Tek Novae +6
Tek Novae

I love how Brian makes it so simple for the common man.

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RosyOutlook2
RosyOutlook2

Aw common man.

Vor 11 Monate
Kevin Healey +33
Kevin Healey

“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” Albert Einstein

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Dave the Rave Dinkum
Dave the Rave Dinkum

I hadn't read that one. Thanks..

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Ivan Leon +1
Ivan Leon

the man could not go far from time related things.

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Self-Law +2
Self-Law

Thats the concern. Powerful discoveries hjacked for nefarious mean by world assumed powers. It does happen.

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Shayne Dalumpines
Shayne Dalumpines

@Dave the Rave Dinkum Crystal Clear

Vor 11 Monate
Joaquin Inouye +30
Joaquin Inouye

People forget that Einstein worked in the patent office that dealt with clocks, time pieces, time devices. he studied the drawings, the intricate gears, springs, that make up the devices that measure time. Mesh that daily work with his commendable knowledge of mathematics and physics and it's interesting to surmise that his daily work in the patent office ignited his ideas about time, space, and relativity and ultimately the thought experiments that resulted in the special relativity and general relativity theories.

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kate court +4
kate court

He also was kicked out of school preferring to chase chickens and spin a magnet for hours on end. He like hawking had a lot of time to think alone now called tic toc or fishing...

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Joaquin Inouye
Joaquin Inouye

@kate court Really? spinning a magnet, hmmm I'm not good at this physics thing, but spinning magnetic fields produces electrical fields, I think, so he was playing with how generators work? Or how to build one, ..or the physics of Maxwell's equations and relativity, or he was just lost and trying to make a compass. He was an accomplished sailor, loved the sport as do I. Sailing opens up a new series of questions when exploring the interface between the two mediums, air and water. A sailboat brings together all the newtonian physics into one package, every F=ma question to solve it seems. E spent a lot of time sailing a small boat alone in Lake Geneva, if I recall correctly.

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Fredrik Svärd +3
Fredrik Svärd

People always scoff at the patent office thing. Patent lawyers are some of the most qualified professionals out there bar none, often holding masters and phd:s in both law and engineering. It's a ridiculous difficult profession to get into and master. Not that everyone working in a patent office is that senior, but the office itself deals with complicated stuff.

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Carol Middlehurst +1
Carol Middlehurst

If I said blubbleubbleabbleubble ab. Would that mean anything to you... It should because this is the answer to every question and the spelling is perfectly OK to be ambiguous

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Carol Middlehurst +1
Carol Middlehurst

@Fredrik Svärd scoff... That means to eat rapidly

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Keely Evans +3
Keely Evans

Remember any time I was yelling at someone it's about the system except for the people that directly did it to me, all you guys are clear I love your voices and genuinely appreciate your work. When I hear the ones that were used it is crazy feeling.

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Ric Capistrano +9
Ric Capistrano

Brian Greene - exceptional explanation ! Kudos

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Popi Pagkalou +10
Popi Pagkalou

Science and phisics offers to humanity many tools which made our life better and made us to learn endless things of our world!

Vor 2 years
Rabindra Singh +5
Rabindra Singh

SIR ALBERT Einstein will all be remembered as a legend for his great works.

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Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

He's not british

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indian patriotic +3
indian patriotic

Really insightful...loved it

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Ivan Leon +15
Ivan Leon

10 years fighting with a top problem until he conquer it, what a legend!

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ken adams +3
ken adams

Yes..his persistance and endeavour contributed to his breakthroughs just as much as his intellect...a fact not considered by those who throw around the "genius" term when describing him.

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Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

@ken adams Yep, this is an irony.

Vor 3 Monate
David Wilder +62
David Wilder

Albert thought outside the box. There was no box hindering his thoughts. His mind ran wild and free where all possibilities exist. It must have been lonely at times-as it is for anyone who has original thoughts.

Vor 2 years
Keely Evans +1
Keely Evans

Yes exactly the definition of insanity is trying the same thing and expecting different results

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PittBird
PittBird

If one knows the ultimate truth, then one is ultimately alone.

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David Wilder
David Wilder

@PittBird nice cup of tea sorts that out!!

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Spenser +1
Spenser

There were other physicists that made significant contributions to the field. I think they are giving Einstein all the credit and not acknowledging others such as Niels Bohr

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na na
na na

Except almost NONE OF HIS THOUGHTS WERE ORIGINAL. With enough research you'll realize he was an artistic conman and a thief of ideas fueled by outsiders who choose him to become the symbol and also by media.

