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This video is about child prodigy William James Sidis. His father, Boris Sidis, together with William James, developed the idea that people only use a small fraction of their mental potential. William Sidis chose to live a private and independent life, some saw this as a waste of his potential, but this video aims to show that he continued to be a lifelong learner and thinker. The Animate and the Inanimate is one book that he wrote which tackles interesting ideas in physics and the reversibility of the second law of thermodynamics.
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"Each and every time that a human speaks, their thoughts are simultaneously BROADCAST in a much richer way than can be fit into words." No belief included, I simply remember before being taught verbal language. (mom later said that I was not a year old) Our languages serve NO greater purpose than to enable dishonesty. The lies go back much farther than anyone realizes.
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Well… that’s a need of our society because humans are acting on a global scale now. We solved the needs of connectivity but same time we lost our connection 🎉
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Toby, I'm always skeptical of these so-called geniuses that are supposedly brilliant but don't want to interact with other people. We've all known them. They have a reputation for always knowing the answer to an instructor's question, but they don't want to sit down with you over coffee, and explain that answer. Actually, they often adopt a cynical and superior attitude over you because you need an explanation. Social skills, like making and keeping friends, requires one set of intellectual skills. Renowned mathematician Steven Strogatz outlined and organized these skills with humor and a degree of mathematical rigor in his 2009 book, The Calculus of Friendship. On the other hand, solving difficult problems in science requires another set of mental skills, as anyone watching your videos must know. While scientists and other professional problem solvers might assign the latter of these skill sets of greater importance, they won't get very far in teaching research or creating new technologies if they can't work with their colleagues. Perhaps playing "the savant" may have served as a well accepted archetype for a scientist in the 19th century, we now live in an age of teamwork and have built an infrastructure around communication. The Internet was originally developed as the DARPANET for academics and engineers to more easily exchange messages using electronic mail, transfer files automatically with UUCP, and inform colleagues of the latest scientific and technical developments, or recruit expertise for solving particular problems via News. Anyway, that was then. Personally I believe the scientific savant of old was a poor excuse for someone unwilling to be outgoing, friendly, and generous. Einstein knew that and was known to be quite charming at Princeton. Anyone who obfuscates purposely and cannot communicate their ideas in various ways for clarity isn't a genius, but has a disability.
My favorite IQ story is when Isaac Asimov wrote that he once scored 150 on an IQ test, but he used only half of the allowed time so he claimed an IQ of 300.
I did the test in 1/5 of the time allowed, my IQ was measured to be 70. So My IQ is 350.
@@u.v.s.5583 don't answer any questions and submit in 0 time... your result will tend to infinity 😁
@@KristopherNoronha That settles it. The smartest person in the world - is you. :)
IQ testing cannot be defined by the time it takes to answer the test. An extra 20 points could be permitted, but twice as much? I doubt it!
@@faustus09 I suspect that Asimov was joking.
Hi. Was one of your sources "The Prodigy" by Amy Wallace? I was Amy's husband, co-researcher, proofreader, and I wrote a chapter. I'm happy to see that you are making this video about Sidis. When we made that book, KZhead wasn't yet a thing. Keep going!
Did you research his father? I wonder if his knowledge of hypnosis and psychology played a role
I’m sorry for your loss, sir. Thank you for contributing to the world! Do you still research?
hi Josef! I loved that book! I used it as one of my research books and remember getting lost in it I enjoyed it so much. Congrats!
I still research. My last six technical papers are in video tech and color science. My next one will also be color science.@@sarahbailey6723
Thanks for reading the book. No congrats necessary, I got to touch all the extant copies of William's writings. That's a good month!@@narojnayr
I'm noticing a pattern that the smartest people tend to end up realizing they want nothing to do with public life and end up living more or less as hermits.
Such decision is a function of personality, not intelligence. Intelligence is a factor shaping one's personality, but there are a lot of other factors. William Sidis was a recluse and it was to his own detriment. What I want to say is, don't think that there are no smart people leading a very public life, because it isn't true. Moreover, being a hermit is not a smart decision.
