486. The Intersection of Science and Meaning | Dr. Brian Greene

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with physicist and author, Dr. Brian Greene. They discuss the strange conceptualization of “before” the Big Bang, how time might be a microscopic phenomenon, how order existed at the point of the universe's creation, what would happen if you fell into a black hole, and the process of going from understanding to harnessing new insights. Dr. Brian Greene is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Dr. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. This episode was recorded on September 9th, 2024 - Links - For Brian Greene: On X https://x.com/bgreene?lang=en Website https://www.briangreene.org/ "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Until-End-Time-Evolving-Universe/dp/1524731676 "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Universe-Superstrings-Dimensions-Ultimate/dp/039333810X

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0:00.0	The Hello everybody I had the opportunity and
0:17.4	I had the opportunity and privilege today to speak with Dr. Brian Green
0:19.7	who's a physicist and an author of a number of books. The book we delved into most deeply today was
0:26.4	the elegant universe, superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory that was
0:32.0	originally published in 1999 but he's
0:34.3	offering an updated version as of 2024 and so we had a chance to delve into the mysteries of
0:41.6	quantum mechanics special relativity and string theory and
0:45.2	string theory is a branch of physics that was designed or emerged to deal with the
0:51.6	contradictions that exist between general relativity and
0:55.1	quantum mechanics and so what did we do in our discussion? Well we talked about
1:00.4	quantum mechanics and what it means and signifies.
1:03.6	We talked about the theory of general relativity.
1:06.4	We talked about the nature of time and the nature of entropy,
1:11.1	which are concepts that are quite tightly related.
1:15.0	We talked about the infamous double slit
1:17.8	experiment, which is a mind twister to say the least.
1:24.4	We talked about the potential testing of string theory.
1:29.0	We talked about what it has to offer
1:31.3	and what we talked about consciousness and the perception of time and the
1:40.2	relationship between the perception of time and entropy and the expansion of the universe.
1:45.0	And we talked about situating that more narrow pursuit of the truths of physics in what in a more broadly
1:59.2	humanistic approach to the world at large.
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