[Unedited] Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words from Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful Question. It’s a winsome, joyful meditation on the question: Do cosmic realities embody beautiful ideas? — probing the world, by way of science, as a work of art. He reminds us that time and space, mystery and order, are so much stranger and more generous than we can comprehend. He’s now written a wonderful new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.2	principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.1	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation about truth and beauty with Nobel
0:28.4	physicist Frank Wilchuk. There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:36.9	Hello. Hi. Hi. Hello. This is Frank. Yes. Frank. Hello. Hi. And this is, is that your name Wilchuk?
0:46.4	Is that, yeah, Wilchuk is good. Is it, ah, where does that name originate? It's Polish maybe?
0:53.0	It's Polish. It's an Eastern European name. It means a small wolf or wolf cub.
0:56.8	Ah. Ah. It's actually a fairly common name. It's also, it's the name of a royal family in the
1:03.5	Austro-Hungarian Empire. So there's a Wilchuk palace. There's Wilchuk land because Count Wilchuk
1:12.9	bankrolled some expeditions near the North Pole. Have you been there to their captain? No, no.
1:18.7	It's way above the Arctic Circle. You can only get there through with icebreakers. It's owned by
1:24.2	the, it's owned by the Russians. Well, I'm so happy to have you on the other end of the microphone.
1:31.9	Thank you. And it's good to, yeah, it's good to talk to you. I've heard the show several times.
1:36.8	Oh, great. I quite enjoy it. Thank you. Well, thank you. Do you have it? I wondered if you have
1:42.4	any questions from me before we start? Not really. Well, one thing, I should have, I wasn't really
1:50.6	quick on the drawing, but I just wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal that appeared Saturday
1:56.4	that I thought might, might be interesting to discuss. What was it about? It was about my
2:03.6	experience I had at the Botanical Garden in Phoenix, the Desert Botanical Garden. There was
2:12.7	an art exhibit called Fields of Light by Bruce Monroe, which consisted of acres of
2:23.8	in the desert on a hillside of lights that slowly pulsated those thousands of lights,
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