We should find the hermits and ask them to do an IQ test
*Ted Kaczynski enters the ring*
@@Rctdcttecededtef Pretty sure he hated that the press followed him around...Leave the hermits to alone
Google Chris Langan
Thanks for pointing out that he did not necessarily fail in life and that it might rather be society that is unable to understand his personal way of having a good life.
Some Hyper Intelligent individuals see the Hypocrisy in the world and discover how much control world leaders have over what is allowed to be known by the masses and just choose not to engage in Paradigms that society calls Success. Look what happened to Tesla. Look what happened to Sidis. Would you want to offer your knowledge to people that ridicule you or use your knowledge for destructive purposes?
Correct, he sort of bugged out......
I fully agree, there are a lot or Einsteins living in solitude across this world im sure of it. They only decide not to show themselves cause the mystery of the universes plain existence is more than enough to entertain them till the day they pass
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For those interested in knowing more about Sidis’ life and his sad ending, a biography of Sidis called The Prodigy was written in 1986 by Amy Wallace.
Thanks~
Thank you
Is there an ending of life that is not sad though?
I want to know more about Amy Wallace.
@@julius43461 Greta Thunberg
I like her voice. It's like people at her place are sleeping and she is trying really hard to not wake them up
It's good for when I can't sleep 😴
Every time I watch your video's it always elicits a feeling of wonder. One of my most favourite content creators, keep up the great work!
Like some other comments mention: it seems like his theory about the universe touches upon dark matter as well. Dark matter or dark energy. His prediction of black holes (or "reverse stars" as he called them) is also hauntingly accurate with what we know today. It doesn't necessarily mean he had an IQ of 300, but he definitely wasn't stupid, and might very well have been the most intelligent human to ever live. His incredible imagination and thinking definitely puts him up there together with Einstein and Hawking as the biggest thinkers in modern times. It's a shame that he didn't publish more of his theories, and that he didn't get the recognition he deserved while he was still alive (although he probably preferred it that way).
I think he preferred it that way. He carried a box of papers that he wrote, and some written by others, particularly an Indian mathematician. Most of that box survived.
@@JosefMarcis there any place where I can read those books or find more about what they were about?
Except the black holes are not the inverse of the 2nd laws of thermodynamics. He got the answer right with the wrong maths hehe (who never)
It seems to me he was very close to realising the true nature of our universe, composed of the ether in which points of potential energy manifest as matter. His published work was soon after the established view that the ether does not exist, as proven by the famous Michelson-Morley experiment. This is now largely regarded as nonsense, predicated as it was on the assumption that the ether is some sort of fluid. We now have the quantum field, but it really isn't the same thing. It's all too late anyway. We're stuck with the train wreck that is the Standard Model. For all we know, Sidis may have presented countless papers for publication which were rejected.
His humility, and understanding he might be wrong, reveals his true genius.
Because one is never done learning 😌
that's nice, but not really
I thought I was wrong, but I may have been mistaken.
@@MichaelGroenendijk yes..and also if one were to theoretically think up new knowledge or a revolutionary idea, you would naturally question the reason it doesn't exist with how much information is available in the modern world
sounds nice but is not true... humility is not a sign of anything except uncertainty, not "genius". If someone is certain of something that always comes across as NOT humble. Humility was elevated to a virtue with christianity, before it was just a desirable thing (perhaps), or a trait in a person's character.
Interesting side-note: Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, about fantasy reverse-worlds, were written by Lewis Carroll, a mathematician.
Thought you were about to say Lewis Carroll was one of his pseudonyms lmao
Lewis Carroll's third novel - Sylvie and Bruno - contains a chapter where Albert Einstein's 'elevator' thought experiment is featured as a joke. Carroll was onto the major feature of General Relativity, but missed the point entirely.
More interesting side notes: Lewis Carrol was a mason, and his books are packed with symbolism.
And of course Lewis Carroll wasn't his real name.
And he was a paedophile.
