Barry Barish | Exploring The History of Experimental Physics
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
4.4 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 179 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast episode, Lawrence Krauss reconnects with an old friend and Nobel Prize recipient, Barry Barish. They discuss a wide range of topics and explore Barry's own history as well as the history, present, and future of experimental physics.
Barry Barish is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves. In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". In 2018, he joined the faculty at University of California, Riverside, becoming the university's second Nobel Prize winner on the faculty.
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The Origins Podcast, a production of The Origins Project Foundation, features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world about the issues that impact all of us in the 21st century. Host, theoretical physicist, lecturer, and author, Lawrence M. Krauss, will be joined by guests from a wide range of fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The topics discussed on The Origins Podcast reflect the full range of the human experience - exploring science and culture in a way that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Lawrence Krause here and I wanted to append a brief video note to this podcast you're about to hear for a variety of reasons, but one because the person I'm having the discussion with Barry Barish will be one of the guest speakers also on our upcoming Origins Project Foundation trip under the Northern Lights to Greenland, September 8th to 21st, 2022. |
| 0:23.6 | We'll travel from Reckyvik to Greenland under the Northern Lights and guest speakers Barry Barish. |
| 0:29.6 | Myself and Richard Dawkins will be aboard to spend time with the travelers who come along for 14 days to spend time not just hearing the lectures but also to |
| 0:39.8 | interact with us and and the other wonderful travelers that we have coming along we've had a great |
| 0:47.6 | response and we have not many births left maybe four or five so I thought I'd invite any of you |
| 0:53.7 | were interested to go to our website, |
| 0:55.7 | OriginsprojectFoundation.org, and go to the travel button and learn about the trip. $2,000 |
| 1:01.8 | of the cost of the trip will go as a tax deductible donation to help support the foundation. |
| 1:07.8 | So I hope I'll see some of you next September and right now you can listen to me and Barry |
| 1:14.5 | Beresh talk about some of the things that we'll discuss just a few of the things that will discuss |
| 1:19.8 | with some of you in Greenland next year. This episode is with an old friend of mine and a famous and remarkable physicist, Barry Berish, |
| 1:39.3 | who won the Nobel Prize in 2017 along with Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss, for the discovery |
| 1:46.3 | of gravitational waves. |
| 1:49.1 | One of the fundamental predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, and a |
| 1:53.1 | remarkable experiment that I personally thought would be impossible. |
| 1:57.8 | And Barry helped make it happen. |
| 1:59.5 | But what most people don't realize about Barry is that his career in |
| 2:02.5 | physics spans a far broader area. His origins are in elementary particle physics and experiment. |
| 2:08.6 | And so what we were able to do in our discussion was have a discussion really about the history |
| 2:14.4 | of experimental physics. His own history, which spans so many different |
| 2:18.2 | areas, and the importance of realizing that in fact, you can change what you do, as he's often |
| 2:23.7 | done, use the things you've learned in one area and apply them to another bravely, taking risks, |
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