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None of your Business +12
None of your Business

To be an accomplished genius it is not only IQ, it is also personality and a pinch of something we well never know

Vor 2 years
Macaroni Tony +3
Macaroni Tony

Imagination according to him. And coincidentally he was a Pisces.

Vor 2 years
Vinay Seth +1
Vinay Seth

@Macaroni Tony Wouldn't he himself have hated the idea of astrology, especially given his understanding of the complicated way in which the celestial bodies interacted with each other?

Vor 2 years
Macaroni Tony +1
Macaroni Tony

@Vinay Seth I didn't feel like qualifying it at the time. But yeah, you're right. I'm just the prototypical Pisces, and I'm looking for confirmation bias lol

Vor 2 years
Philippos Snortis +1
Philippos Snortis

@Macaroni Tony it’s ok

Vor 2 years
alejandro benitez
alejandro benitez

@Vinay Seth 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Vor 2 years
Real Music +4
Real Music

Excellent video. Thank you for producing this.

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Siri S +4
Siri S

The greatest thing about the US university system is that most professors from tier 1-2 institutions are world experts in their fields and enjoy almost a celebrity like status.

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Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

Yeah

Vor 3 Monate
Will Dwyer +2
Will Dwyer

For any music fans watching this, Max Born was Olivia Newton-John's grandfather. He received the Nobel prize for physics in 1954.

Vor 6 Monate
Sharina Ross
Sharina Ross

Is that a fact?

Vor 4 Monate
aryan kakar +1
aryan kakar

Begginers complicate, experts simplify. Brain greene makes science so simple and interesting.

Vor year
Chauncey Lawrence +9
Chauncey Lawrence

Awesome video! I must mention the fact that three very intelligent people just spent 82 mins discussing why Einstein was less creative in the later of his life. I'm not as smart as these guys, but I straight away know that our imagination and passion is most powerful in youth. This is true, even for Einstein!

Vor 5 years
Michael Jensen +1
Michael Jensen

Hi Chauncy! Good point, but I also wonder why poet Robert Frost wrote his best poetry when he was in his late eighties and nineties. I guess that is also true in the lives of other creative geniuses, but he's the only one I recall reading about. Bob Dylan said in a rare interview he noticed in his old age he was not as creative and prolific as when he was younger. Leo Tolstoy wrote "War and Peace" around age 41, "Anna Karinina" age 50, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" at 60, back when the average life span in 1870 was about 41... but does that also relate to the aging, the actual integrity of our cells, our metabolism, and physiology etc? Does it mean they died younger because at that time medical science had a much lesser role in longevity i.e. like a 41 year old's brain in 1870 being just as malleable as a 41 year old's brain in 2021? I'm wondering what your take is on that?

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ken adams
ken adams

This is typical of all the greats in these subjects eg Isaac Newton.

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Michael Jensen
Michael Jensen

Hi Chauncey! I read that poet Robert Frost was most creative in his later years, I think with Grandma Moses too and her paintings... but they are probably a very rare exception. Bob Dylan said in an interview he is not as creative as he was when he was younger. If I recall correctly Bob has written over 600 songs.

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Samantha Tomich +2
Samantha Tomich