I listened to the audiobook, and it was heavily emphasizing that every particle/thing has an opposite; with opposite characteristics. It is possible to follow along. An unsung genius he is!
Where did u listen to the audio book might I ask?
LIstening to Tibees' voice reading theory is like listening to Burton recite the phone book. I could listen to her for hours.
Idk how I've stumbled upon your channel but I'm so happy I did. Your ability to organize this information in a way that's easy to digest, and is interesting, is a gift.
It's called video editing ... 😂😂✂🎬🎥
same
Ditto
My whole being says this is true.
His ideas seem to also have a whiff of the concept of dark matter about them, don't they. Definitely interesting to see someone postulate stuff like this from the restrictions and understanding of his time, but also in an intuitive way. I bet it's a fun read for sure
I thought so too!
Yup
I find it funny everybody still thinks they know what time is
@@TylerBaham I know what it is, it's relative and also a construct, which makes it a robo-aunt or something ina similar vein.
@@TylerBaham It's clearly time to rock you nerd.
Very well thought out and presented. Your story-telling talent is amazing and your delivery is mesmerizing. Thank you, and all the best to you. Korbo
I’ve been interested in WJ Sidis for many years. Another book he wrote, “The Tribes and the States” (briefly pictured in the early portion of the video) has nothing to do with math, physics or cosmology, and is an alternative history of North America that weaves both Native American and European histories in ways that are unique and fascinating. Sidis was also a linguistic savant fluent in dozens of languages both living and dead (Latin, Ancient Greek, etc) and his sense of history was tied to his unique understanding of linguistic etymology. He was also able to read wampum belts as historical texts and had unique insights into tribal ideals of individual liberty and freedom that he says had profound influence on colonial British political philosophy. The early chapters go as far back as Atlantis and the linguistic origins of Indo-European languages. Truly unique and fascinating insights, even if some have been discredited, but well worth investigating nonetheless.
I mean, that atlantis features in it at all is pretty solid evidence that his ideas did not actually have much value. If you can't distinguish an obvious rhetorical device from a myth with any possible basis in history, you have no business writing about history.
Yes! When Amy Wallace and I wrote The Prodigy, we had trouble figuring out how to position his languages, how and where he learned them, etc. We decided to intersperse them with his wanderings across the USA, because that's how and where he could have heard the Tribes' languages. [He lived before the Tribes' languages were audibly recorded.]
@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Not history mate, but anthropology. But maybe you'd better read it first...
@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Thats possible. Also possible that you havent read it and have no idea what he said about it, or what sense he used it in, and are being dismissive based on thirdhand claims in youtube comments.
Wampum belts! Good catch!
I’m glad to see someone spotlight this. Buckminster Fuller’s “Synergetics” is another great one too. He had scientific integrity and always built models to verify, but his ideas were so wholly out there.
Yes..I met him Late 1960s.. He was visiting Ohio State .Professor next door had him Visit..
He was just far ahead of the times. synergetics is maverick science.
Bucky wasn't a child prodigy, he was the real deal. Don'tr compare him to this hack.
I used to walk under a Buckminster Geodesic Trispan everyday on the way to classes at Drexel. Not sure if it's even still there since that was 40 years ago.
I have this book, but have held onto it for nearly 10 years. Perhaps it’s time.
I have no idea what this is all about but her voice is so relaxing and soothing its basically maths ASMR.
She likes big iQ’s 😉
😅
This
She’s using a bad microphone or has the settings wrong. That’s what’s causing the audio to sound like it does.
@@duggydo The audio settings are clear and enjoyable as they are, imo.
This is the third video I've watched about this man... I never expected someone to break down his forgotten thoughts! TYSM
Thanks for your time in uploading this information. It causes me to contemplate how many extraordinary minds we have missed as a society attributable only to fate. This is an intriguing brief biography.
