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Lex Fridman· 27. Aug. 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenOld Theories Rarely Die of Contradiction. They Stop Making New Things.Gast: Jed Buchwald · Moderation: Lex FridmanCaltech historian Jed Buchwald talks with Lex Fridman about Kuhn, Newton, and why scientific change is a victory of productivity more than of proof.
2:13:21ENLex Fridman· 25. Juli 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenThe Fourth Deduction Often Turns Out to Be the First PrincipleGast: Cumrun Vafa · Moderation: Lex FridmanHarvard string theorist Cumrun Vafa on why physicists distrust deduction, how a graviton fell out of a formula nobody wrote for gravity, and what extra dimensions are actually for.
2:39:53ENLex Fridman· 19. Juli 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenThere's Something at the Edge of the Solar SystemGast: Konstantin Batygin · Moderation: Lex FridmanCaltech planetary astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin tells Lex Fridman how a hypothesized five-Earth-mass world shepherds the distant Kuiper Belt — and why a photograph would end the argument.
1:59:28ENLex Fridman· 9. Juli 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenSara Walker says “what is life?” is the wrong questionGast: Sara Walker · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist and theoretical physicist tells Lex Fridman that origin-of-life science is stuck on molecules, and that causation, assembly, and planetary-scale information are closer to the real problem.
1:58:12ENLex Fridman· 27. Juni 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenThe Universe Doesn't Sacrifice. That's Why Phosphine Might Mean Life.Gast: Clara Sousa-Silva · Moderation: Lex FridmanQuantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva on the contested Venus detection, a molecule nobody could spell, and why she treats cosmic meaninglessness as a relief.
3:17:09ENLex Fridman· 25. Juni 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenWhat Science Is Left When Institutions Decide What Cannot Be SaidGast: Bret Weinstein · Moderation: Lex FridmanEvolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein talks with Lex Fridman about lab-leak evidence, ivermectin, captured public-health agencies, and why the 1% at the fringe is the key to progress.
2:41:47ENLex Fridman· 12. Juni 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenGeometry Is the Cilantro of MathGast: Jordan Ellenberg · Moderation: Lex FridmanJordan Ellenberg tells Lex Fridman that the last 150 years of mathematics have been about one question: when two things count as the same.
2:22:20ENLex Fridman· 29. Mai 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenThe closer quarks get, the weaker they pullGast: Frank Wilczek · Moderation: Lex FridmanNobel physicist Frank Wilczek talks with Lex Fridman about asymptotic freedom, beauty, dark matter, consciousness, and whether a theory of everything would even help.
1:56:54ENLex Fridman· 17. Mai 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenKatherine de Kleer still calls moons planetsGast: Katherine de Kleer · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Caltech planetary scientist talks with Lex Fridman about Pluto’s demotion, tidal heating on Io, hidden oceans, and the ice that may explain Oumuamua.
2:51:17ENLex Fridman· 13. Jan. 2021Podcast · 2 StimmenOumuamua Wasn't Supposed to Exist. Avi Loeb Wants a Photograph Next Time.Gast: Avi Loeb · Moderation: Lex FridmanHarvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb tells Lex Fridman why the first interstellar visitor looks more like a lightsail than a rock — and why that question is still treated as unscientific.
4:23:39ENLex Fridman· 15. Sept. 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenThe Universe's Rule Might Fit on a PostcardGast: Stephen Wolfram · Moderation: Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how a short computational rule on a hypergraph could generate space, time, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
2:01:15ENLex Fridman· 29. Juli 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenNobody Died from the Fukushima ReactorsGast: Ian Hutchinson · Moderation: Lex FridmanMIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson on fusion, a hundredfold carbon cut, scientism, and why faith is more than believing unproven claims.
1:38:20ENLex Fridman· 29. Apr. 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenParticle physics is badly named: Harry Cliff on fields, the Higgs, and a collider with no bossGast: Harry Cliff · Moderation: Lex FridmanA Cambridge physicist walks Lex Fridman through the Large Hadron Collider, the Standard Model, and why the vacuum is not empty.
