Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
Carver Mead on G4v: youtube.com/watch?v=XdiG6ZPib3c
Carver Mead on Semiconductors: youtube.com/watch?v=m99YI7HZs1o
Carver Mead Press conference: youtube.com/watch?v=bYRv7chhR_0
2023 paper on Gravitation: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/120186/
His Book on Collective Electrodynamics:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262632607/collective-electrodynamics/
kyotoprize.org/en/2022/carver_mead
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol4-doc/198
0:00 Mead's career
2:30 Moore's Law
3:15 Physical Law's
4:30 How did Mead's interest in fundamental physics arise?
6:00 Why bother with fundamental problems?
7:10 In view of new experiments, would you craft a physical law in the same form?
8:05 Mead's critique of GR and his theory of gravitation G4v
9:00 Brief comments on Quantum Theory
10:00 Do we have a proper description of reality?
10:30 Gravity again
11:15 Einstein's 1911 and 1912 papers and Mead's theory
17:25 Shapiro time delay and variable speed of light (VSL)
19:00 Pulsars
20:00 Taylor-Hulse
21:00 Methodological problems and VSL
24:00 standing waves and propagating light
25:00 Proposed experiment for the above difference
26:50 Mach's principle
27:15 Sciama's paper
28:40 Gravitational constant - one fundamental problem
29:30 Fiber optic gyroscopes
29:50 Accelerated frames - the other fundamental problem unsolved by Newton
31:20 Missing Mach's principle in current theories
32:30 Communication with experts
34:00 Intuitive and formal thinking
36:20 How much theory is hidden in observations?
37:30 Gravity Probe B
40:10 Gravitational waves
41:10 Open data
43:00 Microworld
45:00 The engineer's approach
46:10 comments on string theory
47:45 Science advances with one funeral at a time
48:50 Are we in the dark ages again?
51:30 Technology and physics
52:00 Tunneling and semiconductors- a groupthink example
53:30 On Bardeen
56:00 What hinders progress?
57:00 Americas computer revolutions
58:15 Sillicon valley research climate
1:01:00 Lasers and superconductors
1:03:00 Coevolution of physics and cosmology
1:04:00 Superconductors
1:05:40 High temperature superconductors
1:06:30 Ray Kurzweil
1:08:45 Neural networks and superintelligence
1:11:00 An optimist statement
1:14:00 Heinrich Hertz
1:15:00 Rooted in Nature
1:17:30 To young people: think in your own way
Apologies for the missing gallery view in zoom... next time I'll know how to do that!
Mind also my backup channel:
odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
Carver Mead on G4v: youtube.com/watch?v=XdiG6ZPib3c
Carver Mead on Semiconductors: youtube.com/watch?v=m99YI7HZs1o
Carver Mead Press conference: youtube.com/watch?v=bYRv7chhR_0
2023 paper on Gravitation: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/120186/
His Book on Collective Electrodynamics:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262632607/collective-electrodynamics/
kyotoprize.org/en/2022/carver_mead
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol4-doc/198
0:00 Mead's career
2:30 Moore's Law
3:15 Physical Law's
4:30 How did Mead's interest in fundamental physics arise?
6:00 Why bother with fundamental problems?
7:10 In view of new experiments, would you craft a physical law in the same form?
8:05 Mead's critique of GR and his theory of gravitation G4v
9:00 Brief comments on Quantum Theory
10:00 Do we have a proper description of reality?
10:30 Gravity again
11:15 Einstein's 1911 and 1912 papers and Mead's theory
17:25 Shapiro time delay and variable speed of light (VSL)
19:00 Pulsars
20:00 Taylor-Hulse
21:00 Methodological problems and VSL
24:00 standing waves and propagating light
25:00 Proposed experiment for the above difference
26:50 Mach's principle
27:15 Sciama's paper
28:40 Gravitational constant - one fundamental problem
29:30 Fiber optic gyroscopes
29:50 Accelerated frames - the other fundamental problem unsolved by Newton
31:20 Missing Mach's principle in current theories
32:30 Communication with experts
34:00 Intuitive and formal thinking
36:20 How much theory is hidden in observations?
37:30 Gravity Probe B
40:10 Gravitational waves
41:10 Open data
43:00 Microworld
45:00 The engineer's approach
46:10 comments on string theory
47:45 Science advances with one funeral at a time
48:50 Are we in the dark ages again?
51:30 Technology and physics
52:00 Tunneling and semiconductors- a groupthink example
53:30 On Bardeen
56:00 What hinders progress?
57:00 Americas computer revolutions
58:15 Sillicon valley research climate
1:01:00 Lasers and superconductors
1:03:00 Coevolution of physics and cosmology
1:04:00 Superconductors
1:05:40 High temperature superconductors
1:06:30 Ray Kurzweil
1:08:45 Neural networks and superintelligence
1:11:00 An optimist statement
1:14:00 Heinrich Hertz
1:15:00 Rooted in Nature
1:17:30 To young people: think in your own way
Apologies for the missing gallery view in zoom... next time I'll know how to do that!
Mind also my backup channel:
odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