Great Video. From what I read, manufacturing Geniuses seems to have been a minor fad at that time. I recall from Norbert Wiener's autobiography "Ex-Prodigy" that he was essentially classmates at university with Sidis and that his (Sidis) parents treated him even worse than Norbert's when it came to public spotlights and handling the press.
yes, there have been quite a few parents who tried this, typically smarter than average parents, with varying degrees of success. Not all of them were excessively heavy handed.
Sidis was extremely intelligent. There were claims by famous MIT professor and MIT graduate who reported that he was “extremely intelligent” at least according to Wikipedia.
Listening to you speak is so soothing and relaxing
I am so impressed with the careful research behind this video. i had never heard of this very interesting person. Child prodigies usually amount to little, because it is so socially awkward to be so much younger than your peers in school. There is an excellent book by Norbert Wiener, where he wrote an autobiography with the title Ex-Prodigy. He was a pioneer in cybernetics. I hope she does an episode on Wiener. His book " Human use of human beings" is still relevant today.
I find it perhaps all the more remarkable for the prevalence of socially-maladjusted former 'prodigies' that the likes of Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) and Magnus Carlsen (FIDE champion) can appear so grounded, even relatable by comparison; Hassabis, in particular, is disarmingly affable, self-effacing and charismatic.
Thanks! I find the story about him interesting and you are good at putting it into words. You would be such an incredible teacher to have. I would listen to everything you explained.
I was thinking wife, but teacher? Sure. That too.
I have never heard of William Sidis before. Fascinating, but a little bit sad story. His ideas reminded me of something that Erwin Schrodinger said about life - that life extracts negative entropy from its environment.
We inhale what plants exhale.
Are you really an MD
Sidis either seemed to either be overwhelmed by the corrupt world around him, or he was secretly ultra successful. Either way he seemed to be smart enough to make his way through the world.
Success is very subjective.
Smart enough to know he didn't want to be a part of it!
@@kelseyoglesby9545 exactly! only the corrupt and/or fools can bear to remain in modern academia...
Your videos are amazing they are so soothing and interesting at the same time!
Thank you for a pretty balanced report. He is a fascinating and controversial figure who is largely misrepresented and misunderstood. It's nice to see someone making an attempt to understand and communicate some of what he was trying to say. There is a lot to learn in his various writings if you have the patience and interest.
Imagine how interested in Rick & Morty this guy must have been
How richer his theories would have been.
@Benjamin David Lurie yeah, perfect for me 😂😂
If Sidis created Rick & Morty, or even Steven Universe, he would’ve made the current ones look like 2 year olds created it 🤭
@Benjamin David Lurie woosh.
Hes probably the real rick with a brain that big the show is his life story
You could narrate audiobooks. Great videos. Thank you!
I really enjoy learning from you videos
There is a very nice Book about his father and him if you are interested. Its written like a novel but is based on real life facts. Its called The Genius by Klaus Cäsar
That's a fascinating story. - well told. It's good to see that he had the enjoyment of thinking creatively; he wasn't just a savant.
This might be the most interesting video I've watched in maybe 5 years, I'm gobsmacked right now
Thank you so much for this info. I shall see about finding this book.
What a fascinating story about William. She was being outspoken about him in articles found in the attic in 1979; but, mostly in his books highlighted up close.
I know you've probably been told this before but you got one of the most relaxing and calming voices I've ever heard in my life
i think you left the word “voices” out 😭
@@forestvamp1684 lmao yes, this is just like "one of the video games of all time"
sometimes i click on tibees videos just to hear her voice.
I absolutely agree!
@@aboodyabdulqadir5487 one of the movies ever made
This story reminds me of the time I caught a 475-lb bass.
William James is a legend, and much more than just the energy reserve theory (there were all sorts of crazy theories about the brain in the 1800s). His book on Psychology is so full of insights that copies are still in print
I stumbled onto the book 7-8 months ago and was super curious. A lot of it went over my head but he had some wild ideas.
I loved everything you covered on him and you put into words that I can actually understand. You left me with wanting more. Can you do another about Williams and his book.
Content organization, narration style - you're so so different from most of the content creators. Based in facts, real conversation. Kudos! And please keep doing these videos.
