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 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 answers audience questions about life sciences as part of an ongoing unscripted series.

Questions include: Is a single virus enough to get you? - How will pandemic treatment look in ten years? - How do antibodies work? - How can Mathematica reduce the time needed to make new vaccines?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Life Sciences: Episode 2

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

Questions include:
What happens when you sneeze in space? - Do scientists always use metric units? - What's the relationship between electricity and magnetism? - Why is the sky blue? - How does a space station work?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Physics & Astronomy: Episode 5

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about mathematics and computation as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Is there anything you'd add to or subtract from A New Kind of Science? How feasible is it to create a computational model of a biological organism? Why do many old technical institutions use manual calculation rather than modern computational tools? How do you prove that 1+1=2? Can we do computation not based on silicon technology? What really is computation?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Mathematics & Computation: Episode 1

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about mathematics and computation as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: What is the most curious property of prime numbers? How far are we from building self-replicating Von Neumann machines? How do online advertisers know what I want?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Mathematics & Computation: Episode 2

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about education and careers as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Does the increased use of computational languages make us forget the basics of math? - How do you recommend students with a solid calculus background to learn physics and mathematics? - Why do many old technical institutions use manual calculation rather than modern computational tools? - What book behind you has had the most impact on you and your peers? - How can one improve their mathematical and scientific thinking? - Do you have a suggestion for someone who finds math fascinating but has difficulty with homework and tests? - How can someone be good at one kind of math/programming and bad at another?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Education & Career: Episode 1

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about education and careers as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include:
What careers would you recommend for an engineer? - What's your take on specialization vs generalization? - What physical experiments do you recommend for kids? - What role did you play in your kids' education? - Can you recommend any fun projects for a starting programmer?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Education & Career: Episode 2

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Can intelligence be quantified? What is the correspondence between intelligence and comprehension? How effectively can we communicate with animals?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A: Can Intelligence be Quantified?

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Should we teach kids how computers work? How does a computer work inside?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A: How Do Computers Work?

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: How can you connect to the internet without wifi? How does 5G technology work?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A: How Does the Internet Work?

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science fiction concepts as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Could our pets become intelligent enough to take over the world? - What would faster-than-light travel look like (visually)? - How could we make a force field? - Does your physics model allow me to build a warp drive? - ​Are there any practical 'exploits' that you think may be possible as a result of your model? - ​Do you think an organism living through its whole evolution in 3D space can survive entering a higher dimensional area? - How can we use dark matter to accelerate the expansion of the universe and/or stretch space like inside the TARDIS? - Is simulated consciousness the logical endpoint for humanity as a whole? - Would it be possible for an intelligent species to create the conditions of a new universe?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Can Sci-Fi be Real: Episode 1

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science fiction concepts as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: How long before we colonize Mars? - Why isn't a Tricorder available yet? - How would teleportation work if we could make it happen? - Why don't we have flying cars yet? - Can you explain the physical difference between a 1 volt and a 2 volt battery? - Can we manipulate the weather and formation of clouds in quantum state or create new kind of quantum equipment? - Is there any merit to discussion about such questions, given that actualization of our sci-fi dreams is never literal? - What are your thoughts on starshot projects that will attempt shooting satellites to the Alpha Centauri system with lasers? - Could a technologically advanced civilization arise on a planet completely covered in water? - Can a tardigrade survive on Mars? - Why aren't prehistoric animals resurrected yet? - Can you engineer a seed to grow a house?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Can Sci-Fi be Real: Episode 2

Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science fiction concepts as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: What will sci-fi look like in 20 years? How does the past compare to today? - Will there be a "Golden Age" for science? - Russia and the USA are only a few miles apart at some locations, still it takes more than 10 hours of flight time. Why? - Why and how do you know all this? - Do you think that we will have brain implants that allow us to access the internet anytime soon? - Is it true that only left-handed people are in their "right" minds? - Have you given any thought to adding augmented reality features into Wolfram|Alpha for Android?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, Can Sci-Fi be Real: Episode 3

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: How far away are we from a new propulsion system that could take us to another galaxy? - What about a "railgun" in space that also launches rockets? - Micro nuclear explosions? - Does the sun emit EMP pulses, and if so how are satellites protected? - If light is made of light, how can it go around anything? - Can you build a satellite with off the shelf electronics (such as raspberry pi) by providing enough CPU redundancy and some basic shielding? - What additional shielding technologies do you think we need to best overcome space radiation that astronauts face when headed to Mars? - What are the unique properties of element 115? - How do I win the fight against the fear of learning something if it looks really intimidating? - Gravity affects photons but photons have no mass? Or is this a case of energy equals mass?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [May 22, 2020]

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: What is imaginary about imaginary numbers and what do they represent? - How can you split an atom and why is it difficult? - Is making an arc reactor(iron man) possible? - Beryllium experiment resulted in a 5th force -> what is that and how does it work? - Are there more substances or elements that work like palladium? - Where does the energy come from to emit all these virtual gluons? - Are helium3 and moon minerals useful for fusion? - If a matter black hole collided with an antimatter black hole of the same mass, would the explosion be contained to a new black hole? - Is there anything special about the size of animals on earth that makes us conscious? Could the weather system on large planets, or galaxies be conscious? - How is something like a physical push or friction force explained in terms of the 4 fundamental forces? - Has a question about "hard light" been asked? As in keeping photons still. (not a light saber, or laser beam, but like hard light that you could "walk on". Something along those lines) - But it is still unknown whether antimatter gravitates or anti gravitates for certain? - Thank you for streaming Stephen! Do you prefer Stephen or Steve or something else?

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [May 29, 2020]

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.

Questions include: Considering the Star Trek Universal Translator, what size samples of an unknown language would be needed to begin to understand it? - Is the best way to profit off mars exploration the selling of intellectual property gained from research done there? Can you think of any other ways? - Do you have an advice for all those teenagers who want to discover a new kind of Science? Just as you did! - How do you feel about: Academia vs. Self made men. Is there a place for natural self-taught talent? - Do you think language is evolutionary inevitability of consciousness, i.e if you find sentient life, you will find a language that the consciousness communicates in? As a corollary, given a language can you find a consciousness behind it? - Hello, I am a physics teacher, what is your opinion about teaching physics today? - What's your take on autonomous cars and how long till they become feasible? - What books would you recommend to a curious teen, looking forward to learning more about science and getting more concrete knowledge? - How do you go about building a team around you to solve the problems you want to work on? - Could you share some of your business knowledge with us, maybe writing some blog posts about it? - What's the future of fiat currency?

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

Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [June 11, 2020]

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.

Stephen Wolfram Science and Technology Q&A

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