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Professor James Gates detected an algebraic, geometric and graph theory related connection with formulas from quantum field theory. This looks like an error correction code known from computer science. The only other known occurence of error correction codes in nature is within DNA in the field of genetics. The footage is from quantum to cosmos festival, waterloo at october 18, 2009.

TVO S James Gates on Does Reality have a Genetic Basis

A Future of OUR Choosing

Aug 5, 2012

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6w0K5FIgsU
  • 52m13s

WP: Sylvester James Gates
WP: Adinkra symbols (physics)
WP: DNA

Is it possible that the universe is a huge quantum computer? This is the central question in this debate.

Rebooting the Cosmos: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?

World Science Festival

Dec 9, 2014

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atMuFCpxnUQ
  • 1h31m12s

Professor Peter Woit discusses another approach to explain the universe from a mathematical point of view. This >3h video is not intended to be understood by beginners. There is a lot of advanced content. However, it's always interesting to enter unknown scientific territory.

Peter Woit: Unification, Spinors, Twistors, String Theory

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Nov 22, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z3JYb_g2Qs
  • 3h05m02s

Neil Turok descibes a new model to explain the universe. He has chosen a minimalistic approach which sounds promising. He has got the hope to be able to explain several open questions in modern physics. The model addresses the big bang, vacuum energy, dark matter, the standard model of particle physics and more.

The (Simple) Theory That Explains Everything | Neil Turok

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Apr 23, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUp9x44N3uE
  • 1h59m51s

Almost one year ago there was a report about an AI which found an algorithm which was not discovered by humans before. As Mr. Spock would say: "Fascinating".

How AI Discovered a Faster Matrix Multiplication Algorithm

Quanta Magazine

May 22, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAPJ7rvcUw
  • 12m59s

Leslie Lamport is a pioneer of distributed computer systems. He is also known for inventing LaTeX and TLA+ (Temporal Logic of Actions). Mathematics was his guide.

The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math

Quanta Magazine

May 17, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZzg7Vowao
  • 7m49s

Do you really hate mathematics? Do you know what mathematics is? Remember strange feelings about mathematics in school? Readjust your opinion together with Professor Edward Frenkel and try to see it as part of our culture.

Why do people hate mathematics?

Numberphile

Jan 19, 2014

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yexc19j3TjE
  • 9m17s

Ever been late to a lecture? Don't worry - you can compensate for this by solving open math problems as George Dantzig did in the year 1939.

A slacker was 20 minutes late and received two math problems… His solutions shocked his professor.

Life Stories

Sep 9, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_bVUeQw38c
  • 7m12s

Again retro time with Neil deGrasse Tyson - as he emphasizes: he was called by the universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Called by the Universe

TheScienceFoundation

Jan 2, 2011

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKOoTRE1HUc
  • 1h48m43s

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a great ambassador and story teller of science. One can grasp the fascination he experienced when he talks about the adventure of the scientific journey.

Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

ResearchChannel

Dec 13, 2008

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5Fl1Qn-Do
  • 1h29m15s

Start with a rap song about dark matter:

• The Dark Matter Rap
  • https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/weinberg.21/Rap/index.html
    • MP3: https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/weinberg.21/Rap/darkmatterrap.mp3

Now you're in the mood to enjoy scientific arguments regarding dark matter. Is dark matter only an idea? Or is it a real thing? First observations by Fritz Zwicky and later observations by Vera Rubin established the idea that there is something out in the universe which we cannot see but causes gravitational impact. Nice quote at 7m48s: So in the beginning you have the big bang. Lawrence Krauss has got an opinion about which stories should beginn with those words. Maybe we'll come back to this another day. Meanwhile dive into the evidence which leads to the postulate of dark matter. Bonus: at the end (41m32s) there is a crackpot compass presented.

dark matter is not a theory

Angela Collier

Jun 7, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI
  • 43m47s

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the host of a cultural highlight for anybody interested in science. He is a great story teller and connects education with entertainment, and he does so with an enthusiasm rarely found elsewhere.

SciCafe: Life the Universe and Everything with Neil deGrasse Tyson

American Museum of Natural History

Sep 10, 2010

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRZQQ_eICo
  • 1h28m26s

How can a crackpot be recognized? Angela Collier presents an example as follow-up to the first course in this YouTube video. There is one question left over: do you share the judgement? Is is legitimate to speculate in science? Where exactly is the red line to distinguish scientific avant-garde ideas from blank nonsense? Is string theory a story made up by a community of crackpots? Or is it bleeding edge science in terra incognita?

harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb

by Angela Collier

Aug 25, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI
  • 1h06m37s

What is an crackpot? How can a crackpot be recognized? Why are there crackpots at all? Angela Collier presents a first course in this YouTube video.

physics crackpots: a 'theory'

by Angela Collier

Aug 5, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lPhMSulSU
  • 24m27s

Patrick Winston explains how to structure and set up a talk. This lecture is from MIT IAP 2018.

How to Speak

MIT OpenCourseWare

Dec 20, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
  • 1h03m42s

There is another YouTube video describing the origins of quantum electrodynamics at the Shelter Island conferences after World War II. The coincidences of agreement of the theoretical and experimental values are under scrutiny.

Quantum Electrodynamics is rotten at the core

See the Pattern

Dec 4, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaC_aKqjCXU
  • 28m15s

Quantum mechanics evolved to describe the electromagnetic field itself. The first field theory is called quantum electrodynamics. It is considered to be a high precision theory and its success is claimed to have started right from the beginning. However, there is a story behind the story. Theoretical results and experimental results came along in good agreement while both being false. This happend more than one time, as Dr. Alexander Unzicker summarizes in this YouTube Video:

Forget about Quantum Electrodynamics

by Alexander Unzicker

May 20, 2021

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvz4MRpq6xs
  • 17m26s

There are several links found in the video description. It is some background research material published by Oliver Consa:

• Something is wrong in the state of QED - 2020-02-01 / 2021-10-13
• Something is wrong in the state of QED - 2021-10-04
• The Unpublished Feynman Diagram IIc - 2020-10-18
• Searching for the Feynman diagram IIc - 2021-09-07

Sabine Hossenfelder presents some background information about economic constraints in modern academia. The paradigm economy first, science second has been evolving for several decades. Whoever wants to do research in modern science, mathematics, physics or similar, should watch, think about and understand this video. The culture of producing justification rather than knowledge in exchange for low payment has led to a self-enhancing mainstream paper production machinery. If this sounds familiar within a different context: the quick motion version of this is actually hyped as AI. Be prepared and keep a sick bucket in range.

My dream died, and now I'm here

by Sabine Hossenfelder

Apr 5, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
  • 13m40s

There is more to say about the academic research system. People who hope to get tenure are exploited merciless. The situation is out of control. A second impression is given by the following YouTube Video with focus on the US situation.

the adjunct problem

by Angela Collier

Apr 1, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AvfOhtmCZY
  • 50m14s

In the past decades something went wrong with the academic research system. It is hard to tell when exactly this happened, but the trend to economic optimization of academic structures is a main driver in this story. A first impression is given by the following YouTube Video with focus on the US situation.

the postdoc exodus

by Angela Collier

Jul 21, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExlPihH3jk
  • 37m03s