Possibly your estimation of the older people around you is inherently flawed, as you do not seem to understand the value of older people and literally that could be said to be the definition of ageism at least in part, and there is a fallacy or misreading of the situation involved there, which is pretty much a huge part of the reason we have ageism. I believe that is simply an ageist statement made by a confused reading of the panelist's nonverbal communication. Just because they were being pretty polite as I would expect from professionals of that caliber, you can't infer they were actually agreeing with the interviewer. My own perception was that the panelists were not convinced of this persuasion at all, nor that the productivity or the value of older people's work (older people just like the panelists were themselves!) would necessarily decrease or be somehow inherently inferior in any way. Plus, rightly so, it seemed to be a rude thing to be discussing in general, especially given the panelists ages, but also therefore even all the more reason to discuss it openly, because people constantly make their own presuppositions about other people that are not based on fact, but based on irrelevant criteria like a person's age, or the color of their skin, for instance. My perception of the panelists' reactions was that they were trying to be polite and congenial, and hide their dismay at that really insulting, absolutely false, and completely ageist line of questioning. While the interviewer seemed to me to be trying to lead the panelists to discount Einstein's later work, as if his age had much of anything to do with it not seeming over the top to the interviewer or anyone else, they obviously actually each had differences of opinion, each only differed in the degree of opposition, only conceding certain points, as in the fact that at a certain point it may take more work to learn something complex, or he that he was on a tangent which may actually prove more important in later findings. Each person there gave their reasoning in which each opinion is different for each individual. It patently is wrong to assume that creativity dies out, or intellect dies out, or productivity dies out after you hit some completely random specific age... Older people often do think differently than younger people, that has to do more with the generation they are in relative to the generation of their parents and siblings... and the unique contexts that all these people were raised in, which do create huge age related differences. Those factors can create an exceedingly different influence even within each individual, but your experience of the world is unique, just as you are unique and not a carbon copy of any other person in your own generation. As with so many other things, a person's age itself does not discount the incredible value of what they, or any other any single member of society,, Einstein included, has to contribute to everyone else in society regardless of their age. I find it truly amazing how dense myself and my peers were in our youth and how wise I now realkize my grandparents were at that time, as I could only realize the humongous accomplishments of the older people I knew personally, who understood so much more about life than I ever could have guessed, until really studying their lives and words and accomplishments later, which unfortunately was not until long after they were gone. Each of the many generations alive now, the older generations and the younger generations, all of these have really different styles of thinking, working, values, and different ideas on what they feel is of value; but none of the generations alive now has thinking or knowledge that is altogether superior or altogether wrong when compared to any of the other generations. There is often a huge gap in understanding between the generations of say a family for instance. Just as there are differences in each individual, there are differences in the time periods we all have lived in, so of course, there are going to be radically different opinions amongst us all. We all need to work through incredibly challenging problems we have in common, and on an individual level, as a world population, within this context of generational differences. In order to try to do that in a way that is productive and rewarding at all, we must cultivate radical acceptance of our many differences: communication styles, cultural differences, differences of types of knowledge - experiential and/or book knowledge, street smarts, physical body/kinetic intuitiveness, religious differences, abilities or perceived abilities, and on and on... and realize no one is altogether superior to all the others.. We all have a very different slice of reality we are looking at, at any given moment and can change our ideas practically at the drop of a hat at times. We are all humans here. That should bind us together, our commonalities are incredible. We share so much in common with each other!! There are no superheros that will come to our rescue. We are responsible not only for ourselves, but to each other: to care for one another, to love and cherish each other; and yes, even enough to say, 'Hey, stop hurting each other in that way." If we as a species can't abandon our in-built propensity to be judge and jury of one another all the damn day, and we insist on fomenting violence against each other and stereotyping one another and trying to beat each other as if, in some way, our thinking is that we could actually win some invisible contest, as if we actually believe that life really is a game, and the one who dies with the most toys (or some special knowledge) really wins... Uh no, well it wasn't, last time I checked...we all end up dead... And the longer we wait to work together unselfishly, the more people will die young, the more people will die impoverished, the more we likely we will die suffering really bad deaths, and the less unfulfilling our lives will be, often times filled with greed, anger, suffering, bitterness, loneliness and/or sorrow etc.

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Ronald Bass +1
Ronald Bass

I am 63 years old and I'm as passionate as I have ever been about what I believe in. I may not appear as passionate to you but when you figure out how naive and foolish you were in your youth. It tends to mellow your physical actions but inside...I feel every bit as passionate. As for imagination.. I have always keep the little boy in me alive. Although I give him only limited weight on my overall opinions. Good luck to you sir. I'm not arguing against your point. I'm nearly helping you to better understand and explain yourself

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Joe Barcelona +2
Joe Barcelona

He worked at the Swiss Patent Office, reading other people's ideas all day? What genius!

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Teddy Raffudeen +4
Teddy Raffudeen

What a fascinating discussion by fascinating people about a fascinating man-Einstein.

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Thomas Taylor +2
Thomas Taylor

That was the 3rd time I’ve watched this and it keeps getting better, perhaps because a little more understanding is afforded me with each viewing.

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Christopher Leeson +10
Christopher Leeson

One question was "what will be the next new discovery"? I think it will be understanding how ' spooky action at a distance' actually works. That is the key to a unified theory in my opinion. Is there a fifth dimension where time doesn't exist ?