3:11:09ENLex Fridman· 18. Apr. 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenIn the computational universe, the animals are always smarter than youGast: Stephen Wolfram · Moderation: Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram talks with Lex Fridman about Rule 30, computational irreducibility, a hypergraph model of physics, and why Wolfram Language is a notation for talking about the world.
2:46:36ENLex Fridman· 13. Apr. 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenThe Great Nap Is OverGast: Eric Weinstein · Moderation: Lex FridmanMathematician Eric Weinstein tells Lex Fridman that seventy-five quiet years selected the wrong leaders, then walks through Geometric Unity, the theory he kept in a drawer for decades.
11:26ENLex Fridman· 11. Apr. 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenRichard Dawkins on Memes, the Internet and Why Wrong Ideas SpreadGast: Richard Dawkins · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe man who coined the word explains to Lex Fridman what makes a meme more than a metaphor, why the internet is a step change for ideas, and why an idea, like a peacock's tail, doesn't need to be true or useful to spread.
1:09:52ENLex Fridman· 7. März 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenLee Smolin Does Not Believe in the Scientific MethodGast: Lee Smolin · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe theoretical physicist talks with Lex Fridman about realism, the measurement problem, and why finishing Einstein’s revolution means treating time as fundamental and locality as optional.
1:09:12ENLex Fridman· 5. März 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenAnn Druyan on Voyager, Carl Sagan, and Love Without IllusionGast: Ann Druyan · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe creative director of the Voyager Golden Record argues that science is an error-correcting way of seeing the universe — and of seeing another person.
1:02:45ENLex Fridman· 7. Jan. 2020Podcast · 2 StimmenAliens Would Count. They Probably Wouldn't Write e^x.Gast: Grant Sanderson · Moderation: Lex FridmanGrant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown talks with Lex Fridman about notation, infinity, and why a visualization has to pick a single arrow.
1:35:00ENLex Fridman· 25. Dez. 2019Podcast · 2 StimmenNASA Once Spent 5 Percent of the Economy to Go 250,000 Miles. Mars Is a Hundred Times Farther.Gast: Jim Gates · Moderation: Lex FridmanTheorist S. James Gates Jr. talks with Lex Fridman about Mars budgets, supersymmetry, error-correcting codes hiding in equations, and why string theory is not yet a theory.
58:33ENLex Fridman· 17. Dez. 2019Podcast · 2 StimmenScience cannot prove that the Earth is not flatGast: Michael Stevens · Moderation: Lex FridmanVsauce creator Michael Stevens tells Lex Fridman why unfalsifiable ghosts, time-capsule states, and a YouTube recommendation mirror all belong in the same argument about curiosity.
1:23:01ENLex Fridman· 11. Dez. 2019Podcast · 2 StimmenYou Cannot Ask a Question You Have No Words ForGast: Judea Pearl · Moderation: Lex FridmanA teenager spent three days in bed with a fever after learning that geometry could be done in algebra — then spent a career giving cause and effect a mathematics.
1:29:58ENLex Fridman· 1. Nov. 2019Podcast · 2 StimmenBelieve the Schrödinger Equation. The Cost Is Extra WorldsGast: Sean Carroll · Moderation: Lex FridmanSean Carroll talks with Lex Fridman about why many-worlds is the barest form of quantum mechanics, why spacetime may only be an approximation, and why measurement should not be a primitive in the laws of physics.
57:30ENLex Fridman· 26. Sept. 2019Podcast · 2 Stimmen400 Spins in a Pocket, and a Universe Too Small to Store ThemGast: Leonard Susskind · Moderation: Lex FridmanLeonard Susskind tells Lex Fridman why quantum computers are not faster laptops, why string theory is a tool rather than a citizenship, and why nobody should claim to have found the bottom of the well.