Sitting with two hundred, people on a plane
Like particles-, they all look the same As if a guiding hand, directing from above
What seems like random movement is an equation we can solve
Suddenly I understand, all the things I get
With everything I’m not, I’m so nervous that I sweat
I’m good at single atoms; that seems to be my thing
But I don’t know what to make when they make a human being
You are breaking my symmetry And it weighs so heavily on me
All I feel is just to drown in you All the time I wanna be with you
How my heart is beating, how it pounds Speaking, touching and absorbing sounds
You are breaking my symmetry And it weighs so heavily on me
All I feel is just to drown in you All the time I wanna be with you
How my heart is beating, how it pounds Speaking, touching and absorbing sounds
Simmetria Simmetria Simmetria Simmetria
Fields and quanta, seem so clear to me
Where do from, all our thoughts arrive?
When will we explore, what consciousness might be?
When we’ll understand, the thing we call “love, love, love”?
Love
Everybody who loves you and everybody you love will eventually die
It's not funny, this is sad and painfull. This is my family.
You can see here my mom. my aunt, my grandparents, my two big brothers and I am the little boy in the middle
Nowadays, it's only me and my big brother.
This is sad, but this is part of life.
I am sure that most of you, at one point of your life ask yourself this question: What is the point of all this?
Why do we exist?
Some answer it with faith
Some do not have an answer. So I'll try to give you, some thought here
Which is another way to look at this: We live to leave a stamp,
And this is our privilege as human beings.
A month ago David Bowie died. So I went to London and visited this spontaneous memorial site
This fantastic place, and I spent hours there, reading all the notes there
And I wanted to share with you, one note on the right side and one note on the top left side
On the right side it says
"Heroes never die" For people like David Bowie death does not apply
Because he continues to live through his music
But if you look on the top left, you will see, it is written there:
"Look up here, I'm in heaven"
This phrase is taken from his last monumnetal album "Blackstar" which he wrote in the last year of his life when he knew that he was going to die
David Bowie took care of leaving a stamp, not only through his life , but also in his death.
It moved me so much, I was even twice in London, that it flashed with sudden light into my soul
And I understood that this is The answer to The question Why do we exist? We exist to leave a stamp!
Now, not everybody leaves marks like David Bowie
But all of us leave marks at work, home, family
Marks, that we have the intelligence as human beings to build into a stamp or a narrative
These are my mom and dad
Just before my mom went to the hospital for the last time
I remember coming home, and she came to me, she was not sad at all
She knew that was gonna happen, and she said to me Eilam, you know, I'm happy, I thought about it, I lived a full life My life were full
At that moment I knew, that she understood that death is part of life
Later I went to the hospital, she was not reponsive anymore
She was under heavy Morphine tranquility yet, I tried to talk to her, I said to ger
You know mom, you raised three beautiful children Believe it or not, she was smiling
She knew, that we, the children are her continuation, her immortality
She left me many things, one of them
is the love to Tolstoy's War and Peace
Where..... Prince Andrei says to Natasha
Love is god, and to die means That I, particle of love
Shall return to the general and eternal source
This is really moving We are particles of love
And I forgot to tell you that Particles is really something I do understand about... especially the God particle...
I was one of the leaders of the group that searched and discovered the Higgs Boson at CERN, Geneva
But my particles are material particles Tolstoy's particles are spiritual particles, particles of love
And look what he says
Love is God, and we are particles of love, what does it mean?
It means that we are particles of God
God is with us. Tolstoy's God is spiritual You cannot prove it scientifically
Either you have faith and you believe in it Or you don't, but this is the source of the saying
In God we trust All others must bring Data
And data is the food of the scientist. And I think , one of the biggest data sets all over humanity
Is the one brought by George Smoot
Who won the Nobel prize in 2006.
His data is encoded in this picture
which is a snapshot of the universe as it became transparent after the Big Bang
The Genesis - the Creation
On this data set, George Smoot said: If you are religious, it's like seeing God. From that momnet on, the laws of Physics apply
We know how to calculate everything, since the last 14 Billion years, So what place is left for God here
The place that Physics has not solved yet is: Who pushed the button that started the Big Bang
This is the God of the physicist So I was wondering, I became curious
If this is the God of the physicists
How is God perceived by non scientists
I strated to ask people, But then I said, I can ask everybody
by going to Dr Google. So I went to google, let me do it online with you Let me press, g... go...
god
and now let's see it happening
O.K.