Vor 2 years
Michael Jensen
Michael Jensen

Hi Christopher! Just my amateur thought... but didn't Cicero say something based on the premise that if the universe is infinite that renders time as being only a human invention, renders time as inapplicable. I can't remember the quote and sorry if I'm way off. You might be right on with what you are theorizing! Again, I'm only amateur and you're way over my head! This is a lot to ask but... do you think artificial super intelligence might solve the unified theory, or prove there is no such theory?

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Richard Extall +1
Richard Extall

'Spooky action at a distance' works because there is no distance. All points in space and time are connected. Distance, space and time are all an illusion.

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David Ladd
David Ladd

If we were to really get a handle on gravity, to the point where we knew how to control it, like we do electron flow; to focus, or redirect it, it could give us the ability to deflect meteors, or levitate objects; or deflect the flow of solar ejecta when we detect a solar storm. It could give us space travel capabilities that we have dreamt about.

Vor year
anne thomas +5
anne thomas

A genius of his time.

Vor 2 years
Ivan Leon
Ivan Leon

A genius of time.

Vor year
Matt James +2
Matt James

A genius of all time.

Vor year
Arun S Narayanan
Arun S Narayanan

@Matt James ❣️

Vor year
John Geddes +2
John Geddes

Y’know, buck owens was literally someone ahead of his time. He took so many concepts, even just when he was shakin his head; to let us know that we won’t be lonesome if he has to die to prove a point! Anyways, the record label squashed all that cuz all they wanted was another hit record! Can you imagine his viking blood come’a boilin just like a bunch a dang fleas on a blue tick hound? He promised t’come on back and we can see by the events today he weren’t lyin. BOO!

Vor year
Barry Miller +2
Barry Miller

Isn’t it likely that his brain was larger in, say, 1905 than at time of death?

Vor year
Gpa Bui +4
Gpa Bui

God’s gift to human being 🙏

Vor year
ChaosLord +3
ChaosLord

14:30 is probably the best explanation I've ever seen for the constant speed of light idea.

Vor year
Jonatan Picoli +14
Jonatan Picoli

A incredible lectura about the study and life of this genius! Has changed forever our lives.

Vor 8 years
Chris 432T +13
Chris 432T

Greene is always interesting and a great speaker/teacher. Enjoyed his Joe Rogan interview as well.

Vor 2 years
Blufor 4014 +2
Blufor 4014

yeh he comes across as a genuine nice guy too

Vor year
John Leung
John Leung

brian greene can explain what we don't understsnd physics wish good luckto absorb every he said

Vor 11 Monate
Al Pac ino +10
Al Pac ino

Brian Greene is very excited about science, can see how the way he talks about science.

Vor 2 years
Walter Cumings
Walter Cumings

⁹⁹⁹⁹ you OP o

Vor 2 years
Riki Peters +1
Riki Peters

He was super smart at age 76. Because he came up with the Cosmological Constant in his later years. Even though he discarded it. Yes & he was a good violen player

Vor year
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

Oh!

Vor 3 Monate
Swarnendu Pachal +8
Swarnendu Pachal

How can you say why Einstein could not unified relativity and quantum mechanics without knowing the actual answer, that we still don't have..

Vor 2 years
Sunflower Wilonella +19
Sunflower Wilonella

I like Brain Greene the way he explains, such a smart and a funny person. Is there any way to meet him in person?

Vor 2 years
DanceBeforeTheStorm +3
DanceBeforeTheStorm

love your typo :)

Vor 2 years
Mr Rod +2
Mr Rod

Brain Greene... nice

Vor 2 years
Brian McNellis +1
Brian McNellis

Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me either...

Vor 2 years
The Klaus +11
The Klaus

He was right. Quantum mechanics are an incomplete theory. There has to be missing some things. So I wonder why people don’t appreciate that

Vor 2 years
Dave Carsley
Dave Carsley

To be fair, it may not be quantum mechanics that's incomplete-- it may very well be general relativity. There's really no compelling, definitive evidence one way or the other just yet.

Vor 11 Monate
The Klaus
The Klaus

@Dave Carsleyto my best knowledge they both are incomplete .

Vor 11 Monate
Old man and the Sea +6
Old man and the Sea

From what I read, when Einstein developed his Relativity Theory, he was a “revolutionary “ against Newton’s laws of motion in the scientific field, but he became a “counter revolutionary “ when he faced the study of Quantum Theory, constantly challenged the new “revolutionaries” who were leading the development of the new theory. Am I right? Welcome to the discussion.

