Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

It's a pleasure to welcome none other than Professor Jan Levin to the Into the Impossible

podcast. Janah where are you joining us which bunker are you in right now? The Pioneer

Works Bunker, Home Bunker. Home Bunker. I'm Manhattan Bunker.

It's really quite interesting because the students have all evacuated and a lot of the faculty

have evacuated, so it's the quietest. call it upstate Manhattan yeah yeah there's a

there's a book I think called like once upon a time or in New York or something and it

characterizes New York in the 1800s.

It's a wonderful kind of historical fan fiction to New York and it talks about the fields

around Broadway up in the upper west side.

Quite lovely, but it is a treat to end.

And thank you so much for making time.

I know it's a very frantic, frenetic time

for all of us in the faculty set.

And you, especially all the hats and balls that you juggle in the air so specifically.

I want to give you your official introduction that Gen 11 is that Claire Tao professors,

Tao or Tao or T or, how do you say,

Tao Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

She's a theoretical cosmologist.

She's a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University

and she earned her PhD in theoretical physics at MIT, a small technical college in Massachusetts, and her Bachelor of Science as well with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard where she graduated five data Kappa.

I like that. That's great. A bunch of her work deals with looking for evidence sport,

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