Closing reflections — honoring Yang’s legacy

1:14:48it in whatever whatever way you want. >> Orient it in whatever magnetic field you want. And the electron that comes out the way it's going to come out. Now pretend the electron is going out this way. Then the way that it >> the turns uh the the left my heart is on the left. The way that it turns >> Yes. is left is left. This was Fineman's original Martian problem. This is this is Fineman Fineman like talked about all of these things in the context of this Martian problem in his in his Fineman lecture >> and this is the actual solution to how can you tell the Martian left or right is you can use beta decay or the weak nuclear force as as the >> one area where there's an exception to the conservation of par as the

1:15:30methodology by which you can communicate left-handed >> left-handed and now now we can do that by simply describing an experiment This is huge. It means the universe does care. >> Okay. Yes. About left and right. >> Yes. Which is so funny. That's crazy. >> That's so that and the the story arc we got to get there. And again, this is goes back to why from first principles matters so much because people don't just like make things up out of whole cloth. You know what I mean? There's this decadesl long conversation. >> Yeah. that's going back and forth and people are really thinking about the fundamentals and creating experiments in which to be able to say yes or no. And a lot of times the it's fail. It's it's

1:16:12not a success until someone like Woo in this case creates that experimental design that just perfectly. >> It's just per and it's there's no bells and whistles. >> It just it's like so obvious, right? [laughter] >> In retrospect. >> In retrospect it is. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody Yeah. It's that's it's really unfortunate actually. She didn't win the Nobel Prize for it. Sung Da Lee and Yang won the Nobel Prize and it really should have been a three-part Nobel Prize. And it is one of the most it's a real shame. >> It's the one that almost every physicist agrees like without a doubt >> Woo should have won that Nobel Prize >> because there's no Sun Da Leong without

1:16:54Woo, >> right? >> Actually proving it. >> Right. Right. That that was what created the actual experimental. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and and like people like Pow Lei were pissed off about it. Wner was pissed off. Like everybody in the community was like, "What are you guys doing that you haven't you didn't give it to Woo?" It was almost Yeah. Yeah. So it it was really unfortunate you know for this this you know giant of physics >> a seminal figure >> seinal figure like there's no like even you don't have to there is it might be because she was a woman probably honestly back then in the 1950s at the time >> probably it's so it's so unfortunate

1:17:35because you know it's it's it's like clear and obvious how big of a deal >> this is >> we need we need V for uh the Nobels because that was a clear and obvious error by the officials at the time >> and and and at the time like this was in December she you know took off her holidays she canceled her holidays to do this experiment because she knew how big it would be right I mean and um in January when when all of the results came out even before the paper was published everyone in the physics community was talking about it they were writing letters to each other it was by telegram the paper was under peer review but It's spread like the new gospel >> that parody is no longer a rule in the