Man i could listen to you forever
Toby, your videos cure my anxiety and they make me want to stay curious and passionate. Love you🥺💕
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus Oh my god 😅😅😅 But I'm not a cat 😌
Fascinating, thanks. Sidis must have been aware of the work of Boltzmann who, AFAIK, was the first to comprehensively lay out the probabilistic character of the 2nd Law, the implications of which remain almost imponderable. I can't take his view of what distinguishes "animate" vs. inanimate" very seriously, but love the imaginative speculation. Stuff relating to entropy and the arrow of time is right up my tree.
What's wrong with defining life via entropy?
@@marshallsamford3240 you probably could, however the entire idea of 'reserve energy stored in the brain' is pretty much archaic hogwash, along with the "only use 10% of the brain.' As for entropy reversal that's half true: organized systems, like life, do not utilize it as an additional energy source tho, through the process of organizing you reduce the local entropy while simultaneously increasing the global entropy by a larger amount (i.e. you 'expend' energy in order to do things). Additionally Shannon and Von Neumann expanded on the idea of entropy into the field of information theory and effectively showed that Laplace's demon would actually increase entropy globally as well, due to the processing of the information necessary to open and close the gate at the right times. This basically means the entire idea is fundamentally impossible. However there are real phenomena of random, and sometimes anti-entropic, motion that can be taken advantage of such as diffusion and brownian motion.
@@marshallsamford3240 Eh, they're related. But how intertwined are they?
@@ivoryas1696 Theres some tendency towards
@Angelspawn That seems about right. But, yeah; that means that defining life by reverse entropy requires more rigorous wording, or different words altogether.
Many of the work of geniuses end with "well this is just speculation" but have grains of truth in them
What an intoxicating voice! I could listen to you read a phone book.
As a biochemist I can confirm that life does obey the second law of thermodynamics. For our complex order we pay with breaking down other complex things, like food for example. How efficient our bodies are at doing that is really impressive, though.
i imagine what the gentlemen was after was actually (lowest common denominator), intentful effect. This is the metaphysical construct separating living things from non. I am impressed with this persons work being it so old, and having some intuition into somethings that weren't quite right, however definitely in the right direction. as a training biochemist myself, i loved that Prof Doc Sean S. Carroll borrowed the quote, "the purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide"! lol
One can equally say though that we "pay" for the simplicity of broken down foods and expended heat by the negentropic build up within living systems. This seems to be what Sidis was getting at. I'm not saying that he was right or wrong, but its eerie relevance to such topics as Black Holes, so-called "dark matter" and energy, and symmetry of laws, should be discernible to any thinking person.
@@helicalactual Check out John A. Gowan General Systems Theory.
This is why I have been saying we need to make machines out of flesh!!!
It's the trend towards ever increasing complexity and order in life that is suggested as the LOCAL reversal of entropy. And there is a lot we don't understand about how what even just the life we are familiar with metabolises energy. Quantum Processes are not subject to the second law, and there is much evidence for biological nuclear processes. In all manner of bacteria, plants, and our own cells. There is a Bacterium for example that you can put in a test tube, sealed with distilled water, and a microgram quantity of sulphur. Come back a few weeks later and the whole inside of the test tube will be coated in sulphur crystals. There was a press release from the LHC in 2013 that announced the analysis of the quark fluid hydrodynamics in the collisions had revealed that gravity was the result of a tension of wormholes connecting every subatomic particle in the universe to every other one. Perhaps as life develops well past where we are now, these subspace connections become reinforced to the point where a local area of the universe does pass through the event horizon and the arrow of time reverse. If information has mass, getting too smart, may well lead to disappearing up your own buttholes? 🤔🤭
His theory of pockets of the universe that we are unable to observe or interact with, but that still have an impact on our side of the universe, really reminds me of dark matter and dark energy.
give me all your cars and trucks and be pulled apart in 11 dimensions you fool
Dark matter doesn't exist.
