John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
نادیار چیە؟ زیاتر لەوەی تۆ بیری لێدەکەیتەوە. جۆن لیۆد
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given by John Lloyd in 2009]
has spent his whole career
than you think, actually.
everything that matters --
but we can't see what holds them apart,
we see only the skin of things,
we can't see what makes people tick,
the more it disappears.
really closely at stuff,
substructure of matter,
and there is only energy.
about invisibility is,
we also can't understand.
and which we don't understand.
of all the four fundamental forces,
knows what it is or why it's there.
the greatest scientist who ever lived,
to Earth specifically
on that one, I don't know.
I've no idea what any of you are thinking.
each other's minds,
taste each other,
but we can't read each other's minds.
this great Middle Eastern religion
is the root of all religions,
all telepaths, so they say,
to the rest of us that it doesn't exist.
the Sufi masters working on us.
and artificial intelligence,
like the study of consciousness,
how consciousness works.
artificial intelligence,
artificial stupidity.
eternal, omnipresent, all powerful.
not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist.
new word -- ignostic.
on whether God exists
is the human genome.
because about 20 years ago
they thought it would probably contain
it's been revised downwards.
to be just over 20 thousand genes
because rice -- get this --
two more than people,
but they are very strange.
think that's fascinating.
the less you can see.
for the figures.
except in your memory.
things about the past
what I was like when I was two?
earlier than the age of two or three.
because otherwise they'd be out of a job.
is the grid on which we hang.
that cells are continually renewed.
nails, that kind of stuff --
is replaced at some point.
take a bit longer.
not one cell in your body
seven years ago.
who then are we? What are we?
than the wavelength of light.
mentioned 1600 recently.
by a Dutch chemist called van Helmont.
invention of a word by a known individual.
called "blas," meaning astral radiation.
you won't see it.
will disagree with this.
the beam of light,
they understand electricity, they don't.
in an electric wire move instantaneously
at the speed of light,
honey, they say.
Hundred billion.
galaxies, with the naked eye.
unless you've got very good eyesight.
radio waves, in 1887,
because they radiated.
"What's the point of these, Heinrich?
that you've found?"
a use for them someday.
to us is what we don't know.
of one millionth about anything."
"What's another thing we can't see?"
really worth asking.
we do about it while we are?"
you with, from two great philosophers,
thinkers of the 20th century.
and the other a poet.
in order to enjoy ourselves."
W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets,
on Earth to help others.
are here for, I've no idea."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
John Lloyd - ProducerJohn Lloyd helps make some of the cleverest television in the UK.
Why you should listen
John Lloyd seems to have known every brilliant and funny person in Britain, and his collaborations are legendary. He's been a fixture on the BBC for four decades, producing such classic comedies as Blackadder, Spitting Image, the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and lately QI (short for "Quite Interesting"), hosted by Stephen Fry (read his Reddit AMA about it).
Lloyd has also written more than a dozen funny books -- including The Meaning of Liff, a collaboration with his friend Douglas Adams, which has been in print for 26 years.
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