WIP Video About Noether's Theorem - Urgently Requesting Feedback
Added 2025-04-08 09:38:13 +0000 UTCWe've got an exciting video coming up in the next few days!
A video about Noether's Theorem and its impact on physics.
We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video! Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera.
Producer Casper has also recorded some temporary lines of voiceover, so you'll hear his voice mixed in where Derek's will eventually be.
Is there anything wrong? Any other questions? Anything more you'd like to see? Explanations you think don't do a good enough job or lack depth? Let us know!
Thanks everyone!
Comments
I just saw the released video. Very nice! If my memory serves me right (it may not), the released version discusses the link between the ball slowing down and expansion as applied to space and photons in more detail. That was just the kind of connection I was looking for! My worries about uncertainties in the universe model itself remain, but the new version made the math connection to Noether's work much clearer and more persuasive. Also, I did _not_ notice the music overpowering the words, which means the level balancing was perfect: No distractions. Good video!
Terry Bollinger
2025-04-14 22:00:51 +0000 UTCAmazing! I remember the first time I was introduced to the Noether Theorem and it blew my mind. Being born long time ago I assume Noether was male and years later I found out that I was mistaken; who came up with was never as important as the importance of its use. Veritasium is a magnificent Science communications platform I'm hoping you find more topics where women scientist have made monumental contributions (often battling harder against social structures rather than against the frontiers of knowledge). Scientist like Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner, Cecila Payne, Henrrieta Leavitt, Chien-Shiung Wu just to name a few.
Doctor Why
2025-04-12 17:07:33 +0000 UTCEditor mode: At least on my laptop, the musical score volume was high enough to interfere with hearing some words in the presentation. The music worked fine and sounded good, but perhaps a bit more volume on the voices might help. For content, the idea that the ball stops due to the universe being asymmetric in time was unsatisfying and more like an unwarranted assumption. For example, what if it turns out that we are, after all, in some form of cyclic universe, say Penrose's CCC -- does this assertion about the ball still hold, or hold in the same way? Or (my favorite) we are in a dual universe in which energy _is_ absolutely conserved by the negative energy of our dual? Most of astronomy is still chaotic about the details of cosmic expansion, which also adds messiness to such a sharp conclusion, especially as an intro. For an intro paradox, you expect an indisputable "Aha!" momentum, and a quick wave at "time is not fully symmetric" doesn't feel like that.
Terry Bollinger
2025-04-09 21:52:17 +0000 UTCGlad you enjoyed! Thank you for your feedback
Veritasium
2025-04-09 15:02:04 +0000 UTCI like how the simpler math analogies to the actual but more difficult math, like tensors, was used in the presentation. It was fast paced enough that I want to re-watch it, but didn’t feel too lost on first viewing. Some of the presentation by the physicist seemed straightforward at the time, but the simplifications in the derivation would not have been obvious to me upon first exposure. I don’t know to make it clearer, other than to rewatch that segment. Still, the huge impact of Noether came across as intended. Also, the history of how her work intertwined with the unsolved problems of the time was the best part of the video to me. It explains how each person influenced the other.
Tom Schroeder
2025-04-09 14:56:11 +0000 UTC