@@Dubsizzla I never said it was? I just thought it was a cool similarity with other hypotheses we have today, such as dark matter.
The "underside" of the space time fabric
Scientist know this since 2009. The year I was trying to solve sociological issues in Italy. So we are wait for Nobel money to rewrite the history of the known universe. (And money for new instruments). At the moment we need dark matter /dark capital. The universe seems to work like a CVT transmission of bubbles very similar to black holes. And is the same for national bankings around the world, and expanse economy regions. Sorry. I have to go fast. (I'm not forever)
I think I could listen to anything you talk about. Your voice is amazing .
His ideas may seem odd but I think he may have been onto more than he is given credit for.
what’s so fascinating about the checkerboard thing is not that he predicted black holes… but arguably alluded to dark energy and matter and potentially where they could have come from (multiple universes hypothesis)
exactly. the fact he basically outlined dark energy and dark matter through a priori reasoning is truly amazing
@@elijah6342 not amazing to me...pretty good, though.
@@wesstone7571 the question is whether it was Kant's synthetic a priori or traditional analytic a priori
@@elijah6342 Any equation you come up with, you can add a ‘negative gravity force’ that can balance out the equation - just because we call it ‘dark energy’ doesn’t mean anything - what’s the mechanics of it?
An intelligent person can believe anything that matches the data they've got, but a smart person will seek out Sufficient data using an adequate epistemology, not merely take what's in front of them. Anyone who accepts multiple universes is not very smart because if you think it through, any idea that is more complex than what it seeks to explain (multiple universes) is intellectually regressive.
Thank you for researching the dubious claims. :3 Even when it comes to Stephen Hawking and Einstein, those IQ figures probably don't originate from anywhere solid. Stephen Hawking said he's never taken an IQ test and has no idea what his IQ is.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo dw i don’t plan on it
There is the presumption with IQ that it should be manifest, but always in very cultural/situational, specific ways (if you become a titan of industry, you're a genius. If you think the whole game isn't worth playing, well...). Dad (he had a background in psychology as well as other things) stated most IQ tests are little more than display that you can think like the author, with various framing gimmicks that once you recognize them, play more like a game than a measure of IQ. He could score near perfect on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, but as he described it, "I'm nothing but a dumb country boy".
@Don't Read My Profile Photo Ok I will not.
It is not that such measurements are even dubious. Psychometric tests were never designed to measure high intelligence because by definition, it is extremely difficult to obtain a statistically significant sample of such individuals (which in itself is a very subjective procedure) in order to design a test and grade individuals accordingly. As for the scores given to people in early 1900s, I don't know for sure in each instance, but in cases of highly precocious children, they used to get scores based on interpolation taking age into account, and that often resulted in astronomical figures. Another recent example of this is Marilyn Vos Savant.
Hawking might not have recognised as a child when he was taking an intelligence test, especially if it was presented as a game, such as Raven's Matrices. I'm a few years younger than he was, and a group IQ test was one of the formalities before selection at primary school for a secondary school placement at 12, the Scottish equivalent of the English "Eleven-Plus." I don't know if his county in England did that. We kids in Scotland were not told our IQ score.
Yeah I read about Sidis back in 1999 and found a copy of his book. I wrote some fiction based on it. I still think about him now and then.
Thank you for this video! Would you be able to create one about John Michell? He’s thought to be the first person to have come up with the theory of black holes back in 1783.
Yes. The idea comes from Newtonian mechanics and Newtonian corpuscular light. Quite simply, using those theories, you need merely consider the case where some amount of mass, M, forms a sphere of radius R such that the Newtonian surface gravity leads to an escape velocity > c, the speed of light in vacuo. The idea was repeated, I believe independently, by either Laplace or Lagrange (I forget which) in 1798. Fred
Thank you for this learning. Sidis sounds like an amazing person. I truly believe that he knew the solice he seeked calmed his mind to help him think more clearly without the pressures of modern society to live up to expectations of others.
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This video could almost be an ASMR one it's delivered in a beautifully soft voice.