What is God? God is a white man with a beard.
no, it's not funny; It could be a reflection
of man in God, as written in the bible, it could be the young and charming and beautiful Jesus But not necessarily so
Because if you look at "the creation of Adam" by Michelangelo This is not a young charming Jesus This is still a white man with a beard
So if just for the sake of the thought I am not saying anything Just playing in my thoughts and say
Could it be that it's our existence that created God and not vice versa?
Could it be that God is not the answer for our existence? Could it be that what we should say is that In the beginning man created God?
Could it be that God is a narrative? Whether it's a narrative or not only faith can tell us
But narrative has a very strong power and if you don't believe me
I'm gonna tell you a story about the power of narrative. The story begins with...
Moses THE Moses
of the 10 commandements. A few years ago, long before the discovery of the Higgs Boson
I was convinced by friends to go and chat with Moses. You ask yourself, how can I chat with Moses?
There's a lady in Tel Aviv, a spiritual medium, who channels Moses. I am a scientist, what sesne is for me to go to a spiritual medium?
I am a scientist, I am curious, and curiosity wins. So I went to chat with Moses.
And while I am there, she tells me many things about myself
Messages from my dead father, and I am moved... Wow...
then I said, well, I am a scientist I need to test her
Si I decided to ask her questions about Physics I decided to ask her about the Higgs Boson
This is an image of the Higgs Boson after it's discovery But that was before the discovery
And I asked a question
and she answered, I mean, Moses answered. And I am tantalized.
How can Moses know, about the Higgs Boson if he died 3000 years ago?
I am completely shocked, I go the next day to the plane to Geneva, to the laboratory
I sit in the plane, I am completely high, I don't see anything, I don't understand what is going on
and I sit down in the plane
and I write this song:
Sitting with two hundred, people on a plane
Like particles-, they all look the same As if a guiding hand, directing from above
What seems like random movement is an equation we can solve
I go out of the plane, go to the lab, go back to Israel, tell it to people
I am not myself
After a while, a long while, I decided that I want to listen to the recording again, of the session because she let me recording it.
I listen, and I am even more shocked. Do you know why?
Because Moses said nothing about the Higgs Boson. Moses knew noting about the Higgs BOson.
I was telling a story to myself, because I wanted to believe in it. I wanted Moses to know. So I built my own narrative with my imagination.
You know, if I haven't listen to this recording I would have died believing
that moses knew about the Higgs Boson, and then I would have told it to my children, who would have told it to their children....
I would have implanted it in the genes of my children and in 150 years all this country would say that
Moses knew about the Higgs Boson, and this is a proof of God.
Could religion be like this? Implanted in the genes of religious people?
There is a research going on on this. Who knows?
If God is a narrative or not we don't know
but it seems that, we, as human beings have more than just the role of reproduction
We have the ability to leave a stamp.
There is a difference between us and the animals.
This is my dog, Richard Feynman the second, I call him and he is very smart, he is driving a car, as you can see because he is a border collie
There is one resemblence between him and the guy on the right Both have salt and pepper hair
That is the only resemblence. You see, Clooney has already left a stamp on humanity
Even though, he has no children, I hope I am not wrong... yet he left a stamp. Why?
Through his acting, his directing, and that Cafe you know.... ...presso
I mean, in 100 years he will be written in an encyclopedia, seriously.
and why is that? Because he is a human being. Human beings have the ability to accumulate data, preserve it, write it down and pass it to next generation
and build things with that Buld a narrative or other things
So remember this thing, we have the ability to continue through our children with the genes.
So our children is us God is also us
So you cannot use God as an excuse to things that happen to you in your life
You have to take your own responsibility
Moreiver, you have to learn from this That if you abuse your children, you abuse yourself!
And you, children here, even grown up children, who have parents remember, that, mistreat your parents is mistreating yourself Treat your parents nice
And when you go home tonight Look around you and see where you already leave marks
and where you can leave marks. Use your intelligence
to enhance your character and make stamps out of these marks.
Use everything you've got.
Your faith, your lack of faith, both equally valuable
to spread your knowledge and build your own narrative
Use it, live to leave a stamp
live forever, be immortal.
Thank you very much.