Vor 2 years
Anderson Gomez +4
Anderson Gomez

He started the quantum with his photoelectric paper

Vor year
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

Basically sums it up!

Vor 3 Monate
GOLDWINGER PPG +11
GOLDWINGER PPG

Spatial thinking started and developed with his job at the patent office sounds fascinating.

Vor 2 years
Ian B +1
Ian B

@Hosoya Laurence who was the richest person in 1704?

Vor year
Amin Assadi +14
Amin Assadi

I love this talk. Thanks World Science Festival

Vor 2 years
Rachel Dlamini
Rachel Dlamini

yeah

Vor 2 years
Anonymous squirrel +22
Anonymous squirrel

I have become a fan of Brian Greene

Vor 5 years
Onder Ozenc
Onder Ozenc

Yes, very inspiring guy...

Vor 2 years
Alfi Samut +1
Alfi Samut

As a physicist , Brian Greene looks like a better looking descendent of Einstein 😆

Vor year
Pacaj Albert
Pacaj Albert

určite čo si s toho pamätám tak som mal veľmi teplé srdce ♥

Vor 2 years
Ronald Bass
Ronald Bass

Please translate for us blue collar workers.

Vor year
Zehra Jafri +2
Zehra Jafri

Great discussion. 👍👍👏

Vor year
Keely Evans
Keely Evans

When you take out the last guy you take out our information thank you for being such a good team; please stop losing all of our data!

Vor year
Sophia +4
Sophia

God I am so relieved that Einstein too didn't fully understand quantum physics and had to get there through math.

Vor 2 years
Thomas Crane +13
Thomas Crane

Those starry eyes come from having a sense of humor. Well rounded man.

Vor 2 years
Trey Horn
Trey Horn

very enjoyable. Great job, all.

Vor year
Mora +1
Mora

Este video es un placer de principio a fin.

Vor 4 Monate
Jhon Connor
Jhon Connor

el mismo lo dijo " la estupidez humana es infinita " y de acuerdo a esa frase él nunca entendió el experimento de las 2 ranuras y el de Michelson-Morley cometiendo el mismo error de Maxwell al obtener su ecuación ' de las ondas electromagnéticas ' que tiene una doble interpretación

Vor year
NG +34
NG

I know why they chose moderators that aren’t experts. But they could at least get someone who has a real interest in learning about the subject, or at least a capacity to understand it and follow the explanations enough to ask pertinent questions.

Vor 4 years
Rick rick
Rick rick

I thought they were experts

Vor year
Rick rick
Rick rick

@Samantha Tomich I thought that’s what he might have meant but he used the word moderators. The moderator actually seemed intelligent and had good prepared questions. Maybe it’s best to choose someone like an average person to ask the questions to match a wide audience. You make a good point though and for me I’d prefer someone with a phd in physics. They’ll always be criticism no matter what is done. The same goes for your classroom example and assumptions. Some that stayed because it was easier might have gone on to enjoy it and take more courses. We don’t know

Vor year
Ronald Bass +1
Ronald Bass

Lol, I think this moderator learned a tremendous amount doing this. And if she were to do a retake she may appear better to you. Peace Bro. The info got out and most people were pleased with the video

Vor year
Fredrik Svärd +1
Fredrik Svärd

@Samantha Tomich I've organized panels similar to this and it's trickier than you think to get the moderator thing right. Typically, pro moderators that aren't experts in the field at hand is the way to go even if the audience consists of experts. It kind of depends on the aim of the discussion too, a conference or summit isn't the same as an academic seminar. Experts that are good at moderating and who also can distance themselves enough are hard to find. I've encountered two or three.

Vor year
Chris Barker +1
Chris Barker

If the speed of light had different speeds at different times or is moving at different speeds depending on where you look wouldn't that make e=mc2 wrong? Since C is the cosmological constant. I am not at all saying he was wrong with space time. I am saying we are missing a giant piece of the puzzle. A puzzle that will take millions of people to solve. Not just one gifted person.

Vor 2 years
hahaha matsuyama +14
hahaha matsuyama

I wont mind spending my whole vacation to finish and digust all these videos, which to a non-English speaking viewer, is enourmously beneficial not only for the learning of English but most important for the crazy love for Modern Physics!