I thought she was tge smart one.
ahhhmm
Totally fell asleep to this!
It drove me up the wall, and I had to turn it off after 8 minutes.
this is the most low key way to tell her how attractive she sounds..LOL
Really a genius man who predicts without any technology at that time thanks for sharing the information.❤
Very thoughtful, Tibees. Thank you.
This is so interesting and thought-provoking! Thank you so much for sharing this!
The graphics in this video are fantastic. How these are done is beyond me. Very well done.
Great video. soothing, thought provoking and humbling. Thank you.
I think William is one of those people who can see the truth through a mist and never really get a clear picture for whatever reason. Like a could-be genius of sorts. If he had more time or abilityto question himself and find new paths he could have come up with some brilliant truths.
You have the sweetest voice, sooo agreable to listen to ! (In addition to you very interested subjects on maths)
Thanks for making this video. I've read a book about Sidis, and this is very interesting to watch with the illustrations.
You might have the most amazing voice i have ever heard in my life. Bless you for making content and bless the universe for my YT somehow showing you to me
Would this also explain Quantum Tunneling? Also, thank you so much for sharing the book!!!!!
Brilliant. Thank you Tibees for this KZhead documentary. In elementary terms, it would appear that William Sidis had tremendous insight into the causal relationships between push and pull, impulse and repulse, expansion and contraction, progress and regress, convection and stagnation, etc. when applied to the laws of physics. It is most probable that he did indeed have a very high Intelligence Quotient.
I'm happy for Williams family that his legacy has been held up with such important insights.
wow, your voice is very soft spoken and soothing.
Self-organizing systems like life display negentropy described here as energy reserve by Sidis. Sounds pretty bright, and the implications of generlizations regarding black holes and other phenomenon is interesting. Especially in regards to new theories regarding information and black holes.
I've known about William for many years, but nobody seems to know who he was. I am glad that your channel is covering his short(sadly) but brilliant life.
Same. We smoked a blunt once on top of Mt. Fuji while talking about our favorite anime. Miss that man.
@@verlax8956this is true I was the blunt
time line is bout to change... it happend with tesla and django reinhardt ...
@@c0ckhead684 I've know about this standard for millennia before you even mentioned it. Needed to preface my comment with that so you don't assume I'm some normal pleb.
Does William have a surname?
Wow I have never even heard of Sidis, thanks for these awesome videos! I think "something like a black hole" was theorized long before Chandrasekhar though. The general idea goes back to Laplace and John Michell in the 18th century.
Not only are you and your videos brilliant, I adore your voice. It's so soothing.
Great theorist. His prodigious ability is evident from this one book
Schrodinger wrote about negative entropy and life 20 years later too. Very interesting and well presented.
Both were wrong, of course.
Magnificent Tibees, always fascinating quality content.
thank you for sharing this i enjoyed it
This is probably the third time I've watched this video. Fascinating story.
Amazing video as always Tibees! Sidis's writings that are similar to what we know of black hole horizons today are incredible!!!
You should review Cecilia Payne's pHD thesis called Stellar Atmospheres written in 1925. It is an amazing discussion about what stars are made of at a time when we had no clue. Love your voice 😎
Sounds like William really was the first person to theorize black holes. So interesting.
He was the first. Unless you count an arabian mathematician who had a theory about why the sky was black at night - but that one doesn't have the vortex in it. WSJ figured out the vortex and why they must happen whether we can find them or not.
He wasn't... In fact, he might have been the last
@@santosl.harper4471 Do you know the first? There was also an Indian before Sidis but the Indian said his math was unreliable and needed more telescopy.
@@JosefMarc there were a few before Sidis. A very famous indian mathematician wrote proofs for the concept of a singularity, but did not theorise black holes! The pair that postulated the idea first came a century before anyone else
@@santosl.harper4471 What do you mean by "proofs for the concept of a singularity"? Proof =/ concept and no modern physicist believes that singularities actually physically exist. They probably don't exist. They are not actually there.
some of his ideas were dubious but that black hole prediction was genius, literally
Your voice is exceptionally pleasant and wholesome. Very nice to listen to thank you.
