Hi, I'm Lawrence Kraus and welcome to the Origins Podcast.

Sabina Hosenfelder is a theoretical physicist, a science popularizer, and also a sometimes YouTube personality and musician.

I've known her for some time and I enjoy the fact that she's also kind of a contrarian.

Her last book, Lost in Math, for example, talked about the possibility that physics had lost its way,

being more concerned about ideas of beauty in mathematics than perhaps

understanding the real world.

I decided to have a conversation with her about that and many other things,

about what motivated her as a kind of mathematical physicist

to get involved in science popularization

and how she decided to spend time on her YouTube videos.

All of that and more, as well as a discussion about really the

present and future progress of physics.

As always, we don't really agree on everything, but it was an interesting discussion, and I particularly enjoy her take, her irreverent take on many aspects of physics, where she kind of inserts herself as a journalist as much as a scientist in trying to interview people about science. I hope you enjoy the interview.

Thanks.

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