Vor 7 years
Rick Robitaille +1
Rick Robitaille

At this point it's totally hip not to question Einstein's proclivities in the future of space and time beyond our understanding decades after⚡😁🇨🇦🌐🇺🇸

Vor year
Daniel Dickens +1
Daniel Dickens

I was once laughed at by an Ivy League graduate when I remarked (regarding brain plasticity) that one could (easily) increase their IQ. Take it it wasn't something I studied in some class, but had lived the experience thoroughly enough to know it wasn't debatable. He also loved to tease me for my country bumpkin accent. This all happened at a monastery, btw.

Vor year
Peter Olbrisch +8
Peter Olbrisch

This was interesting, especially about his later years. Was he less productive? We know he kept at it; I think you have to realize that you can only discover the things he did once. Science shouldn't be a what have you done for me lately thing.

Vor 2 years
C O +2
C O

I would say ER and EPR are totally nobel.level work, all quantum engineering these days came from that.

Vor 2 Monate
Cesar Omiste +2
Cesar Omiste

Excellent panel!!!

Vor 2 Monate
Larrythebassman +4
Larrythebassman

Einstein had the right idea when he pondered what was the engineer thinking when he engineered the molecule ? that can turn into any life form ✨✨✨✨👌fascinating {{ well… almost any life form }}}

Vor year
pellestiano masai +2
pellestiano masai

Brian Green has fallen so deeply in Love with the idea of Relativity to the extent that his look has started to take aresemblance of Albert Einstein...😀😀

Vor year
Oroghene Oboreh-Snapps +1
Oroghene Oboreh-Snapps

This was an amazing watch👏🏽👏🏽

Vor year
Self mastery +1
Self mastery

Shoutout to him for givin big ups to the new published author so humble

Vor year
Jack Parker +5
Jack Parker

Science in its pure form must be exercised

Vor 2 years
ozdorothyfan +6
ozdorothyfan

I have seen more than one physicist say that though they perfectly understood Einstein's theories, they still had no idea how he thought of it in the first place. I suspect the simple answer is that he was a once in every 200 years genius, and you're not.

Vor 2 years
Shane lebrocq
Shane lebrocq

I think any of these people could have come up with the theory had it not been discovered earlier .

Vor 2 years
emit
emit

May be he stole it from some one

Vor 2 years
Anderson Gomez +1
Anderson Gomez

@emit physics is almost impossible to steal... because math without understanding the physical part is useless.

Vor year
ken adams +1
ken adams

2oo years?..he was the most advanced mind our species has produced..over about 100,000 years of Homosapians.

Vor year
ozdorothyfan
ozdorothyfan

@ken adams 200 years is roughly how long we waited between Newton giving us his theory of gravitation then Einstein expanding on it with relativity..

Vor year
Bibi Ayube
Bibi Ayube

I think most of us lay people can't grasp how important Einstein was and still is Brian Greene does a very good job of explaining

Vor 2 years
Samantha Tomich
Samantha Tomich

It did not help me out at all... I did not hear any adequate explanation of the question Einstein asked himself nor understood at what a light box is, what that has to anything at all, nor why they thought the diagram they drew would have had meaning to me nor why they showed it in a different way the second time and what that was supposed to mean either, but I had heard some explanation regarding a train previously one time and something about movements of things regarding position and speed of the train? But I can't remember where I heard that, but it seemed to sound like a much more plausible explanation for whatever the theory is about... When I heard the explanation on this video above, it reminded me of how exercise (motion/moving) gives you energy and you get healthier and avoid illnesses that can kill you (times passing too fast?), and how I feel better after movement and that gave me a idea that the lightbox was somehow analogous or somehow like my representation of my body and that the more consistantly I exercise I feel like I age slower those weeks & the difference in my longevity seemed like the only analogy it brought to mind lolol... maybe the source of eternal life will prove to be space travel or some odd thing we never even thought of like jumping jacks! HA! (just musing for fun).

Vor year
Hope Forbetter +8
Hope Forbetter

I always thought that Einstein was an outstanding mathematician and arrived to his theories using mathematics! To my dismay I only learnt later that he was a poor student and arrived to his conclusion through ingenious observations! Only years later have mathematicians proved the existence of black holes and wave gravities shaking up earth!

Vor year
na na
na na

With enough research you'll realize he was an artistic conman and a thief of ideas fueled by outsiders who choose him to become the symbol and also by media.

