akadajet posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDLpbFXnpeY

echinopsis posted:

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

after lots of lovely pop-math takes this is probably the best, clearest, most interesting explanation of the riemann hypothesis.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbaA3qJlbE93DiTYMzl0XKnLn5df_QWqY

actually deriving how the zeta function encodes the distribution of the primes and all. it's really good, and all you need is your forgotten calculus class probably.

part one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVaSA_b938U

echinopsis posted:

bro hope you been ok

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

It's "fine" to say that other YouTube videos of understanding of gravity is lacking, because unless there's been a pretty radical change in the scientific community - which we would almost certainly have heard about, given the big impact it'd have had - it's pretty fair to say that nobody understands gravity.

We don't know how/if gravity propagates like the other fundamental forces, and we can't fully integrate it into our existing models.
Scientists ended up building the worlds largest beam cannon just to attempt to find this out at CERN, and so far we're still pretty much in the dark.

So really, while someone can make an rear end out of themselves by claiming other YouTubers don't understand it, that someone also doesn't understand it.

echinopsis posted:

I remember being young at university and I said to a 3rd year physics student something about matter being a standing wave and he said to me something like "the actual answers involve a lot of complex and involved equations and theories and concepts and it's not something that cna be understood without all of that background" and thats stuck with me forever

echinopsis posted:

tbh I don’t remember if I stopped believing in creation as much as just started challenging my own faith

toward end of my christian life we went to a church that was much more bible based, it wasn’t pentecostal

and a consequence of putting a lot more time into study of the bible was naturally questioning things like why these 66 books? and the end answer to all my questions was that you have to make that leap
of faith, that there were no satisfying answers to those questions you just had to believe. and I couldn’t

and then I went to university at this stage and was studying science and I remember being in a tent with my now ex wife and telling her I didn’t think jesus was real anymore (or not the son of god anyway) and she was sad but in the morning it did make her realise that I was the one here with her and not jesus and she followed soon

and then did the typical swing the other way into obnoxious atheism lol, this was peak dick dawkins era too