Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others).

Stephen Wolfram Science and Technology Q&A

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Questions include: If you were transported back in time to say, the time of Aristotle, what would you do? What would you pursue in terms of career/research? - Why are Aristotle, Plato and Socrates the names most people think of when thinking about ancient society and science? - Almost all of these philosophers were also physicists. - How did ancient thinkers like Democritus come up with early ideas about atoms and matter? - Do you think letters or published books/essays are more useful for studying history? - What about things like newspapers, but particularly pamphlets and journals that are lost or completely undervalued for not being books, even though people at the time would have considered them essential? - Would you run off and not drink the poison if you were Socrates? - Do you think it's still possible to be a polymath today like da Vinci? - ​​I found a place that still produces those postcards you play on a record player. Do you think that would be a good way of storing things like a password or crypto, especially utilizing steganography? - If humanity completely falls back to the storage level of knowledge, would we be able to grow our knowledge back fast enough to decipher old SSDs before they decay, or would that be another Alexandria?

History of Science & Technology Q&A (October 16, 2024)

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others).

Questions include: How do windmills generate energy? - Why can't we see all light? - Why does space never end? - How did earth evolve? - What is heat? - Do magnets work in space?

See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Physics & Astronomy: Episode 1

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others).

Questions include: Is it possible to communicate with worlds outside our solar system? - Is it possible to make a suit that can make you grow and shrink at will like in Ant-Man? - How does a satellite stay in orbit around the earth (or a planet stay in orbit around the sun)? - Could we access other dimensions? - What are protons, neutrons, and electrons made of? - If neutron stars are just neutrons, how come they produce light? - How do magnets work?

See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Physics & Astronomy: Episode 2

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others).

Questions include: Why is there a speed limit (the speed of light)? - What is spin? - Is there maximum temperature? - Is there a maximum location accuracy for a GPS system?

See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Physics & Astronomy: Episode 3

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Do all objects, including living things, emit radio waves? What is plasma? What's the likelihood there's another universe exactly like ours out there? What is a hypersphere? Is there a limit to how many dimensions you can have? Why do you have to acquire a certain speed to escape earth's gravity to get into space?
See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Physics & Astronomy: Episode 4

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about life sciences as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: What happened to the dinosaurs? - What is a virus? - Why we don't have medicine for a virus-only vaccines? - Are viruses alive? - Why is the human brain so mushy? - Did people evolve from monkeys? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Life Sciences: Episode 1

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.

On his podcast, Stephen discusses topics ranging from the history of science to the future of civilization and ethics of AI.

History of Science & Technology Q&A (October 16, 2024)

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