The modern idea that everything is information makes his idea of the brain storing energy more acceptable as it stores information.
His father prepared him to look beyond the pedestrian world, then threw him headfirst into the pedestrian world.
Omg, I’m not a native English speaker, the way you speak is like music to my ears, every word is so well articulated! I wish all English native speakers communicated like you 👍
This was a beautiful presentation. Loved it!
It seems like William Sidis was trying to work out Quantum Mechanics before it existed
What he wrote can serve as a second confirmation about what we already know about black holes and dark matter, and also time travel, he was intelligent in area of language hence was able to draw these conclusions without any experiment or mathematical proof, it is definitely not much useful for research but act as proofreading of what we now know, and who knows his other conclusions might be proven true someday
Hi, Sam's most ideal teamate ever on Jet Lag, I enjoyed this video. I think your voice is great but you may want to take another look at audio settings...I don't know if this is just my own preference but I think it may just need a de-esser. There are a few individuals at my church where I think their voices are great but something about the way the mic picks up and amplifies those particular highs is a bit much, I quickly apply one of those and it sounds much more like their natural voice again. The tradeoff is that those sounds do help with vocal clarity a little so maybe not too much.
The video was very insightful. I'm most excited about his brick theory because if only slightly twicked it also points to dark matter. Let's not forget that black holes represent a singularity, and that singularities have neither time nor space such that, speculatively, every Black hole might well just be collecting all material in its vicinity and returning it to the origin (from our perspective.) We don't need the whole universe to collapse. We just need the tendency for local regions to collect all available energy and return it (through time) back to its original source.
I like this spin.
If black holes speed up broken down matter to near S.O.L. THEN , the matter may, relative to our time, not yet reached the "singularity" if such a thing exists.
@@drunvert I think that if you take the nature of what a singularity would imply that it would take infinite time for anything to actually reach that theoretical point that is defined as the singularity and since we're pretty sure that black holes will evaporate over significantly less than infinite time until it reaches a critical limit of low mass induced instability and explode I agree that nothing ever actually reaches the point we define mathematically as a singularity regardless of how incredibly close it is able to approach an approximation of it that's measurably too small a difference as to be indistinguishable. At least as far as any current or near future prospective observational measurable data would be concerned
@@justdave9610 maybe an extreme case of time dilation? That's the only way I can think of for anything to reach infinite time
If you squint your eyes, maybe it looks like he is describing something in current astrophysics... but he isn't. None of what he said is at all in the slightest way related to any of the several dark matter theories, or to black holes. Life does not reverse entropy at a global scale. Like a refrigerator can reverse the entropy of material placed inside of it, but it is increasing the entropy of the environment outside of it. Life on Earth is sitting in the middle of the energy gradient between the sun and outer space, and uses some of that energy to make glucose and stuff.
Absolutely, this is actually quite plausible in current times! Very interesting, thank you for this… the physics part at least..
always great to watch your videos
Thank you Tibee! ☺
Undoubtedly an extremely interesting subject. I have already dwonloaded the PDF and started reading this work. A truly original perspective on the origin of life.
We are on the brink of establishing the p0rinciples of how life got started. Check out professor Lee Cronin based in Glasgow UK. His work and his lab is going to astonish the scientific community and it is happening now. It turns out there is nothing special about life itself and it is all a natural process. Life is ubiquitous which means it comes into existence wherever conditions allow for emergence. With our new generation of telescopes we can now detect the signatures of life which is very exciting and this decade is going to rewrite our history and change how we think of ourselves.
Have you read the PDF? If so, what are your thoughts?
Whether he's right or wrong, I like his thought process. It's intriguing.
I thought this might be about John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, as I cannot think of another author/work fitting this description. How very interesting, thank you! 😊
Thank you for going deep in his genius thoughts. He will be (re)discovered and be revindicated in near future