Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek: Fundamentals — What Are The 10 Keys To Reality? (#109)

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Brian Keating

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Win a FREE copy of his newest book Fundamentals: enter this giveaway – https://kingsumo.com/g/n7xeaa/win-a-copy-of-frank-wilczeks-fundamentals-10-keys-to-reality Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology, and the physics of materials. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals, concepts in physics which he invented –each of which has become a major focus of worldwide research. In recent years Frank has become fascinated with prospects for expanding perception through technology. He is developing hardware and software tools for this. He has authored several well-known books and writes a monthly “Wilczek’s Universe” feature for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “Fundamentals”, was released in January 2021. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3q9HNAr Wilczek received a B.S. at the University of Chicago in 1970, and a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1974. Currently he is the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at MIT; Founding Director of the T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University; and Professor at Stockholm University. https://www.frankawilczek.com/ 00:04:43 What’s a day in your life like? 00:05:25 Having a grandchild 0 0:08:12 How Frank got interested in machine learning and AI. 00:11:07 What are your current thoughts are AI? 00:21:20 What are the fundamentals? 00:24:05 What motivates to begin a new project? 00:27:25 About axions. 00:30:47 Breaking symmetry or an expanded definition of it? 00:37:54 What’s fundamental about the scales of the universe? 00:40:16 Thoughts about a future envisioned in science fiction. 00:42:58 What do you think is the most beautiful experiment? 00:57;04 What is the case for the existence of God? 00:24:05 Is complexity fundamental? 01:17:09 Will we find that axions explain Dark Matter? 01:20:10 Detecting quantum gravitational waves. 01:31:56 Are there hints about a core theory of everything? Watch my most popular videos: Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose https://youtu.be/H8G5onAqlVo?sub_confirmation=1 Juan Maldacena’s First Podcast Interview: https://youtu.be/uIzTliTHn7s?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM ‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody I just finished up a phenomenal interview with my friend Frank Wiltschak who is a really
0:07.2	unbelievable unparalleled intellect in my mind and in many physicist minds but also in the public's mind he does a tremendous amount of
0:14.8	engagement with the public and his new book Fundamentals 10 Keys to Reality is now out
0:21.0	here's the cover here's the actual book is down here.
0:23.3	Don't worry.
0:24.2	I read the whole book and I've done now two podcasts with him about it
0:28.1	but this is my third podcast with him total if you're keeping score at home
0:32.1	and we got into a great deal of his insights into really
0:36.7	as he calls the book the nature of reality and what is predicated on the foundations of the
0:42.3	universe and its comprehensibility are really keys to understanding what the limits of human intelligence are, what the potential augmentation of artificial intelligence might mean for humanity, and also prospects
0:57.4	for things that transcend the laws of physics, such as religion, alien life, and other things that you'll hear about.
1:05.8	You'll also hear about his advice to his former self, his answer to my famous monolith question and also his ethical will which you won't want to miss.
1:19.0	He promised me that last time when we spoke about a beautiful question back in November and now he answered it today.
1:25.2	But you only hear that if you sign up for my mailing list at Brian Keating.com.
1:29.5	I'm a little concerned about the powers of big tech and people are getting rightfully concerned about technology perhaps
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1:45.8	Brian Keating.com you'll get advice for life from not only from Frank but from folks like Jim
1:51.4	Simons and from even people that you haven't heard
1:56.9	podcasts from yet such as Avi Loeb who record a podcast with me just last week.
2:03.3	Also have Julian Barber coming up on the podcast,
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