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Hi, Frank.

Hello, how are you?

I'm fine.

How are you doing?

Doing well.

I'm bracing for the storm.

Well, I'm witnessing the storm, and at the risk of spoiling the plot, there's a lot of whiteness associated with it.

As I look around it. Yeah. And there's depth to the whiteness.

So there's a big, this will post not immediately after we record it. So just to explain to people what's going on, there's a huge snowstorm

afflicting the East Coast. So let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright. This is a right show

available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You're a Frank Wilcheck, very well-known

physicist, Nobel laureate. And the author most recently of a book called Fundamentals,

Ten Keys to Reality, that's what we're going to talk about.

You've written other books.

A beautiful question, the lightness of being.

I'm really, really excited about this conversation.

There's a lot of deep stuff we can talk about and stay within the confines of your book.

Before we start, I would like to ask if you want to try to describe, if there's a way of describing to people like me who are not well grounded in physics, what you won your Nobel Prize for.

Wikipedia says it was for the discovery of asymptotic freedom.

In the theory of the strong interaction,

if you're at a cocktail party and you're talking to non-physicists

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