how am i to help you how much money are you planning to leave me when you die
nice talking to you
wanna try that again i need to buy a computer so i can solve the navy or stokes equation
apple has a nice one for two thousand dollars but the kind i need cost three million
let me see oh look at that a peso
it's warm yeah i know those sort of problems um for my research i do theoretical astrophysics so
what that involves is like simulations of the universe and these things
are enormous uh and you need supercomputers to process these things so these supercomputers are
incredibly expensive uh millions of dollars so these navier stokes equations are like a really
accurate way to calculate how fluids move uh and they're super important in our world
they've led to things like passenger jets uh submarines formula one cars staying on the track
at high speed medical advances in blood flow with uh through veins and arteries all kinds of things
and if you can prove where the smooth solutions always exist in three dimensions or provide a
counter example you can win one million dollars u.s it's considered one of the seven greatest
mathematical um results problems currently the reason he needs a computer is because in
practice these couple differential equations are just way too hard to solve by hand so
the the way we usually do it is with our computational fluid dynamics cfd
and there's these computational methods of solving them this isn't working i disagree
mr einstein i'm very excited to talk to you but i was hoping to hear from thoth where is the fun in
finding things out if some joker with a bird head just tells you the answer answers are all well
and good but a real scientist loves the thrill of the chase am i right hawking i would agree would
explain to you that's one of my favorite quotes by i mean uh fine men on the wall uh what does it do
whatever you love in the most original irreverent and under some undisciplined manner possible if
you go about things like that passion always stays alive but what if i never figure it out i never
did and i scientifically has nothing to sneeze at same here agreed if i was offered a choice
between all the knowledge of the universe or the endless pursuit of it i would choose the pursuit
i've always loved trains
in fact if my career in theoretical physics hadn't worked out
my backup plan was to become a professional ticket taker or hobo
i don't care how dim-witted you are scientific principles have to make you smile
of course nobody i knew in east texas in 1989 cared about newtonian physics
i can certainly relate to sheldon growing up in a family that knows nothing about science
that was me growing up my family knew knows nothing about science and they still don't
i was nothing like sheldon i was very quiet when i was a kid i didn't think i was smart enough to
be a physicist i remember being in like year eight and i was in this biology
class and i come from a family no one's been a university no one knows anything about science
and i remember thinking wow to do biology at university you must be a genius there's
so many people out there even in physics that have this thing called imposter syndrome where
no one feels like they're they deserve to be there no one feels like they're smart enough to
be there and it's a massive problem but it didn't stop me you know i watched like every uh space
documentary i could find i was obsessed what's your first class solid state physics at 11 30.
lambda equals h divided by m times what sheldon is it velocity yes no or is it a velociraptor
perhaps lamb equals h divided by m it's a velociraptor or a velveteen rabbit is
this from your philosophy class philosophy do you really believe that the broy's equation
contains velveeta cheese the broiler was a cool guy he actually proposed that electrons might
have both waves and particle properties so they might be both waves and particles
and his famous equation actually describes the wave properties of matter specifically an electron
uh and he actually has this really cool quote that i've always loved it's something like
uh we're not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science might be possible
elon the cnn reporters here to talk to you hang on
send them in
class so if you didn't know elon did physics in at university as well uh and so did jeff bezos before
he switched to i think uh computer science and uh politics so there's a bunch of other people
as well who did physics at uni who ended up with a lot of money so if you want to be rich
go study physics mr cooper welcome how can i help you i would like to drop your class
how was your first day infuriating my mom always tells a story how i came home from
school one day i was in like grade one and apparently i was like i can read i can write
just need to learn a little bit more math and then i'm finished with school and i hated school so my
mum then says you know how depressed i was when you know she told me how much longer i had to go
and yeah i guess that's another difference like when i was young i hated school actually welcome
to the world of philosophy most college courses are about teaching you things that you don't know
here i'm going to teach you that you don't even know what you think you know if you study physics
at university you'll inevitably learn this because they kind of crush everything you thought you knew
i have a major problem with sheldon's character i think it doesn't embody a good scientist and
i think a lot of people will look at sheldon and think you know that's how scientists think about
the world and that you know they're obsessed with facts but that's really not it at all
the best scientists out there don't hold on to any ideas in science any facts any theories very
concretely at all and you can easily just break their reality with a good experiment with new
evidence and they will just jump ship the reason for this is probably best explained with this
little overview of the history of physics so along came aristotle he said a bunch of things that were
wrong then galileo and newton came along fixed everything up then along comes einstein breaks
everything again and now we've pretty much got it all worked out except for small stuff big stuff
hot stuff cold stuff fast stuff heavy stuff dark stuff turbulence and the concept of time
so don't be too sure of what you think you know i'm sure there's lots of kids out there like
young sheldon over here um but i think a lot of the ones that end up going to science are just
pretty normal kids so yeah if you're a young kid watching this and you're not like sheldon
you're nothing like him don't worry you don't need to be like sheldon to do what sheldon does
i was nothing like him and i don't think many people i know in physics we're like sheldon as
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