John Preskill - https://twitter.com/preskill - is a theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech - http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ Read the transcript here - https://blog.ycombinator.com/john-preskill-on-quantum-computing He once won a bet with Steven Hawking - http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/bets.html - which as he writes made him “briefly almost famous.” John and Kip Thorne - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne - bet that singularities could exist outside of black holes and after six years Hawking conceded that they were possible in very special, “nongeneric” conditions. In this episode we cover what John’s been focusing on for years: quantum information, quantum computing, and quantum error correction. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - https://twitter.com/craigcannon
Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and he’s regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind He’s written several books including: - The Black Hole War https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316016411 - The Cosmic Landscape https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Landscape-String-Illusion-Intelligent/dp/0316013331 - The Theoretical Minimum series https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Minimum-Start-Doing-Physics/dp/0465075681/ He also has over 100 lectures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQrxduI9Pds1fm91Dmn8x1lo-O_kpZGk8 The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon https://twitter.com/craigcannon *** Topics 0:00 - Being perceived as an outsider physicist 4:00 - The perils of becoming too mainstream 5:45 - Where his ideas come from 7:00 - Claudio asks - Do you think the graviton can be experimentally found? 9:45 - The origins of String Theory 15:15 - Why should there be a grand unified theory? 16:30 - Quantum mechanics and gravity 19:50 - Large unanswered questions in physics 27:30 - Holographic principle 38:00 - Simulation hypothesis 40:15 - Richard Feynman on philosophy 42:00 - Feynman and the bomb 46:00 - Improving the world by discovering what the world is 49:00 - ER and EPR - Black holes and entanglement 56:00 - Noah Hammer asks - Could quantum teleportation be used in the future as a means of intergalactic communication? 58:00 - rokkodigi asks - How do you think quantum theory will shape technology in the future? 1:01:30 - Why teach physics for the public?
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