Leonard Susskind: The Crisis in String Theory Runs Even Deeper
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We live in the wrong kind of world to be described by string theory. |
| 0:06.0 | No physicist has ever won a big prize for string theory. |
| 0:09.3 | I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is not the real world that we live in. |
| 0:14.1 | So we need to start over. |
| 0:18.1 | In a groundbreaking revelation, Leonard Suskind, one of the founding fathers of string theory |
| 0:24.2 | and professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University makes a stunning admission. |
| 0:29.8 | String theory has failed, and many physicists don't know what to do. |
| 0:35.5 | They're scared. They might get a job. |
| 0:38.0 | The theory that once promised to unify physics |
| 0:40.6 | has instead generated 10 to the 500 different possible solutions, or vacuum states. |
| 0:47.2 | Some theorists maintain that each mathematical solution corresponds to a physical reality, |
| 0:52.5 | a legion of multiverses. |
| 0:54.0 | However, the extensive efforts to tame this so-called landscape, corresponds to a physical reality, a legion of multiverses. |
| 0:59.3 | However, the extensive efforts to tame this so-called landscape through, for instance, |
| 1:06.2 | KKLT vacuist stabilization mechanisms, suggests an implicit acknowledgement that the multitude of universes is senseless. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm Kurt Jymungle, and on this channel, I explore unification and physics and |
| 1:12.2 | philosophy using my background in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto. Today, |
| 1:17.2 | it's a special treat since we have the legendary Leonard Suskind in rare, candid form, revealing |
| 1:22.8 | his unconfined thoughts for the first time. We should certainly be on the lookout for ideas which are not the consensus. |
| 1:35.2 | We should be watching for them and not immediately dismiss them. |
| 1:40.2 | We also talk about what it means that the universe is a hologram, why quantum entanglement is equivalent to wormholes, |
| 1:46.9 | why super symmetry is absent in our universe, why we lack a quantum description of decider space, |
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