Brian Greene: String Theory, Faster Than Light, and Death
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I've opened up about certain experiences that at the time we're absolutely terrifying. |
| 0:06.0 | Anything that takes your mind into a different place that ultimately you learn something from |
| 0:11.0 | fits within the genre of exploration of altered states of consciousness. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we talk about consciousness, time travel, string theory, quantum gravity, and wormholes. |
| 0:24.7 | Brian Green is a theoretical physicist, a mathematician, and a string theorist, who is best known |
| 0:30.1 | for his work on mirror symmetry and flop transitions. |
| 0:33.0 | Brian's also a professor at Columbia University, as well as the chairman of the World Science Festival, |
| 0:38.1 | and the author of several popular books on physics, including The Elegant Universe. This was a purposefully |
| 0:44.0 | desultory interview, which brought us both to uncomfortable ground comfortably. You'll see what I mean. |
| 0:49.2 | My name's Kurt Jymungle. I have a background in mathematical physics. This podcast is called |
| 0:53.2 | Theories of Everything. It's dedicated to the exploration of theories of everything from a theoretical physics perspective, but as well as exploring the role consciousness has to the fundamental laws of nature. Each sponsor, as well as the patrons, improves the quality of the videos drastically. It improves the depth, it improves the frequency, |
| 1:11.0 | and it goes toward paying the staff, for instance, someone who's editing this full time right |
| 1:14.8 | now, and then we have an operations manager. In that vein, I want to thank today's sponsor, |
| 1:19.0 | Brilliant. If you're familiar with Toe, you're familiar with Brilliant, but for those who don't |
| 1:22.9 | know, brilliance is a place where you go to learn math, science, and engineering through these |
| 1:27.6 | bite-sized interactive learning experiences. |
| 1:30.1 | For example, and I keep saying this, I would like to do a podcast on information theory, |
| 1:34.5 | particularly Chiara Marletto, which is David Deutsch's student, has a theory of everything |
| 1:39.3 | that she puts forward called Constructor Theory, which is heavily contingent on information |
| 1:43.9 | theory. So I took their course on random variable distributions and knowledge and uncertainty |
| 1:49.0 | in order to learn a bit more about entropy. |
| 1:51.0 | Now there's this formula for entropy, essentially hammered into you as an undergraduate, |
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