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Barry Barish

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first: 2021-08-23
most recent: 2021-08-23
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Know, I like to hope that most things that appear complicated are actually simple if you really understand them. I think we just don't know at the present time, and it isn't something that affects us. It does affect, it affects how the stars go around each other and so forth, because we detect that there's missing gravity, but it doesn't affect everyday life at all. I tend to... Think and expect maybe, and that the answers will be simple. We just haven't found it yet.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Particles, and that is something I've always worked on on particle accelerators and so forth. And it's a big puzzle what it is. It's a bit of a cottage industry in that there's lots and lots of searches, but it may be a little bit like looking for a treasure under rocks or something. It's hard to, we don't have really good guidance except that we have very, very good information that It's pervasive and it's there That it's probably particles small, that the evidence is all of those things. But then the most logical solution doesn't seem to work, something called supersymmetry.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first, I'm a physicist, not an astronomer, so I'm interested in the physical phenomenon really. So the question of dark matter and dark energy, which we probably won't talk about, are recent during the last 20, 30 years, or certainly dark energy. Dark energy is a complete puzzle. It goes against what you will ask me about, which is general relativity and Einstein's general relativity. It basically takes something that he thought was what he called a constant, which isn't. And if that's even the right theory and it represents most of the universe, and then we have something called dark matter, and there's good reason to believe it might be an exotic form of”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, I think everybody's looks and is in awe and is curious about what it is out there, and as I learned more, I learned, of course, that we don't know very much about what's there. And the more we learn, the more we know we don't know. I mean, we don't know what the majority of anything is out there. It's all what we call dark matter or dark energy, and that's one of the big questions when I was a student, those weren't questions. So we even know less in a sense the more we look. So, of course, I think that's one of the areas that Almost sits universal. People see the sky. They see the stars, and they're beautiful and see it looks different on different nights. And it's a curiosity that we all have”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wasn't really into science until I got to college, to be honest with you. Just staying with water for a minute. I remember that I was curious what happens to water. You know, it rains and there's water, a wet pavement, and then the pavement dries out. What happened to this water that came down? And I didn't know that much. And then eventually I learned in chemistry or something and water's made out of hydrogen and oxygen. Those are both gases. So how the heck does it make this substance this liquid?”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To learn and answer your own curiosity or questions, there's various mechanisms. In this case, it was going to the librarian or asking people who know more and so forth, but eventually you do it by what we call research. But it's Driven by if you're, hopefully you ask good questions. If you ask good questions and you have the mechanisms to solve them, then you do what I do in life, basically. Not necessarily physics, but physics. And it's a great quality in humans, and we should nurture it.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that to me needs to be solved really in education and in homes. The realization that there are certain human qualities that we should Try to build on and not destroy one of them as curiosity. Anyway, back to me in curiosity. I was a pest and asked a lot of questions. My father generally could answer them at that age. And the first one I remember that he couldn't answer was Not a very original question, but basically that ice is made out of water. And so why does it float on water He couldn't answer it. It may not have been the first question. It's the first one that I remember. And that was the first time that I realized that.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's a problem of both parents and that parents should realize that's a great quality we have, that you're curious and that's good. Instead, we have expressions like curiosity killed the cat. and that more, but I mean, that basically it's not thought to be a good thing. You get Curiosity kill the cat means if you're too curious, you get in trouble.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, in school, we make people study and do their things, but not to pester them by asking too many questions. And I think not just myself, but I think it's typical of scientists like myself that have somehow escaped that. Maybe we're still children, or maybe we somehow didn't get it beaten out of us. But I think it's teaching at college level and it's to me one of the biggest deficits is the lack of curiosity. If you want, that we've beaten out of them, because I think it's an innate human quality.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that memory is. Among Kind of something I used to illustrate something I think that's common in science that people that do science somehow have maintain something that kids always have a small kid eight years old or so Ask you so many questions usually, typically that you consider them pests. You tell them to stop asking so many questions. And somehow our system manages to kill them in most people.”
2021-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source