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Lex Fridman· Apr 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Equation Was Smarter Than EinsteinGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll tells Lex Fridman why general relativity is the most beautiful theory in physics, and why its equation predicted black holes, gravitational waves, and the Big Bang before anyone, including Einstein, understood them.
3:46:39ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Hated School Math Until a Professor Opened the Book to QuarksGuest Edward Frenkel · Host Lex FridmanEdward Frenkel talks with Lex Fridman about Soviet childhood, the Langlands program, Gödel, AI, and why every hard objective theory still ends with an observer.
2:22:55ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersLIGO measures a thousandth of a proton — then a thousand physicists stayed quiet for a monthGuest Barry Barish · Host Lex FridmanNobel laureate Barry Barish tells Lex Fridman how gravitational waves were predicted, doubted, and finally heard with the most precise machine ever built.
2:22:20ENLex Fridman· May 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe closer quarks get, the weaker they pullGuest Frank Wilczek · Host 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.
2:44:19ENLex Fridman· Feb 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSpeech Was a Bundle, and the Internet Unbundled ItGuest Eric Weinstein · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman Podcast appearance, Eric Weinstein talks through digital speech, reputation as a control tool, gauge-theoretic economics, and the unfinished physics he calls geometric unity.
3:11:09ENLex Fridman· Apr 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIn the computational universe, the animals are always smarter than youGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host 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.
1:35:00ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNASA Once Spent 5 Percent of the Economy to Go 250,000 Miles. Mars Is a Hundred Times Farther.Guest Jim Gates · Host 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.
1:01:00ENLex Fridman· Oct 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Billion Galaxies, and We're Still a Type 0.7 CivilizationGuest Michio Kaku · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks with Lex Fridman about aliens, string theory, digital immortality, and why fusion and Mars are the next civilizational steps.