Vor year
Jack Bradley +1
Jack Bradley

@na na research? Or information supporting your current views? Einstein released these 4 papers, no one else. He takes all the credit for these theories, he didn’t invent maths but he definitely accelerated technology advancement and our understanding of the universe

Vor year
Kevin Flick
Kevin Flick

Ana na troll….

Vor year
LIFT Heart
LIFT Heart

Wow, had NO idea he did not like Math. Hard to believe he didn't believe... there are maybe misquoted things that he said that definitely indicate his knowledge of God. Being blessed with a brain with extras, is very + very interesting and thank you for the pictures of the brain and expanding on what that might mean to have those extra brain parts. But again I was thinking that he was very much aware of God and it would be sad for someone not to believe in God that has been blessed with extra. Of course we are all blessed with something extra compared to another person but his anatomy actually has extra according to the brain images. Imagine having a tail and I heard that some people do. Thank you for all of the information .. not just the brain images but everything---> each of you wonderful people! This is a very special Einstein video!

Vor 2 years
ken adams
ken adams

Religion and beliefs have no association with Einstein and it is only respectful of this great Genius to not try to connect him to anything other than what he was about.

Vor year
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

It's not sad because 99.9% of people believe in the wrong concept of God, including you most likely. It's better to be an atheist than disrespect God with religion.

Vor 3 Monate
Ed Kalski +9
Ed Kalski

A conceptual mind describing reality. A beautiful thing.

Vor 2 years
Andre Campbell
Andre Campbell

What a great discussion about a monumental genius.

Vor year
AstroCozzy Amfilohiades +18
AstroCozzy Amfilohiades

I believe that, a true scientist needs to have a true sence of imagination, as well.

Vor 3 years
Sradha Suman +11
Sradha Suman

Einstein was a phenomenon in himself. The most priceless and rarest of human being ever born on earth. If ever in history of the world humanity has to be represented by its ultimate intellectual, no doubt EINSTEIN will be the choosen one. Even the word GENIUS is not enough to describe the aura of Einstein.

Vor 3 years
bratic80
bratic80

Tesla is the man.

Vor year
Davy Roger
Davy Roger

Goethe

Vor year
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

I agree!

Vor 3 Monate
Marie +2
Marie

Great perspectives and very interesting educators!

Vor year
Robert Sias +2
Robert Sias

Einstein would have been a good scientist

Vor 2 years
Nissen S +10
Nissen S

Brian ! Very entertaining intelectual. 💯💫

Vor 2 years
Glen Kovacs
Glen Kovacs

That’s a preconceived notion

Vor year
Nissen S
Nissen S

@Glen Kovacs there is no need of evidence for me, just to hear how eloquent he is

Vor year
hmimou abderrahim +2
hmimou abderrahim

Good study 👍...thank you🙏

Vor year
regina katherine +5
regina katherine

That was more than great....it was amazingly incredible I learned so much.

Vor 2 years
Daniel Kawuki +2
Daniel Kawuki

Team, many thanks for this. Any discussion on Stephen Hawking, please?

Vor year
MyG6 +1
MyG6

this guy is on fire

Vor year
P G +6
P G

Einstein was influenced by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza based his philosophy on axioms and his thought follows from these axioms. In the same way, Einstein's relativity begins with the presentation of postulates. These postulates must be accepted as obvious and the consequences are relativity.

Vor year
Roger Kinnard
Roger Kinnard

this was building on Newton who got it from Euclid.

Vor year
Fredrik Svärd
Fredrik Svärd

@Roger Kinnard he got his metaphysics from spinoza o co, and like einstein spinoza was a badass

Vor year
Davy Roger
Davy Roger

He was also influenced by Hume. He was truly a natural philosopher

Vor year
Elom, Vitamin바둑!
Elom, Vitamin바둑!

That makes sense

Vor 3 Monate
Self mastery +2
Self mastery

Woah during those times I can’t imagine how people thought about doctors and what they really could do there brain once gone or what life and death was I feel like everyone was so on edge ALBERT PULLING UP with a literal eternal shift in the way things “ should function “ people must of been like look man we just figured out we could make light bulbs now you’re saying time dosnt stand still or follow me around !!!!!! NANI !?!?

Vor year
AstroCozzy Amfilohiades +5
AstroCozzy Amfilohiades

And, a talent in creativity.

Vor 3 years
Eli Dadia
Eli Dadia

please help 4 melaney dr

Vor 2 years

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