Eva Miranda: Fluid Motion Is Turing-Complete (Proving Penrose Right)
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What is the significance of fluid motion being Turing‑complete?
Professor Eva Miranda, I'm extremely excited to be here and be speaking with you again. The last time we spoke, it went viral, so I'm super excited to have you on again because the audience just loves you. We're gonna talk about hot topics. What you're presenting here, you're presenting for the first time in a manner that's introductory, so requires no background. The topics will include complexity, chaos theory, especially. as contrasted with the standard chaos theory that the audience may already be acquainted with, Navier Stokes, of course, what it means to go beyond what's computational, and how all of this is connected to geometry, to physics, to the ideas of Penrose and Terry Tao. Welcome. Yes.
Thank you very much. I'm excited to be here again. I'm so so happy to be here. And looking forward to this new adventure and ready to disclose something new. Let's see if people like it. I'm very happy about the uh about all the followers, all the questions. I'm sorry I couldn't answer all the questions. I'll go and answer them little by little. as I can.
Great.
And it's a great pleasure to be here with all of you now. Okay. I call this expect the unexpected and what does it mean? Well, you know we all know David Hilbert, the famous mathematician, right, who said We m we must know. We will know. This was, let's say, his most famous uh sentence. And indeed, this was a little bit the idea of his idea that everything could be formalized mathematically in a very, very precise way. This idea of precision of mathematics, that is of course very important, and formalisation, the idea of formalization of mathematics. And what's very interesting is that uh Hilbert was in Gettingham. I have been in Gettingen very recently. And uh it was a pleasure to be there and to walk around the streets and to see the plaques where all these great uh uh mathematicians uh were living in it.
There was David Hilbert, there was John von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer, who appeared in my last uh in my last appearance in the Theories of Everything. And there was also Alonso Charge, because Charge and Von Neumann went to visit uh Hilbert because they were excited about this formalization of mathematics. And of course, in their work Hilbert spaces were very, very important. But well, I put here a rubber duck. We'll see what this rubber duck has to do with these uh big names. I want to tell you indeed today three different stories that have a common pattern and the pattern is uncertainty. Uncertainty versus the certainty that David Hilbert was looking inside mathematics that every every question had to have an answer in a way.
And I chose three different uh main characters today. I chose Alan Turing. I chose uh to explain, as you said, the chaos, the the theory of chaos, the classical theory of chaos, and this is a nice story that can explain with butterfly. And I want to explain also How it affects our last month. We heard so much about all these asteroids that could fall on us. So I want to explain how this is connected. And finally, I want to connect this to Navirus Stokes, to this unsolved problem in the list of unsolved problems in mathematics. And I will connect this to undecidable fluid paths. As you see here, I chose a Little uh a little rubber duck and the rubber duck is going uh wants to be a little bit the the tuck the new tuck of logical chaos in the same way the butterfly is the tuck for the the the the
the tack for uh classical games. So
interesting.
Let's see how do I get to Alan Turing? I was talking about Alonso Charts, right? And I was saying that Alonso Chart was visiting David Hilbert to learn about this formalization of mathematics. And he was there in the period nineteen seven twenty-seven and twenty-eight. And the funny thing is that Charge was indeed the PhD advisor of Alan Turing. So uh well, Alan Turing is well known for cracking Enigma code. We've seen him in the films, the imitation game. And here we have the machine Enigma and the machine the bomb, which was used to uh crack Enigma. So we could say that indeed Alan Turing and his team, it was all the
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the significance of fluid motion being Turing‑complete?
0:00–15:33
2
How does the halting problem illustrate the limits of computation?
15:33–31:15
3
Why are rubber ducks used as a metaphor for undecidable fluid paths?
31:15–44:36
4
How does classical chaos differ from logical undecidability in fluid dynamics?
44:36–57:57
5
What are the open questions about Navier‑Stokes regularity and blow‑up?
57:57–1:10:34
6
How can Turing machines be associated with continuous fluid flows?
1:10:34–1:24:47
7
What is a hybrid fluid‑quantum computer and its potential?
1:24:47–1:38:01
8
What are the broader implications of undecidable fluid paths for physics?
1:38:01–1:48:46
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