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🗓️ 15 January 2021
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Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek (@FrankWilczek), author of the new book Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, joins Matt and Andy to talk about the work that earned him a Nobel Prize, as well as his book, which delves into the essential concepts that form our understanding of how the universe works, digging into fundamental ideas like time, space, matter, energy, complexity and complementarity.
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0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Great Courses Plus. What is your purpose this year? What new things will you learn? For a free 14-day trial with unlimited access, go to the greatcoursesplus.com slash probably. |
0:13.0 | Probably science. |
0:15.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to Property Science. |
0:25.9 | I'm Matt Kirshan. |
0:26.9 | I'm Andy Wood. |
0:28.0 | And I'm quite excited today because we have Frank Wilczek, who is the author of Fundamentals Ten Keys to Reality, |
0:37.2 | a new book that is coming out, |
0:38.4 | but also our very first ever Nobel laureate. |
0:43.2 | So, hi, Frank. |
0:45.1 | Thank you. |
0:45.7 | Thank you for joining us. |
0:47.2 | I'm looking forward to it. |
0:48.4 | Yeah. |
0:49.0 | Oh, I'm very excited. |
0:51.3 | Yeah, it doesn't matter how many times we tweet at Henry Kissinger, nothing. |
0:55.7 | So, um, so you've, you've, you've written this, uh, book, but before, I would love to, |
1:04.1 | before we get into the book itself, and I know you do talk about it in one of the later chapters |
1:08.0 | in the book, but I'd love to just briefly ask about your Nobel Prize and what it was in, because this is, this came from work that you started as a |
1:16.8 | student, right? You were the, your supervisor was doing this work. You did it with him and years later, |
1:24.3 | or decades later, you end up with a Nobel Prize. Yes, yes. We work together and we made some very rapid dramatic progress |
1:36.3 | and quite a bit later got a Nobel Prize for it. |
1:41.5 | So I'll just go ahead and tell you what it was about. |
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