Name: Leonard Susskind Radio Interview: How to Be a Theoretical Physicist by 7th Avenue Project in Physics
Duration: 1 h 17 min 2 s
Description: One of the world's leading theoretical physicists talks about his beginnings as a would-be plumber, becoming a scientist, his thought process, his best ideas (including string theory and the holographic principle) and some of his duds. Also, why he loves to explain physics to non-experts – a talent he put to good use here.

Physics

The discoveries which the physicist Brian Greene spends his life pondering lead to a thrilling, mind-bending view of the cosmos, and of the human adventure of modern science. Think of the certainties many of us grew up learning in school - now overtaken by the constant reimagining of the cosmos that is modern physics. The word “space” to describe what we now understand as a sphere teeming with mysterious energy and matter. In our lifetime the science fiction scenario of parallel universes has become a compelling mathematical possibility. Brian Greene works on this frontier, and he increasingly believes that the deepest realities are hidden from human senses and defy our best intuition.

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Brian Greene — Reimagining the Cosmos

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One of the world's leading theoretical physicists talks about his beginnings as a would-be plumber, becoming a scientist, his thought process, his best ideas (including string theory and the holographic principle) and some of his duds. Also, why he loves to explain physics to non-experts – a talent he put to good use here.

Leonard Susskind Radio Interview: How to Be a Theoretical Physicist

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Just as some of us were wrapping our heads around the idea of the multiverse, along comes MIT physicist Max Tegmark telling us we're not thinking big enough. There are actually multiple multiverses, containing endless variations of the "pocket universe" we've quaintly come to think of as everything. And while such notions may sound daft, Max says they're actually logical conclusions based on solid physics. He and I discussed his book "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality."

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Leonard Susskind Radio Interview: How to Be a Theoretical Physicist

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