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Lex Fridman· 3 dic 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesA Theory That Fits Anything Is Not Even WrongInvitado: Peter Woit · Presenta: Lex FridmanColumbia physicist Peter Woit tells Lex Fridman why string theory's original idea emptied out, why four dimensions are enough, and what twistor theory still offers.
3:38:43ENLex Fridman· 26 oct 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesConsciousness Is a Step Down From IntelligenceInvitado: Stephen Wolfram · Presenta: Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how simple programs, a discrete fabric of space, and a computationally bounded observer together explain complexity, physics, and why the universe exists.
2:56:42ENLex Fridman· 26 sept 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesSilicon Does Not Emit LightInvitado: Jeffrey Shainline · Presenta: Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
1:52:17ENLex Fridman· 27 ago 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesOld Theories Rarely Die of Contradiction. They Stop Making New Things.Invitado: Jed Buchwald · Presenta: 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.
2:54:52ENLex Fridman· 8 ago 2021PódcastThe Marvelous Proof Still Lives in the MarginPresenta: Lex FridmanLuís and João Batalha, the brothers behind Fermat's Library, talk with Lex Fridman about hidden backstories, a publishing system that buys its own work twice, and how to sit with a paper until it finally clicks.
2:13:21ENLex Fridman· 25 jul 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesThe Fourth Deduction Often Turns Out to Be the First PrincipleInvitado: Cumrun Vafa · Presenta: 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 jul 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesThere's Something at the Edge of the Solar SystemInvitado: Konstantin Batygin · Presenta: 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 jul 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesSara Walker says “what is life?” is the wrong questionInvitado: Sara Walker · Presenta: 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 jun 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesThe Universe Doesn't Sacrifice. That's Why Phosphine Might Mean Life.Invitado: Clara Sousa-Silva · Presenta: 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 jun 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesWhat Science Is Left When Institutions Decide What Cannot Be SaidInvitado: Bret Weinstein · Presenta: 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 jun 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesGeometry Is the Cilantro of MathInvitado: Jordan Ellenberg · Presenta: 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 may 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesThe closer quarks get, the weaker they pullInvitado: Frank Wilczek · Presenta: 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 may 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesKatherine de Kleer still calls moons planetsInvitado: Katherine de Kleer · Presenta: 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 ene 2021Pódcast · 2 vocesOumuamua Wasn't Supposed to Exist. Avi Loeb Wants a Photograph Next Time.Invitado: Avi Loeb · Presenta: 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 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesThe Universe's Rule Might Fit on a PostcardInvitado: Stephen Wolfram · Presenta: 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 jul 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesNobody Died from the Fukushima ReactorsInvitado: Ian Hutchinson · Presenta: 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 abr 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesParticle physics is badly named: Harry Cliff on fields, the Higgs, and a collider with no bossInvitado: Harry Cliff · Presenta: 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 abr 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesIn the computational universe, the animals are always smarter than youInvitado: Stephen Wolfram · Presenta: 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 abr 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesThe Great Nap Is OverInvitado: Eric Weinstein · Presenta: 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.
1:09:52ENLex Fridman· 7 mar 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesLee Smolin Does Not Believe in the Scientific MethodInvitado: Lee Smolin · Presenta: 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 mar 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesAnn Druyan on Voyager, Carl Sagan, and Love Without IllusionInvitado: Ann Druyan · Presenta: 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 ene 2020Pódcast · 2 vocesAliens Would Count. They Probably Wouldn't Write e^x.Invitado: Grant Sanderson · Presenta: 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 dic 2019Pódcast · 2 vocesNASA Once Spent 5 Percent of the Economy to Go 250,000 Miles. Mars Is a Hundred Times Farther.Invitado: Jim Gates · Presenta: 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 dic 2019Pódcast · 2 vocesScience cannot prove that the Earth is not flatInvitado: Michael Stevens · Presenta: 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.